Kelly wins with late run

Jerry Kelly carded a seven-under-par 65 to dramatically capture the Advil Western Open in Illinois on Sunday

Jerry Kelly carded a seven-under-par 65 to dramatically capture the Advil Western Open in Illinois on Sunday. The 35-year-old from Wisconsin overturned a three-stroke deficit at the start of the day to record his second victory of 2002.

Kelly (below), who also captured the season-opening Sony Open in Hawaii, began the day tied for third, but produced a superb round to end the day two strokes ahead of Davis Love III.

He registered eight birdies and just one bogey to post a winning total of 19-under 269, breaking 70 in all four rounds of the event.

He said afterwards: "I wanted to be me out there. I didn't try and do anything special and I knew what I had to do with my game.

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"I had always talked about the Milwaukee Open and the Western being the biggest non-major tournaments that there are.

"There's no question about it. It doesn't get any better."

Love III began the day four shots behind leader Robert Allenby, and was also impressive in carding a six-under 66 to finished two strokes ahead of Brandt Jobe, who also shot a 66.

John Cook finished fourth at 274, one stroke ahead of Australian rookie Peter Lonard, Stuart Appleby, Duffy Waldorf, Chris Riley and Neal Lancaster.

Allenby saw his title bid slide away, shooting a three-over 75 to end in a three-way tie for 10th.

FINAL ROUND SCORES (USA unless stated, par 72) 269 -J Kelly67 69 68 65; 271 - D Love III67 70 68 66; 273 - B Jobe 69 69 69 66; 274 - J Cook 67 66 72 69; 275 -S Appleby 70 65 71 69,N Lancaster68 68 67 72, P Lonard71 71 68 65, C Riley 70 70 66 69, D Waldorf70 70 66 69; 276 -R Allenby(Aus)69 67 65 75, B Estes66 70 68 72, N Price(Zim)73 68 66 69; 277 - S Stricker74 67 71 65, S Verplank67 69 70 71; 278 -D Frost (Rsa)67 73 66 72, J Riegger74 69 66 69, V Singh (Fij)68 67 72 71, B Tway70 72 65 71; 279 -B Baird71 69 70 69, J Byrd67 68 75 69, L Donald68 70 71 70, P Gow (Aus) 69 68 70 72, J Senden71 70 66 72; 280 -S Gangluff69 70 74 67, B Geiberger73 68 72 67, T Byrum68 71 72 70; 281 -J Daley74 67 67 73, J Durant68 68 73 72, Joel Edwards69 71 72 69, David Gossett65 73 71 72, JJ Henry70 70 71 70, B Hughes68 74 70 69, L Janzen72 67 70 72, J Kaye71 70 71 69, J Rollins73 68 73 67, R Sabbatini71 70 70 70; 282 -G Chalmers71 72 69 70, S Elkington71 67 72 72, C Paulson71 68 72 71, J Sindelar69 70 69 74, M Weir71 72 68 71; 283 - S Allan 72 71 71 69,C Beckman73 66 71 73, T Clark70 71 73 69, S Flesch73 69 69 72, C Franco71 71 72 69, H Frazar71 68 71 73, B Gay 69 73 70 71 R Mediate 69 68 74 72, S Micheel69 70 71 73, L Roberts71 72 68 72.