GOLF ROUNDUP : Tway Ends 5-Year Drought by Winning 3-Way Playoff

Bob Tway, emerging from a group of scrambling competitors, won his first tournament in five years, defeating Nolan Henke on the second playoff hole in the MCI Classic on Sunday.

Tway, whose last PGA Tour victory came in the 1990 Las Vegas Invitational, put his tee shot three feet past the cup on the par-three No. 17 at Hilton Head Island, S.C. After Henke bogeyed the hole, Tway two-putted to win.

“When you’re down so long, you start thinking you’re never going to get back,” said Tway, who shot a 67 for a nine-under-par 275. “I guess the key is never give up hope.”

Tway, the 1986 PGA champion, never did on a day when the leader board kept changing. There were 10 players who shared the lead.

Henke, who also shot 67, birdied three of his final four holes to tie Tway. The pair waited nearly two hours until David Frost, a runner-up in three of his last five MCI appearances, made a birdie on No. 18 to join them. Mark McCumber, part of a quartet of third-round leaders along with Frost, slid a four-footer by the cup on No. 18 for bogey and missed the playoff.

Frost stubbed his chip shot after overshooting the green on the first playoff hole, missing the par putt.

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Rosie Jones sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to defeat Dottie Mochrie and win the inaugural Pinewild Women’s Championship at Pinehurst, N.C.

It was Jones’ sixth LPGA Tour victory, but her first since 1991. She finished at five-under-par 211 after a final-round 69.

“I could hardly feel the putter in my hand,” Jones said after sinking the uphill winning putt on the par-five 18th in the playoff.