HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Paula Creamer calmly won her biggest LPGA Tour title yet, holding off a large pack Sunday in the Samsung World Championship.
Playing near her hometown of Pleasanton, Creamer, 22, beat Song-Hee Kim by a stroke, closing with a bogey-free 3-under-par 69 for a 9-under-par 279 total.
On No. 18, Creamer holed a 5-foot par putt that rolled around the right lip of the cup and in. She dropped her putter and raised both arms with a smile across her face.
“This really does mean a lot. I put so much pressure on myself every time I come here,” Creamer said.
• Dustin Johnson won the Turning Stone Resort Championship in Verona, N.Y., for his first PGA Tour title, holing an 8-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 3-under 69 (279) and a one-stroke victory over Robert Allenby.
• Sweden’s Robert Karlsson won the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, birdieing the first hole of a playoff with England’s Ross Fisher and Germany’s Martin Kaymer at St. Andrews in Scotland. Karlsson closed with a 7-under 65 to match Fisher (65) and Kaymer (68) at 10-under 278.
Shock overcomes odds for title
YPSILANTI, Mich. — Katie Smith missed almost the entire second quarter because of foul trouble. Cheryl Ford has been out since the summer with a knee injury. And the Detroit Shock had to play in a college gym half the size of their regular home court. In the end, none of it mattered.
The Shock overcame all of that in winning its third WNBA title in six seasons, beating the San Antonio Silver Stars 76-60 in Game 3 as Smith scored a game-high 18 points.
Footnotes.
Hornets center Tyson Chandler sprained his right ankle in the first quarter of New Orleans’ preseason opener against the Golden State Warriors. Chandler sat out the rest of the game, but said afterward, “I’m fine.”
• Michael Harrington atoned for a first-half mistake with a second- half goal, salvaging a 1-all draw for the host Kansas City Wizards against the Chicago Fire.
• New tennis No. 1 Jelena Jankovic won her second title in two weeks, defeating Nadia Petrova of Russia 6-4, 6-3 in the final of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany.
• Tomas Berdych won the Japan Open in Tokyo for his first singles title in 16 months, beating Juan Martin Del Potro 6-1, 6-4. In the women’s event, top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki defeated fifth-seeded Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.
• Dmitry Tursunov of Russia won the Open de Moselle in Metz, France, by beating Paul-Henri Mathieu 7-6 (6), 1-6, 6-4.
• The Vancouver Canucks signed forward Cody Hodgson, their top pick in this year’s draft, to an entry- level contract.
• Carriage Trail punched her ticket to the Breeders’ Cup with a record-breaking run in the Judd- monte Spinster at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. The 5-year-old horse pulled away to a 7 3/4-length win under Kent Desormeaux. Her time of 1:46.77 was more than a second faster than Keeneland’s track record. Carriage Trail paid $9.20, $5 and $3.40.
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