SportsOctober 23, 2006

Fred Funk won for the first time in three Champions Tour starts, birdieing three of the last four holes for a 2-under 69 and a one-stroke victory Sunday in the AT&T Championship. The 50-year-old Funk had a 12-under 201 total on the Oak Hills Country Club course in San Antonio. Chip Beck, also a newcomer on the Champions Tour, closed with a 65 to finish second. Funk tied for 11th in his two previous starts on the 50-and-over tour...

Fred Funk won for the first time in three Champions Tour starts, birdieing three of the last four holes for a 2-under 69 and a one-stroke victory Sunday in the AT&T Championship.

The 50-year-old Funk had a 12-under 201 total on the Oak Hills Country Club course in San Antonio. Chip Beck, also a newcomer on the Champions Tour, closed with a 65 to finish second. Funk tied for 11th in his two previous starts on the 50-and-over tour.

LPGA Tour

South Korea's Hee-Won Han won her sixth career title Sunday after shooting a 5-under 67 at the LPGA Thailand in Chonburi, Thailand.

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Trailing Nicole Castrale by two shots heading into Sunday, the defending champion had eight birdies and finished with a 14-under 202 total.

PGA Tour

Joe Durant shot a bogey-free 7-under 65 in the final round of the Funai Classic at Disney in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and finished 25 under to pick up his first tour victory since March 2001.

He beat Troy Matteson (70) and Frank Lickliter II (62) by four strokes.

-- The Associated Press

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