Finally beginning to make the transition from talented, frequently contending marketing icon to a player capable of joining the game's elite, 26-year-old Rickie Fowler scored a career-altering victory at The Players Championship, beating Kevin Kisner and Sergio Garcia in a three-hole aggregate playoff which ultimately required sudden death.  For most of the week, Fowler was just one of many big names to pack one of the denser leaderboards in recent memory, and while this was a field replete with thoroughbreds, it seemed that for most of the first 54 holes, the biggest names were lingering on its second page.  But as the more experienced inexorably edged forward and the longer-shots slipped back, Sunday afternoon developed into a slugfest that might well have seen any of a dozen players emerge victorious.  Fowler, for his part, made the first and loudest statement, for after birdieing the 13th and 15th, then eagling the reachable 16th, he proceded to record ultra-clutch birdies at the TPC Sawgrass's famed 17th and 18th, thus playing his final six holes in six under par to post a 12-under-par total.  Names like Haas, Na and Martin would all fail (narrowly) to catch him, but both Kisner and Garcia were able to make the crucial birdies needed at the 16th and 17th to draw even (Garcia after being heckled by a handful of drunken idiots), with Kisner narrowly missing a putt to win outright at the last.  The three-hole playoff did manage to eliminate Garcia before Fowler and Kisner returned to the island-green 17th where, for the third time that afternoon, Fowler rolled in a must-have birdie putt - and, spectacularly, the game's fifth biggest title was his..................Entering the week as the tournament's highest-ranked player, George Coetzee continued the trend of South Africans winning European Tour events contested on African soil by beating Denmark's Thorbjorn Olesen in a playoff at the inaugural Mauritius Open.  Played along the island nation's southern shore, the event made history as the first to be tri-sanctioned by the European, Asian and Sunshine circuits, though as it was contested head-to-head against the PGA Tour's Players Championship, the field was predictably light.  And while Olesen parlayed rounds of 65-68 into a one-shot halfway lead, Friday's top moment was reserved for Spain's Javier Colomo who, needing a birdie at his final hole of the day (the 334-yard 9th) to make the cut, promptly recorded the first ace of a par 4 in E Tour history to jump the bar by three.  Coetzee, meanwhile, had started 70-67 to trail Olesen by four before recording four birdies and an eagle on his way to a Saturday 65 that vaulted him atop the board, one ahead of both Olesen and Thomas Aiken.  But on Sunday, it would indeed come down to Coetzee and Olesen, with a 16th-hole Coetzee bogey drawing them even, a 17th-hole Olesen birdie moving him ahead, and an 18th-hole Coetzee birdie forcing extra holes.  The playoff saw Coetzee birdie the 572-yard 18th twice, with Olesen unable to match on the second go-round..................Seven months removed from his maiden Sunshine Tour victory, 30-year-old P.H. “Power House” McIntyre found the winner's circle for a second time at the Investec Royal Swazi Open, edging Morne Buys by two points under the event's modified Stableford scoring.  McIntyre began Sunday's final round one point behind 54-hole leader Tyrone Mordt, who would ultimately amass only 7 final round points to fall into a tie for fourth.  But as Mordt stumbled, McIntyre charged, accumulating six points over the course of a four-birdie, two-bogey outward half, then birdieing the 10th and eagling the 504-yard 12th, the latter earning five points on its own and building something of a cushion for a march home blemished only by a bogey at the 549-yqard 17th.  Buys, meanwhile, was one of two players to accrue a Sunday-high 17 points, an up-and-down round which included eight birdies and and an eagle (also at the 12th), but also four bogeys, the last coming at the 191-yard 18th where a birdie would have won the event outright.