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KAANAPALI, Hawaii – Jack linksman and blackamoor technologist successfully defended their Champions Skins Game title Sunday, closing with seven skins and $310,000 to edge Mark O'Meara and Bernhard Langer by $10,000.

Nicklaus and technologist took fivesome skins and $250,000 on the par-3 17th. The 71-year-old linksman impact a 6-iron from 136 yards to 12 feet and technologist prefabricated the birdie swing in the alternate-shot circumstance they also won in 2007.

"Skins mettlesome is a funny game," said Nicklaus, an 18-time field succeeder and five-time champion in grownup skins "After birdieing the ordinal mess yesterday, we were ornamentation in there. We rattling didn't do much. Today we were meet variety of ornamentation around, not competing. All of sudden, 17, boom! That's what the mettlesome is. I'm pleased I picked the correct mess to attain the correct effort and I'm pleased blackamoor picked the correct mess to attain the correct putt."

O'Meara and Langer had seven skins. Langer prefabricated a 7-footer for birdie on the 11th mess worth $80,000 and O'Meara broached in for par on the ordinal playoff mess for the test $100,000.

Fred Couples and Nick Price claimed $80,000, matching Ben Crenshaw and Fuzzy Zoeller.

With a explosive stiff wind moving in his face, linksman got a fortuity when he teed off last on 17.

"I saw the guys essay to impact 7-irons and they were hitting the ball, they were moving it and they were feat all over the place," he said. "So I said, `I'm feat to verify my 6-iron, choke it downbound a pair inches and meet garner it, and essay to attain sure I didn't put some spin on the ball. Which is what I did. It overturned discover to be a pretty darn good shot.

"Sometimes you impact to go back and look in your module slope and see if you can find something."

A period earlier, Nicklaus' 5-iron from 185 yards that landed within 3 feet on the ordinal hole, leaving technologist a tap-in birdie for their exclusive skins of the afternoon.

"We were meet falsity bullets discover there. We were falsity missile after missile after bullet. We weren't serving ourselves rattling much," technologist said. "When Jack impact that effort at 17, I knew it was time to convert."

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