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Show SNEEDWINS HOUSTON OPEN i Sneed, ending five ss of winless itration birdied the . playoff hold to beat "DC Shearer and win the Jiji.OOO Houston Open tournament Sunday, he said it was a bogey JOo. 13 that kept him in tournament. Jlieed started the final five strokes behind "" irer but charged to a (jider-par 70 while M irer blew to a 75. it y finished the llation 72 hole tied at 275 to force a sudden death playoff. Sneed ran in a four-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole to clinch the victory, but he wanted to talk about his bunker shot on the 13th hole. "When I saw it go in I told my caddy, 'Steve, we're not dead yet,'" Sneed said. Sneed holed out his second shot from the bunker for a bogey on the par four hole and was happy to get it. "At that point I was gambling to save five and I could have . been shooting for seven," Sneed said. "There was not much skill involved, it just went in and that was the key in the tournament for me." Shearer missed a 15 foot birdie putt on the playoff hole, but came back with a six-foot par-saver. |
