Stephen Ames closed with a 66 to finish one shot out of the playoff. Mike Weir, who lost his one-shot lead on the first hole and didn't make a birdie until No. 9, rallied too late on the back nine and shot 70 to finish two shots behind.
``I'm not going to beat myself up,'' Weir said. ``I played well. Just a bad start.''
Chopra might say he won the tournament by holing out on the 15th, where a bad break followed an enormously good one.
His second shot hit the green and rolled 20 feet past the hole, but caught enough of a ridge that it tumbled off the steep slope of the green. Chopra's first chip was too heavy and was about to roll back to his feet when it landed in the circular depression of a sprinkler head.
That allowed him to place the ball next to the sprinkler and putt, instead of chip, his fourth. He got out of there with par to keep his one-shot margin over Stricker. In the end, every shot mattered.
