Camilo Villegas’ week started with one celebration, then ended with another.

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

He finished at 13-under 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.

And Villegas made it look easy most of the way, too, capping his day with a 20-footer for birdie, then raising both hands skyward.

“It’s been a long week, man,” Villegas said. “But, man, it’s been a good one. I just loved every second of it.”

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Hunter Mahan won the Phoenix Open for his second PGA Tour title, coming from four strokes back to beat Rickie Fowler by a shot in a 1-2 finish for former Oklahoma State players.

The 27-year-old Mahan had an eagle and a pair of birdies in a late four-hole span Sunday to finish at 16-under 268. Also the 2007 TravelersChampionship in 2007 winner. Mahan closed with consecutive bogey-free 6-under 65s.

The trophy Ian Poulter is taking home from the Match Play Championship is called the Walter Hagen Cup.

For his first victory on American soil, perhaps that’s only fitting.

Hagen, among golf’s greatest players with 11 majors, was regarded as much for his snappy attire as his record four straight PGA Championships when they were match play.

The Haig would have liked this spunky Englishman.

Dressed in pink on a chilly day in the high desert, Poulter put on a short-game clinic Sunday and led over the final 28 holes on his way to a 4-and-2 victory over Paul Casey in an all-England final at the first World Golf Championship of the year.

The trophy is as stylish as anything in his wardrobe.

With his ninth career victory, and by far the biggest, Poulter moved to a personal-best No. 5 in the world ranking. And as always, he looked good getting there.

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Tiger Woods is finished. Done. Said all he’s going to say.

Pretty much everything was neatly wrapped up in 13 and a half minutes, certainly to the satisfaction of the trio of women (his mother included) who looked on approvingly from the front row.

Besides, he has other things to do. Sex therapy is apparently just getting interesting, and he’s got some people back at the clinic in Mississippi who might need his help.

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However, his agent said Woods will not take any questions from a small group of media.

“Tiger is reading a statement, a public apology,” Mark Steinberg told FOXSports.com’s Robert Lusetich. “No questions. It is not a news conference.”

It will be Woods’ first public appearance since Nov. 27, when he crashed his SUV into a tree outside his Florida home. Woods’ only comments since then have been made through his Web site.

Woods is to speak at 11 a.m. Friday from the clubhouse at the TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., home of the PGA Tour.

“This is all about the next step,” Steinberg said. “He’s looking forward to it.”

PEBBLE BEACH, California (AP)—Dustin Johnson is the first player in 20 years to win back-to-back titles at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, making a short birdie putt on the final hole for a one-shot victory over David Duval and J.B. Holmes.

Instead of firing at flags and trying to make birdies, which allowed him to build a six-shot lead at Riviera, he suddenly found himself playing it safe and trying not to make bogeys. Instead of having a chance to break the 25-year-old tournament scoring record, he feared matching a PGA Tour record for blowing the biggest lead.

The Northern Trust Open ultimately ended Sunday the way everyone thought it would—Stricker in tears after another victory.

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Golf’s two best players are linked by accusations of cheating—one because he has a wife, the other because he has a wedge.

Oh, for happier times.

It was only four months ago when Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson posed on the 18th green at East Lake with commissioner Tim Finchem, both holding a trophy, smiles filling the frame. Woods had won the FedEx Cup for the second time, while Mickelson’s victory in the Tour Championship seemed to signal a renewed rivalry between the game’s brightest stars.

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Mickelson goes for an unprecedented third straight victory at Riviera when the Northern Trust Open gets under way on Thursday. Of the 14 clubs in his bag, none will be a Ping Eye2 wedge that put him in the spotlight and eventually at the lectern.

“How do you think that went?” Mickelson said during his pro-am round.

He was talking about his interview hours earlier, in which he shifted his angst from Scott McCarron’s accusation of “cheating” to the USGA for its “ridiculous” manner of handling the new rule on grooves.

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McCarron issued a statement Monday in which he wanted to clarify that while he believes “it’s cheating” for Mickelson and anyone else to use the Ping wedges, “I never called Phil Mickelson a cheater.”

“That being said, I want my fans, sponsors and most importantly, my fellow players, to know that I will not be silenced and I will continue my efforts to get the groove issue resolved,” McCarron said.

Mickelson said over the weekend that he was “publicly slandered,” and he hinted at legal action if the PGA Tour does not discipline McCarron for his choice of words.

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