{"id":7840,"date":"2025-07-14T00:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7840\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T00:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:29:04","slug":"steve-allan-completes-first-wire-to-wire-win-at-dicks-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/7840\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Allan completes first wire-to-wire win at Dick&#8217;s Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 13, 2025, 05:14 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>ENDICOTT, N.Y. &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"87ceb940-406d-9020-278b-06ca9837ecd5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/2\/steve-allan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Allan<\/a> became the first wire-to-wire winner in Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods Open history Sunday, closing with a 6-under 66 for a four-stroke victory.<\/p>\n<p>Allan finished at 18-under 198 at En-Joie Golf Course for his second PGA Tour Champions victory of the season. The 51-year-old Australian opened Friday with a 63 for a two-shot edge and had a 69 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over <a data-player-guid=\"90b1b0fc-a4d7-5b1f-d035-57508af6fbe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/713\/boo-weekley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boo Weekley<\/a> into the final round.<\/p>\n<p>After playing the first seven holes Sunday in 1 under with two birdies and a bogey, Allan birdied five of the next six and parred the last five.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was tough. It was tough, even yesterday, hanging in there, and today early on it was a bit rough with the driver,&#8221; Allan said. &#8220;In the rough a lot and just managed to hang in there. Then on the back nine, made a few putts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also won The Galleri Classic in late March at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage, California.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"cfcde69a-d06c-9b2e-3a52-3e993a7b5c4f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/802\/jason-caron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Caron<\/a> was second after a 68. Weekley (70) and <a data-player-guid=\"6a4d165c-127a-7ea8-bd43-2d09f0581018\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/30\/notah-begay-iii\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Notah Begay III<\/a> (67) tied for third at 13 under, and Soren Kjeldsen (64) was another stroke back with <a data-player-guid=\"8e7bf56a-f94c-c0a7-36be-bfc8657c031e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/1708\/michael-wright\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Wright<\/a> (67) and <a data-player-guid=\"6be3076c-cd0e-cf0f-9bec-d410b3aa0d29\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/393\/jeff-sluman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Sluman<\/a> (68).<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"0618f476-e6cd-5f5e-3652-d95541cd8fce\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/186\/padraig-harrington\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Padraig Harrington<\/a> wasn&#8217;t back to try to win for a fourth straight time, skipping the event to play in the Scottish Open. He also has the Open Championship at Royal Portrush and the Senior Open Championship at Royal Porthcawl.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"414fd563-c5cf-ab59-d2bc-85ba36ae3143\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/123\/ernie-els\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ernie Els<\/a>, who&#8217;s in The Open field, shot 69 to tie for 16th at 8 under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 13, 2025, 05:14 PM ET ENDICOTT, N.Y. &#8212; Steve Allan became the first wire-to-wire winner in Dick&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}