IRVING, Texas — Australia’s Jason Day overcame a penalty on the final hole Sunday to earn his first PGA Tour win at the Byron Nelson Championship, where 16-year-old amateur golfer Jordan Spieth tied for 16th place.
The 22-year-old Day finished 10-under par, two strokes ahead of Blake Adams, Brian Gay and Jeff Overton.
Day in 2007 won the Nationwide Tour’s Legend Financial Group Classic at age 19 to become the youngest champion at a PGA Tour-sanctioned event. He’s the sixth first-time winner on the PGA Tour this year after Bill Haas, Ian Poulter, Derek Lamely, Rory McIlroy and Tim Clark.
Day had a one-stroke lead over Adams at the par-4 18th hole when he hit his second shot into a pond in front of the green. Adams’ approach shot also ended up in the water after it clipped a tree. He finished with a double bogey and Day made a 14-foot bogey putt to seal the win.
Day shot a 2-over-par 72 in the final round for a 270 total. Gay surged from 33rd place overnight with a 63, the best round of the tournament.
Spieth, the 2009 U.S. Junior Amateur champion, was six shots off the winning score at 4-under. The Dallas native, who was playing in the tournament on a sponsor’s exemption, closed with a 72 after rounds of 68, 69 and 67.
Yoo breaks into win column
GLADSTONE, N.J. — Sun Young Yoo won the Sybase Match Play Championship for her first LPGA Tour victory, beating Angela Stanford 3 and 1.
Yoo, a 23-year-old South Korean player in her fifth LPGA Tour season, is the tour’s eighth straight foreign winner and 25th in the last 26 events.
England’s Khan cashes in
WENTWORTH, England — Simon Khan won the BMW PGA Championship by a stroke, shooting a 5-under 66 to come from seven strokes back and capture an event the Englishman played in only after receiving a late invitation.
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