Rod Pampling

PAMPLING TAKES OUT BAY HILL CLASSIC

 

PAMPLING WINS BAY HILL INVITATIONAL

Rod Pampling, originally a green keeper from Caboolture Queensland, took home a $US990,000 winner's check at the Bay Hill Invitational in Florida yesterday.

Pampling knew he had blown it. He knew that his dream of winning the historic Bay Hill Classic champion's trophy from golf's favorite son Arnold Palmer had all but disappeared on the treacherous seventeenth green.

As his 3m putt for par spun agonizingly out of the hole, the thirty-six-year-old Queenslander was thought that was the end.

Doubts had 1st entered his mind on the thirteenth hole where, after belting his drive into the backyard of house close by, he had racked up a double bogey.

Now, he was certain, he had given the tournament in Orlando, Florida to Englishman Greg Owen who needed only to sink a straight par putt of under a meter to surge to a  2 shot lead.

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For seventy holes of the Classic so far, Owen had not missed a  putt under 2m. Nor had he made a bogey in the final round as, with 6 birdies, he systematically pegged back Pampling's overnight 4 shot lead.

Trying desperately to focus on somehow sinking a birdie at the water-fringed eighteenth, grim-faced Pampling didn't even look as Owen bent to complete what should have been a formality.

A split second later he heard a gasp of astonishment from the gallery. Then, within seconds, another disbelieving roar.

Unbelievably, Owen had not only missed the hole completely with his 1st putt but had horseshoed the next around and out of the cup as well.

Instead of a 2 shot deficit, Pampling was suddenly level again. And against a now shattered opponent.

15 minutes later, after watching the distraught Owen lip out his tying par putt from 4 meters, the one-time  green keepeer firmly holed his own 1/2 meter putt to achieve his 2nd victory on the U.S. Tour.

Materially, it was worth a huge $1.3m. Intrinsically it is priceless. There are few more esteemed tournaments on the PGA Tour than the Bay Hill which, from next year, will be known as the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

 

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