NAPLES, Fla. – Kirk Triplett won the ACE Group Classic on Sunday for his third Champions Tour title, holing a 6-foot par putt on the final hole for a one-stroke victory.

The 51-year-old Triplett shot a 6-under 66 to finish at 16-under on TwinEagles’ Talon Course. He won the 50-and-over tour’s Pebble Beach event the last two years after winning three times on the PGA Tour.

Defending champion Bernhard Langer, Duffy Waldorf and Olin Browne tied for second. Playing in the final threesome, Triplett, Langer and Waldorf were tied for the lead with a hole to play.

On the par-4 18th, Waldorf drove into a bunker and wound up with a bogey for a 66. Langer’s second shot sailed left, and his 12-footer for par curled around the cup for bogey and a 67.

Triplett’s second shot from a divot landed about 25 feet from the pin. His birdie putt went past the hole and he made the 6-footer for the victory.

Langer also won the 2011 tournament and finished second behind Kenny Perry in 2012. The German star won the season-opening event in Hawaii last month for his 19th Champions Tour title.

Jim Rutledge of Victoria, B.C. shot a blazing 8-under 64 Sunday to climb 31 spots up the leaderboard, into a tie for 11th. Rutledge finish 7-under par for the tourney and was tied with Rod Spittle of St. Catharines, Ont.

EAST LONDON, South Africa – Thomas Aiken beat Oliver Fisher in a playoff to claim the Africa Open title on Sunday and maintain South African players’ run of success on home soil at European Tour tournaments.

Aiken was the 10th home winner in the last 13 tour events in South Africa as he came from four shots off the lead with a final-round 66, tying with England’s Fisher at 20-under par overall at East London Golf Club.

Aiken won his third tour title and first in his home country by sinking a 30-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole.

“I’ve been waiting for this for quite some time,” Aiken said. “I’ve won a couple of times overseas but there is nothing like winning in front of a home crowd.”

Englishman David Horsey (65) and John Hahn (68) of the United States were tied for third a shot behind.

Aiken’s victory takes South Africans’ overall record to 36 victories in 58 European Tour tournaments in South Africa and continues the 100 per cent home winning record at the Africa Open. He also won after using his wife Kate as his caddie for the first time.

“Thanks so much to my wife … we might have to do it again,” he said.

South Africans Jaco van Zyl and Darren Fichardt were among a four-way tie for fifth that included another Englishman, David Bland, and overnight leader Emiliano Grillo of Argentina. Grillo slipped out of contention in the final round after a 2-over 73 to finish.

NAPLES, Fla. – Champions Tour player Hal Sutton had a mild heart attack after withdrawing during the first round of the ACE Group Classic.

“I had blockage in my heart, so yeah it was a heart attack,” Sutton told the Naples Daily News. “They put a stent in and I’m fine now.”

The 55-year-old Sutton withdrew Friday after playing the first eight holes in 5 over.

“I just said, `Something’s wrong. I don’t know what it is,'” Sutton told the Daily News.

The 1983 PGA Championship winner won 14 times on the PGA Tour. He won the 1999 Canadian Open and also captained the 2004 U.S. Ryder Cup team.

MELBOURNE, Australia – Karrie Webb won the Women’s Australian Open for the fifth time Sunday, shooting a 4-under 68 in the final round to beat Chella Choi by one stroke.

Webb birdied the 18th hole to take the outright lead, then watched as Choi, who shot a course-record 62 on Saturday to take a share of the third-round lead, pushed a 10-foot putt wide of the hole at 18 to miss the chance for a playoff.

Webb, who clinched her 40th LPGA title, finished at 12-under 276 overall. She previously won the Australian Open in 2000, 2002, 2007 and 2008.

“I got off to a great start and I just did a great job mentally today,” Webb said. “I can’t think of another time when I held myself together as well as that.”

The win marked a remarkable change of fortune for the No. 8-ranked Australian, who was disqualified from last week’s Australian Ladies Masters after signing an incorrect scorecard. She had been the defending champion at the event.

Webb started five shots off the lead Sunday, but made six birdies and only two bogeys as the other leading challengers struggled in a strong wind on the Victoria Golf Club course.

“I was happy to see the conditions were going to be a little tougher today,” Webb said. “I felt like that gave me a chance to make up some ground.”

Choi had played 14 holes and was at 11 under when Webb finished her round, leaving the Australian with an anxious wait to see whether her score would hold up. But the South Korean, who had two eagles and six birdies in her record-setting third round, couldn’t make a birdie on the back nine Sunday.

“When you’re on the course you feel like you have some control, but when you’re done you have no control and you just have to wait and see,” Webb said. “I actually thought once Chella had that putt on the last, I’ve played with her quite a bit and I was expecting that one to go in.”

Choi was trying to win her first LPGA title.

World No. 2 Suzann Pettersen of Norway faltered in her bid to take over the top ranking from South Korea’s Inbee Park. Pettersen, who started the day three shots off the pace in fourth place, needed to finish first or second to pass Park, but had three double bogeys in a final round 80 to drop back into a tie for 28th. Also tied for 28th at 2-under par was Rebecca Lee-Bentham of Toronto and Lorie Kane of Charlottetown.

Sixteen-year-old Lydia Ko of New Zealand, the world No. 4, was also unable to challenge Webb, struggling with her putt on the back nine and shooting a 73. She finished tied for third with American Paula Creamer (68) and Frenchwoman Karine Icher (71).

Seventeen-year-old Australian amateur Minjee Lee, the co-overnight leader, had seven bogeys and a double bogey in an error-filled final round of 78. She finished in a share of 11th place.

Sue Kim of Langley, B.C. finished at even-par, tied for 45th.

NAPLES, Fla. – Kirk Triplett jokes that fellow golfers say they think Bernhard Langer is human.

“But I don’t know,” Triplett said. “I don’t know.”

What Triplett does know is that he matched the defending ACE Group Classic champion for the lead at 10-under 134 after the second round Saturday.

Triplett shot a 5-under 67 in windy conditions on TwinEagles’ Talon Course.

Langer, also the 2011 winner and 2012 runner-up, followed his opening 64 with a 70. He won the season-opening event in Hawaii last month for his 19th Champions Tour title.

“He’s the ultimate of our Champions Tour sport, right?” Triplett asked. “He’s out there, he’s preparing, he’s working, he’s playing the same way that he played, he’s treating this tournament playing like it was the Masters, right and not all guys do that.

“A lot of guys do, but not everybody can pull themselves into that mindset week after week.”

This week, it’s Triplett’s shot. He’s on an impressive streak, going 64 holes without a bogey.

“I’ve hit some nice shots, I’ve hit some poor shots and gotten away with them, so that’s going to put you usually pretty close,” Triplett said.

When Langer was told about Triplett’s streak, he said, “Good for him.

Triplett has two Champions Tour victories after winning three times on the PGA Tour.

“He’s a very good ball-striker and great putter,” Langer said. “I was paired with him at Pebble Beach when he won I think last year, so he’s certainly a very good player and seasoned competitor.”

Langer birdied No. 17, then hit a 4-iron 200 yards from Bermuda rough over water to 12 feet to save par on 18.

Last year, Langer built up a big lead after two rounds, then held off a couple of charges to win. This time, he looks as if he’s in for a much tougher challenge.

Duffy Waldorf and Olin Browne were 9 under. Waldorf, coming off a playoff loss to Michael Allen last week in Boca Raton in the Allianz Championship, shot 68. Browne had a 71.

“A lot of times on the Champions Tour it’s like this, the scores can be bunched up,” Langer said. “It’s difficult to separate yourself in two rounds or three rounds and most tournaments are won by one shot or maybe two.

“Every shot counts at the end of the week.”

Colin Montgomerie, playing in his 12th Champions Tour event, was 7 under along with Bob Tway. Montgomerie had a 67, and Tway shot 72.

Montgomerie hasn’t won an official PGA Tour-sanctioned event on American soil.

“I won the World Match Play in Arizona,” he said in mock protest. “They paid me a million dollars for winning, I suppose. I got a trophy. I beat Ernie Els in the semifinal, Davis Love in the final.

“So I have won. Not a regular PGA Tour event, how’s that, so I’ll give you that. But I’ve been bloody close on a number of occasions.”

Rod Spittle jumped seven spots up the leaderboard after firing a 2-under par 70 Saturday. The St. Catharines, Ont. native is 4-under par for the championship. He tied for 25th last week at the Allianz Championship.

Jim Rutledge (72-73) of Victoria, B.C. is tied for 42nd at 1-over par. He tied for 39th last week at the Allianz Championship.

LOS ANGELES – William McGirt made eight birdies in 13 holes and wound up with a 6-under 65 on Saturday in the Northern Trust Open for a two-shot lead going into the final round.

McGirt has never held a 54-hole lead on the PGA Tour. He had one close call when he was runner-up at the RBC Canadian Open two years ago. With steady play in calm conditions off Sunset Boulevard, he opened up a two-shot lead over George McNeill (66) and Charlie Beljan (68).

The leaderboard was about a crowded as the 405, even without half the lanes closed.

Jason Allred, who hasn’t played a PGA Tour event in more than three years and qualified for this event Monday, was three shots behind. Jimmy Walker and Jordan Spieth were among those four back.

Graham DeLaet shot a 1-over 72 on the day to slip one spot down the leaderboard into a tie for 69th. The Weyburn, Sask. native is 2-over par for the tourney.

EAST LONDON, South Africa – Emiliano Grillo surged into a two-shot lead at the Africa Open with a 9-under 62 on Saturday, putting the Argentine in position for a first European Tour title.

In a tournament of low scoring at East London Golf Club, Grillo went lowest in the third round with nine birdies and no bogeys to move to 20 under overall, two strokes ahead of Englishman Oliver Fisher heading to the last round.

Fisher moved to 18 under with a 66 and was in contention following an up and down start when he made two birdies and an eagle in his last four holes.

Richard Bland of England, Thomas Aiken of South Africa and John Hahn of the United States – the overnight leader – were two behind Fisher and four off the lead on 16 under par.

MELBOURNE, Australia – South Korea’s Chella Choi set a course record with a 10-under 62 and took a share of the lead after the third round of the Women’s Australian Open on Saturday.

A day after Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist broke the women’s course record with a 64 at the par-72 Victoria Golf Club, Choi eclipsed that mark with two eagles and seven birdies.

Choi, who started the day eight shots behind overnight leader Caroline Hedwall of Sweden, was tied for first with 17-year-old Australian amateur Minjee Lee at 13 under 203.

“It’s the first time I’ve ever had two eagles in a round,” Choi said. “I don’t know why I have 10 under today, it was just amazing.”

Lydia Ko of New Zealand was two shots back in third place after shooting a 69. Suzann Pettersen of Norway (72) was three shots back in fourth place.

The 23-year-old Choi had a birdie on her opening hole and then eagled the eighth and birdied the ninth for a 31 on the front nine. She had five birdies to go along with one bogey on the back nine and capped the round with another eagle on No. 18.

Lee, winner of the past two Australian amateur titles, made consecutive birdies on the 15th and 16th holes to shoot a 68. She is in contention for the second week in a row after finishing runner up last week at the Australian Ladies Masters at Royal Pines.

Hedwall faded on the back nine, carding five bogeys in seven holes to shoot a 74. She was in a group of eight golfers in fifth at 9-under 207.

Nordqvist also failed to follow up on her superb second-round score, carding a 75 to fall back to a tie for 31st.

Toronto’s Rebecca Lee-Bentham is tied for 16th at 7-under thanks to a bogey-free 5-under par 67 Saturday.

Charlottetown’s Lorie Kane (69) is tied for 31st at 5-under par, while Langley, B.C.’s Sue Kim (72) is tied for 48th at 2-under par.

LOS ANGELES – Sang-Moon Bae is off to another great start at the Northern Trust Open. The next step is a better finish.

Bae played bogey-free on another gorgeous day at Riviera for a 5-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead over Aaron Baddeley and Robert Garrigus when the second round was suspended by darkness.

Baddeley, who won at Riviera three years ago, birdied his last four holes for a 65. Garrigus had a 67.

Dustin Johnson, who led after the opening round at 5-under 66, opened with two birdies but never got any closer. He had a 70 and joined Jim Furyk (68) among those three shots behind.

Bae was at 9-under 133. He was tied for the lead last year going into the weekend at Riviera but fell from contention.

The three Canadians in the field all managed to finish their rounds become the horns were blown.

Graham DeLaet was 2-over for the day and is sitting on the cut line tied for 69th. The Weyburn, Sask. native has not missed a cut since October of last year at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Since his last missed cut, DeLaet has cracked the top-10 in every PGA Tour event he’s entered.

Brantford, Ont.’s David Hearn is 3-over par and Mike Weir of Bright’s Grove, Ont. is 6-over. Both will not see weekend action in California.

NAPLES, Fla. – Defending champion Bernhard Langer shot an 8-under 64 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the ACE Group Classic.

Langer birdied three of his first holes in his bogey-free round on TwinEagles’ Talon Course. The 56-year-old German star won the 2011 tournament and finished second behind Kenny Perry in 2012. Langer won the season-opening event in Hawaii last month for his 19th Champions Tour title.

Bob Tway was second. He birdied his last three holes, making a 60-foot putt on No. 8.

Olin Browne opened with a 66, and Duffy Waldorf and Kirk Triplett shot 67. Waldorf is coming off a playoff loss to Michael Allen on Sunday in Boca Raton in the Allianz Championship.

Allen had a 68.

Leading the Canadian charge is Rod Spittle of St. Catharines, Ont. The 58-year-old is tied for 18th after firing a 2-under 70. Jim Rutledge of Victoria, B.C. shot an even-par 72 and is tied for 45th.