Oh captures LPGA tourney in playoff

Second-year LPGA golfer Ji Young Oh won her first tournament Sunday, sinking a 6-inch putt for par to win the State Farm Classic in a playoff over rookie Yani Tseng in Sprinfield, Ill.

A day after the tournament lost its marquee player, Michelle Wie, to disqualification for failing to sign her card, the sudden-death playoff injected life into what had been an ordinary final round.

Oh and Tseng finished regulation at 18-under par.

Tseng, the leader coming into Sunday, chipped her third shot over the green and into the rough, then pitched her ball to about 6 feet from the cup.

But Oh's third shot, from just inside the rough, left her with the tap-in that gave her the win.

Tseng shot a 66 in each of the first three rounds before her even-par 72 to force the playoff.

PGA Tour

Richard S. Johnson birdied three of his last four holes for a 6-under-par 64 to earn his first PGA Tour victory at the U. S. Bank Championship.

He finished at 16-under 264 and became the seventh first-time winner on the tour this year.

Ken Duke closed with a 65 and was the runner-up at Brown Deer Park Golf Course in Milwaukee.

Dean Wilson (65), Chad Campbell (65) and Chris Riley (66) tied for third at 13-under.

Champions Tour

R.W. Eaks was the runaway winner in the Champions Tour 3M Championship in Blaine, Minn., posting the lowest score in the tournament's 16-year history.

Eaks shot a 7-under 65 in the final round to finish with a 54-hole total of 193, four shots better than Ed Dougherty's finish in 2000. Gary Hallberg and Bernhard Langer tied for second at 17-under 199.

-- The Associated Press