The would-be contenders backed away like the surf receding from a Hawaiian shore, eventually leaving that steady little rock, David Ishii, standing alone.
"Every break that could happen for me did happen," the slender, 34-year-old native of Honolulu said Sunday after he had survived a mass collapse and surfaced as a one-shot winner of the Hawaiian Open at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu.Green had worse than a bad day. It was dreadful, frustrating, embarrassing and included a pair of shots out of bounds.
And Stadler, playing well enough to run away and hide from the field, simply could not find the cup. He missed putts ranging from two to 10 feet on each of the last six holes. Those misfortunes, along with Jodie Mudd's botch of the 18th hole, eased Ishii's task considerably.
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And at Tampa, Fla., Mike Hill shot a 2-under-par 70 Sunday and held off a challenge by Lee Trevino to win the GTE Suncoast Classic tournament for his first senior victory.
The 51-year-old Brooklyn, Mich., resident earned $67,500 from the $450,000 purse to push his career earnings to more than $1 million.