Wednesday, July 6, 2011

MNSS PGA GOLFER JOHN COOK WINS THE MONTREAL CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT WHILE BREAKING THE COURSE RECORD TO EARN HIS THIRD WIN OF THE SEASON


The Sports Syndicate's John Cook won the Montreal Championship for his third Champions Tour title of the year, closing with a 6-under 66 on Sunday for a tournament-record 21-under 195 total. Cook, the runner-up last year at Fontainebleau Golf Club, beat Taiwan's Lu Chien-soon by three strokes. "I thought 20 would have a good chance," Cook said. "I got off to a great start and that kind of let me then relax a little bit and go ahead and free swing it because 20 was my number that I thought was going to be close, have a chance, maybe a playoff, so all day I was thinking that. Once I got to 20, I wanted to get to 21." Cook also won the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship in Hawaii in January and topped Jay Don Blake in a playoff in the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am in Florida in April. Cook now has eight victories on the 50-and-over tour after winning 11 times on the PGA Tour. For more on John Cook's most recent win visit pgatour.com