HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. – Suzann Pettersen kept saying that her major meltdown 10 weeks ago was a distant memory. For those not listening, all they had to do was watch her Sunday at the LPGA Championship.

Pettersen never flinched down the stretch, closing with a 5-under 67 to hold off a spirited challenge by Karrie Webb and a late charge by 18-year-old Na On Min for a one-shot victory and her first major championship.

The 26-year-old Norwegian had ample opportunity to fold at Bulle Rock, but she didn’t give an inch. She hit the ball so purely that she never missed a green on the back nine and only twice had a birdie putt longer than 12 feet. One of those was on the final hole, when she had two putts from 30 feet for the victory.

It was nothing like her performance at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, when Pettersen squandered a three-shot lead over the final four holes with a bogey-double bogey-bogey-par finish that left her in tears.

Webb, a runner-up for the second straight year, made her earn it. The seven-time major champion made a clutch par from the bunker on the 16th, then closed with two straight birdies for a 67.

Min, trying to become the youngest major champion in LPGA history, ran off four straight birdies on the back nine to get within one shot, but settled for pars on the last two holes for a 70.

Austin wins with 62

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Woody Austin turned around a miserable year with the perfect round at the right time.

Trailing by four strokes at the start of Sunday’s play, Austin shot the best closing round on tour this year in winning the Stanford St. Jude Championship by five strokes for his first PGA Tour victory since 2004 and third overall.

His 8-under 62 was the best final round of his career and best in the 50 years of this event. It also was the tour’s lowest closing round since Brad Faxon’s 61 at the 2006 Buick Championship.

John Daly shot a 79 and finished 79th in the 80-player field. Playing on a sponsor’s exemption and tied for eighth after the first 18, he shocked everyone Friday by accusing his wife, Sherrie, of waking him up by attacking him with a steak knife at his home near the course.

Austin had never finished better than a tie for 44th in his previous trips to the TPC Southwind course. He has struggled this year, missing five cuts with his only top-25 showing coming with a tie for 18th in New Orleans in April.

Haas claims 3rd tourney

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Jay Haas cruised to his third Champions Tour win of the season, shooting a 2-under 69 to take the Principal Charity Classic by three strokes.

Haas, the only player with multiple wins on the senior tour this season, finished with a 12-under total of 201. He led the entire way and picked up his ninth career victory on the Champions Tour.

R.W. Eaks (64) and Brad Bryant (67) finished tied for second at 9-under 204. David Edwards, Jay Sigel and Mark James tied for third at 8 under.

Haas led by three shots heading into the final round.

, and started quickly with birdies on the second and fourth holes. That pushed his lead to five strokes over Edwards, who bogeyed No. 3 and quickly fell out of contention for the lead.

Eaks was one shot from tying the course record, set by John Bland in 2002, before missing a birdie putt on 18. He finished second for the third time this season, and his final-round 64 was the second-best of the tournament.