Funk best in play-off with Coceras

Golf Digest/ PGA TOUR : Veteran Fred Funk, struggling with back pain, fired a final round 71 to force a play-off with Jose Coceras…

Golf Digest/ PGA TOUR: Veteran Fred Funk, struggling with back pain, fired a final round 71 to force a play-off with Jose Coceras and then beat the Argentina at the first tie hole to claim the Mayakoba Classic at Playa del Carmen in Mexico.

The 50-year-old American parred the last four holes after dropping a shot at the 13th to tie Coceras, who set the clubhouse target of 14-under-par 266 after a final round of 69.

Peter Lonard finished alone in third place on 267 after a 67 with Ryan Armour a shot further back after a 69.

CHAMPIONS TOUR: Bobby Watkins came from a shot back to pip Allen Doyle for the Ace Group Classic in Florida yesterday. A final round of 68 saw Watkins snatch the title from Doyle with a 15-under-par total of 201.

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Mike Reid and Eduardo Romero shared third place on 203 while Des Smyth finished in a tie for 11th place on 208 after a disappointing final round of 73.

LPGA TOUR: Stacy Prammanasudh won her second LPGA Tour event when a four under-par final round of 68 gave her a one shot win in the Fields Open in Hawaii yesterday.

Prammanasudh finished the tournament at 14-under-par 202 after shooting rounds of 69, 66 and 68 to notch a one-shot win over South Korean Jee Young Lee.

"I think it's definitely more bittersweet than the first," said Prammanasudh of her win. "The first kind of came upon me by surprise. I wasn't expecting to win so early, and then you put in a lot of hard work to try to get that second one. I'm definitely glad that I played well enough to come out on top today."

Ai Miyazato (Jpn), Morgan Pressel and Angela Park tied for third place on 205.

NATIONWIDE TOUR: American Nicholas Thompson won the New Zealand PGA Championship after beating Canadian David Morland at the first play-off hole.

The pair finished on eight-under-par totals of 280 after firing final-round four-under 68s in the Australasian and Nationwide Tour co-sanctioned event at the Clearwater Golf Club in Christchurch.

They finished two clear of Americans Michael Letzig and Lee Williamson, with Australia's James Nitties claiming fifth place outright. Overnight leader Ryan Howison, of the US, slipped back into a share of sixth after a final round 73.

Thompson claimed his first Nationwide Tour victory after birdies at the final two holes of regulation play secured him a place in the play-off.

Morland found the greenside bunker with his second shot at the first play-off hole while Florida-based Thompson, who turned professional in 2005, found the green in regulation.

The Canadian chipped out but missed a 17-foot par putt to give Thompson two putts to secure victory which he did to claim the $108,000 first prize.