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Australia's Nick O'Hern shed his reputation as golf's perennial runner-up when he chipped in from a greenside bunker on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff Sunday with Peter Lonard to win the Australian PGA. O'Hern holed out from the sand near the 18th green to claim his first major professional title since 1999 and end a series of 56 top-10 placings without a victory and to clinch the 2006 Australasian Order of Merit. His playoff win came ...

Nick O'Hern had nine birdies in a course record-tying 63 Saturday to join fellow Australian Peter Lonard in a three-stroke lead at 18-under after three rounds of the Australian PGA golf championship. O'Hern played Coolum's testing course in 9-under par in the third round, matching Lonard's three round aggregate of 198. Lonard shot his second straight 65 to hold his share of the lead, three strokes ahead of Australian Peter O'Malley, who was alone in third place at ...