Worldwide Golf

RORY Sabbatini won his first tournament in two years thanks to a superb final-round 64 at the HP Byron Nelson Championship for a two-stroke victory over England’s Brian Davis.

Sabbatini, whose last PGA TOUR title came in his residential state of Texas at the 2007 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, made sure of the victory with a third successive birdie on the 17^th which gave him a three-shot lead heading up the last hole. He received a huge ovation as he walked up the final fairway and his tap-in bogey sealed the victory.

“Obviously this tournament is very special,” Sabbatini said. “It’s one that I wish I had been able to win and look up and see Byron sitting there at the 18th green. What a wonderful name to be associated with now.”