Scott Dunlap emerged from a packed leaderboard late Sunday in Central America to win the Panama Movistar Championship, the opening tournament on the 2008 Nationwide Tour schedule.
Dunlap's final-round 1-over-par 71 was good enough to better the field at the difficult Panama Golf Club, where only four players bested par for the week. Dunlap's 3-under 277 total was one stroke better than Jeff Klauk (69) and third-round leader Arjun Atwal (74). Chris Smith (74) finished at 1 under par to round out the quartet of sub-par scores.
"It's the first tournament of the year and you almost don't have any expectations," said Dunlap, who hadn't had a top-3 finish since winning the 2004 Mark Christopher Charity Classic, a span of 79 starts. "I hadn't played a round of golf since Christmas.
"You come out here and you hope to play well but you never know until the first tee," he added. "I mean, I was hitting it good on the range, but you never know if that will transfer to the golf course."
The final nine holes, much like most of the week, would turn into a game of Survivor, which was only fitting since that particular television show was filmed off the Panama coast a few years back.
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