Couples wins again

Fred Couples, the former Newport Beach resident who won the Toshiba Classic March 7, continues his hot streak on the Champions Tour, as he won the Cap Cana Championship Sunday.

Couples also made history. He became the first player to win three times in his first four starts on the Champions Tour, for golfers 50 and older. The Cap Cana was Couples’ third straight win, which ties him with the feat his good friend Jay Haas accomplished in 2006.

Couples has won $931,ooo this year and leads the money list my a margin of $431,000.

He shot a 10-under-par 62 Sunday, breaking the course record at the 7,170-yard Punta Espada Golf Club in the Dominican Republic, where he won by two strokes.

Couples picked up 11 birdies in the final round and shot 21-under 195 for the tournament. Corey Pavin finished second.

“I had a great stretch of golf in 1992,” Couples told the Associated Press. He won three tournaments, including the Masters, in a two-month period then. “But I must say that these four weeks on the Champions Tour I’m not missing many shots.”