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Publication: Palm Beach Post; Date: Nov 13, 2012; Section: Sports; Page: 1C
TYCO GOLF SKILLS CHALLENGE
Drive for show, chip for dough
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Keegan Bradley of Tequesta hits a shot during the long driving contest at the Tyco Golf Skills Challenge
at The Breakers in Palm Beach on Monday. Bradley and partner Dustin Johnson, who took home
$223,000, lost the overall competition during the chipping contest to Peter Hanson and Justin Rose, who
won $285,000. Story, C4. RICHARD GRAULICH / PALM BEACH POST
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Publication: Palm Beach Post; Date: Nov 13, 2012; Section: Sports; Page: 4C
GOLF
Ryder players prevail again
Pair of Hanson -Rose clean up at skills event at Breakers.
By Greg Stoda Palm Beach Post StaffWriter
PALM BEACH — Shades of the Ryder Cup.
Peter Hanson and Jus -tin Rose, members of Europe's winning Ryder Cup team in September, won the
Tyco Golf Skills Challenge played Monday on the Ocean Course at The Breakers ... and beat U.S. Ryder
Cup participants Keegan Bradley and Dustin Johnson in the day's final competition.
"We're great friends, and it was a great day," said Hanson, whose pitch to inside 3 feet decided the
outcome in a playoff after the teams twice halved the hole in the reverse scramble, which calls for
teammates to play the poorer of two shots from tee to hole.
The playoff was an individual endeavor counting for the team, and Bradley pitched to 3 1 /2 feet after
Johnson dumped his shot into a bunker. Hanson then slid his pitch inside Bradley's marker. The win was
worth $200,000 to the Hanson -Rose pairing, and boosted the team's take to $285,000 for the competition.
Bradley and Johnson shared $100,000 as runners -up in reverse scramble, and earned $223,000 for the
day.
"The reverse scramble is brutal," Johnson said, "because you're playing catch -up as soon as one guy hits
a bad shot. It can't be erased. You have to hit two good shots every time, or you're in trouble."
Tequesta's Mark Calcavecchia, a late replacement for sore - elbowed Nick Price, and Mark O'Meara
finished third and split $158,000.
"I'm sorry for Nick, but it was a good call for me to get," Calcavecchia said,
Zach Johnson and Kyle Stanley finished fourth with a split of $134,000.
Bradley, another Tequesta resident, won the long- driving competition at 270 yards into a strong
morning breeze blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean.
Dustin Johnson of Jupiter won the mid -iron competition with a 7 -iron from 156 yards to within 6 1 /2 feet.
Hanson won the bunker shot format with a hole -out after a series of mediocre shots. His shot came
immediately after O'Meara asked the crowd in the grandstand: "Are you guys learning anything up there?
Does anybody want to come down and hit some shots ?"
Bradley won the chipping competition with a shot to just more than a foot outside the hole.
O'Meara, 55, won the trouble shot and short-iron contests, and quipped that as a Champions Tour player
"power is not a part of my game."
The competition will be aired on NBC from 4 -6 p.m. on Dec. 29 and 30.
Award for McIlroy: Rory McIlroy was named player of the year by PGA of America and earned his first
Vardon Trophy.
McIlroy, 23, was named top player by the Palm Beach Gardens -based organization with 100 points
earned on the basis of tournament finishes, earnings and scoring. Tiger Woods - a three -time winner this
season - was runner -up with 66 points.
McIlroy won the Vardon Trophy with an adjusted scoring average of 68.87. gstoda @pbpost.com
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