GOLF Sorenstam's victory caps record season

She set LPGA marks for scoring average in a season and career earnings.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Dominant to the very end, Annika Sorenstam finished off the best LPGA Tour season in 38 years with a 4-under 68 on Sunday to win the season-ending ADT Championship, her 11th victory of the year.
Sorenstam smiled and lightly pumped her first several times when the final putt of another record-breaking year fell in for par.
Victory was secured a few moments later when Rachel Teske, the only player to challenge her on the back nine, collapsed with a double bogey on the 17th. She hit her next tee shot in the water and salvaged par for a 72.
Sorenstam finished at 13-under 275 for a three-stroke victory and earned $215,000, making her the first woman to go over $11 million in career earnings.
She ended the season with a 68.70 scoring average, shattering the record she set last year (69.42).
Mickey Wright in 1964 was the last player to win 11 times in one season.
Wright, widely regarded as the best female golfer ever, set the record of 13 victories in 1963.
Dunlop Phoenix
MIYAZAKI, Japan -- Tiger Woods rediscovered his putting stroke too late to make a run at the title.
Woods shot a 4-under 67 for his best round of the tournament, but finished six strokes behind winner Kaname Yokoo of Japan.
Yokoo, who played on the PGA Tour this season, shot a 69 for a 15-under 269 total.
Sergio Garcia finished second, one stroke back at 14-under 270. South Korea's K.J. Choi was third at 13-under.
Woods, who started the final round eight strokes behind Yokoo, made four birdies to finish at 9-under 275.
Yokoo opened with four straight birdies and offset three bogeys with five total birdies for his first win since the 2000 Japan PGA Matchplay Championships.
Defending champion David Duval shot a 68 and finished at 11-under.
Shark Shootout
NAPLES, Fla. -- Lee Janzen fired an 8-iron from 157 yards to 3 feet and teammate Rocco Mediate tapped it in to win the Franklin Templeton Shootout on the last shot.
The former Florida Southern teammates came into the final round with a three-shot lead in the unofficial PGA Tour event, founded and hosted by Greg Norman, at Tiburon Golf Club. Janzen and Mediate finished at 31-under 185.
Playing a scramble format, Matt Kuchar and David Gossett, a group in front of the leaders, birdied No. 18 to get to 30-under 186 to temporarily tie Mediate and Janzen, but finished second, a shot behind.
Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Steve Allan shot a 68 to edge PGA Championship winner Rich Beem and two others by a shot. Craig Parry and Aaron Baddeley also tied for second.
Allan finished the three rounds at 12-under 198.
The tournament was shortened by 18 holes when the greens were too dry and were ruled unplayable Thursday.
Allan's only other victory as a pro came at the 1998 German Open.
Asian Open
TA SHEE, Taiwan -- Ireland's Padraig Harrington shot a 3-under 69 for a one-stroke victory over India's Jyoti Randhawa.
Harrington offset two bogeys with five birdies and made a 15-foot par putt on the par-3 last hole to finish at 15-under 273 at the Ta Shee Golf and Country Club.
Randhawa had eight birdies in a bogey-free round of 8-under 64 for a 14-under 274 total.
American Andrew Pitts, South Africa's Trevor Immelman and third-round leader Maarten Lafeber of the Netherlands tied for third, three strokes behind Harrington.