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Nick Watney capitalizing on 'amazing kind of lifeline'

The final leaderboard from the Sanderson Farms Championship was littered with young talent – winner Sam Burns, Cameron Young, Hayden Buckley, Sahith Theegala.

And then there was Nick Watney.

The 40-year-old Watney’s co-runner-up finish on Sunday wouldn’t have been all that surprising a decade ago, when Watney was a top-10 player in the world. But that was then; now, Watney hasn’t won on Tour in nearly 10 years, since capturing the 2012 Barclays for his fifth career title, and he’s playing this season using his one-time career-money-list exemption (he was just eligible, too, as he started the new season right at No.