Kyle Stanley wins Waste Management Phoenix Open

Bouncing back after last week’s final hole meltdown, Kyle Stanley of the USA overcame an eight-stroke deficit to win the Waste Management Phoenix Open by a single shot from countryman Ben Crane.

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Bouncing back after last week's final hole meltdown, Kyle Stanley of the USA overcame an eight-stroke deficit to win the Waste Management Phoenix Open by a single shot from countryman Ben Crane.

Last week at Torrey Pines, Stanley blew a three shot lead with a triple-bogey on the 72nd hole, then went on to lose a playoff to Brandt Snedeker. This time it was Staneley who took advantage of another player's collapse.

"You go from a very low point to a high point," he said. "I'm not sure I expected to recover this quickly. I think the biggest challenge was seeing if I could put last week behind me. I think I did."

"It just wasn't my day, obviously," he said. "But I gave it away, simple as that. You have a six-shot lead and lose, you gave it away. My hat's off to Kyle. He played a great round. He went and got it. But if you've got a six-shot lead and don't win..."

Fergus Bisset
Fergus Bisset
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He is a golf obsessive and 1-handicapper. Growing up in the North East of Scotland, golf runs through his veins and his passion for the sport was bolstered during his time at St Andrews university studying history. He went on to earn a post graduate diploma from the London School of Journalism. Fergus has worked for Golf Monthly since 2004 and has written two books on the game; "Great Golf Debates" together with Jezz Ellwood of Golf Monthly and the history section of "The Ultimate Golf Book" together with Neil Tappin , also of Golf Monthly.

Fergus once shanked a ball from just over Granny Clark's Wynd on the 18th of the Old Course that struck the St Andrews Golf Club and rebounded into the Valley of Sin, from where he saved par. Who says there's no golfing god?