Rocco Mediate Wins Sr. PGA Championship

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Rocco Mediate holed out from a greenside bunker for birdie on the Mediate 1par-3 17th to wrap up a record-setting, wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid.

Smoking cigars during the round, the 53-year-old Mediate closed with a 5-under 66 _ holing a 15-footer for par on the last at Jack Nicklaus-designed Harbor Shores, for a three-stroke victory over two-time defending champion Colin Montgomerie.

Mediate finished at 19-under 265 to break the tournament record of 268 set by Sam Snead in 1973 at PGA National. The six-time PGA Tour winner became the first wire-to-wire winner in the event since Nicklaus in 1991 at PGA National. Mediate matched the course and tournament records with an opening 62 and added rounds of 66 and 71 to take a two-stroke lead over Montgomerie into the final round.

Montgomerie shot a 67 _ and matched Snead for the second-best total in tournament history. The 52-year-old Scot won in 2014 at Harbor Shores and last year at French Lick in Indiana.

1 Rocco Mediate      -19       62 66 71 66 265
2 Colin Montgomerie      -16       67 66 68 67 268
T3 Bernhard Langer      -13       69 64 71 67 271
T3 Brandt Jobe      -13       67 67 69 68 271
T5 Tommy Armour, III      -12       70 66 70 66 272
T5 Billy Andrade      -12       70 68 67 67 272
T7 Scott Parel      -11       69 71 67 66 273
T7 Scott McCarron      -11       69 65 70 69 273
T7 David Frost      -11       68 69 67 69 273
T7 Kirk Triplett      -11       65 69 69 70 273
T7 John DalCorobbo (CP)      -11       65 68 69 71 273
T12 Rod Spittle      -10       69 65 71 69 274
T12 Tom Byrum      -10       70 66 69 69 274
T14 Mark O’Meara      -9       67 70 71 67 275
T14 Gene Sauers      -9       63 69 73 70 275
T16 Larry Mize      -8       68 72 67 69 276
T16 Olin Browne      -8       66 69 69 72 276
T16 Tom Lehman      -8       69 65 69 73 276
T19 Glen Day      -7       69 68 73 67 277
T19 Kiyoshi Murota      -7       72 70 66 69 277
T19 Kevin Sutherland      -7       67 69 70 71 277
T22 Joey Sindelar      -6       70 70 69 69 278
T22 Mike Goodes      -6       64 72 73 69 278
T22 Fran Quinn      -6       70 70 69 69 278
T22 Kenny Perry      -6       65 71 72 70 278
T22 Scott Verplank      -6       67 70 70 71 278
T22 J.R. Roth (CP)      -6       67 67 71 73 278
T28 Esteban Toledo      -5       70 68 74 67 279
T28 Bill Glasson      -5       66 74 71 68 279
T28 Jean Francois Remesy      -5       73 67 68 71 279
T31 Paul Broadhurst      -4       67 71 75 67 280
T31 Peter Senior      -4       69 69 74 68 280
T31 Tom Pernice, Jr.      -4       72 68 70 70 280
T31 Scott Dunlap      -4       70 71 69 70 280
T31 Jeff Maggert      -4       71 70 66 73 280
T36 Peter O’Malley      -3       70 68 74 69 281
T36 Paul Goydos      -3       68 69 74 70 281
T36 Duffy Waldorf      -3       72 68 66 75 281
T39 Chris Williams      -2       72 68 72 70 282
T39 Mark Brooks      -2       67 71 73 71 282
T39 Miguel Angel Martin      -2       71 69 70 72 282
T39 Peter Fowler      -2       71 67 70 74 282
T39 Greg Kraft      -2       67 70 69 76 282
T44 Fred Funk      -1       70 70 74 69 283
T44 Mike Reid      -1       70 68 74 71 283
T44 Michael Grob      -1       71 71 69 72 283
T44 Jim Carter (CP)      -1       67 74 70 72 283
T44 Stephen Ames      -1       71 69 67 76 283
T49 John Inman      E       69 71 72 72 284
T49 Wes Short, Jr.      E       71 69 70 74 284
T51 Craig Parry      +1       70 70 74 71 285
T51 Takeshi Sakiyama      +1       69 71 73 72 285
T51 Brian Henninger      +1       72 68 73 72 285
T51 Michael Allen      +1       70 68 73 74 285
T51 Pedro Linhart      +1       66 73 71 75 285
T56 Jerry Pate      +2       71 71 74 70 286
T56 Paul Eales      +2       71 69 73 73 286
T56 Don Berry (CP)      +2       70 72 71 73 286
T56 Jeff Hart      +2       72 70 70 74 286
T60 Grant Waite      +3       70 70 79 68 287
T60 Lee Janzen      +3       71 70 75 71 287
T60 Stuart Smith (CP)      +3       70 72 73 72 287
T60 Roger Chapman      +3       71 70 73 73 287
T64 Guy Boros     +4       70 67 79 72 288
T64 Woody Austin      +4       72 69 74 73 288
T64 P.H. Horgan      +4       71 71 72 74 288
T64 Andre Bossert      +4       72 70 72 74 288
T68 Stu Ingraham (CP)      +5       68 74 75 72 289
T68 Rick Schuller (CP)     +5       68 73 72 76 289
T70 Simon Brown      +6       67 71 77 75 290
T70 Steve Lowery      +6       71 70 71 78 290
T72 Jerry Smith      +7       68 71 77 75 291
T72 Barry Lane      +7       67 72 74 78 291
74 Jeff Coston      +9       67 74 73 79 293
T75 Bob Gilder      +16       69 71 86 74 300
T75 Chris Starkjohann (CP)      +16       70 72 81 77 300
77 Carl Cooper (CP)      +20       72 70 78 84 304