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Throughout his career, blading a sand shot into the lip of a bunker, advancing it all of 10 yards and eventually making bogey might send Mark Calcavecchia off the rails.
Those types of moments -- one exact, others similar -- popped up Sunday.
And each time, Calcavecchia kept this cool.
"At times (Calcavecchia) could come to a situation that may irritate him or bother him a little bit or throw him off a little bit," playing partner Russ Cochran said. "He never had that today."
Calcavecchia won the Boeing Classic on Sunday for his first Champions Tour title, holding off Cochran with a two-putt birdie on the first hole of a playoff. Cochran forced the playoff by making a 12-foot eagle putt on the final hole of regulation.
But after 30 previous starts on the 50-and-over tour, Calcavecchia finally found his breakthrough and snapped a four-year victory drought since the PGA Tour's 2007 PODS Championship. It was his third victory in the Pacific Northwest, following wins in the 1997 Greater Vancouver Open and 2005 Canadian Open.
Read more: http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/6904886/mark-calcavecchia-wins-boeing-classic-playoff
