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Tom Pernice wins Champions Tour finale

 
Published Nov. 3, 2014

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Tom Pernice won the Champions Tour's season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship on Sunday, beating Jay Haas with a birdie on the fourth playoff hole.

The 55-year-old got up-and-down from a bunker on the par-5 18th, holing a 6-foot putt after Haas made a 12-footer for par. Pernice closed with 3-under 67 — also making a 6-foot birdie putt on 18 — to match Haas at 11-under 269. Haas had 66.

Pernice earned $440,000 in the event limited to the top 30 on the money list. He also won a playoff in Iowa in June and has four career victories on the 50-and-over tour.

Bernhard Langer closed with 65 to tie for fourth at 9 under. He wrapped up his second Charles Schwab Cup points title last week and earned $158,000 Sunday to break Hale Irwin's tour record with $3,074,189. Irwin made $3,082,304 in 2002.

LPGA: Six days after taking the world No. 1 spot from Stacy Lewis, Inbee Park was a notch above the American again, winning the Taiwan Championship in Taipei by two strokes. It was the South Korean's third victory of the year and 12th tour title. Park closed with 1-under 71 in light rain to finish at 22-under 266. The victory capped a hectic Asian trip centered around her marriage last month to swing coach Gi Hyeob-nam. "I think this will be my wedding gift for myself," she said. "It's a good feeling and maybe people who said, 'She's not going to play as well as when she was not married.' I think we can put that wrong." Lewis shot 69.

PGA: Ryan Moore defended his CIMB Classic title, shooting 5-under 67 for a three-stroke win, beating fellow American Gary Woodland for the second straight year at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Moore finished 17-under 271 to become the first player to defend a title on tour since Tiger Woods at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in 2012 and 2013. Sergio Garcia (69) and Kevin Na (70) shared a three-way tie for second with Woodland (67). Moore had eight birdies against three bogeys in the final round and earned his fourth tour title with superb approach shots at the 14th and 17th holes for birdies. "It was incredible to finish the way I did coming down those last few holes," he said.

European: Marcel Siem chipped in for birdie on the 18th green to win the BMW Masters in a playoff against Alexander Levy and Ross Fisher at Shanghai, China. Siem was the only one who did not hit the 18th green in the playoff. He actually had a chance to win in regulation, but he missed an 8-foot par putt. He closed with 73 to tie Levy (78) and Fisher (67) at 16-under 272. The tournament is the first of four "Final Series" events that conclude the tour's season.