LIGONIER - For a guy nicknamed Radar, Mike Reid's instincts were wrong after he made a 20-foot eagle putt on what he thought was his final hole of the Senior PGA Championship.

"It just went in like a homesick gopher," Reid said Sunday. "And I just remember thinking, `Great, I tied Dana (Quigley) for second.' This has been a great week."

In a matter of minutes, it became far greater than Reid could have imagined even a few holes before.

Down by six shots to Quigley with eight holes to play and three shots to Jerry Pate with only No. 18 to play, Reid staged one of the greatest comebacks in Champions Tour history by winning a three-way playoff for his first American tournament victory in nearly 17 years.

Replaying No. 18 minutes after his eagle, Reid birdied the playoff hole to win after Pate missed his 6-foot birdie putt. Quigley was out of contention after hitting his second shot into the water guarding the green.

"I'm as shocked as anybody," said Reid, who got his nickname because of his driving accuracy, not his ability to forecast tournament-changing momentum swings.

Once known for his major-tournament failures, Reid benefited from the twin failings by Quigley and Pate. They don't quite equal Jean Van de Velde's triple-bogey 7 misery on No. 18 at the 1999 British Open, but they were memorable.

The long day began with Quigley, a former club pro, getting birdies on three of the final four holes of the rain-delayed third round to take a three-shot lead over Pate and Reid into the final round.

Quigley, playing in his 259th consecutive Champions Tour event, boosted his lead over Reid to six with an eagle-2 on No. 10. But Quigley gave Pate and Reid an opening with a bogey-4 on No. 17, and Pate took a one-shot lead by hitting his tee shot to within a foot on the same hole and tapping in for birdie.

Then came the decision Pate may regret the rest of his life.

The par-5, 515-yard 18th at Laurel Valley yielded 127 birdies, 43 more than any other hole, yet Pate laid up rather than go for the green with a mid-iron on his second shot. He needed only to two-putt from 18 feet to win, but lagged his first putt and then missed from 3 feet for par, forcing the playoff.

"It was just a bad decision I made. I wasn't even thinking of laying up, to be honest, it never crossed my mind," said Pate, who hasn't won since the 1982 TPC. "But my caddy (Chris Frame) said, `I want you to lay up. All you've got to do is make 5 and you win.'"

The more he talked afterward, the more Pate convinced himself he was wrong.

"In my 30 years of career, the people that know me, (know) I don't think that way," he said.

Even Reid, who skipped his son's high school graduation to play in his first Senior PGA, found himself rooting for Pate, the 1976 U.S. Open champion who didn't play competitively for more than 20 years because of a sore left shoulder.

"I was thinking, `I hope Jerry makes it, I'm tired and I don't want to go out there again,'" said Reid, who played 27 holes Sunday and was eager to get back to his family in Utah. "And he's played like a champion. He deserves to win this tournament."

Quigley probably thought he deserved to win more. He won less than $100,000 on the PGA Tour from 1978-82 - less money than Pate routinely made in a week - partly because he never felt he had the game to play against the Pates of the world.

Now, Quigley is a star on the Champions Tour, winning 10 times, but he's never won a major - and may never get closer than this.

"It's a little deflating to get there and not win it," Quigley said.

Quigley's fourth birdie of the tournament on No. 18 would have won it in regulation, but his second shot found a tiny greenside pot bunker. His wedge shot traveled only a few feet, but he managed to get up and down for par.

It wasn't enough, not on the day when Reid finally put his major tournament agonies behind him by winning his first PGA tournament since the 1988 World Series of Golf.

Reid led the 1989 Masters with four holes to play, but couldn't hold on. That year, Reid's bogey and a double bogey in the last three holes of the PGA allowed the late Payne Stewart to charge back and win with four birdies in the final five holes.

"I had control of that tournament and, by all rights, I should have won," Reid said. "And today it was Dana Quigley and Jerry Pate, they had control and should have won. ... Fate takes a hand and I can't explain it. My putt went in, Jerry's missed and I'm feeling like I stole something."

CORNING, N.Y. - Jimin Kang had an ace up her sleeve, and it caught Annika Sorenstam by surprise.Just moments after a double bogey dropped her two shots off the lead with four holes to play Sunday at the LPGA Corning Classic, Kang made the first hole-in-one of her brief career and won for the first time on tour."I still can't feel it. It's not coming yet," Kang said after beating Sorenstam and rookie Meena Lee by two strokes. "Hopefully, it's coming soon. Once the check goes into my bank, I might feel it."A year after she rallied from behind on the final day to win the LPGA Corning Classic for the first time, Sorenstam couldn't duplicate the feat. Hampered by a lingering cold, she shot a closing 69."I did have a chance," said Sorenstam, who did manage three birdies over her last seven holes. "Obviously, I wish I would have felt a little better so I could have given it a little more, but I didn't have much more to give."Still, Sorenstam, a runner-up for the 39th time in her amazing 11-year career, earned $87,085 to boost her total for the year over $1 million.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Justin Leonard didn't fret despite nearly blowing the PGA Tour's biggest lead this year.He suddenly went from cruising around the TPC at Southwind protecting an eight-stroke lead Sunday to grinding through the final two holes and pulling out a one-shot victory over David Toms at the St. Jude Classic."I've always learned more from the disappointments and little lessons, although this ultimate outcome was not a disappointment. I was under the gun those last two holes, and I was able to come through," Leonard said."The putt at 17 was so critical, then I had the cushion to play 18 the way I did. So those two putts, I'm more proud of that than the 62 on Thursday or anything else I've done this week."Leonard collapsed on the green out of relief after sinking a 31/2-foot bogey putt to clinch the first wire-to-wire win of his career and the second on tour this year.He closed with a 3-over 73 to finish at 14-under 266 and earn the 10th title of his career.