Goosen Has the Answers to Beat Singh

Retief Goosen made consecutive birdies to hold off a final charge from Vijay Singh and win the Chrysler Championship at Palm Harbor, Fla., on Sunday, making Singh wait one more week for a chance to win the PGA Tour money title.

Goosen closed with a one-under-par 70 for a three-shot victory and became one of only five players to win a PGA Tour event in each of the last three years.

Singh has won or finished second in his last four PGA Tour events.

The Fijian closed with a 70 and was alone in second. He earned $518,400 to extend his lead on the money list to $768,494 over Tiger Woods with only the Tour Championship left next week in Houston.

Singh only has to finish in a three-way tie for third to end Woods’ four-year reign atop the money list. Woods would have to win to have any chance of a record fifth consecutive title.

Goosen finished at 12-under 272 on the Copperhead course at Innisbrook and earned $864,000.

Chad Campbell (69) was tied for second until a triple bogey on the 18th dropped him into a tie for fourth with Tim Petrovic.

Briny Baird closed with a 72 and finished alone in third to make $326,400, moving into the top 30 on the money list and qualifying for his first Tour Championship.

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Rookie Shi-hyun Ahn won her first LPGA Tour title, shooting a four-under 68 to capture the CJ Nine Bridges Classic at Jeju Island, South Korea.

Ahn, a 19-year-old South Korean competing in her first LPGA tournament, eagled the 18th hole and finished at 12-under 204. She was three strokes ahead of defending champion Se Ri Pak, Laura Davies, Grace Park and Gloria Park.

The victory allows Ahn to compete in most LPGA tournaments the next two years and bypass qualifying events. She is the second-youngest LPGA winner -- Marlene Hagge was 18 when she won the 1952 Sarasota Open.

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Chris Couch shot an even-par 72 to win the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship by three strokes at Prattville, Ala.

Couch, who began the day with a four-stroke lead, finished at 18-under 270 at Capitol Hill’s Senator Course, and earned $112,500. He finished fourth on the tour’s money list.

The top 20 finishers on the money list earn PGA Tour cards for next season.