Stadler enjoys Seniors win in Massachusetts

Craig Stadler won the Bank of America Championship in Massachusetts after a superb eight-under-par final round of 64 saw him overhaul Tom Purtzer.

Stadler began the day in a tie for seventh – four strokes off Purtzer – but he played the first 15 holes in eight under and birdied the par-five 18th to finish at 15 under on 201.

Purtzer, who had a pair of bogeys in the opening 11 holes, needed to birdie the 17th and 18th to force a play-off.

But he double-bogeyed the 17th en route to a 72 and his first runner-up finish in three years on the Champions Tour.