Ryan Palmer birdied the 18th hole to win the Ginn sur Mer Classic on Sunday.
Palmer made a 10-foot birdie on the finishing hole to finish at seven-under-par 281, one stroke ahead of a group of five players.
Palmer entered the event 143rd on the money list but won't have to worry about that for a while. His victory Sunday earned him the US Dollars 828,000 first prize and a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour.
It looked like Palmer was coming apart near the middle of his round. He called a penalty on himself and made bogey at number 10 and then double-bogeyed number 11 after pulling his shot into the water.
Michael Letzig entered the day with the lead but came to the 18th hole needing a birdie to tie Palmer for the lead. Letzig had a wedge in his hand from 79 yards, but he hit it short and it rolled back to 35 feet and he failed to make birdie.
Letzig finished tied for second with George McNeill, Nicholas Thompson, Ken Duke and Vaughn Taylor.
Collated final round scores & totals
(USA unless stated, par 72):
281 Ryan Palmer 67 71 72 71
282 Michael Letzig 65 74 70 73, George McNeill 71 71 71 69, Vaughn Taylor 69 74 69 70, Ken Duke 70 69 72 71, Nicholas Thompson 71 70 72 69
283 Tom Scherrer 68 76 70 69, Robert Allenby (Aus) 68 71 73 71, Brian Gay 72 70 72 69, John Huston 70 70 70 73, Troy Matteson 71 74 70 68
284 J J Henry 71 72 69 72, Bob Estes 75 67 72 70, Chad Collins 74 69 70 71, Mark Wilson 73 71 67 73, Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 73 70 71 70, Peter Lonard (Aus) 70 69 76 69
285 Michael Sim (Aus) 72 73 70 70, Jeff Overton 71 73 70 71, Todd Hamilton 71 74 70 70, Kenneth Ferrie (Eng) 70 73 67 75, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 69 73 72 71, Jeff Maggert 73 72 73 67, Steve Marino 72 71 71 71, Tim Petrovic 71 72 72 70, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 72 70 73 70
286 Kent Jones 65 77 74 70, Chris Stroud 69 72 73 72, Cameron Beckman 68 73 72 73, Bob Tway 70 71 73 72, Matthew Jones (Aus) 70 74 71 71
287 Martin Laird (Sco) 72 71 72 72, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 72 73 70 72, Michael Allen 71 71 72 73
288 Mathias Gronberg (Swe) 69 74 74 71, Gavin Coles (Aus) 71 71 72 74, David Duval 71 69 74 74, John Riegger 73 72 70 73, Bob Heintz 72 74 69 73
289 Billy Andrade 75 71 73 70, Joe Durant 72 73 72 72
290 Robert Gamez 72 74 73 71, Jerry Kelly 71 72 75 72, Y. E Yang (Kor) 73 71 73 73, J.B. Holmes 73 72 73 72, Robert Garrigus 70 76 68 76, Greg Kraft 72 74 75 69
291 Omar Uresti 73 72 73 73, Chris DiMarco 72 72 77 70, Jeff Gove 70 73 73 75, Todd Demsey 72 72 78 69, Steve Lowery 70 71 76 74, Briny Baird 74 72 74 71
292 Brian Davis (Eng) 74 72 74 72, John Rollins 74 71 75 72, Chip Deason 71 71 75 75, Justin Bolli 72 74 72 74, Jason Dufner 70 73 71 78, Kevin Stadler 73 72 74 73, Matt Kuchar 71 75 72 74, Tim Wilkinson (Nzl) 74 72 73 73
293 Marco Dawson 71 71 73 78
294 David Lutterus (Rsa) 74 72 73 75, Brett Quigley 73 73 76 72
295 Frank Lickliter II 72 74 73 76
296 Will MacKenzie 75 70 79 72, Eric Axley 71 75 76 74, Olin Browne 72 71 74 79
297 Rod Perry 70 76 77 74, J.P. Hayes 74 72 78 73, Lee Janzen 70 75 74 78, Jason Gore 71 73 77 76
301 Kyle Thompson 70 76 76 79
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