INCHEON, South Korea — Suzann Pettersen won the HanaBank Championship Sunday for her ninth LPGA Tour title, beating Catriona Matthew with birdie on the third hole of playoff after blowing a big lead. Seven strokes ahead of Matthew at the start of the round, Pettersen shot a 2-over 74 to finish at 11-under 205 on Sky 72 Golf Club's Ocean Course. The 43-year-old Matthew finished with a 67. Pettersen, the Norwegian who also won the 2007 event, took a five-stroke lead over South Korea's So Yeon Ryu into the final round after opening with a course-record 63 and shooting a 68 on Saturday. Matthew, from Scotland, had a two-stroke lead after Pettersen's double bogey on the par-3 12th. Pettersen rallied with a birdie on the par-4 14th and Matthew dropped a stroke on the par-4 16th to leave them tied at 11-under. Yani Tseng was third at 10-under after a 69. The top-ranked Taiwanese player won three of the first five events of the season. Van Pelt wins Perth Bo Van Pelt held off fellow American Jason Dufner by shooting a 4-under 68 Sunday to win the inaugural Perth International by two shots. Van Pelt extended his one-shot overnight lead with the help of six birdies and two bogeys to secure his first victory in a European Tour-sanctioned event. He finished at 16-under 272 at Lake Karrinyup and earned $333,330. Dufner, a two-time winner this year on the PGA Tour, shot a 69. Spain's Alejandro Canizares was third at 11-under after a 68. Thaworn bags Indian Open Thailand's Thaworn Wiratchant won his third Asian Tour title of the season Sunday at the Hero Indian Open in Bangalore by defeating Scotland's Richie Ramsay on the first play-off hole. Thaworn, playing one flight in front of Ramsay, birdied the last hole in regulation play when his seven-iron approach shot landed about one foot from the hole as he closed with a five-under-par 66. Ramsay, the overnight leader, needed a par putt on the last for victory but made a three-putt bogey for a 68 as the pair returned to the par four 18th hole at the Karnataka Golf Association course. The Scot then blasted his tee shot into a creek and was penalized. His third shot landed in the back of the green and he chipped to about 10 feet past the hole as he two-putted for double bogey. Thaworn, who won the Hero Indian Open in 2005, made a two-putt bogey for victory after hitting his second shot into the greenside bunker. His win pushed him to the top of the Asian Tour Order of Merit. Rising Thai star Panuphol Pittayarat bogeyed the last hole to finish one shot from the play-off. Shiv Kapur was the best Indian golfer as he shot a 66 for fourth place on 272. Love, Furyk tied for lead Three weeks after they were on stage together for the closing ceremony at the Ryder Cup, Davis Love III and Jim Furyk wound up together in a place few people would have imagined — in the final pairing at the McGladrey Classic, both wanting a win for different reasons. Love made a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a 4-under 66, giving him a share of the lead with Furyk, who also had a 66 by doing most of his work early Saturday. They were at 13-under 197, two shots clear of Arjun Atwal (69) and D.J. Trahan (66), two players who could avoid a return to qualifying school with a big week at Sea Island. — Agencies
