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Garcia takes Players Championship glory

Sergio Garcia won the prestigious Players Championship after a play-off with Paul Goydos
Sergio Garcia won the prestigious Players Championship after a play-off with Paul Goydos

Spaniard Sergio Garcia clinched his first PGA Tour title in more than three years with a playoff victory over American Paul Goydos at the Players Championship at Sawgrass on Sunday.

Garcia, who began the final round three strokes behind Goydos, set up the win at the first extra hole - the infamous par-three 17th - with a superb tee shot to four feet after the American had ended up in water short of the green.

Although the 28-year-old Spaniard missed the birdie putt, the tap-in for par was good enough to seal the biggest triumph of his career and his first on the PGA Tour since the 2005 Booz Allen Classic.

The pair had finished the 72 regulation holes at five-under-par 283, journeyman Goydos missing a nine-footer to bogey the last for a 74 and Garcia closing with a 71.

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