Senior PGA Golf: Fleisher coasts to record win at RJR Championship.

Sports Network, The, September, 2002

Sep 15, 2002 (The Sports Network via COMTEX)

Clemmons, NC (Sports Network) - Bruce Fleisher fired a final-round 67 Sunday to win the RJR Championship by five strokes. Fleisher finished at 19-under 191, a new Senior Tour 54-hole scoring record.

Three players held the previous record of 193, last matched by Gibby Gilbert in 1992. Fleisher fell short of the all-time Senior Tour record in relation to par, which is 22-under, last accomplished in 2001 by Tom Kite and Ed Dougherty.

Hale Irwin finished second at 14-under-par 196 followed by 2002 U.S. Senior Open winner Don Pooley, who posted a final-round 68 to come in at 12-under-par 198.

Fleisher opened with a birdie at the third, but ran into trouble with a three- putt bogey at the...

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