Having won before made victory No. 2 an easier chore for Scott McCarron.

"I felt a lot more confident this time," he said. "I feel like I had a lot more control over my game."The 31-year-old Californian rolled to his second PGA Tour victory on Sunday, posting a 3-under-par 69 that gave him a three-shot victory in the BellSouth Classic.

"The first one you don't know what to expect," he said, alluding to his triumph last year in the Freeport-McDermott Classic. "It's a lot calmer the second time, no question."

McCarron won the $270,000 first prize with a 72-hole total of 274, 14 under par on the hilly, 7,259-yard TPC Sugarloaf Country Club course.

"I was a little surprised no one made a big move," he said.

Tied with Nick Price and third-round co-leader David Duval after 12 holes, McCarron drove the green on the 310-yard, par-4 13th and had a tap-in birdie putt that put him in front to stay.

He stretched his lead to two shots with a 75-foot birdie putt on 15 and then parred the final three holes for victory.

There was a three-way tie for second at 277 among Duval, Brian Henninger and Lee Janzen. Duval closed with a 72 while Henninger and Janzen posted 68s.

Price, who won the MCI Classic at Hilton Head last month, was alone in second when he teed off on the par-5 finishing hole, but his third shot found the water guarding the green. He took a drop and eventually settled for a double-bogey that left him with a 70 and 278 total, tied for fifth with Hall Sutton, who closed with a 67, Greg Norman, 68, and David Toms, 71.

Five players were tied at 280 - first-round leader Don Pooley, 69, Bruce Fleisher and Kevin Sutherland, 68s, Jay Haas, 70, and Andrew Magee, 71.

McCarron broke on top on the first hole with a birdie as Duval bogeyed, but they reversed that on the second hole to remain tied at 11-under.

Sara Lee Classic

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Terry-Jo Myers tapped in a 1-foot par putt on the fifth playoff hole Sunday to win the $675,000 Sara Lee Classic, her second LPGA tour victory this year.

Laurel Kean lipped out her 3-foot putt for par, and Myers wasted little time tapping in on the par-4 18th hole for her third career victory.

Myers, who won the Los Angeles Women's Championship in February for her first victory in nine years, missed a chance to pick up the $101,250 winner's check on the final hole of regulation when her 18-footer for birdie from the fringe veered left.

Instead, she finished with a 2-under 70 and a 9-under 207 total and went to a playoff with Kean, who shot a 66, and Nancy Harvey, who failed to hold on to her one-stroke lead as she two-putted 18 for bogey and finished with a 68.

Harvey had another chance to win on the first playoff hole, but her 8-footer for birdie missed right. She bowed out of the playoff on the second hole when she missed a 6-footer for birdie on the par-3 17th.

Kean and Myers matched each other for two more holes as they parred the 18th and 17th again. Then Myers bounced her second shot 8 feet past the hole, while Kean hit on to the fringe. Kean's 25-footer veered right, and Myers missed just right before ending the playoff.

Home Depot Seniors

At Charlotte, N.C., Jim Dent, one of the best putters on the Senior PGA Tour, didn't make the same mistake twice.

After missing a 2-foot birdie putt on the final hole of regulation, Dent made one on the second playoff hole Sunday to beat Lee Trevino and win the Home Depot Invitational.

"You don't have too many chances like that," Dent said after his 11th victory on the 50-and-over circuit.

The victory, worth $135,000, came after Larry Gilbert was eliminated on the first extra hole and Trevino missed the green with his tee shot on the second, the 142-yard 17th at the TPC at Piper Glen.

"This is everything. Winning is your whole year," said Dent, who had finished 11th or better in five of his previous eight events.

Dent, the tour's fifth-ranked putter, pulled a 2-foot birdie putt on the final hole of regulation, the 514-yard 18th.

"I just wanted to get it in," he said. "I was ready to go. I just rushed it."

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Trevino concurred, and he told Dent exactly that before the playoff started.

"I said, `That putt was too important for you to hit it that quick,"' Trevino said. "There's times on Fridays or Saturdays when you can quick hit a putt because it doesn't mean a whole lot. But when you've got a putt to win a golf tournament, you better take your time with it."

That's exactly what Dent did on the decisive playoff hole, where both players used 9-irons for their tee shots. Trevino's ball wound up about 20 feet off the green on the side of a hill leading down to a lake, and he chipped it within about 2 feet.

Dent stepped up to his potential winning putt, got ready to hit it and then backed off. He surveyed it a second time and then knocked it in.

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