Watson overcomes 8-shot defict to win Schwab Cup

Tom Watson rallied from a six-shot deficit with an 8-under 64 Sunday to win the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, the season-ending event on the Champions Tour.

Watson surged up the leaderboard in Sonoma, Calif., as third-round leader Jay Haas struggled, finishing at 16-under 272 for his second win of the year and eighth victory on the Champions Tour.

The Senior British Open champion, who had 39 PGA Tour victories, earned $440,000 and also claimed the Charles Schwab Cup points race and a $1 million annuity.

Haas, going for his third win in four weeks, closed with a 71 and was one stroke back. Tom Kite had a final-round 67 and was third at 13 under.

PGA Tour

Carl Pettersson steadied his nerves and his swing down the stretch Sunday, saving par with a tough chip on the 15th and a clutch putt on the 16th for an even-par 71 to win the Chrysler Championship for his first PGA Tour victory in Palm Harbor, Fla.

Chad Campbell made five birdies on the back nine in a terrific charge, including a 12-foot putt that swirled into the cup on the 18th hole for a 67 that left Pettersson no room for error.

Leading by one shot, Pettersson found the middle of the fairway and hit his approach 20 feet by the cup. Trying to nestle the ball close to the hole, he ran it 3 feet by, but made that for par and the $954,000 prize.

Pettersson, born in Sweden and raised in North Carolina, finished at 9-under 275.

The consolation prize for Campbell was a trip to the Tour Championship. He showed up at Innisbrook at No. 43 on the money list, but second-place earnings of $572,400 easily pushed him into the top 30.

Steve Lowery, who started the final round tied at 9 under with Petterson, lost his chance to win for the first time in five years on the par-3 eighth hole. From an uphill lie in a front bunker, Lowery caught it clean and sent the ball over the green in the pine straw, with a branch behind his ball. It took him two chips to get to the green, and his triple bogey sent him tumbling out of the lead.

LPGA Tour

Jee Young Lee of South Korea won her first LPGA Tour title, closing with a 1-over-par 73 for a three-shot victory in the CJ Nine Bridges Classic in Jeju, South Korea.

Lee led all three rounds and finished at 5-under 211 to easily beat Mi-Hyun Kim and Carin Koch. She refused to consider victory until she stood over a short par putt on the final hole.

Her nerves showed down the stretch when she made three straight bogeys until finishing with a par. Lee became the fourth South Korean in four years to win the tournament. Defending champion Grace Park had a 70 and tied for sixth.

Annika Sorenstam, who already has clinched LPGA player of the year, closed with a 70 to tie for 13th. Paula Creamer, who started the final round five shots of the lead, shot a 79.

-- From wire reports