Villegas Zooms to Honda Title

Colombia's Camilo Villegas celebrated his third PGA Tour title with victory at the Honda Classic in Florida.

The up-and-coming 28-year-old overcame a late wobble at Palm Beach Gardens to clinch what in the end turned out to be a comfortable five-shot victory over American Anthony Kim.

England's Justin Rose played some inspired strokes in the final round to power up the leaderboard and claim a third-placed finish.

Rose carded seven birdies in his final 18 - five of those coming in the first six holes played - in a stellar round of 64.

Countryman Paul Casey also finished with a flourish and his final round 67 was good enough to see him claim a share of fourth-place with Fijian Vijay Singh.
Pressure

Villegas landed his first title since 2008 despite a late string of bogeys in his final round 68.

The Colombian birdied three holes in a row to seize a six-stroke lead with eight holes remaining, then made bogeys on three of the next five before hanging on.

And he sealed victory in style, sinking a 15-foot birdie at the 18th to finish on 13-under 267.

Kim birdied the 13th and 14th holes to keep some pressure on Villegas, but a bogey at the 17th put paid to his title hopes.

The runner-up finish was still Kim's best US Tour result in more than a year after a run of injury struggles.

And Singh's challenge faltered as he made bogeys at 15, 16 and 17 in a two-over round of 72.

Sweden's Fredrik Jacobson and American Mike Connell shared sixth-place on 276, one stroke ahead of South Korean Charlie Wi and two better than England's Lee Westwood, Zimbabwe's Brendon de Jonge and American Chris Tidland.