Coody’s 65 Masters Mowry and Wins Canadian Open

Charles Coody, once a Masters winner but lately a forgotten man, shot a five-under-par 65 Sunday to beat Larry Mowry by one stroke in the Canadian Senior Open at Ancaster, Ontario.

Coody was four strokes behind Mowry when the final round began and had five birdies at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club.

“For the last 3 1/2 years, my game has deteriorated,” said Coody, who finished with a nine-under 271 total that was worth $165,000, the biggest check of his life.

“I wasn’t having a whole lot of fun.”

He took last week off and talked things over with his wife.

“I figured I either had to start cutting back or I’m going to have to turn things around,” Coody said. “I wasn’t thinking of something so dramatic.”

It was Coody’s fifth victory on the Senior PGA Tour, but his first since 1991.

He had won $43,524 through 13 tournaments this year.

“You could be dead and win that,” he said.

Mowry, the leader through the first three rounds, had a final-round 70 for his best finish since last winning in 1989.

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Liselotte Neumann, who had lost four strokes over the final two holes the day before, birdied the third playoff hole with a winding 45-foot putt to win her second Edina Realty LPGA Classic title in three years.

Neumann beat Carin Koch, Brandie Burton and Suzanne Strudwick in the playoff to win $82,500 in Brooklyn Park, Minn.

The four had three-day totals of nine-under 207, and Neumann, who rimmed out a putt that would have won the tournament on the second playoff hole, hit a nine-iron onto a ridge on the 11th green.

She then stroked in the winning putt.