ORLANDO, Fla. — South Korea's Hee Young Park won the LPGA Tour's season-ending Titleholders for her first tour victory, closing with a 2-under 70 on Sunday to hold off Paula Creamer and San Gal by two strokes.
Park, tied for the third-round lead with Gal, finished at 9-under 279 at Grand Cypress and earned $500,000. The 24-year-old Park also has six victories on the Korean LPGA.
Top-ranked Yani Tseng shot a 74 to tie for sixth at 2 under. She won seven times on the LPGA Tour this year and had four other worldwide titles. The Taiwanese star was the Rolex Player of the Year for the second straight year, won her first Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average at 69.66, and topped the money list with $2,921,713.
PEBBLE BEACH INVITATIONAL: Harrison Frazar won the rain-soaked Callaway Golf Pebble Beach Invitational by a stroke when Cameron Tringale missed a 2-foot par putt on the final hole. Frazar, who won the St. Jude Classic in June for his first PGA Tour title, closed with an even-par 72 to finish at 9-under 279.
EUROPEAN TOUR: At Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Dutchman Joost Luiten won the rain-shortened Johor Open for his first European Tour title, closing with a 6-under 65 for a one-stroke victory over Sweden's Daniel Chopra. Luiten finished at 15-under 198 at Horizon Hills in the event also sanctioned by the Asian Tour.
JAPAN TOUR: At Miyazaki, Japan, Japan's Toshinori Muto shot an 8-under 63 for a four-stroke over Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano in the Japan Tour's rain-shortened Dunlop Phoenix. Muto had nine birdies and a bogey to finish at 12-under 201. He won for the first time in two years.