Day wins 4-man golf playoff Sunday

SAN DIEGO — Jason Day won a four-man playoff in the Farmers Insurance Open with a par on the second extra hole at tough Torrey Pines.

Day only made the playoff by a couple of feet. His chip from behind the par-5 18th green in regulation came out hot and was headed down the hill for the water when it stopped at the yellow hazard line. He made par for a 2-under 70.

J.B. Holmes chose to lay up on the 18th and made par for a 72. They were joined in the playoff by Scott Stallings (69) and Harris English, who birdied the last hole for a 72.

Rookie Kim scores 1st LPGA Tour win

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — South Korean rookie Sei Young Kim won the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic for her first LPGA Tour title, holing an 8-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with countrywoman Sun Young Yoo and Thailand’s Ariya Jutanugarn.

The 22-year-old Kim shot a 1-under 72 in the completion of the delayed third round and closed with a 68 to match Yoo and Jutanugarn at 14-under 278 on Atlantis Resort’s Ocean Club course. Kim birdied the par-5 18th in regulation and won the playoff with her birdie on the hole. Yoo finished with rounds of 69 and 70, and Jutanugarn shot 70-69.

Golf great Casper dies of heart attack

SAN DIEGO — Billy Casper, one of the most prolific winners on the PGA Tour who was overshadowed at the height of his career by the “Big Three,” died of a heart attack Saturday at his home in Utah. He was 83.

Bob Casper said his father died quickly and peacefully with wife Shirley at his bedside. They had been married 62 years.

Casper passed out in the clubhouse at the Masters last year, had work on his heart and recovered from a bout of pneumonia over Thanksgiving that kept him hospitalized for a month.

Clippers’ Griffin out indefinitely

OKLAHOMA CITY — Blake Griffin is out indefinitely with a staph infection in his right elbow, leaving the Clippers without their All-Star forward as they fight for playoff positioning.

Griffin will have surgery Monday in Los Angeles and be re-evaluated after the All-Star break.

Griffin is averaging 22.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists while shooting 50.1 percent.