Thankfully for Brian Campbell, the optimistic golfer's adage that trees are 90 percent air was not proved right late Sunday at Vidanta Vallarta. On the tee on 18, in the second playoff hole against 20-year-old South African Aldrich Potgieter,

The world’s 222nd-ranked player won the Mexico Open in a playoff against a 20-year-old phenom with one of the luckiest breaks you'll ever see.

Playing the par-5 18th hole at Vidanta Vallarta for the third time, Campbell benefited from a fortuitous bounce off his tee shot, which peeled right and headed for out of bounds.