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06/13/2010 - Memphis, TN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lee Westwood rolled in a five-foot birdie putt on the fourth playoff hole Sunday to get his second PGA Tour title at the St. Jude Classic.
England's Westwood sank a five-footer on the par-four 18th at the TPC Southwind to defeat Sweden's Robert Karlsson, who was seeking his first PGA Tour title.
Third-round leader Robert Garrigus was also in the playoff, but sudden death was only necessary after a Garrigus' collapse on the 72nd hole.
Armed with a three-stroke lead, Garrigus hit his drive fat, directly into a pond left of the fairway. After his drop, Garrigus tried a risky shot, hit a tree and bounced left of the pond he found off the tee.
Garrigus finally pitched back to the fairway with his fourth and knocked his fifth pin-high, 35 feet right of the hole. If he made the long double-bogey putt, he'd still win with Westwood in the clubhouse and Karlsson missing his birdie effort.
Garrigus ran his long putt three feet by the hole and had to wait for Karlsson's par putt from almost five feet. The tall Swede holed his and Garrigus made his par putt to set up the playoff.
"I got to the middle of my backswing, felt good, hit a nice draw in there and she went left and that wasn't good," said Garrigus, who remains winless on tour. "I made the putt to get into the playoff. I'm glad that I even got into the playoff. That ball hit the tree and dropped straight down. It didn't go into the water."
Garrigus found more trouble off the tee on the 18th, this time in the playoff. His drive cozied up behind a tree and he was forced to pitch out to the fairway. He knocked his third 15 feet right of the flag, but his putt to stay in the extra session lipped out of the hole.
It brought about a sad end for Garrigus, who was admirable in such a difficult-to-watch defeat.
"I felt like I handled everything great today, except for one swing," said Garrigus. "It's little things that you do to win. I've got to learn that and next time in that position, I'm going to do it."
Garrigus finished with a one-over 71 to join Westwood (68) and Karlsson (69) at 10-under 270.
With Garrigus gone, that left the stage to the European Ryder Cup teammates.
At the fourth playoff hole, the two landed in the short grass at the closing hole, but Karlsson was farther back. His second came up 45 feet short, but Westwood, almost 20 yards past him off the tee, wedged his approach five feet right of the flagstick.
Karlsson came up a foot short with his birdie putt to open the door for Westwood. He poured in the birdie putt to get his second win in the U.S. and first since New Orleans in 1998.
The playoff could've easily gone Karlsson's way.
Westwood barely got over the water at the par-three 11th and Karlsson hit a great shot to 10 feet. Westwood elected to hit a bladed wedge from the fringe and ran it four feet past. Karlsson's birdie effort to win stayed above ground, but he tapped in for par. Westwood holed the par save and it was off to No. 12.
Both players hit the green in regulation with Westwood about 20 feet closer. Karlsson's long birdie putt from almost 55 feet stopped five feet short of the hole. Westwood didn't give his putt enough break and his ball nestled next to Karlsson's coin.
Westwood was first to putt and his ball lipped out on the right side. Karlsson, who had to move his mark to accommodate Westwood, walked far away from the putt instead of looking at Westwood's. The decision might have hurt Karlsson, who badly pulled his par putt for the win. Both tapped in for bogey and were back off to the 18th.
It was there that Westwood cashed in and now will head to Pebble Beach Thursday as one of the favorites for his first major title at the U.S. Open.
Former PGA Champion Shaun Micheel and Garrett Willis both had three-under 67s on Sunday to tie for fourth place at nine-under 271.
Heath Slocum managed an even-par 70 and took sixth at minus-eight, which was one shot better than Billy Mayfair, whose four-under 66 on Sunday got him seventh place.
Camilo Villegas (67), Bob Estes (68), D.J. Trahan (69) and Jay Williamson (69) shared eighth place at minus-six.
NOTES: Westwood became the first European to win this title...He owns 20 European Tour titles and was last year's Race to Dubai champion...This was the longest playoff in tournament history...2009 champion Brian Gay shot a one- over 71 on Sunday and tied for 15th at four-under par...Next week is the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach with Lucas Glover trying to successfully defend his title.
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My fellow Americans, as tempting as it may be to don the coat and HD-ready tie in order to deliver this State of the Game address before the cameras, I know better. As Brad Paisley sings on his latest album, "I'm so much cooler online."
The ideas for this annual essay to kick off the MySportsbook.com college football betting preview flowed like frat-house beer, which is to say they were cheap and spilled all over the floor. The 2007 season will be better than 2007, if only because there will be more of it. A year ago, the NCAA Football Rules Committee made two rule changes in the interest of speeding up the game. These changes went over like Kobe burgers at a vegan banquet.
To its credit, the rules committee rectified its mistakes. This season the clock once again will start when a kickoff is received, rather than when it is kicked, and the clock will not start so quickly on a change of possession.
However, kickoffs have been moved back five yards, to the 30, which will force more returns. (Thus forcing the clock to run. Clever, huh?) Special teams might decide a lot of games, because coaching strategy will come straight out of another new Paisley lyric (almost), I'd like to check you for kicks.
Paisley sings with a twang, which is why he's appropriate for this college football season. The sun coming up over the 2007 college football betting lines season rises from the south. It's a Southern football world. As the Southeastern Conference begins its 75th year, the power shift is noticeable.
Eight-figure budgets, glamorous settings -- and that's just for the head coaches. The SEC has four coaches who have won national championships -- the greatest aggregation of coaching know-how since Eddie Robinson dined alone.
Steve Spurrier, Phil Fulmer, Nick Saban and Urban Meyer have given lie to the idea that a conference championship game is too daunting a hurdle on the road to No. 1. In six of the past 10 seasons, the national champions played and won a conference championship game -- three of the six (Tennessee, 1998; LSU, 2003; Florida, 2007) from the SEC.
There will be more of the same this season, if the preseason prognostications are correct. Six SEC teams are in the preseason coaches' poll, more than from any other conference. Only one conference has talent so deep that a team with 15 returning starters, including the best quarterback in the league, from an eight-win season is considered an afterthought. That may speak more to Kentucky's losing legacy than to the wisdom of the predictions, but there you have it. And seriously, keep an eye on Wildcats QB Andre' Woodson.
The reach of the South extends all the way to No. 1. Take a look at the team that is a consensus pick to win the national championship. The quarterback is from Shreveport. The best wide receiver is from Nashville. The top recruit is from New Orleans.
So what's the campus doing in Los Angeles? Hey, it is the University of Southern California.
USC lost two Pacific-10 Conference games a year ago, the first time that had happened in five seasons, and university officials withstood the urge to form blue-ribbon panels to unearth the cause of such a disaster. Instead, the Trojans gathered themselves and routed Michigan, 32-18, in the Rose Bowl.
USC's losses at Oregon State and at UCLA last year should have given pause to those who question the Pac-10's football prowess (such as, without naming names, L.M. from Baton Rouge). The league only got deeper this season; Dennis Erickson is taking over an Arizona State team that never quite got out of its own way under his predecessor, Dirk Koetter.
Erickson will resume his quest to become the first coach to win a national championship at two schools. Both he and Spurrier, now in his third season at South Carolina, returned to college football at schools with lower profiles than where they won their titles.
That isn't the case for the third coach looking for the national championship double. You may have missed this, but NASA reported the astronauts on the space shuttle last spring made contact with what can only be described as beings from another galaxy.
The leader of the aliens said, "We come in peace," followed by, "So how do you think Nick Saban will do at Alabama?"
The public is reacting to the new Crimson Tide coach as if he is the Barry Bonds of college football -- beloved at home for what his fans believe he is going to do, hated on the road for his intimidating attitude and for what his detractors believe he did (bend NCAA recruiting rules). I made this comparison from the dais at a charity dinner in Mobile, Ala., last month, and the chill that washed over me didn't come from the air conditioning.
Saban will attempt to prove that he can remake in Tuscaloosa what he built in Baton Rouge, much like another member of the national championship fraternity. Bobby Bowden is attempting to remake at Florida State what he built at, um, Florida State. Bowden rebuilt his offensive staff, bringing in four new coaches led by Saban's former offensive coordinator, Jimbo Fisher, to jump-start an offense that has been dead for a couple of years.
The Atlantic Coast Conference is expected to show new signs of life, too. That is said with no disrespect toward last season's champion, Wake Forest, which provided one of the best story lines of 2007. The Demon Deacons begin this season in their customary position, overshadowed by the Virginia Techs, Miamis and Florida States.
It's not that Wake will find it difficult to duplicate its success in 2007 as much as the feeling that success engendered. Surprising success is the narcotic of sport. It never feels quite so euphoric the next time. Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese has figured this out. He refers to 2007, when a league looked down upon by fans and foes alike took three undefeated teams into November, as "Cinderella."
The fairy tale may be over, but the Big East has four genuine Heisman Trophy candidates in Louisville quarterback Brian Brohm, West Virginia tailback Steve Slaton and quarterback Pat White, and Rutgers tailback Ray Rice. Rutgers, as did Wake Forest and, of course, Boise State, proved last season that the have-nots in college football occasionally have quite a lot.
The Broncos' rousing 43-42 overtime victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl has raised the profile of all schools in conferences that don't get automatic BCS bids. This season, TCU and Hawaii are the preseason favorites to burst through the BCS doors and earn an at-large bid. The Warriors return 14 starters from an 11-3 team, including quarterback Colt Brennan.
Brennan not only broke the single-season record with 58 touchdown passes in 2007, but he also led Division I-A in passing efficiency (186.0). The senior is expected to contend for the Heisman Trophy, and neither his success nor the rise of his team should come as any surprise in the 2007 season.
After all, Hawaii is the southernmost team in the country.
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