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By PAUL DELANEY
Staff Reporter 

Many recent frantic Fairways Lilac finishes

 

Last updated 7/5/2018 at 1:41pm

The return of the Lilac to The Fairways in 2012 produced the first of a number of spectacular finishes. This sequence shows Mike Roters' putt on the second hole of a sudden death playoff that delivered a 1-shot victory to amateur Hank Frame.

When Hank Frame sunk his long putt and Mike Roters did not answer on the second hole of a sudden death playoff at the 2012 Lilac City Invitational golf tournament at The Fairways Golf Course, it seemed to set the stage for some frantic finishes.

Frame, at the time an amateur and a member of the Washington State University golf team, nailed a 15-foot putt from the fringe to complete a four-day, 14-under par 274 and then watched Roters miss his eight-footer to win the title.

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