GOLF ROUNDUP Palmer gets first PGA win

The 28-year-old Texan held off Vijay Singh with a final round 62.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Ryan Palmer birdied four straight holes down the stretch and closed with a 10-under 62 Sunday to win the Funai Classic at Disney by three shots over Vijay Singh and Briny Baird.
The 28-year-old Texan finished at 22-under 266 and earned $756,000 for his first PGA Tour victory. Palmer -- no relation to Arnold -- started the final round five shots out of the lead.
Singh, trying to win his fourth straight PGA Tour event, made three straight birdies to get within two shots of the lead with four holes to play. But he found a fairway bunker on the 16th, his approach went 50 feet beyond the pin, and he three-putted for bogey to finish with a 67.
Baird, who shared the lead with Tom Lehman going into the final round, shot 70 and joined Singh at 269. Lehman shot 72 and tied for sixth.
Along with two tap-in birdies, Palmer chipped in from 40 feet on the 15th hole and made a 45-foot birdie on No. 17. His 62 was the lowest closing round by a winner on the PGA Tour since Phil Tataurangi had a 62 in Las Vegas two years ago. It tied the Disney record previously held by Duffy Waldorf (2000) and John Huston (1992).
Charles Schwab Cup Championship
SONOMA, Calif. -- Mark McNulty rallied from five strokes down in the final round, making five birdies in the last eight holes to beat Tom Kite by one stroke at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, the Champions Tour's season-ending event at Sonoma Golf Club. McNulty shot a 6-under 66 to finish at 11-under 277, matching the day's best round.
Hale Irwin shot a 3 over to finish seventh at 284, but won his second Schwab Cup, awarded to the points leader in a season-long competition of 30 tournaments, and a $1 million annuity.
Kite, who finished third in the Schwab Cup standings behind Irwin and Craig Stadler, could have won it by winning the tournament.
Allen Doyle shot a 3-under 69 to finish in third, three strokes behind McNulty.
Madrid Open
MADRID, Spain -- Richard Sterne shot a 5-under 65 and rallied to win the $1.2 million Madrid Open by two shots, earning the 23-year-old South African his first European tour victory and playing rights on the continent for another year.
Sterne started the day a stroke behind co-leaders Darren Fichardt and Paul Broadhurst. Sterne had an eagle-3 on the 518-yard No. 4 for the second time in three days, and had a bogey-free round to finish at 18-under 266.
Anders Hansen of Denmark shot a final-round 66 and finished in second place at 16 under, one stroke ahead of Australia's Terry Price, who closed with a 67.
Miccosukee Championship
MIAMI -- D.J. Trahan shot a bogey-free 6-under 65 to capture his first Nationwide Tour victory at the Miccosukee Championship.
Trahan needed just 24 putts to finish at 16-under 268, topping third-round leader Nick Watney by two strokes. Watney shot a final-round 71.