Garcia wins after playoffs

In the playoff, Garcia drove into the first cut of rough at the 18th, and his approach came up some 40 feet shy of the pin. His first putt stopped about two feet short but he calmly rolled the ball in for victory and a cheque for $1,044,000.

Hart made a mess of the 18th hole with a drive into the left rough followed by an approach into thick rough over the green. After moving the ball only a few feet with his pitch, he needed three more shots to get down for a double-bogey six.

Damron found the fairway off the tee and struck his approach on to the green but 50 feet from the pin. He left his putt only three feet from the hole.

With both Garcia and Damron looking at what appeared to be sure pars, Damron, a fidgety player who usually takes a great deal of time with each shot, quickly stepped up and struck his second putt without taking a practice stroke. The ball finished nowhere near the hole and he tapped in for bogey.

World number one Tiger Woods had another bad day driving the ball but still managed to shoot a 69 to finish one stroke out of the playoff in joint fourth with Tim Herron and Duffy Waldorf.

South Africa’s Ernie Els, the world number three, carded a67 and tied for seventh on 272 with Zimbabwe’s Nick Price, Japan’s Shigeki Maruyama and Australian Stephen Leaney.

Garcia seemed tentative for much of his round. He birdied the first hole, bogeyed the second, then repeated the sequence with a birdie at the seventh and a bogey at the eighth. Another bogey at the 15th hole dropped Garcia back to 10-under.

Damron had struck the shot of the day when he holed out from175 yards with a seven iron for an eagle two at the 15th hole on his way to carding a 66, while Hart birdied the par-three 17th to also reach 10-under with a final round 67.(Reuters)