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Late birdies give Dou win in Web.com season opener

With one last birdie putt and an emphatic fist pump, Zecheng "Marty" Dou put an exclamation mark on the season-opener on the Web.com Tour.

Dou started the final round of the Bahamas Great Exuma Classic with a three-shot lead, seemingly in position for an easy victory to start the year. But he made three back-nine bogeys to let in his pursuers, and after dropping a shot on the par-5 15th he actually trailed Ben Kohles by a shot.

With Kohles in the clubhouse with a final-round 64, Dou turned things around just in time. Birdies on 16 and 17 helped him regain a one-shot advantage, and the 21-year-old rolled in a 50-footer on the final green that clanked off the flagstick and dropped to close out a round of 2-under 70.