Paula Creamer calmly won her biggest LPGA Tour title yet, holding off a large pack in the 20-player Samsung World Championship at Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Playing near her hometown of Pleasanton, Creamer, 22, beat Song-Hee Kim by a stroke yesterday, closing with a bogey-free 3-under 69 for a 9-under 279 total. Creamer earned $250,000 for her fourth title of the year and eighth overall.

On No. 18, Creamer holed a 5-foot par putt that rolled around the right lip and into the cup. She dropped her putter, and raised both arms with a huge smile across her face as Kim waited nearby for a possible playoff.

Kim finished with a 68 for her fifth top-five finish of the year.

• Turning Stone Resort Championship: Long-hitting rookie Dustin Johnson won in Verona, N.Y., for his first PGA Tour title, holing an 8-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 3-under 69 and a one-stroke victory over Robert Allenby (70). Johnson finished at 9-under 279 to take the $1.08 million first-place prize in the $6 million event, the richest of the Fall Series, catapulted him from 128th to 41st on the money list. The top 125 at the end of the year retain full exemption for 2009.

• Alfred Dunhill Links Championship: Sweden's Robert Karlsson won in St. Andrews, Scotland, birdieing the first hole of a playoff against England's Ross Fisher and Germany's Martin Kaymers. Karlsson earned $800,000 for his second win of the year and passed Padraig Harrington for the lead in the Order of Merit. Karlsson, the Mercedes-Benz Championship winner the week before the Ryder Cup, Karlsson closed with a 7-under 65 to match Fisher (65) and Kaymer (68) at 10-under 278.

• Korea Open: South Korea's Bae Sang-moon won in Seoul, closing with a 2-under 69 for a one-stroke victory over England's Ian Poulter. Bae, 22, had an 11-under 273 total. Poulter (70) bogeyed the 16th and 18th. American Anthony Kim (71) tied for third at 9 under.

• Senior PGA Professional National Championship: Kirk Hanefeld won in Indian Wells, Calif., birdieing four consecutive holes late in the final round for a 4-under 69 and a four-stroke victory over Jon Fiedler and John Aubrey (73) of Butler. Hanefeld topped the 35 qualifiers for the Senior PGA Championship in May at Canterbury in Cleveland. Roy Vucinich of Moon advanced after tying for 15th but John Mazza of Beaver Falls failed to move on after a tie for 61st.