GOLF ROUNDUP : Levi Collects 4th Victory of the Year

Even Wayne Levi is having trouble believing his success on the pro golf tour this year.

“It’s just been an incredible year,” Levi said Sunday after his one-stroke victory at Oakville, Canada, in the Canadian Open, his fourth of the season.

No other player has won more than twice this season.

Levi, who had gone five seasons without winning, is only the third player in seven seasons to win as many as four tournaments.

Levi took advantage of Buddy Gardner’s mid-round problems and needed only a closing two-under-par 70 for his 12th career victory and a 278 total, 10-under-par on the Glen Abbey Golf Club course.

Ian Baker-Finch had a final-round 68 and tied for second at 279 with 33-year-old rookie Jim Woodward.

Woodward, who had missed the cut in 18 of 24 starts this year, birdied his last three holes and six of the last 10 in a bogey-free round of 66.

Patty Sheehan, who lost the U.S. Open when she blew a nine-shot lead, made a huge lead stand up when she won an LPGA tournament at Kent, Wash., by nine strokes.

Sheehan opened the final round with a 10-stroke lead and, after shooting a 70, finished nine shots ahead of Deb Richard. Sheehan shot rounds of 69, 65 and 66 to take command after 54 holes.

Don Massengale shot a six-under-par 65 to win the rain-shortened Grand Rapids Open in Michigan by one stroke, his first victory on the PGA Senior Tour.

Dave Hill, the first-round leader of the 36-hole tournament, had a chance to tie Massengale, who finished at 134, eight under par. His tee shot on the final hole went out of bounds and he bogeyed for a 71 and a second-place tie with Terry Dill and Larry Laoretti.