Entering the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with three consecutive top-10 finishes uner his belt, 26-year-old Billy Horschel had to be figured among the pre-tournment favorites – and with opening rounds of 67-71-66, he entered Sunday’s final round two shots behind 54-hole leader Lucas Glover.  The former University of Florida All-American edged closer by birdieing the par-4 5th and then, after the first of the afternoon’s two weather delays, surged to the front by recording  six straight birdies on holes 7-12.  A bogey at the 15th injected a bit of drama and, after a birdie at the 16th, Horschel came to the par-5 18th needing a birdie to win.  But after a solid tee hot, the day’s second wether delay disrupted play for nearly an hour – after which Horschel calmly returned and, staring his maiden PGA Tour victory in the eye, calmly holed a 27-footer for a course record 64 and the title.  Finishing second was D.A. Points (who himself had edged Horschel – by the same one-shot margin – a month earlier in Houston) while Kyle Stanley closed with a 67 to take solo third.  On a day which saw most of the contenders go low, overnight leader Glover never really got it going, bogeying the par-5 seventh and ultimately coming home with a one-under-par 71, and a tie for fourth.  Widely rated among the more consistent ball-strikers on Tour, Horschel narrowly missed keeping his card in 2011 when a final-round 75 at the McGladrey’s (where he’d held the halfway lead) followed by an MC at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic left him outside of the top 125, and he’s been climbing back – quite successfully – ever since...............In one of the more up-and-down final rounds in recent European Tour history, Australia's Brett Rumford claimed his fourth career E Tour title (but his first since 2007) in a three-way sudden death playoff with countryman Marcus Fraser and Scotland's Peter Whiteford at the Ballantine's Championship in Korea.  Rumford began Sunday's final round two behind 54-hole leader Alexander Noren but quickly launched himself into contention by playing the Blackstone Golf Club's front nine in six-under-par 30.  Adding a birdie and a bogey, he reached the 71st tee in the lead before carding a disastrous double-bogey six, then parring the 543-yard 18th, a hole he'd birdied in each of the first three rounds.  But when neither Fraser nor Whiteford could do any better at the last, it was on to sudden death at the very same 18th hole - where Rumford, seemingly reeling from his late collapse, promptly carded an unlikely eagle, bettering his opponent's twin birdies to claim the title.  Noren surrendered his one-shot Saturday lead with a bogey at the par-4 2nd and ultimately derailed his challenge with double-bogeys at the 10th and 13th, his closing 74 leaving him in a five-way tie for 6th, four strokes out of the playoff.  Closer were the young Frenchman Romain Wattel (who closed in 69, to caim solo 4th) and 2010 British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen, who birdied three of his final five holes to claim solo 5th, on 280.  The event drew a somewhat limited field, perhaps due to recent political tensions on the Korean peninsula - the reason, at least, that was cited by American's Dustin and Zach Johnson for their last-minute withdrawal from the championship...............Though already a winner of thhe 2011 Visa Taiheiyo Masters while still an amateur, 21-year-old Hideki Matsuyama made history again at the Tsuruya Open, carding birdies on his final four holes to overtake American David Oh and claim his first Japan Tour title as a professional by a single stroke.   Also the low amateur at the 2011 Masters, Matsuyama carded rounds of 69-63-68-66, but needed his late-round heroics after playing his first 14 final-round holes in only one-under-par.  Despite the potentially historic nature of Matsuyama's win, however, he will forever share the week's limelight with 66-year-old Japan Tour legend Jumbo Ozaki, who carded one of the greatest competitive rounds ever played on Thursday, bogeying the 18th for a nine-under-par 62.  Though he would ultimately add rounds of 72-72-76 to tie for 51st, Ozaki's epic nine-birdie, one-eagle effort was good enough to beat the field by three, and surely represents the first time in a major tour event that any player has bettered their age by as many as four shots.  For the 2011 Hall-of-Fame inductee, truly legendary stuff.