In Brief
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Aaron Baddeley won the Verizon Heritage for his first PGA Tour title Sunday, rallying with two late birdies and finishing off Jim Furyk with a scrambling par on Harbour Town's lighthouse closing hole.
The 25-year-old Australian birdied two of the hardest holes on the PGA Tour — the 14th was statistically the hardest par 3 on tour last year and the 15th was the hardest par 5 — to take the lead. He shot a 1-under 70 to finish at 15 under, a stroke ahead of Furyk (71) and two ahead of Vaughn Taylor (66) and Billy Mayfair (69).
GLADEVILLE, Tenn. — Nextel Cup driver Kevin Harvick raced to his first NASCAR Busch Series victory of the year Saturday, taking the lead with 52 laps to go and holding off teammate Clint Bowyer after a late caution in the Pepsi 300.Harvick finished 0.504 seconds ahead of Bowyer, his Richard Childress racing teammate, en route to his 18th career Busch Series victory. Harvick also took a 156-point lead over Denny Hamlin in the series standings and became the eighth Nextel Cup driver to win in the first eight races of the Busch Series season.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nadia Petrova battled stifling heat, sore legs and the temptation to retire Sunday to defeat Patty Schnyder 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 and win the Family Circle Cup for her second straight tournament victory.Petrova, who also won last week at Amelia Island, now has four tour victories, all in the last six months. Her first came last October at Linz, Austria, where she also defeated Schnyder. Petrova won last month at Doha but Sunday was her first top-tier tournament win.
