Tiger prioritized Open over U.S. Open due to leg

It’s been more than two years since he has won. He has tinkered with his game, altered his grip, as the search for the player who sat atop the world continues.

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SAN ANTONIO — Andrew Landry won the Valero Texas Open on Sunday for his first PGA TOUR victory, pulling away with early birdies and holding on with par saves. The 30-year-old Texan parred the final seven holes for a 4-under 68 and a two-stroke victory over Trey Mullinax and Sean O’Hair. Landry finished at 17-under 271 at TPC San Antonio. Landry took a two-stroke lead to the par-5 18th after Mullinax chunked a flop shot and bogeyed the short par-4 17th. Landry hit a 55-foot putt over a ridge to 3 feet for par on 17 and made an 8-footer on 18 after running a 50-foot downhill birdie try past. Mullinax closed with a 69 a day after breaking the AT&T Oaks Course record with a 62. O’Hair shot 66. Tied for the third-round lead with Zach Johnson, Landry birdied the first three holes and added two more on Nos. 6 and 10. He bogeyed the par-4 11th before the closing par run. Landry won in his 32nd PGA TOUR start. He earned his tour card last year on the Web.com Tour, and lost a playoff to Jon Rahm in January in the CareerBuilder Challenge. Landry played at Arkansas after starring at Port Neches-Groves High School east of Houston. He now lives in the Austin area.

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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Kevin Na has broken a nearly seven-year winless drought on the PGA TOUR, shooting a 6-under 64 Sunday for a five-stroke victory at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. Na birdied six of his first 10 holes to open up a big lead over third-round co-leader Kelly Kraft on the Old White TPC in West Virginia. The 34-year-old Na cruised from there and finished at 19-under 261. Na’s only previous TOUR win came in Las Vegas in October 2011. Kraft shot 70 and finished second at 14 under. Brandt Snedeker and Jason Kokrak tied for third at 13 under. Snedeker had a 64 and Kokrak shot 67. Kraft, Snedeker, Kokrak and Austin Cook earned spots in the Open Championship in two weeks. The leading four players not already exempt from the top-12 finishers qualified.

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