Though a winner of the McGladrey Classic back in November of 2013, Chris Kirk arrived at the second event of the 2014 FedEx Cup Playoffs in middling form, having logged but a single top-25 finish (a T19 at the British Open) since late May's Memorial Tournament.  An opening 73 in the Deutsche Bank Championship did little to suggest that this week would be different, but Kirk turned things around with a topsy turvy second round 66 which included eagles at the 298-yard 4th and the par-5 18th, and thus moved back to within five of co-36-hole leaders Ryan Palmer (who'd opened with a 63, the week's low round) and Jason Day.  He then would go on to play blemish-free golf for the duration, initially birdieing both the 17th and 18th to come home with a third round 64 and move within two of 54-hole leader Russell Henley - though his charge was little noticed as he stood tied with Day (who shot 69) and world number one Rory McIlroy, who matched Kirk with a bogey-free 64 and commanded the great majority of post-round attention.  But McIlroy never found the right gear in round four, posting four bogeys between holes 5-12 en route to a 70 that would ultimately drop him to a tie for 5th.  Instead Monday's news was initially dominated by Geoff Ogilvy, who began the Labor Day finale five shots in arrears before birdieing six of his first 13 holes to sprint into the lead.  But Ogilvy couldn't advance any further, finishing on 271 and leaving the stage clear for Kirk, who methodically reeled off five birdies between the 3rd and 16th holes to move to 15 under.  The lone man with a chance to catch him, Billy Horschel, then chunked his second at the 18th into a water hazard, leaving Kirk to make a routine par 5 to clinch the two-shot victory..................In only his second tournament since returning from back surgery, South African Hennie Otto spent much of the week atop the leaderboard before ultimately nailing down his third European Tour victory and his second career triumph in the Italian Open.  The 38-year-old Otto opened with a bogey-free round of 67 before taking command on Friday, carding six outbound birdies to turn in 30, then adding an eagle at the 531-yard 12th and birdies at the both the par-3 13th and the 593-yard 15th to move to 10 under par on the day.  Any chance of 59 was dashed with a bogey at the 465-yard 17th, but a birdie at the last brough Otto home in 62, staking him to a three-shot lead.  Thereafter his play cooled and it was a matter of hanging on, particularly after a double-bogey at the par-5 9th slowed his Saturday progress - though his 71 still managed to hold a two-shot 54-hole lead.  But on a Sunday in which his closest pursuers, Wiesberger and Scotland's Richie Ramsey, could manage no better than 70 and 72 respectively, Otto played solid methodical golf, birdieing the 1st and the 7th to turn in 34, then adding two more birdies at the 12th and 15th that would ultimately proved the margin of victory..................Veteran Hiroyuki Fujita claimed his second Japan Golf Tour title of 2014 and the 17th of his career with a come-from-behind playoff triumph at the RZ Everlasting KBC Augusta.  With opening rounds of 71-66, Fujita found himself very much in the mix at the halfway mark, trailing 36-hole leader Hyung-Sung Kim by three, before a disappointing Saturday 74 dropped him all the way to 17th place, six behind Kim.  His hole deepened further after bogeying the par-4 2nd on Sunday before the 45-year-old Fujita got hot, logging eight birdies over his final 17 holes (built around nine consecutive one-putts  at holes 9-17) to post a 276 total.  Though a slew of players had chances to catch him down the stretch, this number was eventually matched only by 36-year-old Chinese star Wen-Chong Liang, who closed with rounds of 67-69.  But Liang, who has never won in Japan, couldn't quite get over the bar in the playoff, with Fujita closing him out on the fifth extra hole..................Previously known for shooting an 11-under-par 59 under lift-clean-and-place conditions at the rain-deluged 2013 Nelson Mandela Championship, 30-year-old Colin Nel broke through for his first career Sunshine Tour victory in another weather-shortened event, the Wild Waves Challenge, in Port Edward.  A former NAIA All-American at Oklahoma City University, Nel easily played the best golf over the first two days of the mid-week event, carding back-to-back 65s to take a three-shot lead over Jared Harvey and Ulrich van den Berg.  But Friday opened with winds gusting as high as 40 miles per hour, causing a delay of over three hours and eventually prompting officials - mindful of a similar forecast for the next 48 hours - to cancel play.  This left Nel, a local product whose previous best Sunshine Tour finishes were a trio of fourth places, to be declared the winner..................Breaking a victory drought which dated to a win at the European Tour's 2010 Avantha Masters, 28-year-old Queensland native Andrew Dodt charged home with a final round 67 to claim his second win as a professional at the Isuzu Queensland Open.  Dodt was an afterthought for most of the week at the Brookwater Golf & Country Club, playing his first nine in 38 on his way to an opening 72, then double-bogeying the first hole on Saturday en route to another 72, which left him six shots behind Tom Bond after 54 holes.  But on a Sunday upon which nobody else bettered 69, and none of the realistic contenders broke 70, Dodt charged home with four late birdies for a 67, eventually edging Bond by two.