Back-nine birdies help Stenson win

Henrik Stenson kept making birdies on the back nine at the Wyndham Championship. They added up to a tournament record and his first victory of the year.

Stenson closed with a 6-under-par 64 for a one-stroke victory in the final event of the PGA Tour regular season.

The 2013 FedEx Cup champion finished at 22-under 258 at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., breaking the course’s 72-hole record set by Carl Pettersson in 2008 and matched last year by Si Woo Kim.

Ollie Schniederjans shot a 64 to finish second. In other golf news: • Doc Redman rallied from two holes down with two to play and won the U.S. Amateur, beating Doug Ghim on the first extra hole. Ghim, a senior at the University of Texas, was 2-up heading to the 17th at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, but Redman made a 55-foot putt to win the hole with the tournament on the line. Redman then holed an easier birdie putt on the 18th to force overtime. Ghim put his tee shot in the rough and his second shot in the sand on the extra hole — the 10th. After Ghim’s bogey putt missed, he conceded the hole and the title to Redman. The 62nd-seeded Redman is a 19-year-old sophomore at Clemson. After barely reaching match play through a playoff, he became the second-lowest seed to win since 1985.

• Scott McCarron birdied the final three holes to beat Kevin Sutherland by a stroke in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open. McCarron closed with an 8-under 64 a day after shooting a 61 at En-Joie in Endicott, N.Y., to join Sutherland (65) atop the leader board entering the final round in the PGA Tour Champions event. McCarron, 52, finished at 20-under 196.