Hal Sutton shot a course-record 61 Sunday to rally from five strokes back and win the $1 million B.C. Open by a stroke over Jim McGovern.
Sutton made 11 birdies and one bogey in the final round of his eighth PGA Tour victory and first since the 1986 Memorial.Sutton finished with a 15-under 269 total on the En-Joie golf course and collected $180,000.
The 10-under round matched Jim Furyk for the best 18-hole score on tour this year. Furyk was 10 under on a par-72 course at the Buick Open in August.
It was the lowest final-round score this year, bettering the 7-unders recorded by Steve Elkington at the PGA Championship and Peter Jacobsen at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
McGovern had a final-round 63 and was one shot ahead of Kirk Triplett and Craig Stadler. Triplett had a 66 and Stadler a 67 Sunday. U.S. Ryder Cup member Jay Haas, who shot a 64, and Stewart Clink, who had a final-round 65, were at 272.
Sutton needed every stroke of his record round, which broke the course record of 62, set three times, most recently in 1989 by Elkington, also in the final round.
Despite his scorching play, Sutton walked off the 15th green in a tie with McGovern at 14 under after two-putting from 5 feet for a bogey.
But McGovern bogeyed 14 and Sutton moved back to 15 under with a 4-foot uphill birdie putt on 16.
Sutton finished fourth last week at the Bell Canadian Open, but had missed the cut in six of his seven previous tournaments. He tied for second at the Shell Houston Open in late April.
He began the day five strokes behind Skip Kendall, who led or shared the lead through the first three rounds. Kendall shot a 70 Sunday and joined four others at 11 under for the tournament
Sutton wasted little time cutting into Kendall's lead, making five straight birdies starting on No. 2. After a par on 7, Sutton strung together three more birdies to take over the lead at 13 under.
McGovern tried to keep pace. He birdied Nos. 2 and 3, then made five birdies between Nos. 6 and 13 to go 14 under before his bogey on 14.
McGovern made an 18-foot birdie putt on 18 to finish 14 under.
BRICKYARD SENIORS: Simon Hobday capped a 4-under-par 68 with a 3-foot bogey putt to win the Brickyard Crossing Championship senior event by one stroke Sunday and avoid a six-way playoff.
The 55-year-old South African's only bogey in the final round came on the closing par-4 when he hit into a bunker on his second shot, hit a bad shot to the fringe and left his first putt short. His final putt gave him a 12-under 204 total as he became the 20th different champion on the Senior PGA Tour this year.
Hobday won the $112,500 first prize and avoided a senior tour record for players in a playoff by two.
Second-round co-leader Bob Murphy, Hale Irwin, Lee Trevino, Kermit Zarley and defending champion Isao Aoki all finished tied at 205.
First-round leader Ray Floyd and Bruce Summerhays were at 206.
Ten different players shared or held the lead during the final round, including Summerhays, who tied the course record with an 8-under 64 on the 6,678-yard Brickyard Crossing course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Irwin shot a 69 in the final round, hurt by a shot into the water that led to his final bogey of the day on 13. Aoki had a 67 in a round that included a double-bogey and eight birdies. Zarley finished with a 67 after starting the day with a bogey.
Trevino, who had neck surgery in October and has been bothered recently by a sore right shoulder, birdied his final hole to finish with a 69 in his first tournament since taking a three-week break. He had won the Northville Long Island Classic on Aug. 20 in his last start.
Murphy, who started the day at 9 under, had his high round of the tournament, a 70 with a birdie on the final hole.
Summerhays tied the course record set by Dave Eichelberger last year. Floyd, who was leading the $750,000 tournament until he had two bogeys and a double-bogey on the final three holes Saturday, recovered with a 69.
Hobday started with a birdie on the 375-yard, par-4 opening hole, parred the next four holes and had his only other birdie on the front on the 525-yard, par-5 6th.
The 1994 Senior Open champion tied Irwin for the lead at 11 under with a birdie on No. 12 and took the lead with consecutive birdies on 14 and 15.
Early in the final round there was a six-way tie for the lead at 9 under between Bob Charles, a second-round co-leader, Murphy, Jim Dent, Irwin, Hobday and Trevino. Others who held or shared the lead at one point of the final round were Zarley, Tom Wargo, Summerhays and Aoki.
Hobday, who did not play on the PGA Tour, recorded his first victory since last year's GTE Northwest Classic was his fifth on the senior tour. It boosted his earnings for the year to $395,482.
BRITISH MASTERS: Sam Torrance shot a 3-under-par 69 Sunday to win the British Masters, pushing him atop the European tour money list before he competes in the Ryder Cup this week.
Torrance defeated Michael Campbell by one stroke as the New Zealander finished with a 4-under-par 68 on the 6,768-yard, par-72 Collingtree course.
Campbell and Torrance were even through 17 holes, but Campbell knocked his drive into the water and settled for a par 5 on the final hole.