RICHMOND, Va. — Justin Leonard stayed affected person together with his placing on a windy Sunday and watched it pay large dividends with a birdie-par-eagle completed for a 4-under 68 and a one-shot victory over Ernie Els within the Dominion Vitality Charity Traditional.
Leonard received for the second time this yr on the PGA Tour Champions and moved into prime 10 after the primary playoff occasion for the Charles Schwab Cup.
The highest 54 advance to the second postseason occasion subsequent week in Arkansas.
Els was in management on the again 9 of the James River course on the Nation Membership of Virginia and appeared to regular himself with birdies on reachable par-4 fifteenth and the par-5 sixteenth.
However he bogeyed the seventeenth as Leonard made his transfer. After a birdie on the sixteenth, Leonard hit a hybrid 4-iron to about 20 toes and holed the downhill eagle putt to submit at 12-under 204.
Els did not make a 10-foot birdie putt on the closing gap that will have compelled a playoff. He closed with a 72 and shared second place with Thomas Bjorn (68).
Bernhard Langer, the 68-year-old German who has received yearly on the PGA Tour Champions since turning 50, was inside two photographs of the lead till an extended three-putt bogey ended his hopes. He shot 72 and completed three again in his bid for a primary Champions win this yr.
Scott Parel shot 71 and tied for twenty first, shifting up three spots to No. 53 to advance to the Simmons Financial institution Championship subsequent week. David Bransdon fell out.
The highest 36 after subsequent week attain the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
