TUCSON, Ariz. – Marco Dawson won the Tucson Conquistadores Classic on Sunday for his first Champions Tour’s title, breaking a tie with a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-4 16th hole and closing with two pars for a two-stroke victory.

The 51-year-old Dawson shot a 3-under 69 to finish at 13-under 203 in the first-year event at Tucson National, the longtime home of the PGA Tour’s defunct Tucson Open. He opened with consecutive 67s to take a one-stroke lead into the final round.

“I’m just thinking about all the work I put in over the years, especially the last few years – more mental work than anything,” Dawson said. “I’m really happy with the way I played. I’m just glad I played the game that I wanted to play.”

Dawson won in his 21st start on the 50-and-over tour. He’s winless in 412 PGA Tour starts and has one victory in 161 events on the Web.com Tour.

Dawson bogeyed the par-4 15th to fall into a tie with Bart Bryant at 12 under. On the 16th, Dawson’s birdie putt barely tumbled in, and Bryant made a bogey after driving into a bunker.

Bryant had a 70 to finish second for the second straight event. He lost a playoff to Lee Janzen last month in Naples, Florida.

Mark O’Meara was third at 10 under after a 66.

Tom Pernice Jr. was another stroke back after a 68.

Canada’s Rod Spittle tied for 21st at 4-under, while Stephen Ames was 1-under and tied for 37th.

Jesper Parnevik struggled in his Champions Tour debut, shooting 71-74-71 to tie for 42nd at even par. The five-time PGA Tour winner turned 50 on March 7. He missed the cut two weeks ago in the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open after injuring his back in a fall during a practice round.

SANTIAGO, Chile – Dawie van der Walt won the Chile Classic on Sunday for his first Web.com Tour title, closing with a birdie for a 6-under 65 and a two-stroke victory.

The 32-year-old South African finished at 21-under 263 at Mapocho and earned $108,000. He won two European Tour events in South Africa in 2013.

Erik Barnes was second after a 66. He birdied the final three holes.

Third-round leader Craig Barlow was another stroke back along with Wes Roach. Barlow had a hole a hole-in-one on No. 8, but bogeyed Nos. 15 and 16 in a 69. Roach shot 68.

Canada’s Ted Brown tied for 66th 2-under 282.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Matt Every won the Arnold Palmer Invitational for the second straight year, making an 18-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at Bay Hill to beat Henrik Stenson and earn another trip back to the Masters.

Every rallied from a four-shot deficit last year for his first career victory. This one was even sweeter. He came from three shots behind Sunday with a 6-under 66, and he had to make the biggest putt of his career to get that handshake with the tournament host.

“The one on 18, straight downhill,” Every said. “That’s what you want under pressure.”

Stenson closed with a 70 and extended a curious streak on the PGA Tour. It was the ninth straight tournament in which a 54-hole leader failed to win, and the Swede let this one get away.

He regained the lead with birdies on the 11th and 12th holes as Morgan Hoffmann began to fade, and Stenson had a one-shot lead with four holes to play. But he three-putted from 45 feet on the 15th, and three-putted again for par from 40 feet on the fringe at the par-5 16th.

Needing a birdie to force a playoff, Stenson was wide left on a 20-foot putt at the 18th.

Every finished at 19-under 269 and became the first player since Payne Stewart in 1987 to win at Bay Hill with all four rounds in the 60s.

A year ago, Every missed a 4-foot par putt on the 18th hole and had to wait a nervous 10 minutes to see if anyone could catch him. This time, he had no room for error. With a confident swing that held up all week, he drilled his drive down the left side of the fairway and hit his approach above the hole to set up his birdie.

He joined Tiger Woods and Loren Roberts as the only players to repeat at Arnie’s place. Woods won four in a row, and back-to-back on two other occasions. Roberts, like Every, won his first two PGA Tour titles at Bay Hill.

Matt Jones birdied three of his last four holes for a 68 to finish alone in third.

Hoffmann had a two-shot lead after a birdie on the eighth hole, but it was a struggle the rest of the way. Stenson caught him on the 11th, and Hoffmann made bogey on his next two holes to fall three shots behind. He hit his tee shot out-of-bounds into a backyard on the 18th hole for a double bogey and a 71 to finish fourth.

Rory McIlroy, in his final tournament before he goes for his third straight major and the career Grand Slam at the Masters, closed with a 70 and tied for 11th. The world’s No. 1 player had only one round in the 60s in his three events on the Florida swing.

“The main goal was to come here and try to win,” said McIlroy, who played Bay Hill for the first time. “Couldn’t do that. At least I got a couple of things out of this week, which is good.”

Zach Johnson holed a 5-iron from 207 yards on the par-5 16th for the second albatross in two days, after no one had made a 2 on a par 5 since Bay Hill began in 1979.

Every left Bay Hill a year ago believing he could win the Masters on his first try. He missed the cut and had only one top 10 the rest of the year. But he changed coaches in the fall and began working with Sean Foley to tighten up areas in his game.

Now he heads to Augusta with more confidence, and believes he has a swing that will get him in these positions more often.

Sam Saunders, the 27-year-old grandson of Palmer, closed with a 73 and tied for 29th.

The top Canadian was Canada’s Nick Taylor. The Abbotsford, B.C. native was 6-under (76-65-70-71) and tied for 35th.

David Hearn of Brantford, Ont. was a shot back at 5-under (69-73-69-72). He tied for 43rd.

SANTO ANTONIO DA SERRA, Portugal – Organizers canceled the Madeira Islands Open because of continuing bad weather on Sunday.

In a statement on the European Tour website, chief operating officer Keith Waters said “we are already in discussions with the club and the sponsors to reschedule the event for another week” later this season.

Heavy winds and rain sweeping the Portuguese island for the previous three days did not let up, leaving the Clube de Golf Santo da Serra flooded.

Organizers had already reduced the tournament to 36 holes on Saturday in an effort to salvage the European Tour event.

The field was only able to complete the first round on Saturday, with Denmark’s Joachim B. Hansen leading by one stroke.

This is the second straight year weather has disrupted the tournament.

Last year, heavy fog during the first three days forced organizers to reduce it to 36 holes.

PHOENIX – A couple of things stood out when Stacy Lewis glanced at a scoring monitor Saturday night at the JTBC Founders Cup.

For one, the leaderboard was packed on a Desert Mountain course known for low scores and Sunday shootouts. And at 30, she’s a lot older than the other leaders.

“I do feel old, yes,” Lewis said. “We knew it was coming. A lot of the young Koreans were coming out, so it’s not surprising. I mean, they are fearless. They don’t have the experience, so that’s hopefully to my advantage.

“But it is a little strange to be 10 years older than some of these girls.”

Hyo Joo Kim, at 19 already a major champion, finished off a 6-under 66 in the dark to take a two-stroke lead over Lewis. The South Korean player holed her 1 1/2-foot par putt on the final hole at 6:51 p.m. – 11 minutes after sunset.

“Been really good with the driver, second, third (shots), totally all the clubs,” Kim said. “If I miss, I save, so I’m playing good. All the putts feel good.”

Kim made three straight birdies – the last with a 25-foot putt on the par-4 16th – and finished at 16-under 200. She won the Evian Championship last year in France.

“I’ve won before and I’ve been playing four or five times a year on the LPGA,” Kim said. “So I have experience, but not much like this in the States.”

Lewis shot a 67. After birdieing six of the first 11 holes to take the lead at 15 under, she had six pars and a bogey – on the par-3 14th – on the final seven holes.

“I feel like I played a lot better than the score,” Lewis said. “Had a bunch of putts, especially early, that I thought I made. The hole locations coming in were pretty tough, so I think to make some birdies, you really had to hit some good shots.”

The 11-time tour winner was relieved to finish the round Saturday in the event that finally caught up after falling behind Thursday when rain delayed the start.

“The worst part is going to sleep thinking about that one shot or that one putt you have to hit,” Lewis said. “Just being able to do the normal stuff in the morning and not having to worry about going to bed so early. You can watch some basketball.”

Alison Lee and second-round leader Kim Kaufman were third at 13 under. The 20-year-old Lee matched the course record with a 63, and the 23-year-old Kaufman had a 70.

Top-ranked Lydia Ko was 12 under after a 69. The 17-year-old New Zealander has broken par in her last 23 LPGA Tour rounds and 26 worldwide, a streak that started in the first round of her victory last year in the season-ending event.

Ko won the Women’s Australian Open and the Ladies European Tour’s New Zealand Women’s Open in consecutive weeks this year. She tied for second last year at Desert Ridge, finishing a stroke behind Karrie Webb.

Mi Hyang Lee and Ha Na Jang also were 12 under, and six more players were 11 under.

“I think it almost makes things easier because you have to just go out there and play and see what happens,” Lewis said about the packed leaderboard. “You can’t watch one person or the people in your groups. You’ve just got to go play golf.”

Lee, still a student at UCLA after turning pro in December, tied the course record set by Ai Miyazato in 2013 and matched last year by Webb, Cristie Kerr and Hee-Won Han. Lee also matched the best score of her career.

“I kind of played my own game,” Lee said. “I really didn’t even realize that I was playing that well until the last hole when I finally looked at the scoreboard.”

She finished on the par-4 ninth, hitting a 9-iron to 1 1/2 feet.

“I was hitting all my approach shots really well,” Lee said.

Making her third LPGA Tour start as a professional, Lee won the Pac-12 title last year as a freshman and was co-medalist at Q-school. She finished finals last week and plans to take more classes in the fall

Webb came from six strokes back in each of her two victories in the event, closing with a 66 in 2011 and the 63 last year. The Australian had a 73 on Saturday, leaving her 10 strokes behind Kim.

“It’s going to be a shootout,” Lewis said. “It’s going to be what this golf course sets up for and the leaderboard this year sets up for it even more.”

Canada’s Alena Sharp heads into Sunday’s finale 9-shots off the lead, with a share of 33rd at 7-under 209 (68-72-69).

TUCSON, Ariz. – Marco Dawson made a 15-foot par putt on the par-4 18th for a 5-under 67 and the second-round lead Saturday in the Champions Tour’s Tucson Conquistadores Classic.

The 51-year-old Dawson, making his 21st start on the 50-and-over tour, opened with two birdies, made four in row on Nos. 7-10 and had his lone bogey on the par-3 17th.

Dawson had a 10-under 134 total in the first-year event on Tucson National’s Catalina Course, the longtime home of the PGA Tour’s defunct Tucson Open.

Dawson was second last year in the AT&T Championship in San Antonio. He’s winless in 412 PGA Tour starts and has one victory in 161 events on the Web.com Tour.

Wes Short Jr. and Bart Bryant were 9 under. Short eagled the par-5 second hole in a 66. Bryant, coming off a playoff loss to Lee Janzen last month in Naples, Florida, had an eagle on the par-5 10th in his 67.

Jerry Smith, the first-round leader after making a hole-in-one in a 65, dropped three strokes on the final two holes to fall to 8 under. He matched Dawson with a bogey on 17 and made a double bogey after driving into the left-side water on 18.

Michael Allen (67) and David Frost (71) were 6 under. Colin Montgomerie bogeyed the 18th for a 72 to fall into a tie for seventh at 5 under.

Bernhard Langer was tied for 10th at 4 under after a 71. He had five victories last year.

Kirk Triplett, the winner of the PGA Tour’s final Tucson Open in 2006 at Tucson National, was tied for 20th at 3 under after a 73.

Jesper Parnevik was 1 over after a 74 in his Champions Tour debut. The five-time PGA Tour winner turned 50 on March 7. He missed the cut two weeks ago in the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open after injuring his back in a fall during a practice round.

Fred Couples was 3 over after a 75. Tom Watson was another shot back after a 72.

Leading the Canadian charge was Rod Spittle. The St. Catharines, Ont., native has a share of 32nd at 1-under.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Henrik Stenson of Sweden finished with another flourish at Bay Hill on Saturday and seized control of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

It was the second straight day that Stenson played the final four holes in 4-under par. Two shots behind, he made a 12-foot birdie on the 15th hole, a 20-foot eagle putt on the par-5 16th and finished with a pitching wedge that plopped down 2 feet from the 18th hole for a 6-under 66.

That gave Stenson a two-shot lead over Morgan Hoffmann, who stumbled on the front nine, recovered with three birdies in four holes and then stalled at the end for a 71.

Stenson, the No. 3 player in the world, was at 16-under 200.

“It’s a new day tomorrow, so whatever has happened these first three days has put me in a nice position,” Stenson said. “But it’s got to be done all over tomorrow.”

Six players are separated by three shots going into Sunday’s final round, a group that includes defending champion Matt Every.

Rory McIlroy looked as though he would be among them. The world’s No. 1 player pulled to within one shot of the lead with his fourth birdie of the round on the 13th hole. But he ran off three straight bogeys, missing a par putt from just inside 3 feet on No. 15 and chopping up the par-5 16th hole. McIlroy effectively gave up two shots to the field on the 16th, where only one other player failed to make par or better.

McIlroy missed the cut in the Honda Classic and finished eight shots behind at Doral. Asked if Bay Hill counted as being in contention, he replied, “Not anymore.”

“I guess if I can get off to the fast start tomorrow … maybe I will have a chance,” he said. “It would have been nicer to be a little closer to the lead going into tomorrow.”

A two-shot lead can disappear quickly, especially on the back nine. Even so, Stenson has been steady during his three stops on the Florida swing. He tied for fourth at Doral, and missed the three-man playoff at Innisbrook by one shot last week.

Hoffmann regained the lead with back-to-back birdies early on the back nine, but his tee shot rolled up to the lip of a bunker on par-5 16th and he was one of only two players in the third round who had to lay up short of the creek. Hoffmann had to settle for pars, though he was still in the final group with Stenson.

Every had a 69 and was in the group at 13-under 203 that included Jason Kokrak (65), Matt Jones (67) and Las Vegas winner Ben Martin (68). Jones birdied his last four holes, including a 75-foot putt across the green at the par-3 17th.

Hoffmann had a chance to limit the number of contenders if he had posted a better score. The scoring average was low again because of slow, receptive greens this week. But he kept getting funny lies in the fairway, mud on his ball and a few breaks that didn’t go his way.

But he still has a chance, as do so many others, especially considering the most recent trend on the PGA Tour. In the last eight tournaments (including the Puerto Rico Open), the winner came from behind in the final round.

Sean O’Hair, who was in the playoff at Innisbrook last week, had a 68 and was five shots behind. The group six shots back included Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand, who matched the low score of the third round with a 65. Harris English, No. 52 in the world as he tries to get into the Masters, hit two balls in the water on the front nine and battled back with four birdies over his last four holes for a 72.

Daniel Berger made the first albatross at Bay Hill, hitting 4-iron from 237 yards into the hole for a 2 on the par-5 sixth hole.

And still on the fringe of contention was Sam Saunders, the 27-year-old grandson of Palmer, who shot 67 to join the group at 8-under 208.

Canadians David Hearn (69-73-69) and Nick Taylor (76-65-70) each have a share of 39th at 5-under 211.

PHOENIX – Kim Kaufman birdied the par-4 18th for a 5-under 67 and a one-stroke lead Saturday morning after the delayed second round of the JTBC Founders Cup.

Kaufman had six holes left when darkness suspended play Friday in the tournament that fell behind Thursday when rain delayed the start four hours. She rebounded after finishing with a bogey Friday, also making a birdie on the par-5 15th.

“Kind of had a rough finish yesterday,” Kaufman said. “It’s kind of hard to split up your round into two days, but I think did I a good job of staying patient. I made some good pars and, fortunately, made a couple birdies.”

Kaufman had an 11-under 133 total at Desert Ridge. From tiny Clark, South Dakota, the 23-year-old former Texas Tech player is in her second full season on the LPGA Tour.

Hyo Joo Kim was a stroke back. She had a 69 on Friday.

Top-ranked Lydia Ko completed a 69 to reach 9 under. The 17-year-old New Zealander birdied Nos. 16 and 17 and saved par on 18 after missing the green.

“You can see by the scores that there’s lots of birdie opportunities out there,” Ko said. “I’ve just got to get aggressive and hole my share of the putts.”

Ko won the Women’s Australian Open and the Ladies European Tour’s New Zealand Women’s Open in consecutive weeks this year. She nearly won last year at Desert Ridge, squandering a three-stroke lead with 13 holes left and tying for second – a stroke behind Karrie Webb.

Third-ranked Stacy Lewis, the 2013 winner, also was 9 under along with Austin Ernst, Sei Young Kim and Ariya Jutanugarn.

Lewis played 30 holes Friday. She opened with a 64, making seven birdies in a nine-hole stretch to take the first-round lead, and had a 71 in the afternoon.

Ernst, Sei Young Kim and Jutanugarn finished the second round Saturday. Sei Young Kim and Jutanugarn shot 66, and Ernst had a 67.

Ha Na Jang, the leader at 11 under with seven holes left when play was stopped Friday, finished with a 68 to drop into a tie for eighth at 8 under.

Michelle Wie, paired with Ko, holed a 30-foot birdie putt on 18 to make the cut on the number at 2 under. She also birdied No. 16.

“Those putts are more nerve-wracking than putts to win a tournament,” Wie said. “A lot of putts out there didn’t drop. I needed to get something going.”

She had a 69 after opening with a 73.

Webb, also the 2011 winner, was 7 under.

Canada’s Alena Sharp was 3-under prior to her 12:40pm (local time) tee-off Saturday.

SANTO ANTONIO DA SERRA, Portugal – Bad weather has forced organizers to reduce the Madeira Islands Open to 36 holes for a second straight year.

Organizers said Saturday that continued heavy rain falling on the Portuguese archipelago maintained flooding on the Clube de Golf Santo da Serra course. Heavy winds prevented the first round from starting on Thursday, and rain interrupted play on Friday.

Denmark’s Joachim B. Hansen holds a one-shot lead with several golfers yet to finish their opening round.

Last year, heavy fog during the first three days of the event forced organizers to reduce it to 36 holes.

TUCSON, Ariz. – Jerry Smith had a hole-in-one and shot a 7-under 65 on Friday to take the first-round lead in the Champions Tour’s inaugural Tucson Conquistadores Classic.

The 50-year-old Smith used a 5-iron on the 212-yard seventh hole – his 16th hole of the day – on Tucson National’s Catalina Course.

“I hit a 5 and cut it just a little bit back into the wind,” Smith said. “I think that hole played 212, but just wanted to fly to about 195, maybe. In the air, it did look really good. I really didn’t have any belief that it could go in for a one, but once it hit the green, it started rolling back there. A lot of friends that were following around were up at the green and they kind of gave the old cheer and I did see it disappear.”

He played the final nine holes in 6-under 30, making birdies on Nos. 2, 3, 6 and 8.

“I can’t be happier, obviously, for the way it turned out,” Smith said. “Just kind of got the right bounces and stayed out of trouble and I really did putt well the entire day.

Colin Montgomerie, David Frost, Steve Pate and Marco Dawson were tied for second at 67.

Kirk Triplett, the winner of the PGA Tour’s final Tucson Open in 2006 at Tucson National, was three strokes back at 68 along with Bart Bryant and Corey Pavin. Bryant is coming off a playoff loss to Lee Janzen last month in Naples, Florida.

Montgomerie noted the large galleries,

“I thought it was fantastic, I really did, and it proves that this area is in need of professional golf,” Montgomerie said. “It’s a shame that the Tucson Open has gone off the PGA Tour. I think it’s fantastic that the crowds are more like a PGA Tour event than anything else, never mind a Champions Tour event. All credit to everybody for putting this together on short notice.”

Bernhard Langer opened with a 69, so did Canada’s Stephen Ames.

Jesper Parnevik had a 71 in his Champions Tour debut. The five-time PGA Tour winner turned 50 on March 7. He missed the cut two weeks ago in the PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open after injuring his back in a fall during a practice round.

Fred Couples and Tom Lehman shot 72, and Tom Watson had a 76.

Based in Scottsdale, Smith earned fully exempt status on the 50-and-over tour in November with a tie for third at Q-school. He won the Asian Tour’s 1998 Guam Open and made 153 PGA Tour starts.

“Things have gone as well as I really could have expected this year,” Smith said. “It’s not like I’ve been doing anything different or working harder or working out or anything special. Just really been trying to focus on doing some of the same things just over and over every day, whether it’s with my putting or my routine with my full swings.”