It took 188 starts for eight-year veteran Jimmy Walker to break through for his first PGA Tour victory but his timing was immaculate; instead of solidifying his earnings for 2013 by claiming the Frys.com Open, he instead recorded the first official victory of the 2014 season (and with it a Masters invite) as the event was the hroundbreaker in the Tour’s new calendar-crossing wrap-around schedule.  Though the field boasted few of the stars that it was suggested might play under the new arrangement, it produced a final-round leaderboard dotted with both up-and-coming names (American Brooks Koepka and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama) as well as veterans like Walker, Kevin Na and, somewhat out of left field, 50-year-old Vijay Singh.  For much of the week, it looked like Koepka – recent winner of a three-victory battlefield promotion from the European Challenge Tour to the E Tour, and here on sponsor exemption he didn’t request – might break through for a lightning-bolt debut victory, particularly after rounds of 67-64-67 staked him to a two-shot 54-hole lead.  The lead actually grew to four during Sunday’s front nine but as the pressure mounted Koepka wilted, bogeying the 9th and 11th, then, following a bounce back birdie at the 12th, both the 16th and 17th to blow himself out of contention.  Walker, meanwhile, had been miles off the halfway lead with rounds of 70-69, then exploded with a Saturday 62 that included 10 birdies.  Thus entering the final round three strokes behind Koepka, he proceeded to post a six-birdie, one-bogey 66 that included a steady two-under-par 34 on the last nine.  Though lacking any closing fireworks, the round was good enough to provide a two-shot margin over the surprising Singh (who carded rounds of 65-68 on the weekend) and three over a quartet that included Na, Matsuyama (who also closed with 66), Koepka and Scott Brown.................. Spending some time on his native European Tour before returning to the United States, Englands’s David Lynn claimed his second career E Tour title at the Portugal Masters, but required some final-round fireworks to do so.  Lynn had opened with back-to-back rounds of 65 before a Saturday 73 (punctuated by a double-bogey at the par-5 17th) badly damaged his hopes.  Indeed, he plummeted into a tie for 16th, six shots behind countryman Paul Waring and four in back of Jamie Donaldson and Scott Jamieson – the latter of whom nearly made history on Saturday by tying the E Tour’s single-round record with an 11-under-par 60.  None of the three leaders were able to break 70 on Sunday, however, leaving the door open for multiple contenders to play their way into the mix.  For Lynn a good deal of magic was required and he responded by birdieing the first two holes, then adding three more en route to an outgoing 30.  A bogey at 10 threatened to sap his momentum but he stepped up near the close, carding birdies at the 14th, 15th and 17th, then making par at the 463-yard finisher when his approach barely cleared a water hazard fronting the green.  The result was a dazzling 63 – and an opportunity to wait around to see how his 266 aggregate would stand up.  But in the end, nobody ever really had a chance to catch him, with South African Justin Walters getting close by running off four straight birdies at holes 14-17, but then needing to hole a 40-foot par putt at the last just to claim solo second..................Twenty-three-year-old Yoshinori Fujimoto claimed his second career Japan Tour victory at the Toshin Golf Tournament, his four-day total of 264 easily besting a solid domestic field by four shots.  Fujimoto began the week strongly with rounds of 63-64 to take a two-shot halfway lead, then maintained that margin following a two-under-par 70 on Saturday.  But on Sunday he threw it back into high gear, carding seven birdies – including clinchers at both the 17th and 18th – to pull away from 35-year-old six-time Japan Tour winner Koumei Oda, who could do no better than a closing 69.  Third place was shared by Yosuke Tsukada and 28-year-old Chinese star Ashun Wu, the latter raising eyebrows by opening on Thursday with a tournament-low 62 and closing with a 63 – the latter, unfortunately, coming after a Saturday 75 left him too far back in the back to truly challenge down the stretch..................South African Charl Schwartzel, who’d previously contended on multiple continents in 2013 but not logged a win, finally broke through, edging homestanding Wen-Chong Liang and 2011 British Open champion Darren Clarke by one at the Nanshan China Masters.  For a while it seemed like the popular Clarke might finally emerge from a lingering slump, as he shared the 54-hole lead with Liang after carding rounds of 72-68-68.  Schwartzel, for his part, needed a Saturday 68 just to creep within three of the leaders, and after bogeying the par-5 7th hole on Sunday, his prospects seemed dim indeed.  But on the challenging Montgomerie Course of the Nanshan International Golf Club, he proceeded to card birdies at the 9th, 12th, 15th and 16th to make a late rush back into contention.  Liang, meanwhile, had stumbled with bogeys at the 4th and 5th, while Clarke had birdied the par-4 6th to grab the outright lead.  But Clarke’s putter would desert him at the 13th (where he missed a three-footer for par) and while he regained the stroke by birdieing the par-5 15th, a subsequent bogey at the 169-yard 17th would ultimately provide Schwartzel with his narrow margin of victory..................Playing in his homeland, 26-year-old former PGA Tour player Sung-Hoon Kang won for the first time on the Asian circuit, rolling to a five-shot runaway victory at the C.J. Invitation in Seoul.  It was the third playing of the fledgling event, and with the first two having been won by tournament host K.J. Choi, the week’s initial storyline was whether Choi might become the first player ever to win a single Asian Tour event three successive times.  Unfortunately, the popular Choi was well in arrears before a Sunday 73 left him in a tie for 21st, opening the door for Kang to take a two-troke 54-hole lead over Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg via rounds of 68-69-69.  Wasting little time on consolidating his position, Kang then ran off four straight birdies at holes 3-6 on Sunday to pull far enough out in front that subsequent bogeys at the 8th and 16th did little more than give his pursuers a glimpse of him in the distance..................Twenty-five-year-old J.J. Senekal won for the first time on the Sunshine Tour, claiming the final event of the Vodacom Origins of Golf series in a playoff with seven-time tour winner Titch Moore.  Senekal entered Friday's final round one stroke behind Riekus Nortje and level with Moore and Jake Roos, then went out in two-under-par 34 to move into the lead on the seaside St Francis Links course.  A bogey at the 10th slowed his momentum before three straight bogeys at the 14th, 15th and par-5 16th seemed to beach his chances entirely.  But rallying boldly, Senekal proceeded to birdie both the par-3 17th and the 443-yard 18th (the latter via a 25-foot putt from the fringe), then caught a giant break when the far more experienced Moore bogeyed the finisher to deadlock the pair on four-under-par 212.  Both men then attempted to sieze the moment by birdieing the 18th on the first extra hole but playing the tough par 4 a second time, Moore buried his approach beneath the lip of a greenside bunker, allowing Senekal to raise the trophy with a routine par.