Stephen Ames chuckled about his mostly mediocre 18 holes of golf. He can laugh all the way to the bank.
With $650,000 at stake on No. 18, Ames coolly knocked his 7-foot birdie putt into the center of the cup Sunday to win the Skins Game. The only other hole he won was the first, a day earlier.
"That's the nature of the Skins Game," Ames said, his smile still as wide at it was when his rich putt dropped. "It's always been the way you play at the Skins Game.
"You kind of let the other guys beat themselves up and then you sneak in there when you need to."
Taking the title for the second year in a row, Ames finished with nine skins and $675,000 of the $1 million purse.
Five-time champion Fred Couples, playing in the 25-year-old tournament for the 14th time, also won nine skins, pocketing $325,000 to push his career earnings in the made-for-TV event to more than $4.2 million.
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