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Roberts, Bertoni Finish in the Money This Weekend

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Former Cal Poly golfer Loren Roberts, a two-time Senior British Open winner, settled for a 14th-place tie Sunday at Carnoustie, Scotland. Roberts, who carded rounds of 71, 72 and 75 on the first three days, finished with a two-under-par 69 Sunday for a three-over-par 287 total and a paycheck for $27,220. He finished tied for 14th with Mark Calcavecchia, Larry Mize and David Frost. Bernhard Langer won his first Champions Tour major title with ...

Published Jul 25th, by Eric Burdick

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Former Cal Poly golfer Loren Roberts, a two-time Senior British Open winner, settled for a 14^th-place tie Sunday at Carnoustie, Scotland.

Roberts, who carded rounds of 71, 72 and 75 on the first three days, finished with a two-under-par 69 Sunday for a three-over-par 287 total and a paycheck for $27,220.

He finished tied for 14^th with Mark Calcavecchia, Larry Mize and David Frost.

Bernhard Langer won his first Champions Tour major title with a one-stroke win over Corey Pavin. Langer shot a one-over 72 to finish at five-under 279, holding off a final round chase by Pavin with a one-under 70.

Roberts has made the cut in all 13 Champions Tour events in which he has competed this season and is 110-for-110 in career cuts made since moving to the Champions Tour in 2006. He earned his 20th professional victory in late June at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open in Endicott, N.Y.

Roberts has earned $800,210 this season (sixth on the Champions Tour money winnings list), $9,931,665 in five seasons on the Champions Tour and $25,086,432 in career earnings, including $15,154,767 since joining the PGA Tour in 1981.

The San Luis Obispo High School graduate and Cal Poly golfer in the mid-1970s earned the Charles Schwab Cup last year as the leading player on the Champions Tour. A member of the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame, Roberts earned eight victories on the PGA Tour and his 12 wins on the Champions Tour include a pair of  Senior British Open titles (2006, 2009).

Roberts, who has five top-five finishes on the Champions Tour this season and earned three wins a year ago, still holds the record for a round by a professional in any USGA event with a 62 in the 2006 U.S. Senior Open at Hutchinson, Kansas.

Meanwhile, Travis Bertoni, another former Mustang, finished tied for 51^st in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational on Sunday at the Scarlet Course at Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio.

Bertoni, making the cut for the third time in eight Nationwide Tour events, carded a final-round even-par 71 for a two-over-par 286 total, sharing 51^st place with three other golfers.

Bertoni earned $2,760, raising his career Nationwide Tour earnings total to $15,966 and placing him 124^th on the money winnings list.

Bertoni, who carded rounds of 74, 69, 72 and 71, posted 12 birdies, a dozen bogeys and one double-bogey (in Saturday’s round).

D.J. Brigman shot a seven-under-par 64 for a 10-under-par 274 total and a one-stroke victory over rookie Jamie Lovemark.

Bertoni’s other finishes in the money this season are a tie for 17^thplace in the Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic earlier this month at The Georgian Bay Club in Clarksburg, Ontario, Canada, and a tie for 66th place in his first Nationwide Tour event, the Pacific Rubiales Bogota Open in Columbia, in March, earning $1,605.

In April, Bertoni earned his first National Golf Association Hooters Tour victory, carding a final-round seven-under-par 64 to win the Georgia Sports Orthopedic Specialists Classic at Chattahoochee Golf Club.

Bertoni, a Paso Robles High School graduate, has competed in five Hooters Tour events this season, including a sixth-place finish in the ADI Classic in May in Georgetown, Kentucky. He has earned $40,415 this season on the Hooters Tour, including $30,000 for the win in Georgia on April 4.

Bertoni earned conditional status on the Nationwide Tour with a 90th-place tie in the Final Stage of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament last December.

Bertoni, who qualified for the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego, has competed on the Hooters Tour since 2007. With seven top-10 finishes last year, he finished fifth on the money winnings list with $76,848. His career earnings on the Hooters Tour is now $194,197.

Bertoni earned $47,811 for 15th place in 2008 and $29,123 for 40th place in 2007.

Bertoni competed at Cal Poly from 2003-06, winning 11 tournaments, which at the time was No. 4 on the all-time NCAA list of collegiate wins. He earned Big West Conference Golfer of the Year honors three times and twice was named to the PING All-Pacific Region Team by the Golf Coaches Association of America.

He led Cal Poly to its first-ever Big West Conference championship in 2005 -- winning the individual title that year and placing second as a senior in 2006 -- and qualified for the NCAA West Regional three times, twice with the team and once as an individual.

Bertoni's career-best round at Cal Poly was a 65, accomplished twice -- at the Santa Clara Invitational in October 2003 and at the UCLA Gold Rush in September 2004. He carded 66 a dozen times, most recently at the 2006 Big West Conference Championship.