Video: On The Rocks, Jason Dufner Wins In The Desert

If you were watching football instead of golf, you missed a great finish at PGA West aided by the fearsome finishing stretch masterminded by Pete Dye. The PGA Tour's final round highlight package can be viewered here.

In his game story for the Desert Sun, Larry Bohannan focuses on what was easily the highlight of the day, and almost became the greatest shot in Hope Classic CareerBuilder Challenge history.

Dufner survived a perilous pitch shot from a precarious spot on the island green at the 17th hole of TPC Stadium Course at PGA West, rolled in a tough-as-nails par putt to extend the playoff and then made a routine par on the second playoff hole to defeat Lingmerth for the title.
It was Dufner’s fourth PGA Tour win, but his first since taking the 2013 PGA Championship.

And it’s a win he knows was a bit fortunate.

“It was probably like one in like 50 million that that ball ends up there,” Dufner laughed over his good fortune that his tee shot on the 17th didn’t finish in the water or an unplayable lie. “But I'll take it. I'll take it. Some guy won the Powerball a couple weeks ago, he'll take it, right?”

The shot: