Jason Dufner wins

All hail the Chief.

Jason Dufner has secured his fourth PGA Tour title with a win at the 'CareerBuilder Challenge, held in partnership with the Clinton Foundation.’ We used to know it as the Bob Hope Classic, but now it has become the longest title in golf. We digress.

The Duff beat David Lingmerth with a par on the second playoff hole.

Dufner and Lingmerth were tied 25-under after eighteen, and four clear of the following pack.

He had a bit of good luck to get to the playoff in the first place, as his ball came to rest in a small dirt patch on the 17^th. But he managed to salvage a par, and par the 18^th to set up a playoff, which he won on the second hole.

“It was probably like one in 50 million that the ball ends up there,” said the Duff. “But I’ll take it. Some guy won the Powerball a couple weeks ago. He’ll take it, right?” Right you are Duff!

Further luck came to the Duff when Lingmerth found the water with his approach shot on the second playoff hole. This was after he had made an 11-foot putt on the first playoff hole to keep in the game. He had laid up after his tee shot found a bunker, and that turned out to be a wise decision.

That's no place for a ball to be.

 “It was probably a shot I pull off maybe two out of 10 times or three out of 10 times,” Dufner said. “The other seven or eight times it probably hits the lip or goes in the water. So I thought … I’m going to play the percentages.” And that turned out to be the right call.

Back to the 18^th for the second playoff hole, and fortune again favoured the Duff. Lingmerth found the rough, and then hit his approach shot into the water.

“The rough is a little heavy in some spots and it grabbed my club,” Lingmerth said. “It turned the ball over and it was really not a bad swing, just a small mistake that was very costly.”

Dufner arrived at the CareerBuilder at No. 120 in the Official World Golf Ranking, and that lowly position has clearly affected him.

“That’s another thing I worked a lot on, trying to be confident again,” Dufner said. He’s also been through the matrimonial wars of late, so we’re all delighted for a Duff victory. 

The return of the Duff.

Watch how he saves par on the 17th here.

For more on the Duff's recent challenges click here.