PGA Tour Champions

Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai

January 17-19

Hualalai Golf Course, Ka'upulehu-Kona, Hawaii

$1,800,000

January 17-19

Hualalai Golf Course, Ka'upulehu-Kona, Hawaii

$1,800,000

Round 3

Tom Lehman wins season-opener

Round 1

Round 2

Round 1

Round 2

January 19, 2019

Tom Lehman rallied to win the PGA Tour Champions' season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship on Saturday, taking advantage of David Toms' closing three-putt bogey.

''As a competitor, you don't want to win that way. Honestly, you don't,'' Lehman said. ''You love winning. I'm not going to give the trophy back, but you would rather make a putt than have somebody miss a putt. So I felt bad for him because I thought he played extremely well.''

Four strokes ahead of Lehman entering the round, Toms finished with a 70. His long first putt on the par-4 18th went 7 feet past, and he missed the comebacker to hand Lehman his 12th victory on the 50-and-over tour.

''Hate to end up that way on the last hole,'' Toms said. ''Trying to make it (the first putt) because I figured if I made it, I had a chance to win right there. Never even entered my mind that I was going to three-putt.''

''I like the fact that the wind was blowing,'' Lehman said. ''I always feel like when the wind blows, my chances get better. Historically, I've always been a real steady ball-striker, and when the wind blows, that's what you really have to do.''

Toms made seven straight pars before the finishing bogey.

''Hit a lot of good putts on the back nine that I didn't make, and Tom played great,'' Toms said. ''I told you yesterday standing right here somebody was going to play good today and I had to play really well. I shot 16-under par for the tournament in some pretty tough wind. I felt I played solid.''

Bernhard Langer and 2018 winner Jerry Kelly each shot 67 to tie for third at 14 under. Fred Couples (66) and Kevin Sutherland (63) followed at 12 under.