PGA Tour - Memorial Tournament  -  Matt Kuchar  (276)
European Tour - Nordea Masters  -  Mikko Ilonen  (267)
Japan Tour - Diamond Cup Golf  -  Hideki Matsuyama  (279)
Sunshine Tour - Lombard Insurance Classic  -  Merrick Bremner  (199)
LatinoAmerica - Dominican Republic Open  -  Ryan Blaum  (279)
LPGA Tour - ShopRite LPGA Classic  -  Karrie Webb (209)
LET - Unicredit Ladies German Open  -  Carlotta Ciganda  (101)
JLPGA Tour - Resort Trust Ladies  -  Mamiko Higa  (207)
Champions Tour - Principal Charity Classic  -  Russ Cochran  (205)
Web.com Tour - Mid-Atlantic Championship  -  Michael Putnam  (273)
E Challenge Tour - Fred Olsen Challenge de Espana  -  Brooks Koepka  (260)

Though the week began shrouded in the controversy of some ill-advised Sergio Garcia comments about Tiger Woods (remarks inadvertently multiplied by Tour CEO George O'Grady) and the disappointment of poor Thursday and Friday weather, the E Tour's flagship BMW PGA Championship certainly ended on an exciting note, with Italy's Matteo Manassero prevailing in a three-way playoff with Scotland's Marc Warren and the event's 2010 winner, England's Simon Khan.  It was a week in which many of the anticipate contenders bowed out early, with two-time winner Luke Donald missing the cut courtesy of a thumb infection, and both world number two Rory McIlroy and the recently hot Graeme McDowell failing to reach the weekend without a similar excuse.  That left the 54-hole lead to be claimed by 30-year-old Alejandro Canizares (a one-time E Tour winner at the 2006 Russian Open), who stood one ahead of a most likely contender, world number 12 Lee Westwood, and two up on Manassero and Warren.  But Westwood, who has never won the Tour's most coveted non-Major title, could do no better than a 73 on Sunday, eventually falling into a tie for 9th.  For Canizares, an even-par 72 was quite respectable under the circumstances, but it was accomplished with two late birdies, leaving him in a tie for fourth, one off the pace.  Manaserro, for his part, made his move early, going out in 32, then marching steadily home with an even-par 37 to post a 278 total.  Warren went the opposite route, going out in even-par 35, carding four straight birdies at holes 10-13, then missing a chance to win the title outright with a bogey at the long par-4 15th.  And then there was Khan, seldom a contender away from Wentworth, who closed with a flawless, bogey-free 66 to grab his spot in the playoff.  Warren was elimated on the first extra hole (the par-5 18th), leaving Manassero to eventually close out Khan with a birdie at the fourth (again the 18th).  The victory was the 20-year-old Manassero's fourth career E Tour triumph (in just 82 starts) and, while giving him a win in each of his first four professional seasons, did much to reconfirm his place among the game's rising young stars...............It was a five-year wait for 39-year-old Thomas Brent "Boo" Weekley, a drought which saw the 2008 Ryder Cup player slip as far as 180th place on the 2011 PGA Tour money list and 618th in the Official World Ranking.  But with a second-place finish at the Tampa Bay Championship and a T6 in New Orleans, the Milton, FL native has spent much of 2013 knocking on the door, and at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial he finally pushed himself in.  Weekley posted consistent rounds of 67-67-66-66 over the famed par-70 Colonial Country Club layout, putting himself in position to win by recording birdies at holes 8-10 on Sunday, then punctuating it with a birdie at the par-3 13th - which, after a subsequent run of five-closing pars, proved the margin of victory.  Several prominent players represented Weekley's primary competition, headed by second- and third-round leader Matt Kuchar, who fell two behind following Weekley's birdie at the 13th and never really mounted another charge, instead birdieing the 18th simply to pull within one and claim solo second.  Third belonged to two-time Colonial winner (and defending champion) Zach Johnson who closed with a 66 - but he too never really had a chance to win, making birdies at the 16th and 17th to pull close.  One man who did have a chance was 28-year-old Scott Stallings, who charged into the fight with a stunning 29 on the outward half, and actually held the lead through 14 holes before a double-bogey at the par-4 15th ended his hopes of victory. 

PGA Tour - Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial  -  Boo Weekley  (266)
European Tour - BMW PGA Championship  -  Matteo Manassero  (278)
LPGA Tour - Pure Silk Bahamas Classic  -  Ilhee Lee  (126)
LET - Deloitte Ladies Open  -  Holly Clyburn (211)
JLPGA Tour -  Bridgestone Ladies Open  -  Rikako Morita  (208)
Champions Tour - Senior PGA Championship  -  Kohki Idoki  (273)
Web.com Tour - Mexico Championship  -  Michael Putnam  (275)
E Challenge Tour - Telenet Trophy  -  Daniel Gaunt  (273)

Twenty-six-year-old South Korean Sang-Moon Bae claimed his first PGA Tour victory at the HP Byron Nelson Championship, jumping out to a big front nine lead on Sunday before hanging on down a tense homestretch.  Bae, an 11-time winner worldwide before this week, began the final round one stroke behind Keegan Bradley, who’d led the tournament since Thursday, when he opened with a stunning course-record round of 60.  But Bae carded four early birdies (including three straight at holes 5-7) on a Sunday beset by 40 mph winds  and appeared to be coasting on a four-shot lead before a double-bogey at the 9th and a bogey at the 10th let the competition back into the game.  Most of that competition came from Bradley, who also claimed his first PGA Tour title here in 2010, and who was attempting to become the event’s first wire-to-wire winner since Tom Watson in 1980.  Having scrambled enough to stay close to Bae over the first 14 holes, he finally drew even by holing a 17-foot birdie putt at the 15th.  But at the par-5 16th, Bae holed a five-footer for birdie to re-take the lead before Bradley lipped out a shorter effort to keep pace, then bogeyed the par-3 17th to effectively end his chances...............A loser to Nicolas Colsaerts in last year’s final of the World Match Play Championship, Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell returned to claim the title this year, beating Thailand’s ageless Thongchai Jaidee 2 & 1 over the scenic Thracian Cliffs Golf Course in Kavarna, Bulgaria. McDowell, the 2010 U.S. Opn champion, began the final round inauspiciously, quickly falling two down after the 43-year-old Jaidee birdied numbers 2 and 4.  But McDowell drew closer with a birdie of his own at the par-3 7th, then found another gear the match’s crucial stage, logging birdies at the 12th, 14th and 15th to lift himself to two up.  Jaidee could do no better than a half at the par-5 16th, allowing the popular McDowell to close him out with another half at the 17th.  The victory was McDowell’s second in five weeks worldwide (coming on the heel’s of the PGA Tour’s Heritage Classic in Aril) and lifted him to seventh in the Official World ranking...............Lacking full status on both the PGA and European Tours at the start of the year, 2010 U.S. Amateur champion Peter Uihlein plied his trade all around the globe over the season’s first half, before finally nailing down a full E Tour exemption by claiming the Madeira Islands Open, played off the coast of Portugal.  The 23-year-old Uihlein bested a comparatively light field (the event is co-sanctioned by Europe’s developmental Challenge Tour) in claiming his first professional win but he did so in style, launching himself into contention with a second-round 64 (the week’s low round), then birdieing four of his final eight holes on Sunday to nose in front, eventually closing out a two-shot victory when Denmark’s Morten Orum Madsen double-bogeyed the 18th to miss a chance at a playoff............... Beginning Sunday’s final round an imposing nine shots off the lead, Korea’s Hyung-Sung Kim charged home with a final-round 65 (low round of the day by three shots) to claim his second career Japan Tour title at the Japan PGA Championship.  The 33-year-old Kim got off to a blazing start, carding birdies on six of his first eight holes to go out in 29, then came home in even-par 36 to post a 279 total.  Kim then had to watch as multiple challengers attempted to catch him, including Yoshinori Fujimoto (who couldn’t manage a birdie after the 14th hole) and Hiroyuki Fujita, who might have tied but for a bogey at the par-4 15th.  But most disappointed was up-and-coming 20-year-old star Hideki Matsuyama, who held a seemingly commanding four-shot 54-hole lead before bogeying five of his first seven holes on Sunday.  Matsuyama gamely recovered with birdies at the 14th and 15th to draw within one, but he too could not find the one more late birdie needed to catch the victorious Kim.

PGA Tour - HP Byron Nelson Championship  -  Sang-Moon Bae  (267)
European Tour - Volvo World Match Play Championship  -  Graeme McDowell  (2&1)  
European Tour - Madeira Islands Open  -  Peter Uihlein  (273)
Japan Tour - Japan PGA Championship  -  Hyung-Sung Kim  (279)
Sunshine Tour - Zambia Sugar Open  -  Adilson da Silva  (281)
OneAsia Tour - SK Telecom Open  -  Matthew Griffin  (203)
LatinoAmerica - Mundo Maya Open  -  Jorge Fernandez-Valdes  (277)
LPGA Tour - Mobile Bay LPGA Classic  -  Jennifer Johnson  (267)
JLPGA Tour - Office Of Women's Insurance  -  O. Sattaya  (210)
Web.com Tour - BMW Charity Pro-Am  -  Mark Anderson  (259)
Symetra Tour - Friends of Mission Charity Classic  -  Giulia Molinaro  (203)

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. 

PGA Tour - The Players Championship  -  Tiger Woods  (275)
OneAsia Tour - GS Caltex Maekyung Open  -  Hyun-Woo Ryu  (274)
LET - Turkish Airlines Ladies Open  -  Lee-Anne Pace  (289)
JLPGA Tour - World Ladies Championship  - Hiromi Mogi  (279)
Symetra Tour - Symetra Classic  - Laura Kueny  (210)

Twenty-two-year-old PGA Tour rookie Derek Ernst was headed for the Web.com event in Athens, Georgia on Monday morning when he received a phone call telling him he’d made it into the field at the Wells Fargo Championship as the fourth alternate.  Six days later, he flushed a 192-yard 6-iron to four feet at the 72nd hole, coolly drained the putt to tie England’s David Lynn at eight-under-par 280, then defeated Lynn on the first hole of sudden death to record one of the least likely victories in recent Tour memory.  But the entire week had an offbeat feel at the Quail Hollow Club as overcast, often rainy weather dominated and a set of rebuilt greens failed badly, prompting the absence of regular attendee Tiger Woods, among others.  It was also offbeat in that unlike many a maiden win, Ernst, a 2012 UNLV graduate, did Sunday battle with several very big names, most notably 54-hole co-leader Phil Mickelson, who also held a one-stroke lead with three to play before bogeying the 16th and 17th, then narrowly missing a 20-foot birdie putt at the last to tie.  Also falling by the wayside were world number two Rory McIlroy (one shot off the lead before double-bogeying the 12th, ultimately tying for 10th), Robert Karlsson (who needed a birdie to tie at the last, but bogeyed to share fourth), Lee Westwood (tied for the lead before making three bogeys over his last seven holes) and Nick Watney, who also shared the lead early before bogeying four of his final 13 holes.  Lynn, however, held it together, playing Quail Hollow’s tough closing threesome in a cumulative four-under-par for the week - but ultimately falling on the 18th when it served as the first playoff hole, where he lost to a regulation par.  Though Ernst had missed short birdie putts at the 14th and 16th coming home, he rallied to birdie the 18th when it was most needed, claiming his first PGA Tour victory in only his ninth career start...............A patient Brett Rumford waited nearly six years between his third and fourth European PGA Tour victories, but he would wait only seven days between his fourth and fifth.  Entering the final round of the Volvo China Open with a one-shot lead over Finland's Mikko Ilonen, the 35-year-old Perth native proceeded to birdie three of his first six holes to open up a comfortable lead, then added three more birdies at the 12th, 13th and 14th holes to build an insurmountable one.  Meaningless bogeys at the 15th and 17th were all that marred an otherwise flawless Sunday performance, with his closing 68 leaving him four clear of runner-up Ilonen (whose 71 was marred by three back nine bogeys) and five up on young Frenchman Victor Dubuisson, who posted weekend rounds of 66-68 over the long Binhai Lake layout.  First round leader Robert-Jan Derksen of the Netherlands, who hung around the lead all week, came home in 69 to claim solo fourth.  For Rumford, who became the first Australian since Jack Newton in 1972 to claim back-to-back E Tour wins, the victory jumped him to 76th in the OWR, marking a climb of over 170 spots in two short weeks.  Also notable were the performances of two of China's cadre of young amateur stars, led by 16-year-old Ze-Cheng Dou, who first became the seventh youngest player in E Tour history to make a cut, then added rounds of 72-73 to finish T33.  Gaining even more attention, however, was 12-year-old qualifier Wo-Cheng Ye, who became the circuit's youngest-ever participant but missed the cut with room to spare after carding rounds of 79-79...............In a week which saw only two players break par for 72 holes over a short-but-difficult Nagoya Golf Club layout, 29-year-old Michio Matsumura carded weekend rounds of 69-67 to claim his third career Japan Tour victory at the 44th playing of The Crowns.  Beginning the final round two shots out of the lead, Matsumura climbed to the top with an outgoing 31, then balanced two birdies against a bogey and a double bogey coming home, his 278 aggregate being just enough to edge 21-year-old phenom Hideki Matsuyama (who sandwiched birdies at the 16th and 18th around a crucial bogey at the 17th) by a single stroke.  Third place was shared by 26-time Japan Tour winner Shingo Katayama (the 54-hole leader before closing with a disappointing 73) and Australian Steve Conran, who closed with rounds of 68 and 70.  In an event played here since its inception, Matsumura's winning total equaled Hirofume Miyasi's victorious score in 2007 - the highest aggregates since T.M. Chen's came home on 280 in 1983...............After beginning Sunday's final round one shot off the lead, Austria's Bernd Wiesberger closed with a near-flawless 67 to claim the CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters, edging Hall-of-Famer Ernie Els by a single stroke.  Around the lead all week, Wiesberger carded three 67s (plus a Friday 72) overall but was pursued doggedly by Els to the end.  Indeed, the reigning British Open champion matched Wiesberger's eagle at the 12th hole to remain one behind, fell two back when Wiesberger birdied the 16th, but ultimately failed to draw even at the par-5 18th, carding a birdie when an eagle was required.  Third-round leader Daisuke Kataoka took solo third after closing with a two-under-par 70, while Thai star Thonchai Jaidee road a Sunday 69 to solo fourth,  five shots off the pace...............Forty-seven-year-old James Kingston, three years removed from his last victory, holed a 12-foot par putt on the second hole of sudden death to defeat Ruan de Smidt and capture the Investec Royal Swazi Sun Open, his 11th career Sunshine Tour triumph.  In an event contested with Modified Stableford scoring, Kingston and the 23-year-old de Smidt both accumulated 45 points during regulation play, with Kingston doing so by carding 21 birdies and two eagles over 72 holes.  Tying for third, one point out the playoff, were Darryn Lloyd and Mark Williams, the former making a clutch birdie at the 71st hole to give himself a chance, then lipping out a potential winning chip at the 72nd and missing the three-footer coming back, losing a chance to make it a three-way playoff.  The event's 54-hole leaders struggled badly during Saturday's closing round, with 25-year-old Michael Hollick managing only a single point (ultimately tying for fifth with James Kamte) and 13-time Sunshine Tour winner Jean Hugo (who trailed Hollick by three) actually losing a point, to fall all the way to a T16.  

PGA Tour - Wells Fargo Championship  -  Derek Ernst  (280)
European Tour - Volvo China Open  -  Brett Rumford  (272)
Japan Tour - The Crowns  -  Michio Matsumura  (278)
Asian Tour - CIMB Niaga Indonesian Masters  -  Bernd Wiesberger  (273)
Sunshine Tour - Investec Royal Swazi Open  -  James Kingston  (45 Pts)
LatinoAmerica - Arturo Calle Colombian Open  -  Timothy O'Neal  (268)
LPGA Tour - Kingsmill Championship  -  Cristie Kerr  (272)
JLPGA Tour - Cyber Agent Ladies Classic  -  Sakura Yokomine  (206)
Champions Tour - Insperity Championship  -  Esteban Toledo  (210)
Web.com Tour - Stadion Classic at UGA  -  Brendon Todd  (205)
E Challenge Tour - Montecchia Golf Open  -  Brooks Koepka  (261)

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.