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Champions Tour: Mike Goodes, who turned pro two years ago, shot a 66 Sunday to win his first career Champions Tour title at the Allianz Championships in Boca Raton, Fla. The 52-year-old Goodes finished in 15-under 201 at the Old Course at Broken Sound, beating practice partner Fulton Allem by one stroke to pocket $255,000 in his 32nd career event. “In any dreams I had of this, I feel better than I thought I would,” said Goodes, who played top amateur golf while growing the plastics recycling business he co-owns before joining the Champions Tour in 2007. Bernhard Langer, the 2008 Champions Tour leader and Rookie of the Year, struggled with his putting throughout to finish third with a 12-under 204.

PGA: Mark O’Meara said Sunday that Tiger Woods looks better than ever and is ready to return to the PGA Tour, but he stopped short of saying the world’s No. 1 player would be at the Accenture Match Play Championship that starts Feb. 25. Speculation has increased over the past week that Woods would make his debut in Tucson, Ariz., because his wife gave birth to their second child — a boy named Charlie Axel — last Sunday. Woods has not played since reconstructive surgery on his left knee a week after winning the U.S. Open in June. Tom Jenkins, a co-leader at the Allianz Championship on the Champions Tour, had said Saturday that O’Meara told him Woods had planned to return at Match Play, and if not then, play Doral and Bay Hill in Florida. O’Meara has been close friends with Woods since he joined the PGA Tour in 1996 at age 20.

Associated Press