Bae Sang-moon goes from cruise to damage control to win Frys.com Open

Bae Sang-moon of South Korea built a big lead and was steady enough down the stretch to win the Frys.com Open in the first PGA Tour event of the new season.

Bae closed with a one-over-par 73 on Sunday, the first player since Ben Crane at the St. Jude Classic to win with a final round over par.

He won by two shots over Steven Bowditch, who closed with a 67 on a hot day in Napa Valley.

Bae began the final round with a four-shot lead at Silverado, and he stretched it to six shots before limping to the finish line. He made three bogeys on the back nine and twice needed up-and-down shots to save par.

But no one got within two shots of him.

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China’s Shanshan Feng rallied to win the LPGA Malaysia for her fourth LPGA Tour title, playing a six-hole stretch on the back nine in six under.

The 25-year-old Feng, four strokes behind Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum entering the round, closed with a bogey-free eight-under 63 for a three-stroke victory over Phatlum.

Feng birdied Nos. 11-14 to tie Phatlum at 16 under and pulled away with a four-stroke swing when she holed a 10-foot eagle putt on the par-five 16th and Phatlum made a double bogey on the par-three 15th.

Feng parred the final two holes to finish at 18-under 266 at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club.

Phatlum birdied the 16th and parred the last two holes for a 70. She was trying to become the LPGA Tour’s first Thai winner.

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Kirk Triplett won the SAS Championship for his second victory of the year and fourth in three seasons on the Champions Tour.

The 52-year-old Triplett closed with a three-under 69 for a three-stroke victory over Tom Lehman. Triplett finished at 14-under 202 at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, N.C.

Triplett followed each of his three bogeys with birdies. The three-time PGA Tour champion also won the ACE Group Classic in February. Lehman eagled the par-five 17th in a 70.

Bernhard Langer and Kenny Perry tied for third at 10 under. Langer, the 2012 winner, finished with a 68. Perry, the 2011 champion, had a 67.

Langer extended his lead in the season-long race Charles Schwab Cup race. He has a tour-high five wins — two of them majors — and leads the money list.

Mark McNulty, Kevin Sutherland and Paul Goydos tied for fifth at nine under. McNulty had a 67, Sutherland shot 70, and Goydos 72.

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Alexander Levy of France won the shortened Portugal Masters after the third and final round was abandoned because of continued bad weather in Vilamoura.

Thunderstorms and water-logged greens had already led to the event being reduced to 54 holes Friday, and more rain Sunday saw it finally cut to 36 holes.

Levy’s rounds of 63 and 61 on Thursday and Friday left him on 18-under 124 — three shots ahead of Belgium’s Nicolas Colsaerts. It was the 24-year-old Levy’s second European Tour title after he won the Volvo China Open earlier this year. Levy didn’t play Saturday while the rest of the field finished the second round.

Both Levy and Colsaerts managed just one hole Sunday before rain left the Oceanico Victoria Golf Club’s course unplayable.