Scott holes 48-foot putt in playoff to win Nelson title

Adam Scott made a 9-foot birdie putt on No. 18 to force a playoff, then made a 48-footer playing it again on the third playoff hole Sunday to beat Ryan Moore in the EDS Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas.

Playing the 18th hole for the third time in less than an hour, and the second time in the playoff, Scott hit his tee shot into a fairway bunker to the right. He got his approach to the front of the green, then rolled the putt over two ridges and into the cup. Moore had a chance to match Scott, but his pin-high putt from the fringe skimmed just past the cup.

Scott, the Australian star who cut short a post-Masters trip home so not to waste his good play there, blew a three-stroke lead he carried into the final round. But he made the clutch shots when he needed them for his sixth PGA Tour victory.

The playoff started with both players making pars, first at No. 18 and then at the TPC Four Seasons' signature par 3, the 198-yard 17th hole, where Moore had taken a one-stroke lead in regulation by curling in a 12-foot birdie putt.

LPGA Tour

Annika Sorenstam won the Stanford International Pro-Am for her 71st LPGA Tour victory, beating Paula Creamer with a par on the first playoff hole in Aventura, Fla.

With help from Creamer, Sorenstam (70) erased a one-stroke deficit in the final two holes of regulation. They finished at 8 under.

Creamer bogeyed the par-3 17th.

-- The Associated Press