San Francisco Chronicle

Four-year drought is over for Kuchar

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Matt Kuchar ended more than four years without a PGA Tour victory Sunday by closing with a 2-under-par 69 and holding up through a few nervous moments down the stretch to win the Mayakoba Golf Classic at Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Kuchar had a four-shot lead going into the final round. But after making two bogeys over the first 67 holes in the tournament, he made two bogeys in two holes on Nos. 14 and 15, and his lead shrunk to one shot when Danny Lee made a 20foot birdie putt from the fringe on the 16th hole.

Lee finished with two pars for a 65. Kuchar rolled in a 3-foot par putt to win by one shot.

Vijay Singh rallied from six shots behind with a 10-under 61 to win the Charles Schwab Cup Championsh­ip in Phoenix and deny Scott McCarron the $1 million annuity.

McCarron had to win the final tournament of the year to take the season-long Charles Schwab Cup for the first time. But he stalled at Phoenix Country Club.

Bernhard Langer, who tied for 13th, won the Schwab Cup and its $1 million bonus for the fifth time, and fourth time in the past four years.

Singh, at 22-under 262, won for the third time this year and was No. 4 in the Schwab Cup.

Lee Westwood won on the European Tour for the first time since 2014, clinching his third title at the Nedbank Golf Challenge in Sun City, South Africa, by coming from behind to overhaul a three-shot deficit in the final round.

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