Having contended into the weekend at last week’s Wells Fargo Championship, former world number one Martin Kaymer continued his second ascent towards the top of the golfing world by hanging on late for a nerve-wracking wire-to-wire victory at the Players Championship.  Kaymer took control of the event early, carding a flawless course record-tying 63 on Thursday to take early lead, then backing it up with a 69 that stood him one ahead of 20-year-old Jordan Spieth at the halway mark.  But Spieth was able to catch Kaymer on Saturday with a round of 71 as the 29-year-old German managed only a two-birdie, two-bogey round of 72, setting up a likely two-man battle on Sunday.  Coming off a disappointing final round at The Masters, Spieth jumped into a one-shot lead after birdies at the 2nd and 4th – but also like Augusta, he ran into trouble through the middle of the round, dropping himself from contention via a run of five bogeys from holes 5-15.  Kaymer at this point held a three-shot lead, but his march to victory was halted by a lengthy delay as thunderstorms rolled across the Jacksonville area.  Upon the resumption of play, Kaymer double-bogeyed the 15th of a wayward drive and when he failed to birdie the short par-5 16th, it seemed that a hard-charging Jim Furyk, who was in the clubhouse on 276 after a closing 66, might still have a chance at victory.  Furyk’s fortunes brightened when a poor chip left Kaymer a 30-footer for par at the TPC Sawgrass’s famed par-3 17th – but Kaymer promptly holed the putt, then got up-and-down with his putter from off the front of the 18th green to clinch a one-shot victory………………In one of the stranger events in the circuit’s history, the European Tour played its landmark 1,500th tournament at the Madeira Islands Open, with England’s Daniel Brooks claiming victory in a week marred by repeated fog delays, the cancellation of two rounds and the tragic death of Alistair Forsyth’s caddie Ian MacGregor of an apparent heart attack on Sunday.  Played opposite the PGA Tour’s Players Championship, the event was buffeted by fog delays so bad that the first round wasn’t completed until Sunday morning – by which time officials had decided to shorten play to 36 holes, with an 18-hole cut.  MacGregor’s death came on Forsyth’s final hole and caused still another delay, with many players voicing surprise that play was resumed – even after a moment of silence – at all.  But Forsyth himself was supportive of the decision and in the end it came down to Brooks (who bogeyed the par-5 16th, then bounced back with a timely birdie at the 17th) and Scotland’s Scott Henry, who birdied his final three holes to draw even with Brooks on nine-under-par 135.  Their playoff then lasted only one hole as Henry three-putted from 25 feet, allowing Brooks to claim his maiden victory with a routine two-putt par………………A runner-up in this same event in 2012, 23-year-old Danie van Tonder broke through for his maiden Sunshine Tour victory at the Investec Royal Swazi Sun Open, an event annually contested under a Modified Stableford format.  Van Tonder ultimately holed an eight-foot birdie putt on the first hole of sudden death to claim the title, winning after neither Jacques Blaauw nor Jared Harvey could do better than par.  Harvey made one late birdie (at the 17th) to earn his playoff spot while Blauuw made two (at numbers 16 and 17) before leaving a potential clinching birdie putt a centimeter short at the last, thus deadlocking the pair on 48 cumulative points after four days of play.  But knowing that he had ground to make up, van Tonder did them one better, then carding three straight closing birdies to post 18 final-round points (which equalled a stellar 63 at medal play) and join the playoff………………Little-known 27-year-old South Korean Jun-Won Park, who only gained status on the OneAsia circuit on the eve of play, carded a closing 67 to pull away for a surprising first professional victory at the long-running GS Caltex Maekyung Open in Seoul.  Park initially moved himself into contention with a Friday 64 (the week’s low round), then added a Saturday 70 to share the 54-hole lead with countryman Sang-Hyun Park, with the two standing on 10-under-par 206, two shots ahead of the field.  Things initially seemed to favor Hang-Hyun on Sunday when he birdied two of his first five holes, but a bogey at the par-4 8th slowed his momentum just as Jun-Won was heating up, with the less-heralded man promptly birdieing the par-5 9th, then pulling steadily away with additional birdies at the 12th, 14th and 15th holes.