Victorian Steve Allan has joined a select group of some of the greats of Australian golf with a third PGA TOUR Champions win of the season at the Boeing Classic.<\/p>\n
Trailing former Open Champion Stewart Cink by four strokes at the start of the final round in Washington, Allan didn\u2019t take the lead until he got up-and-down from the bunker for birdie on the 18th hole to round out a 7-under 65 and post 15-under par.<\/p>\n
It was then a waiting game, Cink making par at both of his final holes to come up one stroke short and secure Allan his third title in his past 13 starts in just his second year on the seniors circuit.<\/p>\n
Given he hadn\u2019t won anywhere since the 2002 Australian Open in his home state, it\u2019s a run the 51-year-old is finding hard to fathom.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t explain it actually,\u201d Allan said immediately after his victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have probably laughed if you told me I would have won three times. I definitely thought that I had a win in me, but I wouldn\u2019t have said three.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I found a bit of a groove with my swing. I think I\u2019m more aware of what I\u2019m doing wrong when it goes wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a fairly tough few years there so when things do start to go wrong there, I\u2019m not panicking anymore.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeginning of last year I had a few tournaments where I didn\u2019t play very well, so I\u2019m going into today, just let it happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not trying to force it, I\u2019m not trying to push it, I\u2019m just trying to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allan becomes just the fifth Australian with three or more wins in a single season on the Champions Tour, joining Peter Thomson (nine wins in 1985), Bruce Crampton (seven wins in 1986, four wins in 1987), David Graham (three wins in 1997) and Graham Marsh (three wins in 1997).<\/p>\n
Allan\u2019s earlier wins came at The Galleri Classic at Mission Hills in March and the DICK\u2019S Open last month in New York, his latest victory taking his prizemoney haul for the year past the million-dollar mark.<\/p>\n
Given the quality of company he now keeps on the Champions Tour, Allan began the final round with few expectations that a third win was in the offing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Stewart being in that position, he could win by just having a really good round and we just have to sort of play well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn some ways it frees you up because you\u2019re not really thinking about winning, you\u2019re just trying to have a good round.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I birdied the ninth I saw that he hadn\u2019t jumped out ahead, so it was going to be a chance so just had to knuckle down and played pretty well on the back nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cA couple long putts were really good to help me make easy pars after not good approach shots and then rolled in a few birdies.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Allan added to his winning tally, David Micheluzzi made a welcome return to form on the DP World Tour.<\/p>\n
With just one top-20 finish to his name since the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in January, Micheluzzi bounced back from two early bogeys to shoot 1-under 71 in the final round of the Nexo Championship in Scotland and move up eight spots into a tie for 10th.<\/p>\n
Jason Day is the lone Aussie left in the FedEx Cup Playoffs after the FedEx St Jude Championship saw Min Woo Lee and Cam Davis both bow out.<\/p>\n
Dropping from 37th to 44th, Day now has work to do to qualify for the Tour Championship reserved for the top 30 after the BMW Championship, Kiwi Ryan Fox needing a small jump from his current position of 32nd.<\/p>\n
Photo: Stephen Brashear\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Results<\/p>\n
PGA TOUR
\nFedEx St Jude Championship
\nTPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee
\n1 Justin Rose 64-66-67-67\u2014264 $US3.6m
\nT50 Ryan Fox (NZ) 72-71-68-69\u2014280 $49,300
\nT50 Cam Davis 69-72-67-72\u2014280 $49,300
\nT56 Jason Day 71-68-71-72\u2014282 $45,800
\nT68 Min Woo Lee 76-72-72-70\u2014290 $41,200<\/p>\n
DP World Tour
\nNexo Championship
\nTrump International Golf Links, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
\n1 Grant Forrest 71-66-71-72\u2014280 \u20ac401,607.28
\nT10 David Micheluzzi 71-71-75-71\u2014288 \u20ac43,783.07
\nT31 Elvis Smylie 73-72-75-73\u2014293 \u20ac17,095.15
\nT42 Jason Scrivener 76-71-77-70\u2014294 \u20ac12,756.94
\nMC Kazuma Kobori (NZ) 74-78\u2014152
\nMC Danny List 78-79\u2014157
\nMC Daniel Gale 83-78\u2014161
\nMC Brett Coletta 80-82\u2014162<\/p>\n
LIV Golf
\nLIV Golf Chicago
\nBolingbrook Golf Club, Chicago
\n1 Dean Burmester 68-65-71\u2014204 $US4m
\nT13 Marc Leishman 71-69-70\u2014210 $311,250
\nT25 Lucas Herbert 69-71-72\u2014212 $187,500
\nT29 Cameron Smith 71-73-69\u2014213 $165,000
\nT47 Ben Campbell (NZ) 73-70-74\u2014217 $121,500
\nT49 Matt Jones 75-69-74\u2014218 $60,000
\n51 Danny Lee (NZ) 72-71-76\u2014219 $60,000<\/p>\n
Ladies European Tour
\nPIF London Championship
\nCenturion Club, England
\n1 Laura Fuenfstueck 67-70-72\u2014209 \u20ac192,997.13
\nT25 Momoka Kobori (NZ) 72-71-74\u2014217 \u20ac14,950.84
\nT30 Amelia Garvey (NZ) 72-75-71\u2014218 \u20ac12,030.16
\nT49 Kirsten Rudgeley 73-74-75\u2014222 \u20ac5,194.84
\nT49 Kelsey Bennett 71-73-78\u2014222 \u20ac5,194.84
\nT59 Sarah Kemp 75-74-75\u2014224 \u20ac3,924.28<\/p>\n
PGA TOUR Champions
\nBoeing Classic
\nThe Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, Snoqualmie, Washington
\n1 Steve Allan 68-68-65\u2014201
\nT14 Brendan Jones 69-73-67\u2014209
\nT14 Steven Alker (NZ) 67-68-74\u2014209
\nT30 Michael Wright 71-73-69\u2014213
\nT30 Stuart Appleby 69-73-71\u2014213
\nT37 David Bransdon 72-74-68\u2014214
\nT62 Richard Green 71-71-79\u2014221
\nT65 Rod Pampling 70-76-76\u2014222
\nT71 Mark Hensby 77-74-73\u2014224
\nT73 John Senden 73-76-77\u2014226
\nDQ Greg Chalmers 69-71<\/p>\n
Korn Ferry Tour
\nPinnacle Bank Championship
\nThe Club at Indian Creek, Omaha, Nebraska
\n1 Christo Lamprecht 67-67-65-66\u2014265 $US180,000
\nT18 Harry Hillier (NZ) 65-68-68-73\u2014274 $13,538
\nT28 Rhein Gibson 68-70-68-71\u2014277 $6,491<\/p>\n
HotelPlanner Tour
\nIrish Challenge Killeen Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland
\n1 Oihan Guillamoundeguy 71-67-69-70\u2014277 \u20ac48,000
\nMC Hayden Hopewell 76-70\u2014146
\nMC Sam Jones (NZ) 76-73\u2014149
\nMC Tom Power Horan 77-76\u2014153<\/p>\n
LET Access Series
\nAhlsell Trophy by Destination Jonkoping
\nGr\u00e4nna Golfklubb, Sweden
\n1 Amaia Latorre 72-70-66\u2014208 \u20ac7,200
\nT13 Abbie Teasdale 74-71-71\u2014216 \u20ac831.60
\nT45 Belinda Ji 73-75-76\u2014224 \u20ac279
\nMC Justice Bosio 77-74\u2014151<\/p>\n
Sunshine Tour
\nFNB Eswatini Challenge
\nArabella Country Club, Eswatini, South Africa
\n1 Michael Hollick 68-64-68\u2014200
\nT19 Austin Bautista 69-66-73\u2014208<\/p>\n
PGA TOUR Americas
\nBioSteel Championship
\nAmbassador Golf Club, Windsor, Ontario
\n1 Michael Brennan 61-65-65-64\u2014255 $40,500
\nMC Tony Chen 68-68\u2014136
\nMC Grant Booth 69-70\u2014139<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian Steve Allan has joined a select group of some of the greats of Australian golf with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-59132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}