Kenny Perry wins Buick Invitational; Park dominates U.S. Women's Open field

While Kenny Perry got one step closer to confirming his place on the Ryder Cup team the real disappointment was the performance of Daniel Chopra. At the start of the coverage of the third round we hear Nick Faldo saying he was going to keep a close eye on how Chopra performs and a win here would have really boosted his chances of making it to the Ryder Cup team, something which he really wants or at least so it seems by the kind of statements he made after the win in Hawaii. He had three flawless days, had a nice two shot lead going into the final round and whack! He was three over after the first five holes. From a comfortable lead of 2 strokes he plummeted down the leader board like a stock buying into all the “recession” talk and was almost immediately out of contention.

In complete contrast was the performance of the rookie Pablo Larrazabal, a rookie on tour who consolidated on his overnight lead and ended up winning the tournament pretty comfortably despite some big European names being there in the field.