Daily Wrap-Up: Round 4, CIMB Asia Pacific Classic

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SELANGOR, Malaysia -- Bo Van Pelt ran away with the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic on Sunday in hot and humid conditions, making birdies on five of the last eight holes for a 7-under 64 and a six-stroke victory.

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"I've watched other guys coming down 18 with a big lead and I thought, 'That would be fun some day if I could do that,'" Van Pelt said. "And it was. I feel like the luckiest guy in the world. I get to do what I love to do for a living."

The winner of the PGA TOUR's 2009 U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee, Van Pelt finished at 23 under at The MINES Resort and earned $1.3 million in the second-year event sanctioned by the PGA TOUR and Asian Tour.

"I've had a couple of chances to win this year, but didn't come out on top," Van Pelt said. "Canada was a tough pill to swallow. I just wanted to learn from that and do a better job when I had the lead. I take a lot of satisfaction in how I played today."

Fellow Indiana player Jeff Overton was second after a 69.

"That was one of the best rounds of golf I've seen," Overton said about Van Pelt. "I didn't play a great round. I played a solid round. I kind of had a couple of hiccups. He birdied some holes that I bogeyed and those were huge momentum shifters."

Van Pelt pulled away with birdies on Nos. 13-15, hitting within a foot on the par-4 13th and par-3 14th and holing a 4-footer on the short par-4 15th after driving into a greenside bunker. He added a two-putt birdie on the par-5 17th.

"I played well all day," Van Pelt said. "I didn't make any bogeys. I just tried to play to game plan all week."

The 36-year-old former Oklahoma State player opened with rounds of 66, 64 and 67 to take a one-stroke lead over Overton into the final round.

"My swing felt good right at the first warmup and I kind of continued that all week and had confidence with what I wanted to do with my golf swing," Van Pelt said.

Fredrik Jacobson had a 68 to finish third at 16 under. Cameron Tringale (64), Camilo Villegas (66) and Mark Wilson (69) were 15 under.

"I had a hard time getting the putter going yesterday and the front side today," Jacobson said. "I was lucky that I still shot 4 under on the back nine to finish third. Overall, a very good week after a month break."

Round 4 notebook:

Weather: Partly cloudy and humid, with the high reaching 94. Winds variable at 6-12 mph. There was a brief shower in the early afternoon that lasted 15 minutes.

Bo Van Pelt

• Holding a tenuous one-shot lead through 54 holes, Van Pelt had back-to-back birdies on the third and fourth holes, and then added three in a row on the back nine and four birdies in five holes to win the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia by six strokes. His 23-under 261 shatters the scoring record set by Ben Crane (266) a year ago.

• He earns the victory in his first start at the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia. The win does not count as an official PGA TOUR victory, but it is an official Asian Tour win.

• All of his rounds at The MINES Resort and Golf Club this week were under par (66-64-67-64).

• He earns $1,300,000 in unofficial money.

• Van Pelt was 3-under on the par-3s, 11-under on the par-4s and 9-under on the par-5s this week.

• He had a bogey-free final round, with seven birdies.

• Van Pelt took a one-stroke lead over Jeff Overton into the final round and built a six-stroke advantage through 14 holes, his final winning margin.

• He shot a 64 Sunday at the CIMB Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia to win going away. In his lone Nationwide Tour victory, at the 2003 Omaha Classic, Van Pelt shot a final-round 62 to win. In his first PGA TOUR victory, at the 2009 U.S. Bank championship in Milwaukee, he began the final day tied for ninth, shot a 64 and beat John Mallinger in a playoff.

For more on Van Pelt, check out his Outside the Ropes video.

Jeff Overton

• For the week, he was even-par on the par-3s, 9-under on the par-4s and 8-under on the par-5s.

• Overton's three bogeys in Sunday's final round came on par 4s at Nos. 4, 12 and 13.

• He won $550,000 for his runner-up performance. His largest official payday of 2011 was the $184,537 he won at The Honda Classic in March.

Fredrik Jacobson

• His third-place performance in this unofficial PGA TOUR event was his fourth top-10 of the season. He won the Travelers Championship in Connecticut, tied for fifth at the Valero Texas Open and tied for ninth at the Arnold Palmer Invitational during the FedExCup Regular Season.

Miscellaneous Player Notes

• Defending champion Ben Crane still has yet to shoot a score in the 70s at The MINES Resort and Golf Club. A year ago, Crane won the inaugural CIMB Asia Pacific Classic with rounds of 67-64-66-69. This week, he had rounds of 69-68-68-69 to tie for 20th.

• The low rounds Sunday were 64s by Cameron Tringale and Bo Van Pelt.

• There were eight players in the field who shot four rounds in the 60s: Jonathan Byrd, Ben Crane, Jerry Kelly, Jeff Overton, Jeev Milkha Singh, Bo Van Pelt, Camilo Villegas and Mark Wilson.

• In the fifth group of the morning, Asian Tour veteran David Gleeson went out and shot his best round of the week. After opening with a bogey on the first hole, Gleeson went bogey-free the rest of the day, making seven birdies and finishing with a 6-under 65. He began the day tied for 40th and finished 35th.

• The Asian Tour's Kiradech Aphibarnrat followed Gleeson's lead and had a seven-birdie, one-bogey performance to also shoot a 65. He improved from a tie for 27th to 20th.

• Ryan Palmer put himself into contention with a 6-under 65 Saturday and then began his round with a birdie at the first. Things improved dramatically for him at the seventh hole, when he made a hole-in-one on the par-3, 199-yard hole. He hit a 6-iron that landed short and rolled 10 feet into the hole. It was Palmer's third PGA TOUR hole-in-one. His first came at the 2004 Booz Allen Classic outside Washington, D.C. His second was at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in 2007. That ace resulted in his winning a Chrysler Sebring.

• India's Jeev Milkha Singh shot weekend rounds of 67-66 to finish at 13-under and tied for 10th. He was the low Asian Tour player for the week and earned $106,666.

• There were two Malaysians in the field, Danny Chia and Shaaban Hussin. Chia tied for 13th and pocketed $85,000, while Hussin won $42,500.

Here is where the 12 Asian Tour players finished: