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June 24, 2008

Watson-Villegas clinch rain-delayed CVS golf tourney

BARRINGTON -- Bubba Watson and Camilo Villegas birdied all three holes of a four-team playoff to win the rain-delayed CVS Caremark Charity Classic today at Rhode Island Country Club.

The event was delayed almost four hours by a heavy and at times violent thunderstorm. At the time, the 10 two-player teams all had completed at least 10 holes and had at least five holes to play.

Because the course became so wet, it was decided to make it a 28, rather than 36-hole, competition. And, after 28 holes, the teams of Villegas-Watson, Paul Goydos-Tim Herron, Billy Andrade-Davis Love and Rocco Mediate-Brandt Snedeker all were at 15-under-par.

Officials opted to have those four teams go out in a three-hole playoff, playing the final three holes on the RICC layout. Villegas birdied both 16 and 17, then Watson clinched it with a five-footer for still another bird on the final hole. The three other teams had only one birdie in the wet conditions, that by Mediate on the 16th hole.

First place was worth $150,000 each for Watson and Villegas.

--Journal sportswriter Paul Kenyon

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