Hats Off to Murphy, Colbert and a Few Others : Golf: It’s all about money as the spoils are divided on the final day of Diners Club matches at PGA West in La Quinta.

Bob Murphy wears a hat with a brim so wide you could land passenger jets on it. Jim Colbert’s hat is perfect, either on a golf course or Gilligan’s Island.

So, after Murphy and Colbert won the Senior PGA Tour part of the $2.1-million Diners Club matches, there was only one thing to call their victory: a hat trick.

The formula is simple. Cover your head, play golf, make a lot of money. Maybe next year they can win another $250,000, then add the hat concession at the Nicklaus Course at PGA West.

“That could be good,” said Colbert.

Even better was a 1-up victory over Hale Irwin-Dave Stockton, basically because it was over in 18 holes, which is six holes fewer than Colbert-Murphy had to play Saturday.

Colbert had some irrefutable evidence to convince him he had been in a long battle.

“My feet are sore,” he said.

From five feet, Duffy Waldorf made a birdie putt on the 18th hole that won the PGA Tour championship for him and Tom Lehman.

The 1-up victory over John Huston-Kenny Perry was worth $250,000, even if both Lehman and Waldorf said they weren’t considering the money.

“The money, I’m not even sure I was thinking about it,” Lehman said. “Obviously, as professionals, you know there are monetary rewards.”

They passed out the last of more then two million of them on Sunday in the desert, where all three matches went to the 18th hole for the first time.

It took sixth matches over two tournaments, but Tammie Green and Kelly Robbins finally had to play the 18th hole. They won anyway.

Green-Robbins took an early lead and held on to defeat Laura Davies-Mardi Lunn, 1-up. For the defending champions, the price of victory was $250,000, an amount Green and Robbins will happily divide.

Robbins already knows how she is going to spend her share.

“I’ll probably give--what is it now?--about 70 percent back to the government?” she said.

Green is going to try to hang on to hers, at least for a while. She is building a house back home in Somerset, Ohio.

“It’s house money, Christmas money, hopefully I can save some,” she said.

Green birdied the first hole and Robbins won three of the next five with two birdies and an eagle on the par-5 No. 2.

Robbins, who eagled the same hole on Saturday, described her latest eagle.

“It was really nice,” she said.

Maybe, but what was really nice was that Colbert and Murphy didn’t have to go 24 holes again, which is what they had to do to defeat George Archer-Dale Douglass.

Murphy could have ended it earlier, but he missed a four-footer on No. 16. He made a 15-foot birdie putt on No. 17, then matched par with Colbert on the closing hole to end it.

“That’s about as exciting as I want to make it after blowing that putt on 16,” Murphy said.

To drum up even more excitement, Murphy suggested changing the format next year to include a playoff between the winning teams from the three tours.

Who would be in charge of it? Murphy threw his hat into the ring.

What would they play for?

“Money,” Murphy said.

What else?