GOLF ROUNDUP : Final-Nine 31 Helps Scranton Score First Tour Victory

Nancy Scranton finally answered her critics on the women’s professional tour.

Scranton, who has always been called a potentially great player, birdied the 17th and 18th holes Sunday to cap a four-under 31 on the back nine and win her first LPGA Tour championship, the du Maurier Classic at Coquitlam, Canada.

“I’ve heard about (the potential) for a long time,” Scranton said. “I wanted to win, and to win a big tournament--a major--is all the more satisfying.”

Scranton, who won $105,000, sank a birdie putt on 17 to break a tie with Debbie Massey, who three-putted the 18th to give Scranton a three-shot victory.

Scranton, 30, of Tampa, Fla., closed with a final round of three-under-par 68 and a 72-hole total of nine-under 279.

D.A. Weibring came from four shots behind to win the Hardee’s Classic at Coal Valley, Ill., by a stroke over Paul Azinger and Peter Jacobsen.

Weibring, 38, had seven birdies and a bogey for a six-under-par 64, his best round of the tournament at Oakwood Country Club. His four-round total was 267, 13-under par.

Weibring won the tournament in 1979, when it was called the Quad Cities Open.

Rocky Thompson shot a two-under-par 70 to win the Digital Seniors Classic at Concord, Mass.

Thompson’s second victory in 624 PGA tournaments, dating to 1964, was worth $60,000. He shot an 11-under 205.

Gary Wolstenholme, playing on the same golf course in Ganton, England on which his late father, Guy, won the British amateur title in 1960, won won the same title with an 8 and 6 victory over Bob May of La Habra, Calif.