Gary Woodland wins PGA Tour event in Florida | Golf

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Gary Woodland, who didn't have a par on the back nine until the final hole, made a 10-foot par putt that proved to be the difference in a one-shot victory over Webb Simpson in Sunday's Transitions Championship.

Woodland closed with a 4-under-par 67 and had a 15-under 269 score for 72 holes. The 26-year-old from Kansas earned $990,000 and a trip to the Masters, which starts April 7. He became the first player to earn his inaugural PGA Tour title at Innisbrook.

Woodland surged into the lead with three straight birdies and fell out of it with back-to-back bogeys. Simpson (69) failed to make a 20-foot par putt on the final hole.

Scott Stallings (70) placed third at 12 under.

Ryan Moore (71) of Puyallup tied for 44th place.

The long-hitting Woodland played college basketball at Washburn until deciding to transfer to Kansas to play golf.

"I can't come out here and hit the golf ball 900 yards and win," he said. "I was very conservative this week, laid back almost all day — all four days — and just tried to get the ball in the fairway, get it on the green and let the putter do the work. That's what I'm learning."

Woodland needed 23 putts in the final round and, according to Shotlink, didn't miss inside 20 feet.

Webb prevails

PHOENIX — Karrie Webb won the LPGA Founders Cup for her second consecutive Tour victory, shooting a 6-under 66 to beat Brittany Lincicome (70) and Paula Creamer (66) by a stroke.

Hall of Famer Webb won when Lincicome bogeyed the final hole after missing a 10-foot par putt.

Webb, also a winner three weeks earlier in Singapore, earned $200,000 for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation and Japan relief efforts in the charity event at Wildfire Golf Club. She finished at 12-under 204.

Instead of paying the players, the tournament honoring the 13 Tour founders donated $1 million to charity — half to The LPGA Foundation and its LPGA-USGA Girls Golf program and half to the top-10 finishers' designated charities.

"I wouldn't have had the career that I've had and the life that I've had if it weren't for those 13 women," Webb said.

Wendy Ward (72), who lives near Edwall, outside Spokane, tied for 29th place at 1 under.

Ex-Washington Huskies player Paige Mackenzie (71) of Yakima and Jimin Kang (74), a graduate of King's High School in Shoreline, tied for 43rd at 1 over.