Charlottean Eger Gets An Unexpected Gift In Playoff

Charlottean Eger Gets An Unexpected Gift In Playoff

David Eger, who lives part of the year in Charlotte, didn't expect to win the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf tournament with his partner Mark McNulty on Sunday in Savannah, Ga., but they got a pleasant surprise.McNulty and Eger were the beneficiaries of Scott Hoch and Kenny Perry missing a pair of short putts that would have extended the tournament, instead giving the championship to Eger, 59, and his partner.Eger and Brandt Snedeker Wins The Heritage McNulty had posted a best-ball final-round 61 to jump to the top of the leader board after Eger holed a 35-foot birdie putt on their final hole in regulation play. That put the team at 27 under par but Eger said he expected another team or two to match or beat their score.It didn't happen.

Only Hoch and Perry managed to force a playoff and Eger and McNulty were wondering if it would continue on the 10th or 18th hole when both of their opponents missed short putts to lose the playoff on the second extra hole.For Eger, it had been almost a year since his other Champions Tour victory. Since then, he's spent months recovering from a broken ankle that required surgery to repair a ligament and insert a titanium plate and screws. The ankle is still not 100 percent, Eger said, but it's close enough that it no longer affects his golf game.The newly redesigned Revolution golf course will be renamed the Dr. Charles L. Sifford Golf Course at Revolution Park during a public ceremony next Tuesday at 3 p.m. Sifford, a Charlotte native who has moved back to the city, will be on hand for the ceremony. The course played a key role in the integration of golf in Charlotte and Sifford was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame for his efforts in ending the Caucasian-only rule on the PGA Tour in the 1960s.