James captures Senior Players Championship

DEARBORN, Mich. -- Mark James shot a 1-over 73 and held off Jose Maria Canizares for a one-stroke victory Sunday at the Senior Players Championship.

James finished at 13-under 275 and is the first European to win a Champions Tour major.

Canizares struggled on the back nine and made double bogey at Nos. 14 and 17 in a 1-under 71, finishing at 12-under 276.

Bruce Fleisher (71) finished third at 11 under, and Bruce Lietzke (71) was fourth, another stroke back. Gary McCord (74) and Dana Quigley (72) tied for fifth at 9 under.

James, who captained Europe's 1999 Ryder Cup team at Brookline, became the sixth player to make the Players Championship his first Champions Tour victory.

PGA Tour

Mark Hensby tapped in for par on the second playoff hole at the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Ill., finally breaking through for his first career victory.

Hensby shot a 66 to finish at 16-under 268, and got the victory when John Morgan hit his drive on the par-3 16th far left of the green.

Morgan's shot sailed into thick brush. He chipped across the green and into the bunker, nearly made the sand shot and stood by and watched as Hensby two-putted for par and the $685,000 winner's check.

The victory would have earned Hensby a trip to next week's British Open at Royal Troon, but he declined.

Jose Coceres was third at 15-under 269 and Greg Chalmers finished two shots back in a tie for fourth with last year's champion Vijay Singh (67), Steve Stricker (68) and Joel Kribel (65).

LPGA Tour

Meg Mallon completed her North American double, running away to win the Canadian Women's Open at Niagara Falls, Ontario, a week after winning the U.S. Women's Open.

Leaning heavily on her sharp putting stroke, Mallon shot a final-round 2-under 70, finishing with an 18-under 270 to win $195,000 at Legends on the Niagara Battlefield course.

Defending champion Beth Daniel finished second, four strokes back.

European PGA Tour

Thomas Levet matched the lowest round of his career, an 8-under 63 that gave him a one-shot victory in the Scottish Open at Luss, Scotland, and earned the Frenchman a berth in the British Open. Levet, who won his first tournament in three years, finished at 15-under 269

-- From wire reports