Eduardo Romero shot a 3-under 68 on Sunday to win the Toshiba Classic by one stroke over Joey Sindelar and Mark O’Meara. Romero finished at 11-under 202 and Romero earned $255,000 for his fifth career Champions Tour victory.

“I was very relaxed all week, especially during the final round,” he said. “I made a stupid bogey on the last hole.” By then Romero had separated himself from a pack of four golfers that were tied at 9-under through 11 holes.
Romero made three consecutive birdies to start the back nine, while O’Meara, Denis Watson and Sindelar weren’t able to keep pace. “I won the tournament on the back nine,” Romero said. “I played OK on the front, but I lost concentration. I got more focused on the back nine and changed things around.”

Sindelar had the best round of the day at 8-under 63. He began the day seven shots out of the lead with 23 golfers in front of him, but posted his 63 early and then waited to see if Romero would falter.

“I was starting better than middle of the pack,” Sindelar said. “So 8-under I would have expected top 10 for sure and probably around fifth.” O’Meara and Bernhard Langer entered the final round with the lead.

O’Meara, who shot a 1-under 70, had the best chance to catch Romero but made a bogey on 12 and missed a 3-foot birdie putt on 16 that would have pulled him to within two.
“It was very disappointing,” O’Meara said.

“I didn’t putt very well. I didn’t play great, but I played good enough to win. I haven’t been there in a while, but the nerves were out there. I just didn’t make the putts.”

Romero joins Rodger Davis (Australia), Jose Maria Canizares (Spain) and Langer (Germany) as the fourth international winner of the Toshiba Classic at Newport Beach Country Club.
Elsewhere, The tears of Y.E. Yang carried a powerful message about the strength of American golf.
Golf was just a game until the final hour of the final round, when the son of South Korean vegetable farmers moved closer to his first PGA Tour victory. Two putts and 50 feet away from winning the Honda Classic, he lagged his first putt close to the hole, pumped his fist, then collected himself before tapping in for par.
Yang hugged everyone he could find, then ran along the green to slap hands with the gallery. The celebration turned poignant when Yang embraced his agent, Michael Yim, and wept with joy.
“The biggest win of my career,” he said. “It definitely takes over the HSBC Champions win in 2006.”
That was no ordinary win Yang was talking about, either. That was a two-shot victory in Shanghai over Tiger Woods, the first time in four months that someone had beaten Woods in stroke play.
What made his one-shot victory over John Rollins in the Honda Classic more meaningful was where it took place.