Perry captures Memorial by 2 over Lee Janzen

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) -- Kenny Perry releases tension by stomping on the accelerator in his dragster and hitting a top speed of 165 mph while doing the quarter-mile in 8 seconds.
It's the way he gets away from the stress of his day job as a professional golfer.
On Sunday, he almost went to the emergency chute a little too soon.
Perry won for the second time in two weeks, building a six-shot lead with six holes to play and then leaking oil down the stretch to beat Lee Janzen by two strokes at the Memorial Tournament.
"My arms felt real heavy," Perry said after bogeying five of the last six holes in an even-par 72. "I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders."
The final six holes didn't really matter, however, because of the way the 42-year-old Perry played the previous 66. He piled up 14 birdies during a 50-hole span without a bogey until calamitous weather hit in the third round.
He stared down the field in the first 12 holes of the final round, posting four birdies with pars on the other eight holes to all but end any speculation that anyone else might win.
"He wasn't quite on top of his game coming in," Janzen said. "But he had a big enough lead it didn't matter."
Perry had a record 19-under 261 total in winning by six shots last week at Colonial. He won the Memorial 12 years after winning it for his first tour victory, finishing at 13-under 275 to collect $900,000. Janzen also shot a 72 and was at 277.
Masters winner Mike Weir and three-time Memorial winner Tiger Woods shot 65s to climb the leaderboard. Weir finished alone in third at 278, while Woods shared fourth with Vijay Singh (71).
"When he got to 17-under par, I had no chance," said Woods, who missed by inches of holing a 4-iron for a double-eagle on the par-5 15th hole.
Perry has been content to stay in the shadows for most of his 17-year PGA Tour career. That may be increasingly difficult to do after his back-to-back wins. The six-time tour winner climbed to fifth on the tour money list and could move into the top 10 in the world rankings.