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JUNE 2010 • CALIFORNIA GOLF NEWS 11
of Sacramento and UCLA, who wound
up at 70-75-67-70--282. Billy Mayfair
of Phoenix and Arizona State totaled
68-68-71-76--283 and tied for 14th
with Kevin Na of Rancho Cucamonga,
who came in at 72-69-73-69--283.
The PGA Tour got exactly what it
needed on a week when the biggest
name in golf missed the cut, with
McIlroy becoming the youngest win-
ner on the circuit since 20-year-old
Tiger Woods won at Las Vegas in
1996.
He also became the first player to
win on the PGA Tour after making the
cut on the number since Chris Couch
at New Orleans in 2006. He made it to
the weekend thanks to an eagle-3 on
the seventh hole, his second to last of
the day in round two.
“It was a 4-iron from 206 back into
the breeze, hit it to six feet, and the
rest is history,” he said with youthful
nonchalance. “Most important shot of
the year, to be honest. If I don’t make
eagle there, I’m practicing at Ponte
Vedra [for the Players Championship
the following week] this weekend.
“That could have been the turning
point in my season.”
Had it turned out that way it would
have only delayed the inevitable,
because as a Hollywood agent might
say, this kid has star written all over
him.
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V
ery often, it’s difficult to follow
a low round with another good
one, but Dan Forsman had no
such problem.
Forsman, from Arizona State and
Provo, Utah, shot 10-under-par 62
in the second round of the Regions
Charity Classic at Ross Bridge Golf
Club on the Robert Trent Jones Golf
Club in Hoover, Alabama, and then
followed it with a closing 66 that could
have been better.
But it was good enough to give him
a three-stroke victory over Joe Ozaki
of Japan and Peter Senior of Australia,
and the margin might have been larg-
er had not weather intervened.
“I caught fire down the front nine,”
said 51-year-old Forsman, who won
for the second time on the Champions
Tour after claiming five victories on
the PGA Tour. “When I made that
birdie on 11, even I had to step back
and go, ‘Wow, maybe I could shoot
60.’ At that point, the only thing that
could cool me down out there was
Mother Nature.”
Forsman was soaked by a rain-
storm that hit the course, and he
made bogeys on the 13th and 14th
holes.
However, he had plenty of cushion
after shooting six-under par 30 on
the front nine and adding birdies on
How Low Can You Go?
Dan Forsman tees off en
route to victory in the
Regions Charity Classic in
Alabama.
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