Getting his 2015 campaign off to a strong start, Australia’s Jason Day fought his way through a pack of Sunday afternoon contenders and, ultimately, a four-way playoff in earning his third career PGA Tour win at the Farmers Insurance Open, at Torrey Pines.  In an event which initially drew attention for Tiger Woods’ once again walking off the golf course (this time after 12 holes on Thursday, citing more back problems), things came together for an exciting finish on Sunday afternoon, with as many as 10 players having a shot at the title in the late going.  In the end, most chances lived or died at Torrey Pines famed par-5 18th, with Day only just getting into the playoff after his second ran through the back of the green and his chip, running downhill from the rough, narrowly avoided tumbling into the fronting pond.  He would get up and down for par, however, which in the end would be enough to tie him with defending champion Scott Stallings (who missed an 18-footer for birdie), Harris English (who birdied the 72nd from a greenside bunker) and J.B. Holmes who, despite his great length, laid up from 235 yards and could only manage a par.  Both Holmes (after laying up again, then wedging to three feet) and Day (who got up and down from just off the green’s right edge) then made birdie to advance to a second playoff hole where, at the par-3 16th, Holmes made bogey from behind the green, allowing Day to win with a routine par………………In edging a red-hot Bernd Wiesberger of Austria, India’s Anirban Lahiri claimed his sixth Asian Tour victory at the Maybank Malaysian Open – but more importantly, the co-sanctioned event also counted as his first career title on the European Tour, a major career stepping stone.  Lahiri hardly looked like making much noise in Kuala Lumpur over the first 36 holes as his opening rounds of 70-72 left him fully nine shots behind halfway co-leaders Lee Westwood and Alejandro Canizares of Spain. But on Saturday, the 27-year-old Lahiri caught fire, birdieing five of his first six holes en route to turning in 30, then coming home in 32 to post a bogey-free 62 – and yet he still stood five behind Wiesberger, who chased him home with a 63.  But after birdieing his first two holes on Sunday, Wiesberger double-bogeyed the 518-yard 5th, allowing Lahiri – who birdied four of his first five – to creep within one.  Yet despite entering the week with three straight top-six finishes, Wiesberger struggled to regain his momentum, adding bogeys at the 12th and 14th before a timely birdie at the 318-yard 16th saw him nose back ahead of Lahiri by one.  But at the 336-yard 17th, Lahiri made the birdie he desperately needed while Wiesberger, off a bad tee shot and approach, made bogey – and when both men parred the 634-yard 18th, Lahiri emerged the champion………………The Australasian PGA Tour’s Victorian Open is rather a unique event in that it is played, on the same golf course. simultaneous to the Victorian Women’s Open, a circumstance which led to the decidedly odd occurrence of having an engaged couple – Norway’s Marianne Skarpnord and homestanding Richard Green – sweeping the titles on the same afternoon.  Eleven years removed from his previous Australasian win (the 2004 Australian Masters) the 43-year-old green battled current Masters champion (and fellow left-hander) Nick Cullen and veteran Scott Arnold throughout the afternoon, with Arnold falling away only after double-bogeying the par-3 17th.  Green held the lead through the 16th, then fell back into a tie with Cullen by himself bogeying the 17th before both men birdied the last to set up a playoff which Green won a birdie on the second extra hole.  Tying Arnold for third were a pair of amateurs, Ben Eccles and 16-year-old phenom Ryan Ruffels, who’d moved into third round contention behind Saturday’s low round, a six-under-par 66.