Corey Pavin ground the winning for...

Corey Pavin ground the winning formula again: precise putting, a fortunate bounce and his old caddie to point out him the way.

Pavin, 46 won his first PGA Tour title in 10 years Sunday, closing with a 3-under-par 67 to earn a two-stroke victory from one side of to the other Jerry Kelly in the U Bank Championship in Milwaukee.

Pavin, whose last victory came in the 1996 Colonial, notched his 15th tour triumph from averaging a mere 26 1/2 s per round and getting a timely eagle forward the par-4 eighth hole Sunday. He finished 72 pits at 20-under 260.

"I've not at any time given up on myself," Pavin said. "I felt well adapted that I could prove it to myself that I could win again."

Kelly also clos with a 67 Jeff Sluman bullet a 6-under 64 in the final circular to finish third, three discharges off the pace.

Pavin, who also won the tournament 20 years ago, became the eighth two-time champion in Milwaukee and took abode the first-place check of $720000 He reunited with longtime caddie Eric Schwarz this month at the Buick Championship outside Hartford, Conn and his once-accurate putting blow returned.

"In Hartford, his alignment was real bad," Schwarz said. "It took about sum of two units or three hours to commit to memory him straightened out."

Pavin's biggest marksman though, wasn't a putt. It came forward the eighth hole, when he expanded a four-stroke lead. Pavin hit a drive 270 yards to the center of the fairway, and his 6-iron secondary shot from 172 yards bounc three times and turned into the cup for an eagle.

"That was huge" Pavin said. "I was playing real solidly and hitting a doom of greens, but I couldn't appear to be to get a putt to fare in. Then I hole a projectile and that gave me a nice cushion."

The first bodily form to congratulate him was Kelly

"I notice him, and I really like him a lot" Kelly said. "He's a dutiful friend. And I'm really mad at him when he did that. It's a great ball You want to beat a scarecrow at his best."

Kelly who was born in Madison, Wis., had the backing of the partisan herd He lost in a playoff in the tournament in 1996 and finally was back in position to win an fact he calls a major.

The gallery -- and calm those outside the course -- ostentatiously urged Kelly on. He tried to cross-examine them up by waving his arms for more noise, especially down the extend As Kelly walked up single fairway, a man riding a bicycle in the subdivision across the road began shouting for him hysterically.

moreover Kelly spoiled his own chances. He didn't make a hobgoblin but he missed 13 birdie s and didn't make a longer than five feet.

SENIORS: Loren Roberts wasted a five-stroke lead, then won a sudden-death playoff against Eduardo Romero to take the Senior British exhibit in Turnberry, Scotland.

Roberts and Romero went to the playoff after they finished 72 caves tied at 6-under 274. Roberts projectile a 5-over 75 in the final rotund and Romero closed with a 1-over 71

They get backed to the 18th tee for the playoff, and Romero appeared to be in position to win the title when he reached the fresh on the par-5 hole in pair shots while Roberts needed three if it were not that he misread his 30-foot eagle and left the ball five feet from the cavern Roberts then holed a 12-footer for par to bring forward the pressure back on Romero who missed his short to hand Roberts the title.

"I made it more of a litigate than I should have," Roberts said. "But the conditions were tough, and I battled my swing today. I have leaned on my putter for 25 years, and I figured that as in extent as I could get a apply the mind at a par putt, I would have a chance. And I did."

EUROPEAN: Robert Karlsson missile a 5-under 67 in the final spherical to win the Deutsche Bank Players' Championship through four strokes over Charl Schwartzel and side sheltered from the wind Westwood in Alveslohe, Germany. He won with a 72-hole total of 25-under 263 a tournament record.

CURTIS CUP: Jennie lee-side defeated Melissa Reid 3 and 2 to clinch the United States' fifth consecutive Curtis cupful victory, an 11 1/2- 6 1/2 decision against Great Britain and Ireland in Bandon, Ore. The Curtis potion is an international amateur team event

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