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Another day needed to decide PGA winner
VERONA, N.Y. - Matt Kuchar and Vaughn Taylor were still tied after two holes in a sudden-death playoff at the Turning Stone Resort Championship when play was suspended Sunday because of darkness, forcing a Monday finish.
They birdied the first extra hole and parred the second. They will resume play at 8:30 a.m. on the 13th tee.
Taylor, the second-round leader, began the day three shots off the lead and shot a 6-under 66 to match Kuchar (69) at 17-under 271.
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Jimmy Walker (66) and John Senden (67) tied for fifth, another shot back. Third-round co-leader Scott Piercy (73) tied for 12th at 13 under. Defending champion Dustin Johnson tied for 29th at 9 under.
Ochoa wins LPGA event: Lorena Ochoa successfully defended her Navistar LPGA Classic title, overcoming early troubles to shoot a 2-under 70 for a four-stroke victory over Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang.
Ochoa finished at 18-under 270 on The Senator course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill complex to snap an 11-start winless streak dating to the Corona Championship in late April. The top-ranked Mexican star has three victories this year and 27 overall on the LPGA Tour.
"There are places where you feel comfortable and you feel a good vibe and you like the course," Ochoa said. "This has been really good for me. I feel comfortable here. I have a lot of good memories."
One more: Friends Shanti Granada from home and Marisa Baena, a Colombian LPGA Tour player, chased her around the green spraying her with cans of beer afterward.
"It feels good," said Ochoa, second behind Sophie Gustafson last week in California. "I have a lot of emotions because it hasn't been easy. I'm ready to keep playing good ball and would love the chance to finish with a few more wins."
Ochoa wiped out her three-stroke lead coming into the day with a bogey and double bogey in the first five holes, sending her drive into the trees for an unplayable ball on No. 5.
Wie overcame a gimpy left ankle to close with a 66, while Lang had a 70 to keep pace with Ochoa. Yani Tseng (70) and Janice Moody (71) were five strokes back.
Fourteen-year-old Alexis Thompson shot her second straight 74 to tie for 27th at 6 under. She opened with rounds of 65 and 69 to share the second-round lead.
Haas edges Watson: Jay Haas charged past Tom Watson to win the Senior Players Championship by a stroke, birdieing the 18th hole to match the course record with a 6-under 64 in the final Champions Tour major of the season.
The 60-year-old Watson was tying to become the oldest major winner on the 50-and-over tour. But after making only one bogey in the first three rounds at Baltimore Country Club, he had three in the final round en route to a 70.
Haas finished at 13-under 267 for his third senior major title. He has 14 career Champions Tour victories, also winning the Greater Hickory Classic two weeks ago.
Haas took advantage of a well-placed 6-iron from 185 yards on his second shot on the par-4 18th hole. His shot dropped on the right side of the green, then rolled within 3 feet of the cup for an easy birdie.
Watson missed the fairway on 18, ending any hopes he could catch Haas. Mark Wiebe (71) and Loren Roberts (71) tied for third at 7 under, and Bernhard Langer (68) and John Cook (72) followed at 6 under.
Watson pulled ahead by a stroke with a masterful, downhill birdie putt on No. 15. With 30 feet to the hole, he sent a slow roller that briefly broke right before curling left and dropping in to put him at 12 under. But Haas birdied 17, converting a 12-foot putt for his 20th birdie of the tournament, to force a tie atop the leaderboard.
With a gusty breeze making putting on the difficult, sloping greens at the Five Farms East course even more challenging, Watson wasn't able to replicate the 64 he shot Saturday to move into the lead after three rounds.
Watson began the day at 12 under with a four-stroke lead over Roberts, Cook and Wiebe. The leader bogeyed the first hole, and Hass climbed within two strokes with birdies on Nos. 3 and 4, before Watson birdied the fifth hole to lead by three strokes.
But Watson closed the front nine by bogeying Nos. 7 and 9 and Haas' birdie on the 10th hole pulled him within a stroke at 10 under.
Hass missed opportunities to pull into a share of the lead, pushing a 6-foot birdie putt on No. 12 past the cup and failing to covert a long putt on No. 13. But he knocked in a 5-footer for a birdie on No. 14 to pull even with Watson.
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