It was his first Tour victory since 2006 when he won the Bay Hill Invitational and many thought Rod Pampling had forgotten how to win on the PGA Tour - they need only have witnessed his tenacity down the stretch of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Sunday.
He was battling himself, the course and the other players in his group. But the 47-year-old Australian found a way to minimize any self-inflicting wounds while coming up with enough clutch shots at TPC Summerlin to post a final-round 6-under-par 65 to win by two strokes.
“It’s awesome,” said Pampling, whose four-day total of 20-under 264 earned him $1,288,000 and 500 FedEx Cup points. “You know, you dream of it. It happened a couple of times, obviously a long time ago. But thankfully I can still remember those, and it’s exactly the same.
“It’s just an amazing feeling and it’s just what we work so hard for, and it was just nice to finish off with a bomb like that. It makes it even more special.”
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