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Article: Newsom takes long way to title.(Sports)(The University of Washington graduate uses a birdie on the fourth playoff hole to beat Paul Peterson)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2007
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Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard
CRESWELL - Emerald Valley Golf Club's gritty, 7,093-yard, par-72 course seldom would yield. Brooks Newsom took the same approach.
After trailing, leading and then tying Paul Peterson in regulation play, the Portland golfer squeezed a birdie out of the fourth playoff hole on a sun-splashed Sunday to win the Oregon Golf Association Men's Stroke Play open division championship.
"It's nice," grinned Newsom, a 1993 graduate of the University of Washington. "I've had a lot of top-10 and top-five finishes in OGA tournaments, but this is the first win."
It did not come easy.
Newsom trailed ...