Perry aids Ryder bid with win at Buick

Kentucky, Kenny Perry is coming home.

Perry shot a 6-under 66 on Sunday to win the Buick Open by a stroke at 19 under, likely locking up a spot on the Ryder Cup team that will face Europe at Valhalla about 40 miles from his birthplace.

"I'm ecstatic," he said. "It really won't sink in until I'm actually putting on the red, white and blue."

Perry was amazed he won at Warwick Hills in Grand Blanc, Mich., for a second time because Woody Austin closed with consecutive bogeys to blow the tournament and Bubba Watson just missed a 12-footer that would've forced a playoff.

While Perry was on the driving range, he backed into earning $900,000.

"I still can't believe I won," he said. "I feel like I need to go make a birdie out there to win."

Austin and Watson shot 68s.

The 47-year-old Perry joined Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson as the only multiple winners this year on the PGA Tour, and joined a short list of multiple champions in the event.

Vijay Singh has three Buick Open titles, while Tiger Woods, Julius Boros, Tony Lema and Perry have two.

Champions Tour

Loren Roberts won for the first time this year, shooting a 3-under 68 to cap a wire-to-wire, one-stroke victory over Nick Price and Lonnie Nielsen in the Commerce Bank Championship in East Meadow, N.Y.

Roberts had three second-place finishes on the Champions Tour this year, including last week to Jeff Sluman, but his 12-under 201 total gave him his eighth title on the over-50 circuit, matching his total from his PGA Tour career.

Price matched the tournament's low round with a 65. Nielsen, the winner last year over Roberts, had a 66 on the Red Course at Eisenhower Park.

-- The Associated Press