Hamilton, Sept 08: Bob Tway won the Canadian Open by defeating Brad Faxon on the third playoff hole on Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory in eight years. Bob Tway won the Canadian Open by defeating Brad Faxon on the third playoff hole on Sunday (September 7) for his first PGA Tour victory in eight years. Tway won with a bogey after hitting his approach shot into a greenside bunker as Faxon suffered a disastrous hole in which he took four shots to reach the green and then two-putted. The victory earned Tway $756,000 as he enjoyed his first victory on the PGA Tour since the 1995 MCI Classic. The pair both parred the first playoff hole, the par-4 18th, before Faxon missed a chance to win when his six-foot birdie putt at the second playoff hole, the par-five 17th, rolled past the high side of the cup. Tway had shot a final round four-under-par 66 to finish level with Faxon (67) at eight-under 272.


Faxon birdied 13 through 15 and was later tied by Tway, whose third-shot chip at the par-five 17th skimmed the edge of the hole and left him a three-foot birdie putt.


Tway saved par at the 18th with a 23-foot putt, while Faxon finished with a two-putt par.


Tom Pernice Jr (68) bogeyed the 18th hole to miss the playoff by one stroke as he finished third at seven-under 273.

South Korea's K.J. Choi (66) and Japan's Hidemichi Tanaka (71), the 54-hole leader, finished at six-under 274, while Fiji's Vijay Singh (68) and Fred Funk (70) tied for sixth at five-under 275.


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