Riding one of the finest tee-to-green performances in the history of competitive golf, Henrik Stenson continued his now-four-month run as the game’s hottest player by sweeping to a six-shot runaway victory at the European Tour’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship, in Dubai.  Playing over the 7,675-yard Greg Norman-designed Earth Course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates, Stenson accomplished a feat likely unique in the annals of professional golf, hitting 17 of 18 greens on each of the event’s four days, and thus leading the field with a surrealistic GIR of 94.4%.  And while the rare skeptic may note the enormous nature of many of the Earth Course’s putting surfaces, it must be equally noted that Stenson wasn’t just hitting large targets; he was mostly taking dead aim, especially on Sunday when he posted a key birdie by stiffing a 5 iron at the 476-yard 12th, and nearly put the ultimate exclamation point on things at the par-5 18th, where his fairway metal second came within inches of going into the cup for an albatross.  In the end, it all added up to a closing 64, a 25-under-par 263 aggregate and one of the more dominant big-event performances in recent memory.  The victory also allowed Stenson to manage what history will likely rate a very rare feat, for it clinched an overall victory in the E Tour’s lucrative four-event Final Series little more than a month after the 37-year-old Swede won the PGA Tour’s $10 million FedEx Cup playoffs, demonstrating his dominance on both sides of the Atlantic.  While Stenson’s final afternoon proved a pleasant walk in the park, he actually was challenged over the first three days as his 54-hole total of 199 was only good enough for a one-stroke lead over another hot European, 23-year-old Victor Dubuisson.  But as Stenson methodically ticked off four outgoing birdies to turn in 32, the talented Frenchman could only just keep pace with an opening 34 before making three back nine bogeys en route to a Sunday 71 and third place.  That left second to be claimed by England’s Ian Poulter, whose weekend rounds of 66-66 might well have challenged in most other events, but relegated him to little more than a big runner-up paycheck (in both this event and the Final Series bonus pool) on this memorable occasion………………Though it officially counted as a part of the new, wraparound 2014 schedule, 24-year-old Harris English claimed his second PGA Tour victory of calendar 2013 at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba, riding a final  round 65 to a four-short victory over Brian Stuard in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.  In an event plagued by enough rain to cause both Friday and Saturday’s rounds to be finished the following mornings (and lift, clean and place rules to be in effect), English opened with a 68 before pressing into contention with a weather-interrupted, bogey-free second round 62.  A third round 68 then left him one behind 54-hole leader Robert Karlsson, and an early bogey at the par-4 2nd got his final round off to a disappointing start.  But having gained valuable experience from winning the FedEx St. Jude Classic back in June, English was able to retain his focus and quickly mount a charge, birdieing four of his next six to joing the heart of the battle, then opening a multi-shot lead with additional birdies at the 10th, 11th and 13th.  Despite battling his driver much of the day, Karlsson still remained in contention at this point (largely due an earlier eagle at the par-5 5th) but soon wilted under the sort of back nine pressure that a swing-related slump had recently kept him isolated from.  Indeed, a bogey, bogey, double-bogey run at holes 12-14 ultimately dropped him to a tie for sixth, leaving third-year player Stuard to claim solo second via a closing 65………………Thirty-five-year-old Hideto Tanihara struggled somewhat in the late going but eventually hung on to card a final-round 73, good enough to record his 10th career Japan Tour victory at the Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters.  Tanihara actually celebrated his 35th birthday on Saturday and he presumably had an enjoyable evening, for at that juncture he had just ridden five outgoing birdies to a third-round 67, and held a two-shot lead over up-and-coming 20-year-old star Masahiro Kawamura.  But Tanihara never really got going on Sunday, carding a single early birdie to turn in 35 before ill-timed bogeys at the 378-yard 15th and the 462-yard 16th brought him home in 37, for a disappointing 73.  Unfortunately, Kawamura fared little better on Sunday, posting his own bogeys at the 16th and the par-3 17th just when two pars would have boosted his chances nicely.  In the end, he would birdie the 517-yard 18th when an eagle was needed, and thus was relegated to a tie for second with 22-year-old Ryo Ishikawa (who also birdied the closer – after being derailed by bogeys at the 14th and 17th) and 36-year-old veteran Tomohiro Kondo who, after bogeying the 15th, rallied with birdies at the 17th and 18th to pull within one…………………Chinese veteran Wen-Chong Liang claimed his third career Asian Tour title at the inaugural Resorts World Manila Masters – and then promptly donated half of his US$135,000 winner’s check to relief for victims Typhoon Haiyan, which recently had killed thousands elsewhere in the Philippines.  The 35-year-old Liang was bothered by an old hand injury early in the week but still posted rounds of 67-69-67 to take a one-shot 54-hole lead over American David Lipsky and Malaysia’s Nicholas Fung, then fell out of that lead on Sunday by offsetting a pair of early birdies with a bogey at the 5th and a double-bogey at the par-4 9th.  Playing a back nine upon which he had recorded nary a single bogey all week, Liang then managed to crawl back into the mix with birdies at the 11th, 13th and 15th, yet still found himself trailing Thailand’s Prom Meesawat – who closed with a bogey-free 65 – going to the last.  A clutch birdie at the par-5 18th drew him even, however, and Liang would go on to win on the first hole of sudden death when Meesawat’s second drew a nasty lie in a fairway bunker………………Returning to his homeland for the height of its professional golfing season, 2013 Masters champion and world #2 Adam Scott figured to be the favorite in each event in which he participated – and after he successfully defended his title at the Australian Masters, the very real possibility began to loom that he might, in fact, win them all.  Scott arrived at Royal Melbourne fresh off a victory at the Australian PGA Championship and wasted little time in taking command by posting rounds of 67-66-66 to grab a four-stroke 54-hole lead.  But perhaps surisingly, he struggled a bit on Sunday, turning in even par 35 and birdieing the par-4 11th, but then stumbling badly with a double-bogey at the the par-3 14th to fall one behind hard-charging American Matt Kuchar.  Kuchar promptly bogeyed the 16th, however, and when Scott birdied the par-5 15th at nearly the same time, he’d once again drawn even.  And so the pair remained until the par-4 18th where the normally steady Kuchar took two shots to extricate himself from sand en route to a double-bogey, allowing Scott to clinch a two-stroke win a few minutes later.