Perry notches win
Veteran closes with 63, sets tournament record
Associated Press
Monday, June 29, 2009

CROMWELL, Conn. --- Kenny Perry has set a goal of winning 20 times before he leaves the PGA Tour.

The 48-year-old earned No. 14 on Sunday at the Travelers Championship, shooting 7-under-par 63 to finish with a tournament-record 258, three strokes better than Paul Goydos and David Toms. It was Perry's 11th victory since his 40th birthday.

"Six more wins is a lot of wins," he said. "I've won three last year, two this year already. Who knows? If I can get hot again, get on one of those streaks and sneak in two more by the end of the year, it might be very realistic."

The 48-year old, whose bogey-bogey finish at Augusta National Golf Club kept him from winning the Masters Tournament in April, tied a course record with 61 on Thursday and led after each of the first two rounds. He trailed by a stroke to Goydos heading into the final round.

Perry responded by shooting 32 on the front nine and was up by five heading to the par-4 15th.

Goydos made a 20-foot eagle putt from the fringe on 15, then birdied 16. But he missed his birdie putt on 17 to the right. Perry birdied 15, then put the tournament away by making birdie on 17 after hitting a 164-yard approach to within eight feet.

"Everyone kind of asks about the Augusta hangover deal," he said. "I guess I kind of shoved that aside a little bit. So that makes me feel pretty good."

Perry acknowledged he was thinking about the Masters as he played the back nine and told himself to play aggressive.

"I knew that I had to keep making birdies," he said. "I wasn't going to let up. I wasn't going to play defensive golf. I learned something from that mistake."

Toms shot his third 65 of the tournament to finish tied with Goydos at 19-under par. He missed a 12-foot birdie putt on 17, after making birdies at 15 and 16 to put himself into contention.

"I didn't get off to the kind of start that I felt like I needed to put pressure on the guys that were ahead of me," Toms said.

From the Monday, June 29, 2009 edition of the Augusta Chronicle
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