Golf World Monday - June 27, 2011

6.27.2011

pga tour // travelers championship

� winner fredrik Jacobson won his first pga tour title after a final-round 66 lifted him to a one-stroke victory over John rollins and ryan moore at the travelers championship at cromwell, conn. Jacobson finished at

20-under 260, two shots
off the tournament record.
the 36-year-old swede,
who finished t- 14 at the u.s.
open, continued his solid
play at tpc river highlands,
hitting all 28 fairways on the
weekend. he had 63 bogey-
free holes before missing a
12-foot par putt on no. 10
sunday. “i caught a mud ball
there,” he said. “you’ve just
got to accept those. i think i
dealt with it nicely.”
�key hole moore, who
finished with a 63, could
have caught Jacobson on
the last hole, a 444-yard
par 4. he hit into a green-
side bunker, and blasted his
recovery to four feet. how-
ever, he missed the short
par putt and finished one
back. Jacobson two-putted
from 12 feet for the victory.

Jacobson gains first tour title

�noteworthy michael thompson shot sunday’s best round, an eight-under 62, to help him to a career-best fourth-place finish, two strokes off the lead. … Jacobson was bidding to become the first player to play 72 holes without a bogey since lee trevino in the 1974 greater new orleans open.