Jason Gore just held on to complete his first PGA Tour win - a one-shot
victory in the 84 Lumber Classic in Pennsylvania.
Gore, leading by two strokes entering the final round, increased his advantage
to four with five holes to play before faltering with bogeys on the 14th and
17th holes.
Paraguay's Carlos Franco parred his final hole to complete a three-under-par
69 and remain within one shot of Gore, whose errant tee shot on the par-four
18th left him looking at a potential bogey and play-off.
Unflustered, Gore played out of deep rough to a spot off the front of the
green about 90 feet from the hole.
He elected to putt instead of chipping and lagged a superb shot within two
feet of the cup before tapping in.
Gore carded a final-round 70 and finished at 14 under on 274.
It was actually his fourth win of the season, but the first three came in a
five-week span this summer on the Nationwide Tour.
Ben Crane was third, three shots behind Gore, after a final-round 67 with Tim
Herron a further stroke behind.
World number two Vijay Singh finished joint 13th after shooting a 68.
Collated final-round scores (USA unless stated, par 72):
274 Jason Gore 65 72 67 70
275 Carlos Franco (Par) 69 69 68 69
277 Ben Crane 67 70 73 67
278 Tim Herron 70 68 70 70
279 John Huston 70 73 67 69, Jonathan Byrd 69 68 72 70, Chris DiMarco 70 70 67
72, Cameron Beckman 69 65 73 72
280 Justin Leonard 73 64 70 73, Rodney Pampling (Aus) 70 67 69 74, Tag Ridings
68 71 67 74, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 67 66 75 72
281 Phillip Price (Wal) 73 71 66 71, Craig Barlow 70 66 70 75, Steve Flesch 72
70 68 71, Vijay Singh (Fij) 72 68 73 68
282 Robert Allenby (Aus) 72 71 70 69, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 66 70 70 76, Ryan
Moore 68 75 70 69, Chris Smith 68 66 74 74, Joey Sindelar 68 68 72 74, Zach
Johnson 67 73 68 74, Harrison Frazar 73 71 74 64, Dudley Hart 69 72 75 66, Todd
Fischer 70 73 69 70, Will MacKenzie 73 68 70 71
283 Steve Lowery 74 70 68 71
284 Phil Mickelson 73 71 67 73, Paul Claxton 69 72 70 73, Shigeki Maruyama
(Jpn) 70 74 71 69, Rocco Mediate 72 71 72 69
285 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 70 74 70 71, Vaughn Taylor 71 71 70 73, Dean Wilson
71 69 72 73, D.A. Points 72 71 73 69, Charlie Wi (Kor) 65 73 75 72
286 David Hearn (Can) 73 69 72 72, Stewart Cink 70 70 71 75, Jesper Parnevik
(Swe) 70 72 69 75, Michael Putnam 71 73 70 72, Peter Lonard (Aus) 72 70 74 70
287 Joey Snyder III 74 68 70 75, Shaun Micheel 65 74 74 74, Ted Purdy 72 70 74
71, Roland Thatcher 72 71 70 74, Frank Lickliter II 71 73 71 72, Glen Day 71 73
74 69, Brian Bateman 72 71 71 73, Mark O'Meara 65 74 71 77, John Senden (Aus) 75
65 72 75
288 Patrick Sheehan 73 70 74 71, Brian Gay 73 70 68 77, Matt Gogel 72 72 72
72, Scott Hend (Aus) 72 70 69 77, Heath Slocum 71 71 72 74, Hunter Haas 71 69 71
77, Brenden Pappas (Rsa) 68 74 73 73, Kent Jones 73 68 72 75, Todd Hamilton 73
71 75 69
289 Bob Burns 67 70 76 76, Woody Austin 70 70 72 77
290 Kevin Stadler 69 75 77 69, Tom Pernice Jnr. 71 72 73 74, Steve Allan (Aus)
73 70 72 75
291 Bradley Hughes (Aus) 73 71 77 70, Lee Janzen 70 73 73 75
293 Alex Cejka (Ger) 71 72 74 76
294 Pat Perez 68 73 74 79
295 Andrew Magee 73 71 77 74
296 Bo Van Pelt 69 74 79 74, Skip Kendall 72 72 78 74
297 Marco Dawson 74 70 78 75
299 Jeff Maggert 72 71 83 73