Play-off glory for Roberts in Open

LOREN ROBERTS won the British Senior Open title a dramatic play-off win over Mark McNulty and Fred Funk.

All three men finished with a 12-under-par aggregate of 268 at Sunningdale before Roberts, who previously won this event at Turnberry in 2006, triumphed over extra holes.

After Funk failed to match McNulty and Roberts’ birdies on the 18th at the first extra hole it became a two-man duel, and after another deadlock McNulty fired a wild drive into the rough and Roberts’ par was enough for victory.