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Sunday’s pro tournaments

CHARLES SCHWAB CUP CHAMPIONSHIP

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.

Tom Pernice Jr. won the Champions Tour’s season-ending event on Sunday, beating Jay Haas with a birdie on the fourth hole of a playoff. The 55-year-old Pernice got up-and-down from the left bunker on the par-5 18th, holing a 6-foot putt after Haas made a 12-footer for par. Pernice closed with a 3-under 67 — also making a 6-foot birdie putt on 18 — to match Haas at 11-under 269 on Desert Mountain’s Cochise Course. The 6-year-old Haas had a 66. Pernice earned $440,000 in the event limited to the top 30 on the money list. He also won a playoff in Iowa in June and has four career victories on the 50-and-over tour after winning twice on the PGA Tour. Kenny Perry eagled the final hole for a 68 to finish a stroke back. Bernhard Langer closed with a 65 to tie for fourth with Colin Montgomerie at 9 under. Langer wrapped up his second Charles Schwab Cup points title last week and earned $158,000 on Sunday to break Hale Irwin’s tour record with $3,074,189. Irwin made $3,082,304 in 2002.

CIMB CLASSIC

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

Ryan Moore successfully defended his title, shooting a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory — beating fellow American Gary Woodland for the second straight year. Moore finished at 17-under 271 at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club to become the first player to successfully defend a PGA Tour title since Tiger Woods at the Arnold Palmer Invitation in 2012 and 2013. Woodland had a 67 to tie for second with Sergio Garcia (69) and Kevin Na (70). Moore had eight birdies against three bogeys in the final round, and earned his fourth PGA Tour title with superb approach shots at the 14th and 17th holes for birdies.

LPGA TAIWAN CHAMPIONSHIP

TAIPEI, TAIWAN

Inbee Park won for her third victory of the year and 12th career title, holding off Stacy Lewis by two strokes at Miramar. Six days after regaining the No. 1 spot in the world from Lewis, the South Korean newlywed closed with a 1-under 71 in misty rain to finish at 22-under 266. Park opened with rounds of 64, 62 and 69 to take a four-stroke lead over Lewis and China’s Shanshan Feng into the final round. The second-ranked Lewis, also a three-time winner this year, shot a 69. After Lewis birdied the par-4 16th to pull within one, Park birdied the par-3 17th to regain her two-stroke lead. Her only other birdies came on the first two holes and she bogeyed the last two holes on the front nine. Park won the Manulife Financial LPGA in June in Canada and took the LPGA Championship in August for her fifth major title. Last year, she swept the first three majors and won six times.

BMW MASTERS

SHANGHAI

Germany’s Marcel Siem chipped in for birdie in to win a sudden-death playoff against France’s Alexander Levy and England’s Ross Fisher. Siem overcame a five-shot deficit at wind-whipped Lake Malaren. He was the only player who failed to hit the 18th green in the playoff, and then thrilled the gallery with a chip from the collar. After closing bogey-bogey finish in regulation for a 1-over 73, Siem won to earn a spot in the World Golf Championship event next week in Shanghai.

Associated Press