Michael Allen, who started the week with a 60, held on to win the Allianz Championship on Sunday for his sixth Champions Tour title, beating Duffy Waldorf with a two-putt birdie on the second hole of a play-off.
While Allen and Waldorf battled it out for the title after finishing a shot ahead of Chien Soon Lu of Korea, winner of the Fubon Senior Open on the European Senior Tour in 2011, Bernhard Langer shot the joint lowest round of the final day with a 64 to finish joint seventh and Colin Montgomerie also finished in the top ten with a closing 67.
Allen closed with a three under 69 to match Waldorf at 18 under par 198 on The Old Course at Broken Sound. Waldorf, winless on the 50-and-older tour after winning four times on the PGA TOUR, shot 67.
In the first round, Allen had become the ninth player to shoot a 60 on the Champions Tour. A missed 4-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole Sunday cost Allen a chance to win in regulation.
"I didn't want to be known as the guy who shot the lowest round on the Champions Tour and didn't win," Allen said.
