Webb Still Perfect This Year

Karrie Webb hasn’t reached the point where she merely has to show up to walk off with the trophy. She only makes it look that simple.

A winner in each of the three tournaments in which she has played this year, the 26-year-old Australian won the Australian Ladies Masters championship for a third consecutive time with a strong finish Sunday at Royal Pines at Gold Coast, Australia.

With only Lorie Kane in her way, Webb birdied three of the final four holes for a four-under-par 68 and a one-stroke margin.

Webb, the sixth player to win an LPGA Tour event three times or more, chipped in for birdie on No. 17 and made a 15-foot putt on the final hole to hold off Kane.

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Tom Wargo won a Seniors event for the first time since 1995, making a 20-foot birdie putt on the third hole of a playoff with Gary McCord in the LiquidGolf.com Invitational at Sarasota, Fla. J.C. Snead was eliminated from the playoff after a bogey on the first extra hole. Wargo and McCord shot four-under-par 68s and Snead closed with a 66 to finish regulation at 14-under 202. . . . Jim Carter finally won in his 292nd PGA Tour event--a span of 13 years--when he came from behind with a six-under-par 66 to finish with a 19-under 269 to beat third-round leader Tom Scherrer, Chris DiMarco and Jean Van de Velde by two shots in the Tucson Open.