Portugal Invitational last leaderboard
-19 Z Johnson (US); -17 S Cink (US); -15 P Harrington (Ire); -13 T O'Neal (US); -12 MA Jimenez (Spa), M Lundberg (Swe).
Selected others: -10 J Leonard (US); -9 D Clarke (NI), R Goosen (SA); R Sabbatini (Svk); -8 E Els (SA), D Duval (US), YE Yang (Kor); -7 J Donaldson (Wal); -6 B Langer (Ger).
Zach Johnson changeable a seven-under-par last circular to clasp disconnected Stewart Cink and Padraig Harrington successful the inaugural Portugal Invitational astatine The Els Club successful Vilamoura.
The event, hosted by four-time large champion Ernie Els connected a people helium redesigned, attracted a star-studded tract for the archetypal officially sanctioned PGA Tour Champions lawsuit to beryllium staged successful Portugal.
Johnson showed the aforesaid dexterity with his wedge play arsenic helium did erstwhile winning the 2007 Masters and 2015 Open to cruise to a two-stroke triumph successful the groundbreaking $3m event.
On a blistery but breezy time successful the Algarve, Johnson opened with 3 consecutive birdies and added 2 much astatine the seventh and ninth to spell retired successful 31 and instrumentality complaint of the tournament.
Even erstwhile Johnson produced a humble wedge shot, arsenic helium did connected the 11th, helium holed the putt from disconnected the greenish to get to 18 nether and spot 1 manus connected the inaugural trophy.
Six consecutive pars followed earlier the 2023 US Ryder Cup skipper closed with a birdie to decorativeness connected a 19-under full of 197.
Stewart Cink, person of the Champions Tour's bid of merit up of Johnson and Harrington, bogeyed the 2nd spread but bounced backmost with 4 birdies to get to wrong 2 of the pb connected the 15th.
He made a 2 astatine the abbreviated 17th but it was excessively small excessively precocious arsenic the 2009 Open champion finished 2 strokes down his compatriot.
Harrington, the 2026 US Senior Open champion, drove the shot good but was fto down by indifferent robust play and a chill putter.
He opened with a birdie and picked up different changeable astatine the 5th but bogeys astatine the sixth, the 13th and the 16th - aft uncovering h2o disconnected the tee - prevented him putting unit connected Johnson.
"I got disconnected to the imagination commencement and I truly felt similar the putt going successful connected 7 was key. I had a mates of putts that lipped successful that could person lipped out, and that was the difference," said Johnson.
"Our big Ernie is each people and what helium has done with this installation is truthful impressive. It's large for america pros but besides playable for beginners - and the Algarve mostly is casual to emotion and hard to leave."
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