Ben Martin has an eagle, birdie late to win PGA event in Las Vegas

Ben Martin made a 45-foot eagle putt on the 16th hole that sent him to his first PGA Tour victory Sunday in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.

Martin was one shot behind Kevin Streelman when his eagle put him back in the lead. He closed with a birdie for a three-under-par 68 and a two-shot victory at the TPC Summerlin. The 27-year-old from South Carolina won in his 56th career start.

Moments after Martin made his eagle putt, Streelman missed a five-foot birdie putt that would have tied him for the lead. Streelman still made five birdies over his last seven holes for a 65.

“It was an awesome way to finish,” Martin said. “I didn’t feel like I had much going all day. Four under on my last four to cap my first win was just awesome.”

Martin finished at 20-under 264. The victory sends him back to the Masters. Martin played Augusta National in 2010 as the U.S. Amateur runner-up.

Streelman set a PGA Tour record in June when he closed with seven straight birdies to win the Travelers Championship. He was headed down that path again with a string of birdies until he missed his last putt on the low side of the hole. He closed with a 65.

“I tried not to look at the leaderboard,” Streelman said. “It was kind of like Travelers. I had to make as many (birdies) as possible as quickly as possible.”

Russell Knox, who played in the final group with Martin, took a double bogey on No. 9 to fall back. He made three straight birdies late in the round, and then made a tough par putt on the 18th for a 70 to finish alone in third.

Defending champion Webb Simpson (68), Brooks Koepka (68) and Jimmy Walker (69) tied for fourth, four shots behind.

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Kyu Jung Baek of South Korea won a three-way playoff to claim the LPGA’s KEB-HanaBank Championship at Incheon, South Korea.

Baek, making the first LPGA start of her career, shot a final-round 67 to finish tied at 10-under 278 with Brittany Lincicome of the United States and compatriot In Gee Chun, then birdied the first playoff hole on the Ocean Course at the Sky72 Golf Club to take the title.

The 19-year old Baek has three victories this year on the Korean tour. She became the fourth teenager to win on the LPGA Tour this season joining Lexi Thompson, Lydia Ko and Hyo Joo Kim.

No. 2-ranked Inbee Park of South Korea shot a 67 to finish one stroke behind the leaders. U.S. Women’s Open champion Michelle Wie finished two strokes back after a 67 that included three birdies and an eagle on the par-five No. 5. Wie was playing in her first tournament since withdrawing during the first round of the Evian Championship in September after reinjuring a stress fracture in her right hand.

Suzanne Pettersen of Norway, who was bidding for a third title here after winning the tournament in 2007 and 2012, shot a 71 to finish tied for 12th at five-under 283. Defending champion Amy Yang of South Korea struggled with a 76 that left her tied for 46th place.

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Mikko Ilonen defeated top-seeded Henrik Stenson, 3 and 1, in the final to win the World Match Play Championship in Ash, England.

Ilonen fought back from being 1-down after four holes against the fifth-ranked Swede on the London Club course. It is the 34-year-old Finn’s fifth European Tour victory and his second this season after winning the Irish Open

While I didn’t play so well this morning, I didn’t make any mistakes this afternoon against Henrik,” said Ilonen. “(I) felt like I had a good chance to beat him and I did.”

Earlier Sunday, Ilonen ended Joost Luiten’s unbeaten run by beating the Dutchman, 2 and 1, in the semifinals, while Stenson won, 1-up, at the last hole against George Coetzee of South Africa.

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Jay Haas became the 18th player to win a Champions Tour event at 60 or older, closing with a five-under 66 for a two-stroke victory in the Greater Hickory Kia Classic at Conover, N.C.

The 60-year-old former Wake Forest player has 17 victories on the 50-and-over tour after winning nine times on the PGA Tour. He also won the event in 2005 and 2009.

Haas extended his streak of under-par rounds to 23 and finished at 17-under 196 on Rock Barn Golf and Spa’s Champions Course. He ended a 27-month, 49-event winless streak dating to June 2012.

Players 60 and older have won 22 events on the tour, with Hale Irwin accomplishing the feat three times and Tom Watson and Jimmy Powell doing it twice each. Mike Fetchick is the oldest winner at 63 years in the 1985 Hilton Head Seniors Invitational.

Joe Durant and Kirk Triplett tied for second. Durant and Triplett, the winner last week in Cary, shot 66.

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Scott Hend beat Angelo Que of the Philippines in a playoff to win the Hong Kong Open to become the first Australian to win the event since Greg Norman in 1983.

Que and Hend both ended the final round tied on 13-under 267 to force a playoff on the par-four 18th hole of the Fanling Course at the Hong Kong Golf Club.

Hend held his nerve to win on the first playoff hole with a par putt from five feet having watched Que bogey after failing to reach the green with his approach shot.

Ireland’s Kevin Phelan finished third on 11 under while Marcus Fraser of Australia was fourth on 10 under.