GOLF ROUNDUP : Janzen Stays Out of Trouble, Then Beats Pavin in Playoff

While others were making errors, Lee Janzen was avoiding them, and it paid off Sunday when he sank a 12-foot birdie on the first playoff hole to win the Kemper Open at Potomac, Md.

Typically on this day, Janzen’s playoff competition, Corey Pavin, bogeyed the hole.

“I made one bogey over the last three days,” said Janzen, who earned $252,000. “I had no idea how the others were doing. I wasn’t concerned about them.”

Janzen had Sunday’s only bogey-free round, a four-under-par 67, and finished at 272.

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Jim Dent took a nap during a 55-minute rain delay, played the next 15 holes at four-under and won the BellSouth Senior Classic at Nashville, Tenn., by two strokes over Bob Murphy.

Dent, who shot a four-under 68 to finish at 203 and earn $165,000, had bogeyed the third hole when the rains came.

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Julie Larsen won for the first time, birdieing the 17th hole and holding off Leigh Ann Mills in the First Bank-Edina Realty LPGA Classic at Brooklyn Park, Minn. Larsen fired a final-round 71 to finish at 205 and earn $75,000.

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Bernhard Langer shot a final-round 69 to finish with an 18-under 270 and win the European Tournament Players Championship in Hamburg, Germany, by six shots over Jamie Spence.