DEUTSCHE BANK Aussie Scott gets 1st win on PGA tour

Rocco Mediate finished second, while Tiger Woods tied for seventh.
NORTON, Mass. (AP) -- A new tournament in the Boston area produced a new winner on the PGA Tour. Both figure to be around for a while.
Adam Scott, a 23-year-old Aussie with a swing that looks identical to Tiger Woods, showed something else in common with the world's No. 1 player. Give him a lead, and he's not likely to give it back.
Scott started the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship with a three-shot lead and never gave anyone a chance, making consecutive birdies to pull away and clutch pars down the stretch as he strolled to a four-shot victory over Rocco Mediate.
Scott closed with a 5-under 66 on Monday and finished at 20-under 264, earning $900,000.
"Winning for the first time as a professional is always going to be my most memorable win," said Scott, who already had won four times around the world. "But this probably beats all the others."
Scott had never won against such players as Woods, Vijay Singh and U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk, nor had he ever felt such support from 30,000 golf-hungry fans who made the Deutsche Bank Championship feel like a major.
"The crowds were nuts," Mediate said. "We need a tournament up here."
Woods connection
Woods was partly responsible for bringing the PGA Tour to the Boston area for the first time since 1998, when the old CVS Classic lost its spot on the schedule.
The proceeds went to his foundation, but that's the only charity he received over four days on the TPC of Boston.
Woods closed with a 67 and tied for seventh, never coming close to winning.
Then again, neither did anyone else.
Scott has won all five of his worldwide titles from the front, and this was the third time he won by at least four shots.
"Now it seems easy," Scott said after a birdie on the final hole. "I was grinding really hard out there."
It sure didn't seem that way.
Taking control
Scott took control of the tournament with a course-record 62 in the second round Saturday, and his victory might have been even more dominant had he converted more birdie chances inside 12 feet.
But his putter showed up when he needed it most.
Despite missing the 12th fairway, coming up 70 feet short of the hole and leaving his birdie putt some 8 feet short, Scott came through in the clutch. He holed the par putt, and the tournament effectively ended on the next hole.
Mediate hit his approach into 5 feet on the 14th, while Scott hit into a hill of shaggy rough to the right of the 13th green and chipped to 10 feet.
A two-shot swing appeared imminent, with all the momentum going Mediate's way. But he badly missed the birdie putt, Scott poured his in for par and the young Aussie wrapped it up with a 6-foot birdie on 15.