Vijay Singh ended up beating Sergio Garcia on a gopher hole. Yes, a gopher. Or maybe a mole. Singh won The Barclays for a record fourth time Sunday, matching Garcia's long birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff and finishing off his Spanish friend on the second extra hole after Garcia got a lucky break from the furry critter. Kenny Egan, a light heavyweight boxer from Ireland who advanced to the medal round Tuesday at the Olympics, was trying to figure out how to peak for the biggest events. He went to the right guy for help. Squeezing 27 holes into one amazing Sunday, Padraig Harrington made clutch putts on the last three holes to shoot his second straight 66 and win the 90th PGA Championship. Nobody gave Padraig Harrington an asterisk for his British Open title. Vijay Singh's default victory at the Bridgestone Invitational might be a different story. How does a guy win a World Golf Championship event despite missing a majority of his putts between four and eight feet? Bruce Vaughan won the Senior British Open on Sunday for his first career victory, sinking a 20-foot putt to beat John Cook on the first playoff hole. Cook squandered a three-stroke lead after 10 holes at Royal Troon but still went to the 72nd leading Vaughan by one. Fresh off a disqualification on the LPGA Tour, Michelle Wie has decided to tee it up against the men, again. Wie will play next week in the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open, the first time she'll play on the PGA Tour this year, tournament organizers said. While the rest of the field wore layers, Padraig Harrington wore shirtsleeves at Royal Birkdale on Sunday. He has convinced himself that terrible conditions are inhospitable only for everyone else, turning himself into a sort of golfing Wall-E who eats up garbage (wind, rain, rough) and spits out pars. While the rest of the field wore layers, Padraig Harrington wore shirtsleeves at Royal Birkdale on Sunday. He has convinced himself that terrible conditions are inhospitable only for everyone else, turning himself into a sort of golfing Wall-E who eats up garbage (wind, rain, rough) and spits out pars. He never wanted to be the star, the main attraction, but Kenny Perry will have no choice if this continues. The guy who merely wanted to win enough to make the Ryder Cup team is now racking up victories at a rapid pace. Playing in pain and not at the top of his game, Tiger Woods battled Torrey Pines for 91 holes, rallying late in regulation and again in a playoff to overcome long shot Rocco Mediate for what he ranked as the best of his 14 major championships. Lee didn't expect she'd be accepting the Ginn Tribute trophy from tournament host Annika Sorenstam on Sunday. The result was Lee's third LPGA Tour title and one of the richest paydays, $390,000, in women's golf. "Magic always happens for me here," Perry said after closing with a 3-under 69 to pull away from the pack for a two-shot victory at the Memorial, joining Tiger Woods as the only three-time winners at the tournament Jack Nicklaus built. Lorena Ochoa found a new way to win, grinding it out instead of running away from the field. Ochoa overcame a balky putter to shoot a 1-under 71 and post a one-stroke victory over five players Sunday for her third straight victory. On Tuesday afternoon, perhaps the greatest female golfer ever to play the game walked into the media tent and announced that she was stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the season. Annika Sorenstam is on her way back, and a performance that harkened memories of her game before an injury-filled 2007 season suggests she's close. What gets Mike Davis excited is the potential for the shortest par 3 at a U.S. Open in eight years. The third hole will measure 195 yards on the card, but Davis stumbled across a tee from 142 yards that might be even tougher. When Adam Scott was home in Australia after the Masters, he knew he needed to be somewhere else , and Sunday he beat Ryan Moore on the third playoff hole to win the EDS Byron Nelson Championship. Lorena Ochoa shot a 3-under 69 in the final round of the Ginn Open on Sunday for a three-stroke victory, becoming the first LPGA Tour player in 45 years to win four tournaments in consecutive weeks. Is golf the most fickle game of all? Of course. Meet Exhibit A: Rocco Mediate, 45. He went from Masters contender two years ago to just another Masters television viewer this year. There was a buzz at Augusta National on Monday. David Toms heard it after finishing nine holes of practice on a course that was soft and wet, nothing like last year's Masters. It was the whirring of the system that siphons moisture out of the turf. | 
