Villegas wins the Honda Classic by five strokes

March 8, 2010 at 8:46AM

Camilo Villegas shot a final-round 68 to win the Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., by five shots Sunday over Anthony Kim, giving the Colombian his third PGA Tour victory.

Villegas finished at 13-under-par 267, the lowest 72-hole score since the Honda moved to PGA National in 2007, four shots better than Y.E. Yang's winning total a year ago. He capped his day with a 20-footer for birdie.

Villegas is now the fourth player who's still under 30 with at least three PGA Tour wins, joining Adam Scott (three) and Dustin Johnson and Sean O'Hair (three each).

Sam Saunders, the grandson of Arnold Palmer, shot 73, finishing the week even par.

Other tournaments • Fred Couples won his second straight Champions Tour title, shooting a 6-under 65 for a four-stroke victory in the Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, Calif. Couples, making his third start on the 50-and-over tour, had an 18-under 195 total on the Newport Beach Country Club course. Ronnie Black finished second.

• Steve Pate became the oldest champion (48 years, 9 months, 11 days) in Nationwide Tour history, winning the Bogota Open in Colombia when Aaron Watkins missed a 3-foot par putt on the second hole of a playoff. Pate closed with an even-par 71 to match Watkins (68) at 11-under 273. He won for the first time since the 1998 CVS Charity Classic, the last of his six PGA Tour titles. The victory drought spanned 245 starts (173 PGA Tour, 72 Nationwide Tour).

• Karrie Webb won her seventh Australian Ladies Masters, closing with a course-record 11-under 61 in Gold Coast, Australia. Webb finished at 26-under 262 to match the tournament record she set in 1999.

• South Korean teenager Noh Seung-yul birdied the final hole to win the Malaysian Open by one shot in Kuala Lumpur.

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