On a day when a struggling Rory McIlroy might well have landed his first win of 2013, Scotland’s Martin Laird fired a course record-tying 63 to claim a stunning victory in the Valero Texas Open.  Laird began the final round five shots behind 54-hole leader Billy Horschel but erased the deficit almost immediately, carding birdies on five of his first eight holes.  Another birdie at the 12th put Laird on top, just in time to be chased by the hard-charging McIlroy, whose closing 66 would otherwise have been the day’s best round by two shots.  But with the world number two close on his heels, Laird made one final push, reeling of birdies at the last three holes to pull away to a two-shot margin of victory.  The win was Laird’s third on the PGA Tour but his first since the 2011 Arnold Palmer Invitational,and it earned him the final spot in the field for next week’s Masters.  McIlroy,meanwhile, could take solace in his best finish of the year and some apparent momentum going into the season’s first Major, just two weeks after being dethroned from his world number one spot by Tiger Woods.  Horschel closed with a respectable 71 to share third with a pair of players who closed with 69, Jim Furyk and Charley Hoffman.  Also in the hunt, briefly, was last week’s European Tour winner Marcel Siem who, playing on sponsor exemption and pursuing that final Masters invite, briefly closed to within one of the Sunday lead before a triple-bogey at the 12th consigned him to a tie for 10th...............Managing to overcome a triple-bogey seven at the third hole, thirty-three-year-old Australian Wade Ormsby righted the ship to card a closing 71 and claim his first professional victory at the Asian Tour's Panasonic Open India.  It was a rare wire-to-wire triumph as Ormsby opened with rounds of 67-67, before a Saturday 74 left him one ahead of Lam Chih Bing of Singapore, and three up on India’s Shiv Kapur and 56-year-old Boonchu Ruangkit of Thailand.  Though Lam would briefly grab the lead early on Sunday, the most sustained challenge was mounted by European Senior Tour veteran Ruangkit, who closed with 69 to in a bid to become the Asian Tour’s oldest-ever winner, but in the end he would finish solo second, one stroke behind Ormsby.