Defending city champion Bradley Lane and seven-time city champ Conrad Roberts combined to take down a talented field from across the state and needed three extra holes to get it done Tuesday.

Lane and Roberts, Lawrence residents, won the KGA Mid-Am, a 54-hole event played at Lawrence Country Club on Monday and Tuesday. The two LCC members won it on the 57th hole. The sudden death playoff started on the 18th hole, moved to the 17th and back to the 18th. Roberts clinched the victory when his second shot on the par 4 hole from 120 yards landed on the right edge of the green and didn’t stop drawing toward the cup until all he had left for birdie was a six-inch putt.

The final round was a best-ball format. The first round two rounds were played under an alternate-shot and a modified-Chapman format.

The winning tandem finished the regulation portion of three-day event at 2-over par. Lane said they didn’t think that would be enough to win, so they each ordered a beer and lunch and were planning to play an emergency nine when they learned that they had tied with two other groups.

“There were really good golfers from some of the best courses in the state, Prairie Dunes, Flint Hills and Wichita Country Club and they all loved the course,” Roberts said. “They pretty much all said the same thing, that this was the longest, hardest 6,400-yard course they had ever played.”

Roberts played his college golf at Kansas University, Lane at Rice.

Lane and Roberts prevailed in the playoff against the tandem of Tyler Cummins of Lawrence and William Gantz of Perry and Wichita’s Jack Courington and Christian Spencer.

The course was set up to challenge the state’s top amateurs with a thick rough and greens that played faster than any time this spring.