 |
|
Padraig Harrington beats Vijay Singh |
|
|
 |
Ireland's Padraig Harrington beat Vijay Singh to win the Honda Classic on Sunday for his first career PGA Tour title. Runner-up three-times in PGA events, Harrington finally won a tournament when he holed a four-foot putt for par on the 18th and Singh missed a two-footer to hand the Irishman victory reports Reuters.
"I thought it was a gimme," Harrington, the world number eight, said at the Country Club at Mirasol Palm Beach Gardens.
Singh, Harrington and American Joe Ogilvie all had strong final day rallies to rocket up the leaderboard and force a three-way playoff after completing 72 holes on the Sunrise course with 14-under 274 totals.
Harrington carded his best ever round on the American Tour by two strokes as he fired a nine-under 63 while Singh, who surrendered the world number one ranking to Tiger Woods last week at the Doral, turned in an impressive eight-under 64.
|
