GOLF ROUNDUP : Perry Wins Playoff at the Memorial for First Victory

Kenny Perry birdied the first playoff hole of the Memorial at Dublin, Ohio, to defeat Hale Irwin Sunday for the first victory of his five-year PGA Tour career.

Irwin, 44, made up five strokes on Perry over the last 18 holes of regulation play with a six-under-par 66 and caught Perry at 273, 15 under par.

Irwin, who lost a playoff to Roger Maltbie at the first Memorial tournament in 1976, lost this one when he chopped up the first extra hole, scoring a bogey-six to Perry’s winning birdie-four.

Irwin played the last two rounds in 131, matching the record on the Muirfield Village Golf Club course, climbed over 18 players, and appeared poised to become the first three-time winner of this title.

But Perry, 30, came back from the water and a double-bogey on the ninth, played the back in 34 and got the par he needed on the final hole.

That finished off a final-round 71 and forced a playoff.

It only took one hole, the 490-yard, par-five 15th, to settle it when Irwin drove into the trees and couldn’t recover.

Corey Pavin, who scored his second victory of the year last week in Atlanta, was third alone at 275. He pushed his leading money-winning total to $715,692.

Lee Trevino and Mike Hill teamed for a six-under-par 66 to hang on for a two-shot victory in the Legends of Golf.

The pair held off the sizzling charge of Al Geiberger and Harold Henning, who shot a 58 to finish second after starting the day 10 shots behind.

Trevino and Hill ended at 252, 36 under, in the better-ball event at the 6,769-yard Barton Creek course at Austin, Tex., and earned $140,000 for the pair.

In the over-60 division, Roberto De Vicenzo and Charlie Sifford completed a wire-to-wire victory, shooting a final round 66 for a 260 and the $35,000 first prize.

Pat Bradley bounced back from successive bogeys with three birdies and defeated Japan’s Ayako Okamoto by one stroke in the $1.1-million Centel Classic at Tallahassee, Fla., the richest purse on the women’s tour.

Bradley finished with a 10-under 278 for her 27th career victory.