J.T. Poston used a burst of birdies to build a comfortable lead in the morning and afternoon, giving himself a big enough cushion to hold on for a 4-under 67 and a one-shot victory Sunday in the Shriners Children's Open.

The eminently likeable and unequivocally popular J.T. Poston probably isn’t quite as well-liked among his PGA Tour peers after the very selfish act he perpetrated Sunday in Las Vegas. In a proverbial rich-get-richer development that seemed appropriate in the Nevada desert,

J.T. Poston used a burst of birdies to build a comfortable lead in the morning and afternoon, first for a three-shot lead after 54 holes and then to give himself a big enough cushion to hold on for a 4-under 67 and a one-shot victory Sunday in the Shriners Children’s Open.