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Appleby’s 11-under round put him at 22 under, giving him a one-stroke victory to end a four-year winless drought. Third-round leader Jeff Overton (67) missed a long birdie try on the par-3 18th that would have forced a playoff.
Appleby is the fifth PGA Tour player to reach the milestone. The Australian’s round came less than a month after Paul Goydos had a 59 at the John Deere Classic.
Appleby had nine birdies and an eagle in his round on the Old White course.Appleby birdied the final three holes with putts of under 15 feet to earn the $1.08 million winner’s check.

Explosive as ever, the 20-year-old from Northern Ireland was 5 under over the final five holes to set the course record at 10-under 62 and win by four shots over Masters champion Phil Mickelson.
McIlroy finished in style, rolling in a 40-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole and thrusting his fist into the air.
“I suppose I got into the zone,” said McIlroy, who celebrates his 21st birthday on Tuesday. “I hadn’t realized I was going in 9, 10 under. I just know I got my nose in front and I was just trying to stay there.”
McIlroy becomes the first player since Chris Couch at New Orleans in 2006 to make the cut on the number and win the tournament. McIlroy was two over the cut line on Friday with three holes to play until making an eagle on the seventh hole. He followed with a 66 on Saturday to get back in the hunt, then blew everyone away with a round that ranks among the best.

Tiger Woods is golf’s moneymaker. The PGA Tour, CBS, Augusta National, everyone associated with the Masters is breathing a huge sigh of relief that Woods is returning for the year’s first major. But Woods’s return may be the worst possible thing for the PGA Tour in the long run. Certainly, hundreds of golfers can thank Tiger for driving up purses and making sure that even the relatively mediocre are living quite comfortably. But Woods’s dominance is a clear sign of the superstar effect which causes opponents to concede, rather than rise to the occasion when competing against him. Golf’s finest era had Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer duking it out on the course (not literally, of course). Tiger is so dominant that he has eliminated the critical aspect of sports: competition.

Tiger Woods will return to play in the Masters, he said in a statement today. It will be Woods’ first golf tournament and second public appearance since his post-Thanksgiving car crash and ensuing sex scandal.
In a statement Woods said, “The Masters is where I won my first major and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I’m ready to start my season at Augusta.” He also said he has “undergone almost two months of inpatient therapy,” but “I still have a lot of work to do in my personal life.”
The world’s preeminent golfer has not played since he won the Australian Masters on November 15, 2009. Woods was not seen for months until Getty captured pictures of him running in mid-February, several days before his public apology.

”The stories stating Tiger will return at the matchplay have no truth to them,” Steve Williams told the Herald this past weekend. Two more weeks before Woods returns? Three more? Six? The exact timing is not half as important as the question of how many majors will be played by the world No.1 this year.
Appearing for the matchplay event would be an incredibly magnanimous gesture given Accenture was one of the first sponsors to dump him – but there seems little doubt the time is right.
Williams, meanwhile, isn’t exactly in full-blown preparation mode for a return to the tour. The most recent entry under his work and play schedule on his website, which normally contains a long list of golfing commitments, simply said: ”Currently, there are no events listed in the selected category.”

Tiger Woods plans to help with relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti by supporting groups providing resources to children.
The president of the Tiger Woods Foundation says he hasn’t received any information from rap mogul Russell Simmons, who has said on Twitter that Woods is providing $3 million to help with the recovery.
Foundation president Greg McLaughlin says Woods’ staff is evaluating the best way to help the Haitian people.
McLaughlin says supporting groups aimed at youth services would be consistent with what Woods’ foundation has done previous with relief efforts of Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Indonesia.

Tiger Woods, engulfed in media speculation over his private life after a car accident in the middle of the night, apologized on Wednesday for “transgressions” in a statement that apparently addressed allegations he had extra-marital relationships.
Tiger said in a statement published on his website that he had “not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves,” without directly addressing the allegations of infidelity.
US Weekly magazine reported that Jaimee Grubbs, a 24-year-old cocktail waitress from California, claimed to have had a 31-month-long affair with Woods and said she had saved hundreds of text messages to prove it.

Tiger Woods withdrew Monday from his own golf tournament, citing injuries from a car crash near his Florida home. He said he would not compete again until next year.
Woods said in a statement on his Web site that his injuries prevented him from playing in the Chevron World Challenge, which he hosts annually for a small, invited, field.“I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week,” Woods said. “I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I’m very sorry that I can’t be there.”
His decision to withdraw comes after a car crash left him with cuts and bruises when his SUV hit a fire hydrant and a tree at 2:25 a.m. Friday outside his home in an exclusive, gated community near Orlando. Woods was treated and released from a hospital after the accident, and has not been seen in public since.
By skipping the tournament, Woods will escape having to face TV cameras and a horde of media seeking more details about the smashup. The tournament was to be the last of the year for Woods anyway, but he did not say just when he would make his return next year.
Woods released a statement Sunday saying the accident was his fault, but he did not address any of the questions still swirling around it. He asked that it remain “a private matter,” but with the Florida Highway Patrol still investigating and the media in full pursuit, Woods may not get his way.

With another signature moment at Firestone, Tiger Woods won the Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday with a spectacular shot over water to a foot that sent him to a 5-under 65 and a remarkable rally over Padraig Harrington.
Woods has won this World Golf Championship seven times in 10 starts, and he became the first player in PGA Tour history to win seven times on the same golf course.
He now goes to the PGA Championship with two straight victories after missing the cut at Turnberry last month.
Harrington helped make this four-shot victory possible. From behind the green on par-5 16th, after Woods had stuffed his 8-iron to within tap-in range for birdie, the Irishman hit over the green and into the water and made triple bogey.
It was the 70th career victory for Woods.

Angel Cabrera merely stole away with the Masters green jacket Sunday night.
Trailing by three strokes with six holes of regulation remaining, stymied behind a tree after his first shot on the first playoff hole, Cabrera turned the 73rd Masters into a great escape. Cabrera outlasted Perry and Chad Campbell in a sudden-death playoff by scratching out two pars.
Cabrera, a 39-year-old Argentine, is the first South American to win the Masters. Coupled with a 2007 U.S. Open victory at Oakmont, Pa. Cabrera has won two of the past eight majors.
Cabrera was the only one to miss the fairway on the first playoff hole — the No. 465-yard No. 18. Stuck behind a tree, Cabrera lashed a 4-iron that ricocheted into the middle of the fairway, 114 yards from the hole. Cabrera wedged to within six feet and made a tricky downhill put to save an especially nerve-wracking par.
“At this stage of the tournament,” Cabrera said, “any player who says he does not feel nerves, he’s not human.”
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