GOLF ROUNDUP : A One-Hole Round Gives Henninger the Soggy Title

Brian Henninger sank an 18-foot birdie putt on the only hole played Sunday to win the water-logged Deposit Guaranty Golf Classic, shortened to 36 holes and a playoff after three days of rain.

Henninger and PGA Tour veteran Mike Sullivan played the sudden-death hole after tour officials determined the saturated Annandale Golf Club course in Madison, Miss., couldn’t be made playable for 18 holes. The two had been tied at nine-under 135 after a second round that took two days to play.

The birdie putt on the 532-yard, par-five 18th hole came after Henninger’s drive to the middle of the fairway, a layup to a peninsula fronting a small lake, and a pitching wedge approach to the green.

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John Paul Cain shot a three-under 69 to beat Jim Colbert and Simon Hobday by a stroke and win the Ameritech Senior Open at Aurora, Ill., his first victory since 1989.

Cain, the second-round leader by one stroke over Colbert and Mike Hill, finished with a 54-hole total of 14-under 202.

Colbert, who also had a final-round 69, bogeyed the last two holes. He lost a chance at a playoff when he bogeyed the par-five 18th, hitting his second shot into the water and then missing a 12-foot putt for par.

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Beth Daniel made a five-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff and Laura Davies left her three-footer short, giving Daniel the victory in the JAL Big Apple Classic at New Rochelle, N.Y.

Davies, who started the day five strokes behind Daniel, shot a five-under 66 to take the lead until Daniel’s birdie putt on the 72nd hole. Daniel had a 71 as the two tied at eight-under 276.