Saturday’s 15-under win at Royal \u200cGolf Dar Es Salam marked the first PGA Tour Champions victory for \u200cthe 52-year-old grinder, who has spent much of his career on the Asian Tour. \u200c<\/p>\n
Hend’s previous best on the Champions tour was a second-place finish three weeks ago at the Regions Tradition.<\/p>\n
“It means the world to me,” Hend said.<\/p>\n
“To win \u200bthis tournament in the 50th edition is \u200cvery prestigious and very special to me.”<\/p>\n
Tommy Gainey entered the day with a one-shot edge over Hend and South Africa’s Darren Fichardt, but he fell \u200cwell off \u200cthe pace \u2060with a 2-over-par 75.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He became the first 36-hole leader \u200bin the Champions Tour era of this event not to win.<\/p>\n
Gainey finished tied with New Zealand’s Steven Alker for second. Alker tied Jeff Maggert for the round of the day with a 68. Maggert vaulted 19 spots up the board to finish 16th.<\/p>\n
South Africa’s \u2060Ernie Els and Germany’s Alex Cejka \u200cshared \u200bfourth at 8-under.<\/p>\n
Hend’s victory moves him up to fifth in the Charles Schwab Cup Standings. Alker jumps two spots to fourth and Gainey \u200bclimbs \u200bthree spots to eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday’s 15-under win at Royal \u200cGolf Dar Es Salam marked the first PGA Tour Champions victory for \u200cthe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-690842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690842","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=690842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}