Harrington rolls in dramatic eagle to nip Furyk at the wire

Padraig Harrington curled in a big-breaking 65-foot eagle putt on the final hole to beat Jim Furyk by a stroke in the Barclays Classic at sun-baked Westchester Country Club in Harrison, N.Y.

Harrington took advantage of Furyk's late meltdown in the 90-degree heat for the Irish star's second PGA Tour victory of the season, overcoming a three-stroke deficit with five holes to play to stun the 2003 U.S. Open champion.

Harrington closed with a 1-under 70 for a 10-under 274 total. The nine-time European tour winner won the tournament a year after losing a playoff to Sergio Garcia in his first appearance in the event.

Harrington, a playoff winner over Vijay Singh in the Honda Classic in early March, walked off with the $1,035,000 first-place check after Furyk let it slip away with consecutive bogeys on Nos. 16 and 17.

Champions Tour

Mark McNulty birdied the second extra hole to win a three-way playoff in the Bank of America Championship in Concord, Mass. It was the record fourth consecutive Champions Tour event that went to a playoff.

Tom Purtzer slid an 8-foot putt by the lip of the hole to finish in a second-place tie with Don Pooley, who was knocked out with a bogey on the first playoff hole. The course was then cleared because of the threat of thunderstorms, but the rain never came and play resumed about an hour later with the two remaining golfers on the 17th tee.

McNulty put his tee shot on the 166-yard, par-3 17th hole about 15 feet from the hole and he sank the putt to earn $240,000 and his first victory of the year.

-- From wire reports