For the second straight week, an Australian scored their maiden win on the PGA Tour as 33-year-old Matt Jones holed a 42-yard chip on the first hole of sudden death to defeat Matt Kuchar at the Shell Houston Open.  A former collegiate star at Arizona State, Jones opened his week with rounds of 68-68-71 at the rain-softened Golf Club of Houston, which left him six shots behind 54-hole leader Kuchar.  Jones then fell further behind by bogeying the 1st hole on Sunday before reeling off a run of six birdies over his next 10 holes, briefly tying for the lead near the turn.  By the time he birdied the 16th he stood one behind Kuchar, then appeared to squander his chance with an untimely bogey at the par-4 17th.  But with little to lose, Jones then rolled in a 46-foot birdie putt at the last, then looked on as Kuchar hit his approach into the water at the difficult par-4 18th, ultimately scrambling to make bogey and force the playoff.  After Jones drove it in a fairway bunker as they played the 18th again, then hit his second shy of the green, Kuchar proceded to bunker his approach from the fairway, leaving the door open just enough for Jones to hole the chip and claim the title.  The victory meant a change in travel plans for Jones who was initially planning on taking the following week off but instead earned the final spot in The Masters………………Battling against a particularly light field on the eve of The Masters, Italy’s Marco Crespi claimed his first European Tour victory at the inaugural playing of the NH Collection Open, edging homestanding Jordi Garcia Pinto and Scotland’s Richie Ramsay in Cadiz, Spain.  After opening with rounds of 70-73, Crespi logged six back nine birdies en route to a Saturday 66 that pulled him within one of the 54-hole leader, England’s Matthew Nixon.  But as Nixon made his way around Sunday’s front nine in 37, Crespi birdied the 1st, 5th, 8th and 9th to turn in 32 and vault into the lead.  As the pressure mounted, back-to-back bogeys at the 12th and 13th provided a few moments of doubt, but a clutch bounce-back birdie at the 14th righted the ship and, in the end, would prove enough for a two-shot triumph.  Garcia Pinto was a late arrival to the party, birdieing four of his last five holes for a closing 66.  Ramsay, on the other hand, might well have found the winners circle as he stood at eight under par through 10 holes on Sunday, but could do no better than eight straight pars coming home………………Frequent contender Titch Moore ended a six-year Sunshine Tour victory drought in Johannesburg, being the only player to break 70 all four days en route to a marathon playoff victory over Ulrich van den Berg at the Telkom PGA Championship.  The long-hitting Moore began Sunday’s final round four strokes behind third-round leader Oliver Bekker and had only cut one stroke off that margin by the time he turned in 34.  But Moore carded birdies at the 12th, 14th and 18th to post his 15-under-par total, then watched as Bekker faded (with distastrous bogeys at the 16th and 17th) and van den Berg charged, birdieing the par-5 18th to join him for extra holes.  And the playoff would indeed be something, taking place solely on the 18th and seeming initially to favor van den Berg, who missed makeable birdie putts on the second and third playings that would have ended it.  But as fatigue was clearly setting in, Moore holed a four-foot birdie putt on the fifth go-round to clinch his eighth career Sunshine Tour title.