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PONTE VEDRA BEACH (FLORIDA), MARCH 30. Career grinder Fred Funk became the oldest winner of The Players Championship on Monday in the toughest round the TPC at Sawgrass course has ever had. Funk delivered key shots over the water and the only par putt that mattered, a 5-footer on the final hole that gave him a one-shot victory at age 48. "I can't believe it," Funk said, choking back tears. "I didn't fathom this happening." He closed with a 1-under 71, then had to wait until Luke Donald of England missed a 20-foot birdie putt from just off the green before celebrating the seventh, and by far the biggest, victory of his career, in conditions that were tougher than most Majors because of 56kph wind. Funk had three-putt bogeys on consecutive holes to lose a two-shot lead. He got it back with a bold 3-iron from 234 yards that narrowly cleared the water on the par-5 16th and set up a two-putt birdie. He found land on the island-green 17th, a victory in itself, only to three-putt for another bogey. — AP
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