Stephen Ames shot a pressure packed final round 68 to capture his career third PGA title with a one stroke win at the $4.6 million Children's Miracle Network Classic presented by Wal-Mart at the Disney's Magnolia & Disney's Palm Course near Disney World at Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
Ames captured the final official event of the 2007 PGA Tour by blasting a 60-foot bunker shot to within three feet of the cup on the final hole.
The win will also help Ames next year with invitations to additional events that will start him off nicely on the money list. It lifts his earnings to over $2 million for this year with a cheque for $828,000 and improves his ranking to 31st on the money list, leapfrogging, among others,
Mike Weir.
Alone in second place was Tim Clark, one stroke back at 16 under par.
Tag Ridings shared third place with Robert Gamez and Scott Verplank.
A couple years ago Ames had to forego a family vacation with his kids when he qualified at the last minute for the Masters. Now he knows that pleasures of Disney World, perhaps a vacation with the kids is in order.
Here are all the scores:
1
Stephen Ames 70 63 70 68 271 -17
2 Tim Clark 67 69 70 66 272 -16
T3 Tag Ridings 67 66 71 70 274 -14
T3 Robert Gamez 70 69 67 68 274 -14
T3 Scott Verplank 66 66 71 71 274 -14
T6 Bryce Molder 68 69 70 68 275 -13
T6 Jeff Overton 67 68 69 71 275 -13
T6 Justin Leonard 67 67 70 71 275 -13
T9 Nick Watney 68 68 73 67 276 -12
T9 J.P. Hayes 65 69 72 70 276 -12
T9 J.B. Holmes 70 66 70 70 276 -12
T9 Heath Slocum 68 68 69 71 276 -12
T13 Brian Gay 70 69 69 69 277 -11
T13 Stewart Cink 69 67 70 71 277 -11
T15 Sean O'Hair 68 66 76 68 278 -10
T15 Kevin Stadler 69 69 69 71 278 -10
T15 Brett Wetterich 69 65 72 72 278 -10
T15 Jeff Gove 72 67 68 71 278 -10
T15 Ryuji Imada 66 71 69 72 278 -10
T20 Bart Bryant 69 65 75 70 279 -9
T20 Cameron Beckman 66 68 72 73 279 -9
T20 Steve Marino 68 66 72 73 279 -9
T20 Rich Beem 70 66 70 73 279 -9
T20 D.J. Brigman 70 65 71 73 279 -9
T20 Mathew Goggin 68 67 69 75 279 -9
T26 Michael Allen 69 68 73 70 280 -8
T26 Joey Sindelar 69 69 73 69 280 -8
T26 Carl Pettersson 68 70 73 69 280 -8
T26 Jesper Parnevik 70 68 72 70 280 -8
T26 Vaughn Taylor 67 67 75 71 280 -8
T26 Joe Durant 68 72 69 71 280 -8
T26 Parker McLachlin 68 69 72 71 280 -8
T26 Billy Mayfair 70 67 71 72 280 -8
T26 Bob Heintz 69 67 72 72 280 -8
T26 Craig Kanada 70 67 71 72 280 -8
T26 Steve Lowery 71 65 71 73 280 -8
T37 Mathias Gronberg 70 71 69 71 281 -7
T37 Charles Warren 69 69 71 72 281 -7
T37 Jason Dufner 74 64 70 73 281 -7
T37 Tim Petrovic 68 68 68 77 281 -7
T41 Ken Duke 69 71 70 72 282 -6
T41 Ryan Armour 69 64 76 73 282 -6
T41 Jarrod Lyle 69 69 73 71 282 -6
T41 Craig Barlow 70 69 72 71 282 -6
T41 Kyle Reifers 72 67 72 71 282 -6
T41 Ryan Moore 70 67 72 73 282 -6
T41 Tom Pernice, Jr. 72 69 70 71 282 -6
T41 Fredrik Jacobson 71 70 71 70 282 -6
T41 Tripp Isenhour 71 67 69 75 282 -6
T41 Chris Stroud 70 68 75 69 282 -6
T41 Glen Day 74 67 73 68 282 -6
T52 Ben Crane 70 68 73 72 283 -5
T52 Jason Schultz 67 72 72 72 283 -5
T52 Kirk Triplett 70 67 72 74 283 -5
T52 Daniel Chopra 72 68 71 72 283 -5
T52 Michael Sim 71 69 68 75 283 -5
T52 Joe Ogilvie 70 68 77 68 283 -5
T58 Doug LaBelle II 70 68 73 73 284 -4
T58 Brian Davis 73 67 72 72 284 -4
T58 Neal Lancaster 69 72 71 72 284 -4
T58 Greg Kraft 73 68 71 72 284 -4
T58 Matt Kuchar 71 70 73 70 284 -4
T63 Dicky Pride 67 70 74 74 285 -3
T63 Charlie Wi 70 71 70 74 285 -3
T63 Kent Jones 73 68 71 73 285 -3
T63 Duffy Waldorf 72 69 71 73 285 -3
T63 Lucas Glover 68 73 72 72 285 -3
T63 Michael Boyd 73 68 73 71 285 -3
T63 Brendon de Jonge 70 69 76 70 285 -3
T70 Rocco Mediate 72 67 76 71 286 -2
T70 Jeff Brehaut 71 68 76 71 286 -2
T70 Marco Dawson 71 70 74 71 286 -2
T70 Greg Owen 71 69 76 70 286 -2
T74 Boo Weekley 73 67 72 75 287 -1
T74 Woody Austin 67 74 71 75 287 -1
T74 John Mallinger 68 73 71 75 287 -1
T74 Ryan Palmer 74 67 74 72 287 -1
T78 Jeff Maggert 69 68 75 76 288 E
T78 Lee Janzen 74 67 71 76 288 E
T78 Frank Lickliter II 69 72 73 74 288 E
T78 Billy Andrade 72 69 73 74 288 E
T78 Craig Lile 70 71 74 73 288 E
T83 Bubba Watson 70 69 71 79 289 1
T83 Chris Tidland 71 67 71 80 289 1
T83 Briny Baird 73 67 75 74 289 1
86 David Branshaw 71 70 77 74 292 4
87 Bob Tway 70 70 78 76 294 6
88 Steve Wheatcroft 73 68 78 77 296 8