BLACKSBURG -- With his ball plugged in a sand trap on the 18th hole, Adam Webb thought he'd given away the Allegheny Amateur championship.

With his double-bogey finish he might have, if blustery conditions Sunday had guaranteed that there was no one there waiting to take it away from him.

Defending champion Webb, of Ridgeway, was the only player in the open division to shoot under par Sunday, and his 70-71--141 was three strokes better than Buck Brittain's even-par 72-72--144 at the 6,675-yard Blacksburg Country Club.

"I'm very happy," Webb said. "I was not expecting this."

Brandon LaCroix finished third, adding a 75 to his Saturday 70 for a 145.

Opening-day leader Garland Green backed off his first-round 68 with a 78 on Sunday, finishing in a three-way tie for fourth at 146 with Martinsville's Jerel Whiting (72-74) and Collinsville's Jonathan Dove (73-73).

Bill Nunnekamp, of Blue Ridge, held onto his first-day lead to capture the senior division title, beating Charles Green III, of Tazewell, 151-154.

"Any day you beat Charlie, you've had a good day," Nunnekamp said. "I'm really thrilled to win this."

Nunnekamp, though, admitted "it wasn't good golf that won this. I three-putted five times." Nunnekamp had switched putters after his Saturday round because he'd been leaving putts short.

"I didn't make anything [Saturday], but I didn't three-putt," he said. "At least I got it past the hole today. It didn't have a chance of going in, but I got it past the hole."

Roanoker Bill Proffitt was the only player besides Webb to shoot under par on Sunday, and he hit 71 to win the super seniors division with a 146, three strokes better than Blacksburg's Mac McClelland (75-74).

Proffitt, who just reached the 65-year-old age limit to play super seniors last December, used a simple strategy to combat the wind: "I hit it in the middle and I got lucky."

That was the strategy that Tazewell's Brittain used to move up to second place, basically by staying in place right at par.

"The way the wind blew I figured teeing off that anything around par would be pretty good," Brittain said. "I just tried to keep it straight, keep it in front of you."

Brittain, 42, said the wind magnifies any left or right movement on the ball, putting a premium on straight hitting rather than the long ball some of the college-aged players favor.

"It's exciting to me, knowing that I'm twice as old as them and it seems like they always hit it further than me," Brittain said with a sly smile. "I just poke it in the middle, poke it on the green. And then we go add it up, and 'Hey, my score's better than yours.' I play sort of boring golf, but it's effective sometimes."

Green held a two-stroke lead over LaCroix, Webb and Bluefield's J.D. Hunter (70-78--148) going into Sunday's round, but lost it when he hit a ball out of bounds on No.5 and took a triple bogey. After that "I kept giving myself birdie chances and not making them," Green said.

"My putting changed," he said. "I stood over it and it didn't feel good."

Webb, playing in the pairing ahead of Green, wasn't sure of what the others' scores were. He bogeyed No. 3, but followed it with a birdie at 4, eagle at 5 and birdie at 6. He started the back nine with a 50-foot birdie putt at 10, which for the tournament was Blacksburg's No. 13 as the back nine played 13 through 12 instead of the usual 10 through 18.

Webb hit his tee shot out of bounds on No. 14, but managed to make "a good bogey" and so came to No. 18 3-under for the day and 5-under for the tournament.

Webb promptly hit his tee shot to the right and it landed behind a tree, forcing him to try a low cut shot under the tree toward the green. The ball hit next to the green and bounced into a small stand of trees on the left. From the trees, Webb chipped "not just in the sand but plugged in the sand."

That meant getting the ball out, rather than trying for some miraculous par-saving bunker shot. Webb's bunker shot left him 12 feet from the hole and he took two putts to get home.

"At that point, I'm thinking I've given it away," Webb said.

Still he waited around for the finish, and when no one else cracked par, Webb was champion again.