GREENSBORO, North Carolina, 19 October 2004 — Brent Geiberger completed a unique PGA Tour double on Sunday with his victory in the Greater Greensboro Classic, 28 years after his father, Al, won the same tournament.

“It’s pretty neat to put my name on (the Sam Snead Cup) with my dad,” Geiberger said after clinching victory in style with a bogey-free six-under-par 66 at Forest Oaks.

Although Al Geiberger won this tournament on a different course, he and Brent are the first father-son duo to win a US PGA Tour event on American soil. Tom Morris snr and jnr and Willie Park snr and jnr all won the British Open in the 1800s. The elder Geiberger was even more pleased than his son.

“I’m going absolutely crazy,” he said from a San Antonio hotel, where he watched on television. “It’s just unbelievable that this many years later, Brent could win the same tournament.”

The younger Geiberger, who shared the overnight lead with Tom Lehman, birdied the first hole to take a lead he never relinquished and led the rest of the way.

He finished at 18-under 270 and earned $828,000 as well as a two-year exemption.

Michael Allen sank a 20-foot birdie at the last hole to finish off a 67 and claim second place from Chris Smith, who also shot a 67 but settled for third.

The top three finishers started the week outside the Top 125 on the money list but guaranteed their spots on the tour for at least one year.

Geiberger played a nearly flawless final round in which he hit 17 greens in regulation and won to end a horrible injury-riddled two-year stretch. He missed most of last year with a severe ankle sprain and this year has battled heel, hip and shoulder injuries as well as a change of equipment that didn’t go as planned.

Geiberger also has vertigo, and suffered an attack shortly before he teed off Sunday.

His victory looked perhaps more comfortable than it was because he birdied five holes on the front nine to take a three-shot lead at the turn. The margin briefly shrank to a stroke but a birdie at the par-five 15th gave him some breathing room.

“I didn’t want to pressure myself to get a bunch of birdies off the bat, but it just so happened I hit a weak three-wood on the first hole and my nine-iron came out perfectly and went up there to two feet,” he said. “I was able to start three-under after the first four holes, and that was just what I needed.”

Allen, whose runner-up finish was the best of his career, seemed even happier than Geiberger.

Sorenstam Vaults Past Park to Capture LPGA Event

In Palm Desert, California, Annika Sorenstam erased a three-shot deficit and cashed in on a breakdown by Grace Park to win the $825,000 Samsung World Championship by three strokes on Sunday. Sorenstam posted her tour-leading sixth win this season and 54th career victory.

The 34-year-old Swede engineered a six-shot swing over the final half dozen holes, highlighted by a superb 40-foot eagle chip at the 15th hole that allowed her to finally catch South Korea’s Park.

“I was just thinking, it was a little trickier than I thought,” Sorenstam said of the chip. “It was a lot downhill. I had a little problem reading the greens today. I couldn’t really see all of the breaks. This one looked like it was breaking right and left, left and right, all over the place, so I pretty much played left-to-right, I wanted to get it close. It was birdie that I was counting for, so it was a nice surprise.” Sorenstam took the lead for good with a six-foot birdie at the par-four 17th and she parred the final hole to complete a sizzling 32 on the back nine of the Bighorn Golf Club. Her bogey-free five-under-par 67 stood up as the best round of the day.

Park led by three shots when she teed off Sunday and still held a three-stroke advantage after consecutive birdies at 11 and 12.

But a bogey at 13 marked the beginning of the end. One of four winners of a major in 2004, she played the last six holes in three-over and finished with a 73.

A closing bogey left a clearly disgusted Park at 15-under 273.