Pavin wins his first tourney in 10 years

Corey Pavin found the winning formula again: precise putting, a lucky bounce and his old caddie to show him the way.

The 46-year-old Pavin won his first PGA Tour title in 10 years Sunday, closing with a 3-under 67 for a two-stroke victory over Madison native Jerry Kelly in the U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee.

Pavin, whose last win came in the 1996 Colonial, earned his 15th tour victory by averaging just 26.5 putts per round and getting a timely eagle on the par-4 eighth. He finished with a 20-under 260 total.

Kelly also closed with a 67. Jeff Sluman (64) was 17 under, Frank Lickliter (69) and D.J. Trahan (69) followed at 15 under.

Pavin, who also won the tournament 20 years ago, became the eighth two-time champion in Milwaukee and received $720,000. He reunited with longtime caddie Eric Schwarz earlier this month in Connecticut at the Buick Championship, and his once accurate putting stroke returned.

"In Hartford, his alignment was real bad," Schwarz said. "It took about two, three hours to get him straightened out."

Did it ever.

While Kelly said he wanted to go head-to-head with the leader in the final round, Pavin seemed like an unlikely candidate, ranking 194th in driving distance and 175th in putting on tour.

But the 1995 U.S. Open winner scorched the short 6,759-yard Brown Deer Park Golf Course early with a PGA Tour-record 26 on the par-34 front nine Thursday with just 10 putts. He finished the first round with a 61 and shot a 64 in the second to reach 15 under and tie the tour scoring record for the first 36 holes at 125.

Pavin's biggest shot wasn't a putt at all.

It came on the par-4 eighth hole, when he opened a four-stroke lead over Kelly. Pavin hit a drive 270 yards to the center of the fairway, and his second shot, a 6-iron from 172 yards, bounced three times and rolled into the cup for an eagle.

"That was huge, I was playing real solidly and hitting a lot of greens, but I couldn't seem to get a putt to go in," Pavin said. "Then I hole a shot and that gave me a nice cushion."

Senior British Open

TURNBERRY, Scotland -- Loren Roberts won the Senior British Open for his fourth victory of the year, squandering a five-stroke lead before beating Argentina's Eduardo Romero with a par on the first hole of a playoff in Turnberry, Scotland.

Roberts closed with a 5-over 75 to match Romero (71) at 6-under 274 on Turnberry's Ailsa Course. Dick Mast (67) finished a stroke back at 5 under.

Roberts, a five-time winner in 20 starts on the Champions Tour, earned $293,981 to take the tour money lead with $1,783,972.

In the playoff on the par-5 18th Roberts holed a 12-footer for par and Romero three-putted for a bogey.