Snedeker, Dufner team up to win the Franklin Templeton Shootout

Jason Dufner and Brandt Snedeker closed 2015 with a bang on Saturday with a win at the Franklin Templeton Shootout.

The duo shot a 11-under 61 in the final round of the two-man, 54-hole event to win by two shots over the team of Harris English and Matt Kuchar on 30 under par. 

Daniel Berger and Charley Hoffman finished in third among the 12-team field at 27 under.

In the final day of the competition, the two-man teams played the better-ball format, where the better score of the two players counted on each hole. When the event opened on Thursday, the players competed in a scramble, where each player tees off, then the team selects the better drive as the position from which hit their approach, and so on, until the ball is holed. The Friday format was a modified alternate shot, where both players teed off, then selected the better driver, from which the player whose drive was not selected hit the next shot, and so on, until the hole was completed.

For Snedeker, this is his second, albeit an unofficial, win of the year. He won the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in February. After four consecutive top-10 finishes in May and June, he had not been in the top 10 since. 

Dufner, who divorced wife Amanda in March, has struggled to regain the form that saw him win the 2013 PGA Championship. However, in his final official PGA Tour start of 2015, Dufner finished T-9 at The RSM Classic.

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