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FORT WORTH, Texas – Another lefty won the Colonial on Sunday, and it wasn’t the Masters champion.

Steve Flesch, the only golfer with four straight rounds in the 60s, wasn’t hurt by a late bogey and won the Colonial by a stroke over Chad Campbell.

A closing 3-under 67 came on Flesch’s 37th birthday, and his winning total was 11-under 269.

It was just the second PGA Tour win for Flesch, and the victory came a week after he withdrew from the Byron Nelson Championship because his back was sore and he was mentally fatigued.

Flesch felt much better wearing the winner’s plaid jacket at Hogan’s Alley.

“I hit it so well, it would have been a shame not to win,” Flesch said. “I’m thrilled to death. This is a ballstrikers’ course. It’s not a power course. If I had a chance, it was here.”

Still, Flesch didn’t make it easy on himself at the end.

After curling in a 16-foot birdie putt at the 188-yard 16th hole to get to 12 under, Flesch was sitting in the middle of the fairway at No. 17 with a two-stroke lead.

But he missed the green, and left his chip in the rough. Once Flesch got on the putting surface, he sank a 5-footer to salvage bogey.

Campbell, who charged to a share of the lead with a course record-tying 61 Saturday, couldn’t take advantage of Flesch’s mistake. He rolled a 13-foot birdie putt at No. 16 3 feet past, then bogeyed 17 after his approach landed in a greenside bunker.

Campbell got back within a stroke, making a 5-foot birdie putt at the 433-yard 18th, and finished alone in second after a closing 68.

Stephen Ames had the best round of the day, a 64 that put him in third place at 271. It was his fourth straight top-10 finish and fifth in six events. He also finished 13th at the Players Championship.

Weibring wins another Midwest tournament

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – D.A. Weibring still plays his best in the Midwest.

Weibring capped a solid three days of golf by shooting an even-par 71 in blustery, overcast conditions Sunday to win the Allianz Championship by three strokes.

The Quincy, Ill., native survived an early double bogey and challenges by Tom Watson and Tom Kite to win for the second time on the Champions Tour. His fifth victory in the Midwest was worth $225,000 and came two days short of his 51st birthday.

Weibring finished at 9-under 204, his fifth top 10 finish in his last six tournaments.

Four of Weibring’s five victories on the PGA Tour came in his home state – three in the Quad Cities tournament near Moline, Ill., and one in the Western Open outside Chicago.

Tom Jenkins closed with a 70 to finish at 6 under. Watson was next at 5 under after an up-and-down 71 – an eagle, three birdies and five bogeys. Kite had a 72 to finish 4 under. Weibring won handily despite a shaky start, plunking his tee shot on No. 2 into the water and making double bogey. He recovered from with a birdie on the next hole, bogeyed No. 4 and then made an 8-footer for birdie on 5.

Steinhauer wins for first time in five years

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. – Sherri Steinhauer was walking with two friends just minutes after she won the Sybase Classic.

“Are we dreaming? Did this happen?” she asked following her first victory since 1999. “It’s amazing.”

The 19-year LPGA Tour veteran shot a 2-under 69 Sunday to finish two strokes in front of Grace Park. It was Steinhauer’s sixth career victory and the first since winning this tournament and the British Open in 1999.

More importantly it wiped out memories of 2003, by far her worst year on tour, one she called “miserable” and that almost caused her to consider retiring.

“After last year, playing so horribly, it’s an unbelievable feeling at this point,” she said.

Steinhauer tied for the lead on Saturday with an eagle on the closing par-5.

Immelman wins by a stroke in Germany

ST. LEON-ROT, Germany – South Africa’s Trevor Immelman birdied the final hole and beat defending champion Padraig Harrington by a stroke Sunday to win the Deutsche Bank Open.

Immelman closed with a 7-under-par 65 to finish at 17-under 271 for his biggest victory. He birdied five of his last 10 holes, recording seven in all. His third career title produced a top payday of $590,000.

“I walked onto the 18th, then someone told me we were tied,” Immelman said. “After that it was all go, trying to get the 3.”

Harrington of Ireland finished with a 66 in the $3.82 million event that featured the European tour’s top players.

Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland and Joakim Haeggman of Swe

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