Chubb Classic Final-Round Notes
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Chubb Classic The Classics at Lely Resort | Naples, Florida | February 15-17, 2019 Final-Round Notes Sunday, February 17, 2019 Course Setup: Par 71 / 6,843 yards (R3 average: 71.156, Cumulative: 69.922) Weather: Mostly sunny with a high in the low 80s. Wind from the S at 10-20 mph. Summary: Miguel Angel Jimenez defeated Bernhard Langer and Olin Browne on the first playoff hole to secure his seventh career victory Sunday at the Chubb Classic. Jimenez posted the day’s only bogey-free round, a 5-under 66, and played the last 47 holes of the tournament bogey free. Media Contact: Chris Richards (678-644-4258) Player To Par Scores Money 1. Miguel Angel Jimenez* -13 68-66-66 – 200 $240,000 T2. Olin Browne -13 68-66-66 – 200 $128,000 T2. Bernhard Langer -13 68-64-68 – 200 $128,000 T4. Woody Austin -12 67-65-69 – 201 $86,400 T4. Kevin Sutherland -12 70-62-69 – 201 $86,400 *Playoff (No. 18) – Jimenez/Par, Langer/Bogey, Browne/Bogey Quick Links: Leaderboard PGATOURmedia.com (transcripts and other resources available for download) Miguel Angel Jimenez, 68-66-66 (-13) Playing in the sixth-to-last group with Olin Browne, Jimenez posted his fifth birdie of the day on No. 17 to get to 13-under. He posted the day’s only bogey-free round, a 5-under 66, and played the last 47 holes of the tournament bogey free. Jimenez and Browne were the clubhouse leaders at 13-under after Browne double bogeyed the closing hole. It was the first time Jimenez had a share of the lead on Sunday. In the playoff, Jimenez’s two-putt par from 30 feet secured the victory after Bernhard Langer and Browne failed to get up-and-down for par on the par-4 18th, which was the second-hardest hole Sunday (4.325). Jimenez improved his playoff record to 2-2. The win is Jimenez’s seventh on PGA TOUR Champions, and this is the sixth straight year he has won. Last year, he won his first two senior majors, the Regions Tradition and The Senior Open Championship. In the last three years, he has finished 5th (2018) and 6th (2017, 2016) in the Charles Schwab Cup. In his other two starts at the Chubb Classic, he was runner-up in 2017 and ninth in 2018. Chubb Classic | February 15-17, 2019 Olin Browne, 68-66-66 – 200 (-13) With a birdie on No. 17, Browne was the first and only player to reach 15-under. On the last hole of regulation, he missed the green with his approach and hit his third shot into the front-right greenside bunker. When he failed to get up-and-down for bogey, he posted 13-under and shared the clubhouse lead with Jimenez. In the playoff, Browne hit his approach into the front-left greenside bunker. He missed his chip for par and moved to 0-2 in playoffs on PGA TOUR Champions. The T2 finish is his best since he was runner-up at the 2016 Regions Tradition. In all, it was his fourth runner-up and 47th top-10 in 222 starts on Tour. Browne led the field in putting (1.538 putts per GIR) and one-putt percentage (57.41%). In 2018, he had two top-10s (Best: T5, Cologuard Classic) and finished 53rd in the Charles Schwab Cup. Bernhard Langer, 68-64-68 – 200 (-13) On the par-5 17th, Langer was part of the three-way tie at 13-under. He missed a six-foot birdie putt on No. 17 that would have given him a one-shot advantage, and the par-par finish setup the three-man playoff. In the playoff, he missed the green with his approach, and he missed his eight-foot par putt on the low side. His playoff record fell to 6-7, and his 13 playoff appearances are most all-time on PGA TOUR Champions. Langer made just two bogeys all week – on No. 7 in the final round and in the playoff. The T2 finish was his ninth top-10 in 11 starts at the Chubb Classic. Langer finished the week T65 in one-putt percentage (35.19%) and 44th in putting average (1.732 putts per GIR). Stephen Ames, 63-68-71 – 202 (-11) Ames was one of three second-round co-leaders, and he took the day’s first two-shot lead when he chipped-in for eagle on No. 3. He parred the next seven holes and led by one through 10 holes. On the par-5 11th, he hit his tee shot out of bounds, leading to a double bogey. It was his first bogey of the week and it dropped him two shots behind Browne. He regained a share of the lead with a birdie on No. 13, but bogeys on Nos. 14 and 18 dropped him to 11-under and a tie for sixth. Ames played in Sunday’s final group for the fourth time in his last six starts. He played in Sunday’s final pairing at all three Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs events in 2018. He posted finishes of T15-T3-T5 and was 21st in the final Charles Schwab Cup standings. Other Notes Sunday’s final round (71.156) played nearly two shots harder than Saturday (69.182). In all, nine players had at least a share of the lead on Sunday: Glen Day, Ken Tanigawa, Stephen Ames, Marco Dawson, Kevin Sutherland, Woody Austin, Bernhard Langer, Olin Browne and Miguel Angel Jimenez. Ken Tanigawa and Glen Day were the other two 36-hole co-leaders. They both shot 72 Sunday and finished T11 at 10-under. Hale Irwin, 73, closed with a 2-over 73 and finished 58. It was the third straight day he shot/bettered his age, and 42nd time in his career. Chubb Classic | February 15-17, 2019 .