Sunday, August 30, 2009

Slocom bags one-shot Barclays win

FOURTH ROUND LEADERBOARD:
-9 H Slocum (US) -8 S Stricker (US), E Els (SA), P Harrington (Ire), T Woods (US) -7 N Watney (US), F Jacobson (Swe) Selected others: -5 P Goydos (US), I Poulter (Eng) -3 G Owen (Eng), J Furyk (US), S Marino (US)


Heath Slocum
Slocum's round was transformed by an eagle at the 5th

Heath Slocum rolled in a 21ft putt to par the 18th and win The Barclays by one shot at Liberty National.

Slocum began the day four shots off the pace but jumped into contention when he holed from 158 yards for an eagle at the 5th in New Jersey.

Sharing second place were Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Padraig Harrington and Steve Stricker, who came to the final hole level with Slocum.

But he missed out on forcing a play-off when his 10ft par putt trickled past.

The tournament is the first leg of the four-event FedEx Cup play-off series, where the top 125 players in the Cup standings are whittled down to a final 30 by three play-off tournaments in September.

Woods came into the weekend leading the Cup standings, with Slocum, ranked 124th, the second-lowest ranked player to qualify for the tournament.

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