<div><p>American Kenny Perry won the Travelers Championship in record fashion, rallying against a strong field to collect his 14th career PGA victory.</p><p>Perry, who has won 11 titles since turing 40, cruised to a seven-under 63 in the fourth round to win the six million dollar event by three strokes.</p><p>It was also his first win since losing at Augusta in a playoff to Angel Cabrera.</p><p>"Everyone kind of asks about the Augusta hangover," said Perry who had a bogey-bogey finish at the Masters. "I guess I kind of shoved that aside a little bit. So that makes me feel pretty good."</p><p>The 48-year-old vaulted past countryman Paul Goydos in the final round to finish with a tournament record 22-under 258 total at the River Highlands course.</p><p>Notah Begay held the previous record of 260 which he set in 2000.</p><p>Third-round leader Goydos (67) shared second place with David Toms (65) at 19-under 261.</p><p>Perry hopes this is a sign of bigger and better things ahead for him in 2009.</p><p>"I've won three last year, two this year already. Who knows? If I can get hot again, get on one of those streaks and sneak in two more by the end of the year."</p><p>Perry tied the course record on Thursday by shooting a 61 and led after the first two rounds. Perry said there was no way he was going to repeat his Masters meltdown.</p><p>"I knew that I had to keep making birdies," he said. "I wasn't going to let up. I wasn't going to play defensive golf. I learned something from that mistake."</p><p>Goydos missed a key birdie putt on the 17th hole as it rolled right of the hole</p><p>"I don't want to run and hide from that," he said. "He played like a guy who's won 14 times. I played more like a guy who's won twice, especially early in the round."</p><p>Toms fired his third 65 of the event to finish at 19-under in a tie with Goydos.</p><p>"I didn't get off to the kind of start that I felt like needed to put pressure on the guys that were ahead of me," Toms said.</p><p>"I really felt like I needed to get under par pretty quickly to at least give them something to think about and ultimately just got too far behind on the back nine."</p><p>Hunter Mahan, Ben Curtis and Ryan Moore finished two strokes adrift of Goydos and Toms to tie for fourth.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=53861004&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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