WILLIAMSBURGCristie Kerr parred the second hole of a sudden-death playoff on Sunday to win the LPGA Kingsmill Championship ahead of Norway’s Suzann Pettersen.Pettersen hadn’t made a bogey all day, notching four birdies in a four-under par 67 to join overnight leader Kerr on 12-under par ...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City and the San Antonio Spurs held off fourth-quarter rallies for crucial NBA victories on Wednesday, each club seizing a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook each scored 29 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder over Houston ...

    HILTON HEAD   Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell defeated Webb Simpson at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff on Sunday to win the US PGA Tour's Heritage tournament. McDowell, the 2010 US Open champion, defeated the reigning US Open title holder Simpson with a par at the ...

 KAPOLEI - Norway's Suzann Pettersen two-putted for par on the first playoff hole Saturday to beat American Lizette Salas in the LPGA Lotte Championship. Pettersen bogeyed the final hole of regulation in a five-under 67. Salas saw a birdie attempt at the last lip out, but closed with a ...

AUGUSTA  - Adam Scott sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole Sunday to beat Angel Cabrera and win the 77th Masters, becoming the first Australian golfer to capture the green jacket.Nine months after making bogeys on the last four holes to squander a British Open lead at Royal ...

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano won the US$1 million Barclays Singapore Open play-off on the second extra hole early on Monday after storms forced the players to endure an agonising overnight wait. The 31-year-old from Madrid seized victory with a nine-foot birdie putt on the ...

SHIMA (AFP) - Japans Momoko Ueda birdied the third hole in a tense play-off against Chinas Feng Shanshan to win the LPGA Tour Mizuno Classic in her home country on Sunday and regain the title which she usuccessfully claimed in the year of 2007. Starting the day with a three-stroke lead, home hope ...

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS (AFP) - Rookie Scott Stallings sank a seven-foot birdie putt on Sunday's first playoff hole to beat fellow Americans Bob Estes and Bill Haas and win the PGA Greenbrier Classic. The 26-year-old newcomer who turned professional in 2009 captured the $1.08 million top prize and ...

COLORADO SPRINGS (AFP) - Ryu So-yeon captured the US Women's Open on Monday by rolling in two birdies in a three-hole aggregate playoff to edge South Korean compatriot Seo Hee-kyung. It was the first major title for Ryu who forced the playoff with a birdie on the final hole of regulation in the ...

SHEBOYGAN (Wisconsin) (AFP) Germanys Martin Kaymer beat Bubba Watson in a three-hole playoff to capture the 92nd PGA Championship on Sunday after a shocking penalty knocked Dustin Johnson out of contention. The 25-year-old Kaymer made a two-foot bogey putt on the final hole of the playoff to win ...

PETALING JAYA (Malaysia) (AFP) Angelo Que of the Philippines claimed a thrilling play-off victory over Englands Chris Rodgers at the 300,000-dollar Worldwide Holdings Selangor Masters for his third Asian Tour title on Saturday. The 31-year-old Que outlasted a battling Rodgers with a par at the ...

SCOTTSDALE (Arizona) (AFP) - American Troy Matteson birdied the second playoff hole Sunday to win the five million-dollar US PGA Frys.com Open, holding off young US stars Rickie Fowler and Jamie Lovemark for the title. Matteson, whose only prior PGA crown came at the same event in 2006, made bogeys ...

NORTH PLAINS (Oregon) (AFP) - South Korea's M.J. Hur birdied the second playoff hole Sunday to defeat Suzann Pettersen and Michele Redman and win the LPGA Safeway Classic. Redman was already out of the playoff when Hur and Norway's Pettersen arrived at the par-four 17th at Pumpkin Ridge. Hur ...

TURNBERRY (Scotland) (AFP) - Stewart Cink won the British Open here on Sunday edging compatriot Tom Watson in a one-sided four-hole playoff. Cink led all the way in the showdown which came as something of an anti-climax after a drama-filled day. It was his first win in a major tournament. Watson, ...

AUGUSTA (Georgia) (AFP) - Argentina's Angel Cabrera, who had not cracked the top five in any event in more than a year, won the 73rd Masters on Sunday in a sudden-death playoff with some unlikely help from a tree. Cabrera, who had not won a title since claiming his first major at the 2007 US Open ...

ATLANTA (Georgia) (AFP) - Camilo Villegas won one of the richest playoffs in PGA Tour history Sunday by beating Sergio Garcia to win the PGA Tour Championship title. Colombia's Villegas earned a total of 4.26 million dollars in prize money, including three million dollars for finishing second in ...

SAN DIEGO (California) (AFP) - Tiger Woods drained a birdie putt at the final hole Sunday to set up a David vs Goliath 18-hole playoff with unheralded American Rocco Mediate at the 108th US Open golf championship. Woods completed a two-over 73 to force the Monday showdown with Mediate, who fired ...