![]() ![]() Park finished with a 2-under 70 for a 274 total and earned $125,000 for the victory. Park put her second shot just off the back fringe, about 40 feet away, then chipped about 4 feet past and knocked it in for the one-stroke victory. 16 and 17 holes to get to 14 under and after Inkster missed a 10-foot par putt on the final hole for her second straight bogey, all Park had to do to win was par the 18th. Amateur champion two years ago, trailed Inkster by three strokes after a 2-hour, 15-minute rain delay. Park, a 21-year-old rookie who was the U.S. Grace Park, helped by a long rain delay and two closing bogeys by Juli Inkster, won her first LPGA tournament, the Kathy Ireland Classic, on Sunday. After two years on the Buy.com Tour, he regained his card and returned last year. Scherrer first made the tour in 1996, but it lasted just a year when he finished 141st on the money list. Scherrer joins Fred Couples (1983), Greg Norman (1984), Bill Glasson (1985), Tom Byrum (1989), Billy Andrade (1991), Grant Waite (1993), Steve Stricker (1996) and Rich Beem (1999) as first-time tour winners at the Kemper. Steve Lowery, the third-round leader, shot a par 71 and tied for second with Justin Leonard (69), Greg Chalmers (68), Kazuhiko Hosokawa (66) and Franklin Langham (70). The 29-year-old Syracuse, N.Y., native had been playing his best golf lately, with a career-best second-place tie finish in Tucson in February and rounds of 69 and 71 in the Memorial last week before falling back over the weekend. He was the only player to shoot sub-70 rounds each day, his 67-68-69-67 effort earning him the $540,000 winner's check.ĭuring Wednesday's pro-am, the amateurs in Scherrer's fivesome reminded him of the Kemper's legacy of producing first-time winners and suggested this might his turn. Scherrer, who didn't lead until the back nine on the final day, closed with a 4-under-par 67 Sunday for a two-stroke victory. (AP) - Just as his playing partners predicted a few days earlier, Tom Scherrer became the ninth first-time PGA Tour winner at the Kemper Insurance Open. ![]()
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