Glasson Gets First Win Since 1994

Bill Glasson, who thought his career was over after arm surgery last year, took the lead with a two-putt birdie on No. 16 and then parred the last two holes to emerge from a crowded field Sunday and win the Las Vegas Invitational.

Glasson capped his first victory in three years by two-putting from 35 feet for par on the last hole, tapping in from 18 inches for a final round six-under-par 66 and 20-under 340 total in the last regular tournament of the PGA Tour season.

Billy Mayfair and David Edwards finished second, a stroke behind, but the outcome was not in doubt after Glasson hit his second shot to the middle of the 18th green and needed only to get down in two to win at the 7,234-yard Tournament Players Club at Summerlin.

Glasson, two shots behind leader Duffy Waldorf entering the final round of the $1.8-million, 90-hole tournament, tipped his hat to the crowd but showed little reaction to his first win since the 1994 Phoenix Open.

Glasson, now a seven-time winner on the tour, had rebounded this year after missing most of 1996 after having surgery on his forearm. But he had yet to win despite having made $426,551 on the year. The win added $324,000 to that total and put him in next week’s Tour Championship.

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Bob Eastwood, a former San Jose State star playing before a large gallery of family and friends, shot a four-under-par 68 for a two-stroke victory in the Raley’s Senior Gold Rush Classic at El Dorado Hills, Calif.

Eastwood, 51, a three-time winner on the PGA Tour who won the rain-shortened Bell Atlantic Classic in May for his first senior title, had a 12-under 204 total.