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Heath Slocum edged Australian Aaron Baddeley by a stroke to win the Chrysler
Classic of Tucson.
After Baddeley bogeyed the 18th hole, Slocum claimed his first PGA Tour title
and the 540,000 US dollars (£288,000) top prize, the largest of his career.
"I am very, very excited," he said. "I would have loved to have made that
putt on the last hole to end on a birdie. At the same time, I feel like I hit
the shots that I needed to get there and maybe apply a little pressure."
Baddeley made his first three-putt in the 72-hole tournament at the 18th. But
it didn't take away from Slocum's joy.
"It felt great," Slocum said. "The thing of it was it was a slugfest and we
were feeding off of each other. We got off to good starts, back and forth. It is
just too bad it ended the way it did with a three-putt bogey.
Baddeley said: "Obviously, I am a little disappointed. We played great, both
of us, and I knew it ended up being the two of us.
"I was surprised, I thought more guys were going to hang in with us. We both
played really good, shot for shot."
Slocum fired a seven-under-par 65 to finish at 22-under 266. Baddeley carded a
66 and ended up at 267, settling for the 324,000 US dollars (£173,000) second
prize.
South Africa's Rory Sabbatini, Harrison Frazar and Australia's Mark Hensby
shared third place at 18-under 270 over the 7,109-yard, par-72 Omni Tucson
National Golf Club.
Final scores and totals (USA unless stated, par 72):
266 Heath Slocum 67 64 70 65
267 Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 68 69 64 66
270 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 69 68 69 64, Mark Hensby (Aus) 65 68 69 68, Harrison
Frazar 66 67 71 66
271 Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 65 69 69 68, Bill Glasson 66 66 71 68
272 Tim Clark 66 68 72 66, Mike Heinen 66 71 65 70, Carlos Franco (Par) 65 69
68 70, Todd Fischer 68 68 69 67
273 Angel Cabrera (Arg) 66 71 68 68, Garrett Willis 71 69 67 66, Dan Olsen 69
69 66 69
274 Notah Begay III 68 70 69 67, Michael Clark II 68 65 72 69
275 Mark Calcavecchia 67 69 69 70, Hunter Mahan 69 68 69 69, Geoff Ogilvy
(Aus) 67 66 72 70
276 Blaine McCallister 71 67 69 69, Ted Purdy 69 66 72 69, Brian Gay 69 70 70
67, Dan Briggs 67 72 70 67, Dennis Paulson 67 72 69 68, Hidemichi Tanaka (Jpn)
69 70 69 68, Brian Bateman 73 66 69 68
277 Patrick Sheehan 68 69 72 68, Chris Smith 68 70 70 69, Billy Mayfair 71 68
70 68, David Branshaw 70 67 71 69, Frank Lickliter II 63 73 72 69, Larry Mize 68
72 70 67, Cameron Beckman 70 68 70 69
278 Vaughn Taylor 66 68 69 75, JL Lewis 71 67 69 71, David Edwards 69 68 71
70, Steve Pate 71 69 68 70, Olin Browne 66 72 70 70, Steve Elkington (Aus) 69 66
70 73
279 Brent Geiberger 67 70 72 70, Dean Wilson 69 71 69 70, Todd Hamilton 70 68
70 71
280 Tripp Isenhour 71 69 70 70, John Maginnes 70 69 68 73, Omar Uresti 68 70
71 71, Brenden Pappas (Rsa) 70 69 75 66, Russ Cochran 67 70 72 71, Cliff Kresge
70 67 71 72
281 David Frost (Rsa) 68 71 70 72, Tag Ridings 67 68 72 74, Steve Lowery 71 67
73 70, Deane Pappas (Rsa) 70 70 75 66, Ricky Barnes 68 72 75 66
282 Pat Bates 71 69 72 70, Keiichiro Fukabori (Jpn) 72 67 73 70, Brian Watts
(Can) 67 72 72 71, Kris Cox 69 69 75 69, Dicky Pride 71 68 72 71, DJ Brigman 70
67 71 74, Guy Boros 68 71 71 72
283 Don Yrene 68 72 71 72, Jason Bohn 71 68 69 75, Andre Stolz (Aut) 69 70 72
72
284 Tom Lehman 67 70 72 75
285 Greg Chalmers (Aus) 70 70 70 75, Brian Henninger 66 71 72 76, Steve Allan
(Aus) 65 72 76 72
286 Roger Tambellini 69 69 75 73
290 John Daly 67 73 76 74, Joel Kribel 69 70 75 76, Casey Martin 69 70 77 74
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