KAANAPALI, Hawaii (AP) — Fuzzy Zoeller and Peter Jacobsen rallied to win the Champions Skins Game on Sunday, winning six skins and $320,000 in alternate-shot play to beat defending champions Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson.
Zoeller and Jacobsen were each making their second appearances at the tournament and their first as a team.
"These guys in this thing are Hall of Famers; these are legends," Jacobsen said. "Once we got past the resumes on the first nine holes, we kind of settled in."
Nicklaus and Watson won eight skins and a record $270,000 in the first nine holes Saturday, but were shut out Sunday. Gary Player and Loren Roberts finished third with $180,000 and Arnold Palmer and Jay Haas were shut out.
"It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day. It's golf. It's a crazy game and things were just falling our way," Zoeller said. "Guys were missing putts and we had an opportunity to make a couple to get us into the positive category and it just blossomed from there."
After Zoeller-Jacobsen and Nicklaus-Watson halved the final in regulation, Zoeller tapped in for par on the first extra hole to take the final $100,000.
