One must assume that growing up in Puyallup, Washington, Ryan Moore surely never guessed that he’d find his competitive nirvana some 8,000 miles away in Malaysia.  Yet there Moore was, one year removed from defeating Gary Woodland in a playoff for his third PGA Tour victory, returning to the Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club to claim his fourth, successfully defending his title at the CIMB Classic in a three-shot triumph.  Not surprisingly, Moore was in the mix all week, opening with rounds of 68-69-67 to join Kevin Na atop the leaderboard after 54 holes, one stroke ahead of fellow American Billy Hurley III and Spain’s Sergio Garcia.  Hurley, for his part, was not up to the Sunday task, carding two bogeys over his first 17 holes en route to a 73, and a tie for eighth.  Garcia, on the other hand, turned in three-under-par 33 to remain right in the mix before a run-in with a palm tree led to a double-bogey at the par-5 10th.  He would add two subsequent birdies to close in 69, to finish on 14-under-par 274.  That number would eventually be matched by last year’s runner-up Woodland, who carded six birdies over his first 17 holes and actually appeared capable of winning as he stood on the tee of the 634-yard 18th at 15 under – only to three-putt for a bogey to fall back to 274.  Thus in the end it came down to Moore and Na, with the latter actually taking the lead with three early birdies, then eventually trailing by one upon missing a two-footer for par at the 16th that would have kept him even.  Rattled, Na then drove into the top of a palm tree at the 17th and took a double-bogey to end his chances - though a birdie at the last brought him home on 274 as well.  This cleared the road nicely for Moore who, in crunch time, stuffed approaches close to birdie both the 14th and 17th, allowing him a pleasant walk home at the last………………In one of the wilder finishes of the 2014 season, Germany’s Marcel Siem claimed his fourth career European Tour title at the BMW Masters in China, defeating France’s Alexander Levy and England’s Ross Fisher on the first hole of sudden death.  For three days conditions were benign in Shanghai, and Siem was something of an afterthought on a crowded leaderboard, trailing by four shots at the halfway mark, then falling five behind on Saturday after Levy uncorked a bogey-free 63 to move four shots ahead of the field.  But heavy winds arrived on Sunday and just that quickly, the week’s proceedings were turned on their head.  Indeed, on a day when the venerable Miguel Angel Jimenez carded an eye-popping 88, Levy stumbled badly, going out in 38, then adding a double-bogey at the par-5 13th and three subsequent bogeys to post a 78 – and yet remarkably he wasn’t dead.  Having gone out several groups earlier, Siem managed four birdies over his first 11 holes, and he stood two ahead through the 16th before finishing bogey-bogey to join Levy on 272.  And earlier still there had been Fisher, who began the day a robust 11 shots back, then made five early birdies to turn in 31 en route to the day’;s low round, an impressive 67 – and he too stood on 272.  Had Levy won, the playoff, it would have been his third victory of the season.  Had Fisher won, he would have set a new tour record for the largest fourth-round comeback.  But with rather less history at stake, Siem promptly chipped in for birdie on the first playoff hole and quietly carried away the trophy………………Thirty-seven-year-old Ryuichi Oda ended a five-year drought to claim his second career Japan Tour victory, a five-shot triumph at the Mynavi ABC Championship in Hyogo.  Oda stood two shoots off the lead on both Thursday and Friday after opening with rounds of 68-67, then charged into a share of it (with veteran South Korean star S.K. Ho) behind a Saturday 66 that included birdies on five of his first 10 holes.  On a Sunday which saw very low scoring, Ho made two early bogeys and never quite righted the ship, coming home in a 71 which dropped him into a tie for sixth.  Better challenges were fielded by the season’s leading money winner Koumei Oda (who closed with a 64), veteran Hideto Tanihara (65) and recent Japan Open champion Yuta Ikeda (65) - but in the end these were all rendered moot by Oda, who played a nearly perfect round that included seven birdies and an eagle at the par-5 15th, all of which added up to a dazzling 62 and the runaway victory.  The unrelated Koumei Oda and Tanihara shared second, while Ikeda and another veteran, five-time J Tour winner Tomohiro Kondo, tied for fourth………………Keith Horne won for the seventh time on the Sunshine Tour and for the second time in 2014 at the Vodacom Orgins of Golf Final, the closing event in the six-event tour-within-a-tour that fills much of the circuit’s winter schedule.  Attributing some of his success to being better rested after not going abroad to play the European Tour early in the year, Horne grabbed the first round lead by carding eight birdies en route to seven-under-par 65 over the Pezula Estate’s Championship Course, then trailed 36-hole leader Erik van Rooten by one after a Thursday 71.  However the less-battle-tested van Rooyen faded with a 72 in the Friday finale (eventually finishing in a six-way tie for fourth), leaving Horne to do battle with Ulrich van den Berg, who began the final round three back but played his first 14 holes in seven under par to move into the lead.  Horne, meanwhile, bogeyed the 421-yard 2nd but held together nicely thereafter, methodically posting six birdies over the next 16 holes, including at the 311-yard 17th and the 526-yard 18th, the latter off a two-foot tap-in that provided the margin of victory………………Twenty-five-year-old Victorian Ryan Lynch closed with a five-under-par 67 to record his first career Australasian Tour victory, a one-shot triumph at the Western Australia PGA Championship in Kalgoorlie.  Lynch played solid, steady golf over the first three days, posting rounds of 68-69-72 but still trailing 54-hole leader Chris Gaunt by an imposing six shots.  Thus beginning the final round with lots of distance to cover, he wasted little time in making a move, recording birdies at the 1st, the 6th, the 8th and the 9th to turn in 32 and stand 11 under par – though victory likely still felt like a reach as the 39-year-old Gaunt balanced three birdies against two bogeys in turning in 35, to stand at -14.  Birdies by Lynch at the 10th and 13th then narrowed the gap before an untimely  Gaunt bogey at the 15th drew the pair even.  Both men recorded nervous bogeys at the 17th, but after Lynch parred the three-shot 18th to post a 67, and a 276 total, Gaunt caved in, bogeying the last to hand Lynch the title.