Steve Stricker became the first PGA Tour winner of 2012 with a three-shot victory at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Maui.
The 44-year-old carried a five-stroke advantage into the final round at Kapalua’s Plantation Course and although Scotsman Martin Laird, Webb Simpson and Jonathan Byrd all put him under significant pressure, he did enough to close out the win.
A birdie at the 18th gave Stricker a closing round of 69 – his fourth sub-70 score of the event as he finished 23 under.
Stricker had started the day nervily, with no birdies in his first seven holes and a bogey at the par-four sixth.
The Montreal Gazette checked in this week with more information on the home-invasion robbery of WSOP main event champ Jonathan Duhamel, who was pistolwhipped and relieved of tens of thousands in cash and a couple of valuable pieces of jewelry a couple of weeks back.