Emerging from a three-year victory drought with a golf swing reconfigured to ease pressure on his oft-injured back, Ben Crane claimed his fifth career PGA Tour victory at the FedEx St Jude Classic, the Tour’s final tune-up prior to the U.S. Open.  After opening with a bogey-free seven-under-par 63, Crane’s win was, in fact, wire-to-wire – though with heavy rains preventing play from finishing on each of the first three days, it did not readily appear that way.  But a second round 65 (whose only bogey came at the par-4 18th) cushioned Crane’s lead significantly before Saturday’s weather sent him home with 12 holes left to play in his third round.  He then completed those 12 in par figures on Sunday morning, and thus retained a three-stroke lead over Troy Merritt, which, in turn, allowed a relatively cautious approach to Sunday afternoon’s finale.  Indeed, Crane’s approach proved so cautious that he carded a three-over-par 73 (which included a safe bogey at the last) and held on to edge Merritt by only one – and in the process become the first man to win on the PGA Tour without a final-round birdie since Justin Leonard did it in this same event in 2005.  Among the marquee names preparing for the upcoming U.S. Open, 2012 Open champion Webb Simpson (who closed with 66) tied for third with Matt Every (70) and Carl Pettersson (69), while Ian Poulter carded Sunday’s low round (a 64) en route to finishing in a five-way tie for sixth.  Phil Mickelson, meanwhile, moved into the edges of Sunday contention after birdieing the 11th and 12th holes but ultimately fell bak to close with 72, and a tie for 11th……………… Playing against a relatively light field in the week before the U.S. Open, Sweden’s Mikael Lundberg ended a six-year victory drought by defeating homestanding Bernd Wiesberger on the first hole of sudden death to claim the Lyoness Open, in Austria.  The 43-year-old Lundberg (whose two previous E Tour victories had both come in the Russian Open) began the week in fine form, posting rounds of 67-68 to take a one-shot halfway lead over England’s Lee Slattery.  He crumbled badly on Saturday, however, double-bogeying the 376-yard 3rd early and later adding four back nine bogeys en route to a seemingly crippling 76.  But now trailing 54-hole leader (and defending champion) Joost Luiten by six, Lundberg mounted a major Sunday charge, birdieing four of his first five holes to pull into contention, then ultimately posting four more birdies at holes 11-15 to post a closing 65 and take the early clubhouse lead.  In close pursuit were Luiten and Wiesberger, the event’s 2012 winner and the clear favorite among the Austrian gallery.  Luiten, for his part, played uneven golf on Sunday, matching four birdies with four bogeys through his first 15 holes, then coming up one stroke shy when he couldn’t find one more birdie among the final three.  But Wiesberger fared better, actually taking the lead (via his fifth birdie of the day) at the 607-yard 15th before bogeying the 591-yard 16th, and ultimately deadlocking with Lundberg on 276.  The playoff hole was the par-3 18th, where Lundberg proceeded to stun the gallery by holing a tricky downhill 40-footer for birdie, and just that quickly the title was his……………… Forty-five-year-old Taichi Teshima’s last victory on the Japan Golf Tour came at the 2007 Casio World Open, yet despite this seven-year lull, he held together admirably during an up-and-down final to ultimately claim his seventh career title, the venerable Japan PGA Championship.  Teshima, who finished 70th in 2013 J Tour earnings and might well have been considered in the twilight of his career, opened with rounds of 70-68-69 at the Golden Valley Golf Club, good enough to take a one-shot 54-hole lead over recent Kansai Open winner Koumei Oda and South Korea’s Kyung-Hoon Lee.  He then solidified his position by opening with two birdies on Sunday before bogeys at the 8th and 10th brought him back towards the field.  Timely birdies at the 12th and 14th rebuilt his cushion, however, ultimately allowing Teshima the luxury of bogeying the 472-yard 16th and still winning by one.  Oddly, both Oda and Lee matched Teshima’s closing 71, though both had significant chances at victory.  Oda, for his part, fell off the lead by bogeying the 14th, 15th and 16th, while Lee lost his chance with bogeys at the 15th and 16th……………… Thailand’s 47-year-old Thaworn Wiratchant has long been a force on the Asian PGA Tour and that trend continued in his homeland as Wiratchant notched his 17th career victory on the circuit with a come-from-behind triumph at the Queen’s Cup.  After an opening 71 left him five shots behind countryman Poom Saksansin, Wiratchant fell one shot further behind Saksansin with a second round 68, then crept back within five (and four behind Bangladesh’s Siddikur Rahman) following a Saturday 67.  He would surely need some help on Sunday, then, and both Saksansin and Siddikur were relatively obliging, each closing with one-over-par rounds of 72 (Siddikur finishing with a heartbreaking bogey at the last).  This left the door somewhat ajar and Wiratchant promptly crashed through it, turning in 34 before adding birdies at the 11th, 12th and 14th.  A bogey at the par-4 17th drew him briefly back to 11 under par but with everything on the line, Wiratchant coolly rolled in a five-footer for birdie at the par-5 finisher which, ombined with Siddikur’s stumble, secured the win……………… Less than a week shy of his 28th birthday, South African Lyle Rowe broke through for his maiden Sunshine Tour victory, closing with a five-under-par 68 to claim the Zambia Sugar Open in Lusaka.  After opening with a disappointing 76, Rowe played himself into the third round lead via middle rounds of 69-66, then pulled steadily away from the field under cold and windy conditions on Sunday.  He began his runaway with birdies at the 1st, 2nd and 4th to turn in 32, then added a fourth birdie at the 531-yard 10th.  His momentum was briefly stemmed by a bogey at the short par-3 11th, but Rowe responded by stepping on the gas once more and adding three more birdies, first at the 12th, then on back-to-back par 5s at the 13th and 14th.  By this point the lead had grown to five, with only an irrelevant bogey at the 564-yard closer allowing runner-up Neil Schietekat to pull within four, while P.H. McIntyre and Ulrich van den Berg shared third, a full six shots back.