McCarron in Control to the End

Having won before made victory No. 2 easier for Scott McCarron.

“I felt a lot more confident this time,” he said. “I feel like I had a lot more control over my game.”

McCarron, 31, from Rancho Murieta, rolled to his second PGA Tour victory Sunday with a three-under-par 69 that gave him a three-shot victory in the BellSouth Classic at Duluth, Ga.

“The first one, you don’t know what to expect,” he said, alluding to his victory last year in New Orleans. “It’s a lot calmer the second time, no question.”

McCarron won $270,000 with a 72-hole total of 274, 14 under par on the hilly, 7,259-yard TPC Sugarloaf Country Club course.

“I was a little surprised no one made a big move,” he said.

Tied with Nick Price and third-round co-leader David Duval after 12 holes, McCarron drove the green on the 310-yard, par-four 13th and had a tap-in birdie putt that put him in front to stay.

He stretched his lead to two shots with a 75-foot birdie putt on 15 and then parred the final three holes for victory.

There was a three-way tie for second at 277 among Duval, Brian Henninger and Lee Janzen. Duval closed with a 72 and Henninger and Janzen had 68s.

Price, who won at Hilton Head, S.C., last month, was alone in second when he teed off on the par-five 18th, but his third shot found the water guarding the green.

He took a drop and eventually settled for a double-bogey that left him with a 70 and 278 total, tied for fifth with Hall Sutton, who closed with a 67, Greg Norman, 68, and David Toms, 71.

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Jim Dent, after missing a two-foot birdie putt on the final hole of regulation, made one on the second playoff hole to defeat Lee Trevino and win the Home Depot Invitational at Charlotte, N.C.

The victory came after Larry Gilbert was eliminated on the first extra hole and Trevino missed the green with his tee shot on the second, the 142-yard 17th at the TPC at Piper Glen.

Dent, the tour’s fifth-ranked putter, pulled a two-foot birdie putt on the final hole of regulation, the 514-yard 18th.

“I just wanted to get it in,” he said. “I was ready to go. I just rushed it.”

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Terry-Jo Myers tapped in a one-foot par putt on the fifth playoff hole to win the Sara Lee Classic at Nashville, Tenn., her second LPGA tour victory this year.

Laurel Kean lipped out her three-foot putt for par, and Myers wasted little time tapping in on the par-four 18th hole.

Myers, who won the Los Angeles Women’s Championship in February for her first victory in nine years, missed a chance to pick up the $101,250 winner’s check on the final hole of regulation when her 18-footer for birdie from the fringe veered left.

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After going 16 months without a European tour victory, Bernhard Langer made it two in a row when a three-under-par 69 gave him a two-stroke victory in the Benson and Hedges International at Thame, England.

Langer, who last week won the Italian Open, held off a late charge by Ian Woosnam, who birdied four of the last five holes for a 70.