15-time PGA Tour winner and Golf Masters champion Fred Couples set a new Punta Espada golf course record at 7,170-yard, par-72 and won the US$1.6 million Cap Cana Championship with a record score of 195, 21-under par, on Sunday 28 March. Couples broke the one-day-old course record with an 11-birdie, one-bogey 62 and became the first Champions Tour player to win three straight tournaments with sub-200 totals for 54 holes.
It was Couples’ third consecutive win in a row, tying Jay Haas’s 2006 record and it also made him the first player to win three times in his first four starts, passing the previous best-start record held by Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player.
Corey Pavin was second, Russ Cochran third. Nick Price, who is building the Punta Blanca golf course in the DR, was fourth tied with Bernhard Langer, and Tom Pernice Jr. This was his third consecutive championship win.
“The Cap Cana Championship is one of our top three tournaments of the year and to win at Punta Espada, on one of Jack Nicklaus’ best golf courses ever, really makes it special,” said Couples, referring to the Championship Tour.
Commenting on the Cap Cana course, he said: “For the past two months everyone has been telling me that this is an extraordinarily beautiful place and now I’ve seen what they mean. A great course in great condition with the big galleries we had for the last round, it all made for a fun day.”
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