GOLF ROUNDUP : Forsman Keeps Swing Up to Par for Playoff Victory

Dan Forsman fought off the urge to use too much club and he was rewarded with victory.

Forsman parred the second hole of a playoff Sunday to beat defending champion Brad Faxon and Steve Elkington for the championship of the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Mich.

It was Forsman’s fourth PGA Tour victory, his first since 1990.

“This is a great victory for me,” Forsman said. “The old San Diego Open was my last victory. That’s been a long blank space for me.”

The playoff began on No. 10, a 401-yard par-four where Faxon was eliminated with a par.

It continued on the adjoining 18th, also a par four.

Elkington’s approach landed in deep grass at the left side of the green and he finished with double-bogey six.

Forsman used a three-wood off the tee and his ball landed in the left rough.

Forsman’s approach landed in front of the green. He used a putter to get within five feet of the pin, then sank the putt for par and the victory.

Forsman won $180,000, increasing his earnings this year to $600,350.

Forsman finished at 12-under 276 with a final-round 67.

Mike Hill made a 15-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole to beat Walt Zembriski in the rain-shortened Digital Seniors Classic at Concord, Mass.

Hill earned $75,000 for his third victory of the year and 13th since he joined the PGA Senior Tour in January of 1989.

The final round was canceled just before 1 p.m. EDT, about an hour after play was halted when rain and lightning continued to drench the Nashawtuc Country Club. Only 24 of 78 players had teed off and were on the course.

Under senior tour rules, players tied for the lead when the final round is canceled play a sudden death playoff when the course is deemed playable.

Paul Azinger made a six-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a five-man playoff and won the $1-million BMW Open tournament at Munich, Germany, for the second time in three years.

After Anders Forsbrand, Bernhard Langer, Mark James and Glen Day missed their birdie tries, Azinger made his putt to claim the $170,000 winner’s check.

Belgian rookie Florence Descampe beat Dottie Mochrie, the LPGA’s leading money winner, by two strokes to win the Stratton Mountain (Vt.) Classic.

Descampe, 23, who started the day two shots behind Mochrie and Cindy Rarick, finished with a four-under 67 for a 72-hole score of six-under 278.

Descampe earned $75,000.