LAS VEGAS -- In a dramatic finish to the season, Se Ri Pak shaped a shot around a tree to 3 feet for a birdie on the first sudden-death playoff hole Sunday to win the LPGA Tour Championship over Karrie Webb and Laura Davies.
Pak won for the fourth time this year and now has eight victories in just two seasons on the LPGA Tour, the best start since Nancy Lopez 20 years ago. Pak earned $215,000.Webb was trying to become the first player since Beth Daniel in 1990 to win seven times in a season. She birdied two of the last four holes to get into the playoff, including an approach to 4 feet on the 18th in regulation, but missed her 20-footer in the playoff.
Still, Webb clinched player of the year with her 22nd top-10 finish in 25 events this year, and she shattered the LPGA Tour season scoring average with 69.43, more than a half-point better than the previous mark set by Annika Sorenstam last year.
"It's definitely been a year to remember," Webb said. "You don't know how many of these years are going to come by."
Juli Inkster, needing to win for a chance at player of the year, was one stroke off the lead at the turn but failed to keep up the pace and wound up five strokes out of the playoff.
Davies, a big winner in the casinos, came up a loser in a playoff once again. Her career playoff record fell to 1-8, but not until her 25-foot chip straight down the slope stopped one revolution from dropping.
"I chipped very well this week, and I thought I had one more in me," Davies said before rushing away from the Desert Inn Golf Club to catch a flight to Portugal. "I don't want to finish second any more. I'm fed up with that."
Pak is now 2-0 in playoffs. The other victory came in a 20-hole playoff for the U.S. Open last year, the centerpiece of a sensational year in which the 21-year-old South Korean won two majors and set two scoring records.
Nelson wins Senior Tour match play
DORADO, Puerto Rico -- Larry Nelson led virtually all the way in beating Tom Jenkins 3 and 2 in the Senior Match Play Challenge Sunday.
Nelson won two of the first four holes, including an eagle at the par-5, 525-yard No. 4, en route to a 3 and 2 win and the $240,000 first prize.
The victory at the 7,000-yard Dorado Hyatt East course was Nelson's third since joining the Senior PGA Tour in 1997. He has $1.8 million in winnings this year.
In the semifinals earlier Sunday, Nelson beat the tour's leading money winner, Fleisher, by firing a 66, which included five birdies and another eagle at No. 4. Fleisher, who shot a 68, trailed by one hole going to No. 18, missed a chance to tie by sliding a long birdie putt from just off the green long.
Jenkins and Summerhays went back and forth in their semifinal match before Summerhays bogeyed the final hole.
Woods' winning streak ends in Taiwan
TA SHEE, Taiwan -- His four-tournament winning streak over, Tiger Woods walked off the course after finishing sixth at the Johnnie Walker Classic.
And he didn't feel like talking about it.
A winner in eight of his last 11 tournaments, Woods putted poorly all week and his game deserted him entirely on the front nine Sunday. But the way Michael Campbell of New Zealand played, there was no chance of Woods making another comeback.
Campbell, who contended in British Open at St. Andrews in 1995 but hasn't won since that year, closed with a 2-under 70 for a one-stroke victory over Geoff Ogilvy of Australia.
"Tiger, he's a freak of nature," Campbell said. "I mean Tiger is so phenomenal it's frightening. The only way we can defeat Tiger is for him to make mistakes."
Woods entered the day four strokes off the pace and finished five strokes behind in the $1.3 million event, which is not part of the PGA Tour.
Last year, Woods came from eight strokes behind in the final round to catch Ernie Els and beat him in a playoff. But Campbell was steady, and a difficult two-putt par down the ridge gave him a 276 and the victory.
Els made two bogeys down the stretch and was third at 278. Woods closed with a 71 for a 281 at Ta Shee Golf and Country Club.
Campbell, who earned $215,330, played so badly in 1996 and 1997 he considered leaving golf.
"It's just unbelievable," he said. "It's been a long frustrating last four years."
Woods committed all sorts of errors Sunday. First, he hooked his drive on the sixth hole into the rough and down a gully beside a hedge, forcing him to take a stroke.
"I want all these people out of here," a scowling Woods told marshals as he charged through the gallery to find his ball and ended up with a double bogey.
Then, on the eighth hole, things got worse. He drove into the rough, hit his recovery shot into the water and took three putts for a triple bogey.
Campbell's victory didn't appear secure until the last few holes. He had started strongly, with birdies on the first two holes and another on the sixth. On the seventh hole, however, he wound up in a sand trap and took a double bogey.
"That was my disaster hole," he said.
With Els and Ogilvy in pursuit, Campbell was in a threeway tie for the lead on the 14th hole. But bogeys by Els and Ogilvy put him in the clear.
"Initially, I was disappointed," Ogilvy said. "I felt I played good enough to maybe have a chance to win."
Els, who won this event in 1997 when it was in Thailand, had trouble again on the 16th hole. He had a bogey there Sunday and a double bogey Saturday.
"Yesterday, I said it was a ridiculous hole," he said. "And I still say that."
Vijay Singh was fourth at 68-279, followed by Peter Senior at 67-280.