Haas pulls away for win

Jay Haas got hot at the right time and picked up his first Champions Tour victory.

Haas fired a seven-under-par 65 that included five birdies on his final seven holes to post a two-shot victory at the $1.6m (€1.3m) Greater Hickory Classic.

Splitting his time this season between the PGA and Champions Tours, Haas was playing in just his seventh senior circuit event of 2005 and entered Sunday three shots off the lead.

He fired eight birdies and just one bogey to get to 16-under 202, two shots ahead of Dana Quigley, and earn 240,000.

Haas birdied three of his first seven holes and suffered his lone bogey on the on the ninth. He started his back nine with a pair of pars before back-to-back birdies at 12 and 13. Three birdies in a row to close out his round capped the win.

Quigley started his final round with a one-shot lead at 12-under but managed just three birdies and a bogey on Sunday and finished at 14-under 202.

Looking for his third win of the season, Quigley was unable to make a move on the back nine, carding eight consecutive pars before a closing birdie.

Loren Roberts also signed for a 70 and finished third at 13-under.

Roberts got off to a good start with birdies on his first two holes and he added another on the fifth.

The par-four sixth proved to be his undoing as he carded a triple-bogey that ended his title hopes.