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Tue 08 Aug 2010Kuchar's persistence pays dividends
GOLF TOUR NEWS:IF YOU keep on knocking on the door, somewhere and sometime they’ve got to let you in. In the case of Matt Kuchar, the answer to his constant calling came in the Barclays Championship at Paramus in New Jersey on Sunday where – after a season of close calls – the amiable American finally found a way to inveigle a victory and did so with a shot which was worth the long wait.
Kuchar very nearly didn’t get the chance to secure the win. Scotland’s Martin Laird – who’d started the round five shots clear of Kuchar – had the title in his grasp, only to three-putt the 18th green in regulation for a finishing bogey. It left him tied with Kuchar on 272, 12-under-par.
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