Tiger Woods may have come up empty at the Masters in April but he began May by winning for the fourth time on the 2013 PGA Tour, and in the process joined Fred Couples, Davis Love III and Steve Elkington as the only two-time winners of The Players Championship at famed TPC Sawgrass.  Woods was around the lead all week and began the final round tied at the top with both Sergio Garcia and rookie David Lingmerth, the latter a playoff loser at January’s Humana Challenge but widely seen as an interloper on a Sunday leaderboard of this magnitude.  For much of the day, Woods gave every sign of controlling play along the lines of his halcyon days, recording four birdies (against a single bogey) over his first 12 holes to hold a seemingly commanding two-stroke lead.  But a hooked drive into lateral water at the par-4 14th led to double-bogey and suddenly Woods was once again deadlocked with Garcia and Lingmerth, as well as a hard-charging Jeff Maggert.  When Woods and Garcia both recorded requisite birdies at the par-5 16th, it appeared that they would be the last men standing – a fitting close given that the two had engaged in some unseemly public sparring over etiquette questions during Saturday’s third round.  But Garcia promptly hit three balls into the water over the final two holes (carding a seven at the par-3 17th) and plunged far back into the pack, leaving Woods to finish with routine pars and, surprisingly, Lingmerth with the last chance to catch him.  Instead, after missing an eight-foot birdie putt to tie at the 17th, the young Swede three-putted from 60 feet at the last and dropped into a tie for second with Maggert and late-arriving Kevin Streelman, who closed with 67.  The victory was Woods’ 78th on the PGA Tour, leaving him four shy of Sam Snead’s career record……………Carrying a one-shot lead into the final round of the GS Caltex Maekyung Open, Korea’s Hyun-Woo Ryu proceeded to play the first 16 holes in two under par to arrive at the 229-yard 17th tied with countrymen Do-Hoon Kim and Hyung-Sung Kim.  Ryu promptly stuffed he approach inside six feet and, after both Kims made bogey, rolled in the putt to take a two-stroke lead – a cushion that made an 18th-hole bogey irrelevant.  Previously a one-time winner on the Japan Tour, Ryu stood tied for 62nd after an opening 72 at the Namseoul Country Club but moved himself into the lead with middle rounds of 65-67.  The victory was worth nearly $180,000 USD, and came against a field that was missing several top native stars who were in America competing at the Players Championship.  Do-Hoon and Hung-Sung kim tied for second, with the top non-Korean finisher being 20-year-old Australian Jake Higginbottom, who tied for eigth.