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Geoff Ogilvy wins in Reno

3rd August, 2014
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Former US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy has burst out of a form slump to win the US PGA tour Barracuda Championship in Reno and earn a place in next week’s PGA Championship.

Ogilvy, who was without a win since 2010, claimed his eighth win on tour by finishing the modified stableford event on 49 points at Montreux Golf and Country Club, five clear of American Justin Hicks on 44 points.

Ogilvy only needed to bogey the last hole but finished in style with a birdie.

The 2006 US Open winner will now take his place in next weeks PGA Championship at Valhalla in Louisville Kentucky, and has extended his exemption on tour a further two years.

He has also cemented a place in the US PGA Tour playoffs, a feat only possible had he won either this week or in two weeks’ time after not having a top 10 finish since March 2013.

He becomes the sixth Australian to win on the PGA Tour this year behind Jason Day, Adam Scott, Matt Jones, John Senden and Steven Bowditch.

Fellow Australian Rod Pampling finished fifth on 36 points in an event in which albatrosses were worth eight points, eagles five points, birdies two points, pars zero points, bogeys minus one and double bogeys or worse were worth minus three points.

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