Streb wins again at Sea Island

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA. » Robert Streb made an 8- foot par putt to stay alive in a playoff and ended it on the second extra hole Sunday with a pitching wedge that came an inch from going in, giving him a victory over Kevin Kisner in the RSM Classic.

Streb won for the second time on the PGA Tour, his other title coming in a playoff at Sea Island six years ago.

He rallied from a fiveshot deficit in 2014. This time, he lost a three- shot lead until a 6- iron to 12 feet on the par- 3 17th hole for a birdie that allowed him to close with a 2- under 68 and force extra holes.

Kisner, whose first of of three PGA Tour titles came at Sea Island in 2015, closed with a 63.

They finished at 19- under 263, one shot ahead of Cameron Tringale ( 62).

Kisner had the advantage on the 18th hole on the Seaside course for the first playoff hole. His approach caught a good bounce and left him a 15- foot birdie putt, while Streb drove into the bunker, couldn’t reach the green and his pitch from about 30 yards away still came up some 8 feet short.

Kisner missed, and Streb rolled in his par putt. They returned to the 18th again, and Streb had a flyer lie in the rough left of the fairway. He went with pitching wedge from 158 yards expecting it to come out hot, and it did. It was close to perfect, the ball landing softly and rolling just over the left edge of the cup. LPGA TOUR » Sei Young Kim won the Pelican Women’s Championship for her second straight victory, closing with an even- par 70 for a three- stroke victory over Ally McDonald.

The KPMG Women’s PGA winner way back on Oct. 11 in her last start, the secondranked Kim won for the 12th time on the LPGA Tour to break a tie for third on the South Korean victory list with Jiyai Shin, behind only Inbee Park ( 20) and Se Ri Pak ( 25).

The 27- year- old Kim is the first player to follow her first major victory with a win in her next start since Ariya Jutanugarn in 2016 in the Women’s British Open and CP Women’s Open.

Kim finished at 14- under 266 at Pelican Golf Club in the first- year tournament originally set for the same week as the PGA Championship in May.

McDonald birdied the last for a 68. She was coming a victory in the Drive On Championship-Reynolds Lake Oconee in Georgia, her first on the tour.

Vlhova, Gisin share 1st- run lead in slalom

LEVI, FINLAND » Petra Vlhova and Michelle Gisin shared the lead after the opening run of a women’s World Cup slalom Sunday, while Mikaela Shiffrin was looming in fourth.

On a course set by her coach Mike Day in her second race after a 10- month break, Shiffrin struggled in the opening meters and trailed by nearly four tenths at the first split.

However, the American three- time overall champion matched the leaders’ pace for the remainder of her run and finished 0.37 seconds behind.

The U. S. ski team said Shiffrin was “feeling a bit lethargic” and “still trying to figure out how to manage her energy levels,” a day after she came runner- up to Vlhova in her comeback race after 300 days away.