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 Americas & Beyond | April 2008 
Ellis Makes It Two In a Row
 Jeff Brooke - Globe & Mail
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John Ellis is on a roll.
Ellis won the Corona Mazatlan Mexican PGA Championship yesterday by one stroke for his second consecutive victory on the Canadian Tour. The 28-year-old American also grabbed the title at last week's Stockton Sports Commission Classic in a playoff.
Ellis shot one-under 71 yesterday at the El Cid Golf & Country Club in Mazatlan, Mexico, to reach 15 under and edge Wes Heffernan of Calgary and Adam Bland of Australia.
A playoff loomed yesterday but Heffernan bogeyed the last hole and Ellis made a birdie.
Ellis had led the event since the first round and became the tour's first wire-to-wire winner since Patrick Damron at the Times Colonist Open in 2003.
"I did not have my best stuff today," Ellis told cantour.com. "I birdied the first and third holes but couldn't get anything going until I saw what Wes was doing. He got off to a great start and I realized I better start doing something or else."
Heffernan shot 66, the second-best score in the field during the fourth round.
The Mexican PGA was the Canadian Tour's first of three stops in Mexico.
The first event on home soil is the Times Colonist Open in June. |
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