Baddeley claims 3rd PGA Tour win

Aaron Baddeley returned to his old swing and a title he hadn't seen in 4 years - a PGA Tour winner. In a battle of generations yesterday at Riviera in Los Angeles, the 29-year-old Baddeley played mistake-free over the final six holes to hold off Vijay Singh and deny a fairy-tale finish for 51-year-old Fred Couples.

Baddeley closed with a 2-under 69 for a one-shot victory over Singh, who turns 48 on Tuesday.

It was the third career PGA Tour win for Baddeley, whose game had slipped so much that he had plunged to No. 224 in the world. This isn't enough to get back into the top 50, but at least he can book a trip to Augusta National in April for the Masters.

Singh had his highest finish since he won the Deutsche Bank Championship in 2008 on his way to the FedEx Cup. Despite back-to-back bogeys on the back nine, he gave himself a chance to the end and closed with a 69.

The heartache, though, belonged to Couples. Two decades after he last won at Riviera, Couples ran off three straight birdies to start his round and take the lead, revving up the Riviera gallery. But it all came crashing down with a double bogey on the seventh hole. Couples bogeyed two of the last three holes for a 73 and wound up in a tie for seventh. He has an MRI scheduled for his back today, then plans to return to the Champions Tour until the Masters.

Baddeley finished at 12-under 272.

In other tournaments:

 * At Naples, Fla., Bernhard Langer shot a 6-under-par 66 to set a tournament record with a 20-under 196 total and win the ACE Group Classic by four shots.

* At New Delhi, Shiv Shankar Prasad Chowrasia, of India, earned his second professional win at the Avantha Masters, shooting a 5-under 67 for a one-stroke victory over Robert Coles, of England.

* At Pattaya, Thailand, top-ranked Yani Tseng shot a 6-under 66 to pull away for a five-shot victory over Michelle Wie in the LPGA Thailand. Tseng finished at 15-under 273.