Golf Digest/CHAMPIONS TOUR: The man affectionately known as "Radar", Mike Reid, who joined the Champions Tour last autumn, birdied the first play-off hole, the par-five 18th, to defeat Jerry Pate and Dana Quigley to win the 66th Senior PGA Championship at Laurel Valley Golf Club in Pennsylvania yesterday.
Pate led by a shot with one hole to play in regulation, but opted to lay-up on the 18th and then missed a short par putt to hand Reid his chance.
It was Reid's first professional tournament winnsince 1990.
Des Smyth with final rounds of 70 and 68 moved from 23rd place to a share of sixth place on level par 288, the same mark as Mark McNulty who finished with a 72.
US TOUR: Justin Leonard stumbled to his second title of the year at the St Jude Classic last night, winning by one stroke in Memphis, Tennessee.
The American, who began the day with an eight-stroke advantage, was playing par golf after carding a single bogey - only his second of the tournament - on the front nine of the TPC at Southwind and eight pars to remain on 16-under.
Leonard dropped another shot at the 15th as two-time defending champion David Toms went five under par from the 13th including an eagle at the 16th to close the gap to just two shots with a final round of 63 (13 under). Leonard sealed victory with a nervous bogey at the last to finish on 14 under.
LPGA: Jimin Kang aced the 15th hole just moments after a deflating bogey and shot a six-under-par 66 yesterday to win the LPGA Corning Classic in upstate New York, edging Annika Sorenstam and rookie Meena Lee by two strokes for her first career title.
Kang finished with a 15-under-par 273 and took home the winner's check of $165,000, by far her biggest payday since joining the tour in 2003.
CHALLENGE TOUR: Sweden's Fredrik Widmark held his nerve to win a tense, three-way play-off against the English duo of Gary Clark and Oliver Whiteley at the Riu Tikida Beach Hotels Moroccan Classic yesterday.
Tied on 15-under-par 269 after the regulation 72 holes, Clark, who carded a final round 67, Whiteley, who posted a 68, and Widmark, who shot 70, were forced to go back to the 18th tee at the Golf du Soleil to determine a winner.
Widmark coped best under the pressure at the 198-yard hole. The Swede hit a five-iron after watching his fellow competitors take four-irons and, unlike Clark and Whiteley, managed to get down in two to make his par and take the second Challenge Tour title of his career.
Athlone's Colm Moriarty had a fine weekend, shooting 65 68 to move in to a share of eighth place on 11 under par.
EUROPEAN WOMEN: Italy's Federica Piovano snatched victory from France's Gwladys Nocera with a dramatic eagle putt at the final hole to win the Austrian Ladies Open. Ireland's Rebecca Coakley shot 72, 69 over the weekend to finish on four under par.
