Mickelson, Wie end winless droughts

Phil Mickelson ended the longest drought of his career with a playoff victory Sunday over Justin Thomas in the Mexico Championship, capping off a final round of lustrous cheers that included Thomas holing a wedge for eagle on the final hole of regulation.

Mickelson, who closed with a 5-under 66, won for the first time since the 2013 British Open at Muirfield, a stretch of 101 tournaments worldwide.

“I can’t put into words how much this means to me,” Mickelson said.

Thomas was coming off a playoff victory at the Honda Classic last week, and he delivered the biggest moment at Chapultepec Golf Club, outside Mexico City.

Tied for the lead, his shot to the 18th from 119 yards landed in front of the pin and spun back into the hole for an eagle and a 64.

Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., had a 66 on Sunday to finish in a tie for ninth at 10-under.

Hadwin was the lone Canadian in the field.

Meanwhile, Michelle Wie holed a 36-foot putt from off the green on the final hole to win the Women’s World Championship by one stroke on Sunday in Singapore.

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., tied for second.

Wie captured her first LPGA tournament since the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open.

With four players in contention to win on the last hole, Wie managed to separate herself from the pack when she drained her lengthy birdie putt on the 72nd hole at the Sentosa Golf Club for a final round 7-under 65 to finish at 17-under 271.

Henderson had a final-round 67 to finish with a 16-under 272 in a tie with South Korea’s Jenny Shin and Americans Danielle Kang and Nelly Korda.

Henderson birdied four of her first eight holes to move up the leaderboard but could not get another birdie putt to drop in until the final hole, when it was too late for her to catch Wie.