Zach Johnson wins 2010 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial

Zach Johnson sets a new tournament record while winning the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.  Johnson had a 72-hole score of 259 (-21).  The previous best tournament score at Colonial was Kenny Perry’s 261 in both 2003 and 2005.

With the win, Johnson joins Phil Mickelson as the only players to win a PGA TOUR event in each of the last four seasons (2007-2010).  It is Johnson’s 7th TOUR victory and 3rd in the state of Texas.

Johnson made 5 birdies on the back-nine, including one on the 17th hole that essentially clinched the win.  His only bogey of the day came on hole 14.  His final round score of 64 (-6) was enough to give him the overall win by 3 strokes.

Brian Davis finished in 2nd place with a score of 262 (-18).  It is Davis’ second runner-up finish this year, the other being the well documented Verizon Heritage in which he called a 2-stroke penalty on himself, giving Jim Furyk the win.

Ben Crane birdied the final hole to move into a tie for 3rd place at 17-under.  With the T3 finish, Crane moves into the top-5 in the FedExCup standings.

Jeff Overton also finished at 17-under to tie with Crane.  It is Overton’s third top-3 finish in his last five events. 

Playing for the 27th time at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, United States Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin finished 15-under (T7) for the tournament.  Pavin, who won this event in 1985 and 1996, has played the event every year dating back to his first Crowne Royal Invitational in 1984.  This year marked his first top-10 finish at Colonial Country Club since 2001.

Fan favorite John Daly finished at 3-under, bouncing back from his plus-5 round on Saturday.  Daly drew a huge gallery all four days and was overall pleased with his result, “Yeah, yesterday was tough to handle,” said Daly, “but I just hit it bad yesterday.  If you don’t hit fairways out here, you’re going to pay the price.  But I stayed with the same game plan today.  The only thing I changed, I thought driver on 18 was a good play.  Other than that, I hit a few more fairways today, and I putted OK but not great.”

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