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NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Steve Stricker and Jerry Kelly won the Shark Shootout by a stroke on Sunday.
Stricker made an eagle on the par-5 17th — hitting the second shot and the putt — to give them the lead.
Kenny Perry and J.B. Holmes, who had been in the lead most of the day, both missed birdie putts on No. 18 that would have forced a playoff in the scramble format.
“It’s another feather in our cap,” said Stricker, the world’s No. 3 player who won three times on the PGA Tour this year. “This is a lot of fun. We came here to have fun and to play well at the same time, and we did that.”
Kelly and Stricker, who carried a one-shot lead into the day’s play, split $750,000 out of the $3 million purse.
“We were a very good team,” Kelly said. “It didn’t seem like we were consistently in there with two really good birdie chances, but one of us always seemed to step up.”
Both Kelly and Stricker missed a lengthy birdie putt on No. 18 before Perry and Holmes both missed a 12-footer.
Elsewhere:
ŸRobert Allenby won his fourth Australian PGA title for his second victory in two weeks, closing with a 5-under 66 on Sunday in Coolum, Austrailia.
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