He joined several country bands before joining the band Ball & Chain. In his early teens, Finch got his first electric bass guitar and began to learn country music bass lines. His musical tastes grew to include soul and country music. His favorite group growing up was The Beatles. At five years old and the second youngest of five children, Finch's father died unexpectedly leaving his mother to raise Finch and his four siblings alone. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits.īorn in Indianapolis, Indiana, Finch's family moved to Hialeah, Florida, when he was an infant. Along with Harry Wayne Casey, he co-wrote the majority of the KC and the Sunshine Band music catalog, to include five No. He is best known as the co-founder, producer and former bass guitar player of KC and the Sunshine Band. They each had a 10 on their card, Molinari's coming on the 167-yard 16th after he put three balls in the lake and a fourth in a bunker.Richard Raymond Finch (born January 23, 1954) is an American songwriter, producer, and arranger. At least he avoided what happened to Italian Edoardo Molinari and Spaniard Luis Claverie. Darren Clarke, two off the lead until he finished his third round with a triple-bogey eight, finished in joint 16th place on two under with Paul McGinley, while defending champion Harrington was down in 31st spot on one over.Ĭolin Montgomerie, meanwhile, was still looking for his first top-40 strokeplay finish since January after a closing 76 dropped him to five over. One shot further back in seventh was 19-year-old Rory McIlroy, from Northern Ireland, while Dredge could finish only joint eighth after a 76. He was part of a six-way tie at one point, but three-putted the eighth and bogeyed the 13th as well before producing a closing birdie. The home fans had earlier been given hope of a second successive win for one of their own when Murphy, without a victory in more than 200 Tour starts, birdied four of the first six and shared the lead. When Finch then birdied the 378-yard 15th, he was four clear and, but for the unexpected splash on the last, cruised in. Aguilar did cut the gap to one with a hat-trick of birdies from the 13th, but fatally went in the water - with his ball rather than his body - on the short 16th for a double-bogey five. Joint third on seven under were Lee Westwood - unable to reproduce the magic of his third round 64 - Swede Robert Karlsson, Dutchman Maarten Lafeber and Irishman Gary Murphy.Īs Dredge stumbled at the start, Finch did drop a shot himself at the short fourth, but simply by picking off birdies at the next three par fives - and making a couple of crucial par-saving putts - he became the man to catch. On Friday, Richard Green and Jeev Milkha Singh scored 74 and 76, yesterday Michael Lorenzo-Vera fell out of contention with a 75 and Dredge handed over pole position when he followed an opening three-putt bogey with a double-bogey only two holes later. Welshman Bradley Dredge, keen to make up for losing a play-off to Padraig Harrington a year ago, had been one ahead going into the day, but the curse of the overnight lead struck him as well. "I was a lot calmer than I was in New Zealand, and although my swing was not great, I felt a lot more on control," he added. Only 218th in the world entering the event, Finch now stands fifth on the Order of Merit - 105 places higher than he was last season - and is only just outside the top 10 in the Ryder Cup standings. The momentum of the follow-through took me round and in."įinch shot a closing 70 for a 10-under-par total of 278 and a two-stroke victory over Chilean Felipe Aguilar. "It was a bit of an awkward stance, but I never gave falling in a thought. "It was not a choice really," he replied when asked about his early bath.
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