Bogey-free Fred Couples win on champions tour

Fred Couples wins AT&T Championship on october 16,2011. With shooting a bogey-free 6-under 66 on Sunday for a seven-stroke victory -- the largest margin on the 50-and-over tour this year.
The AT&T Championship is a golf tournament on the Champions Tour. It is played annually in October in San Antonio, Texas at the Oak Hills Country Club, and is the final full-field event of the Champions Tour season. AT&T is the main sponsor of the tournament.
Couples opened with rounds of 65 and 62 and finished at 23 under on TPC San Antonio's Canyons Course. He won for the second time this season and sixth time in two seasons on the tour.
"I haven't had a seven-shot lead since '92 or '90 or whenever the heck it was," said Couples, who teed it up ahead by seven to start the day. "I probably may never ever get another one. It's a weird feeling, and I was kind of unnerved (on the front side). But once we got to the back nine I played much better and I pulled away to a lead that was plenty."
The closest anyone came in the final round was four strokes when Calcavecchia holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole, but Couples birdied five of the last eight holes, including the final two. Last year at The Woodlands outside Houston, he also had a seven-stroke victory.
Couples earned $270,000, giving him $957,753 in nine starts on the Champions Tour this year. He's the U.S. captain for the Presidents Cup next month in Australia.
Couples birdied the first three holes to start each of the opening two rounds. On Sunday, he parred the first five holes. His first birdie came on the par-5 sixth, but Calcavecchia matched it to stay six back.
"Even then I knew I was in a battle for second," Calcavecchia said, "and that's what I was aiming for."
Calcavecchia left a birdie putt on the edge on No. 11 from 15 feet, and Couples made his from 8 to get the lead back to five. He holed a 10-footer No. 12 to go to 20 under and six ahead.
"Nos. 11 and 12 are very good driving holes and those were probably two of the best drives I hit all day and I birdied them both," Couples said. "Unless (Calcavecchia) was going to birdie every hole, the odds were against him catching me."
It was the final full field on the Champions Tour. The top 30 in the point standings are headed to the Charles Schwab Cup on Nov. 3-6 at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.
As a former World No. 1, he has won numerous events, most notably the 1992 Masters Tournament. In August 2011 he won his maiden senior major at the Senior Players Championship. Because of his long drives, Couples has been given the nickname "Boom Boom".