Trevino Wins In Playoff

Lee Trevino sank a 35-foot putt for a birdie on the first hole of a five-way playoff - the biggest in Senior PGA Tour history to win the $1.05 million Emerald Coast Classic in Milton, Fla.

Trevino defeated Dave Stockton, Mike Hill, David Graham and Bob Eastwood who each shot par-4 on the 398-yard 18th hole during the playoff.

Stockton, who celebrated his 55th birthday Saturday, was two strokes ahead and had a chance to win in regulation. But he bogeyed the last two holes to create the tie at 3-under par 207 after 54 regulation holes.

It was Trevino’s first victory this year but the 27th of his career on the Senior Tour, the most of any golfer, and came at the next-to-last event on the Tour. It also kept alive a streak of at least one win in each of the last seven years for Trevino.

Laura Davies lost in a playoff to Mayumi Hirase, but took the LPGA money lead by passing Karrie Webb in the Toray Queens Cup in Inashiki, Japan.

Hirase, a co-leader entering the final round, forced the sudden-death playoff with a final-hole birdie en route to a 72 for 4-under-par 212.

Davies, with her payoff of $69,819, surpassed Australian rookie Webb, who finished 35th after a closing 72. Davies leads with earnings of $897,302. Webb has earned $852,000 with only the decisive Tour Championship remaining later this month.

Germany’s Bernhard Langer won for the first time in 13 months, carding a 6-under-par 65 to win the $500,000 Dunhill Masters in Hong Kong by two strokes over South Korean Kang Wook-soon.

Frank Nobilo of New Zealand overcame a four-shot deficit on a bright, sunny day and shot a 6-under-par 66 to win the Sarazen World Open Championship in Braselton, Ga., for the second year in a row.

Nobilo overtook third-round leader Scott Hoch with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 13th hole, and stretched the lead to two shots when he sank a 5-footer for another birdie at No. 14. His lead swelled to the final margin of four shots when Hoch took a double bogey-6 on the 17th.