LAS VEGAS — Rod Pampling got his first PGA Tour win in 10 years when he closed with a 6-under 65 for a two-shot victory Sunday in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

Pampling holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole to clinch his third career PGA Tour victory. The 47-year-old Australian last won on the PGA Tour at Bay Hill in 2006.

Brooks Koepka closed with a 67 to finish second.

Lucas Glover was tied with Pampling with two holes to play until he made a bogey from the bunker on the par-3 17th, and he closed with another bogey. He shot a 69 to finish third.

Pampling’s last win was the 2008 Australian Masters. He lost his PGA Tour card after the 2013 season and spent two years on the Web.com Tour, and had to return to the Web.com Tour Finals last month to get his card back.

Pampling finished at 20-under 264. The win gave him a spot in the Masters for the first time since 2007 and the PGA Championship for the first time since 2009.

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CHAMPIONS TOUR: Scott McCarron won the Dominion Charity Classic in Richmond, Virginia, to get a top-five spot next week in the final event of the playoffs, beating Tom Byrum with a 6-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff.

McCarron will start next week in Arizona second in the points to two-time defending champion Bernhard Langer, with all of the top five in the standings – including Colin Montgomerie, Joe Durant and Miguel Angel Jimenez – in position to win the season title with a victory.

McCarron and Byrum each shot 3-under 69 to finish at 13 under. Byrum missed a 15-footer before McCarron holed the winning putt.

Kevin Sutherland shot a course-record 63 to tie for third with Brandt Jobe (67) at 11 under. Sutherland is sixth in the standings.

LPGA: Shanshan Feng closed with a double-bogey 6 but beat Ha Na Jang by a stroke in the TOTO Japan Classic, the last of six straight events in Asia.

Feng shot a 2-under 70 for a 13-under 203 total. Also the winner the previous week in Malaysia, Feng has finished no worse than a tie for fourth in her last seven events.

EUROPEAN TOUR: Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen held on to win the Turkish Airlines Open for his fourth European Tour title.

Seven strokes ahead entering the round, Olesen closed with a 2-under 69 for a three-stroke victory over England’s David Horsey (65) and China’s Li Haotong (65).


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