golf roundup Sunday’s matches

PGA TOUR

GREENSBORO, N.C.

Webb Simpson won the Wyndham Championship for his first PGA Tour title, finishing with a bogey-free 3-under 67 on Sunday for a three-stroke victory. The Raleigh native and former Wake Forest standout had an 18-under 262 total at Sedgefield Country Club. George McNeill (64) was second, and Tommy Gainey (69) was third at 14 under in the final event before the PGA Tour playoffs. Carl Pettersson (69), Vijay Singh (65), Jerry Kelly (65), Kyung-tae Kim (66) and Charles Howell III (67) followed at 13 under. Simpson turned in a steady, bogey-free round and gave himself plenty of breathing room with birdies on Nos. 15 and 16. After taking the lead during Round 3 with a late five-hole stretch of four birdies and an eagle, Simpson opened his final round with eight straight pars before moving to 16 under with a birdie on No. 9.

Senior Players Championship

HARRISON, N.Y.

Fred Couples made a 3-foot birdie putt on the third hole of a playoff with John Cook to win the Seniors Players Championship for his first major victory on the Champions Tour. Couples finished with an even-even par 71 to match Cook (70) at 11-under on Westchester Country Club’s West Course. Peter Senior (71) was third at 10 under.

Couples, the 1992 Masters champion, won for the first time this season after winning four times last year in his first season on the 50-and-over tour.

LPGA Tour

NORTH PLAINS, Ore.

Suzann Pettersen won the LPGA Safeway Classic, overcoming a nine-stroke deficit with a 7-under 64 and beating Na Yeon Choi with a par on the first hole of a playoff at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.

Associated Press