Celebrating both his father’s birthday and his parents’ anniversary in style, Sweden’s David Lingmerth broke through for his first PGA Tour victory at the Memorial Tournament, beating Justin Rose on the third hole of a sudden death playoff.  While the 27-year-old Lingmerth was the tournament’s 36-hole leader following weekday rounds of 67-65, he began the finale well behind 2013 U.S. Open champion Justin Rose, who’d opened 68-67 before posting a strong Saturday 66 to lead both Lingmerth and Italy’s Francesco Molinari by three.  As Sunday play unfolded, a scare was put into the field by world number two Jordan Spieth, who began the day nine shots in arrears before uncorking a seven-under-par 65 that included an eagle at the par-5 15th and a necessary birdie at the last – but in the end, his noble run would come up two shy.  Among the primary contenders, Molinari hung in nicely, remaining tied for the lead through 15 holes before a watery double-bogey at the 16th ultimately left him tied with Spieth.  This left the stage to Lingmerth and Rose, and it initially appeared that the Swede might win in regulation when Rose (who ultimately closed with 72) shanked his second out of a fairway bunker at the 18th.  A splendid up-and-down earned him a tie on 273, however, and Rose nearly won on the first extra hole upon holing a 25-footer for par.  But Lingmerth matched it from 10 feet before eventually closing things out with a par at the third extra hole…………Completing a comeback from 2014 wrist problems that had rendered him largely unable to play, Sweden’s Alex Noren scored a popular homestanding victory, claiming the Nordea Masters for the second time with a four-shot victory at PGA Sweden National in Malmo.  Playing in windy conditions throughout the week, Noren opened with rounds of 70-68 to stand three strokes off the halfway lead, yet was largely an afterthought as the leaders were Jens Dantorp and 18-year-old Swedish amateur Marcus Kinhult, a strong international prospect who surprised nearly everyone by opening with rounds of 67-68.  A Saturday 77 would send the teenager tumbling towards an eventual tie for 33rd, however, leaving the top of the board to be occupied by Noren, who birdied four of his first five holes en route to a 67 which stood him two clear of Germany’s Maximilian Kieffer and three ahead of Dantorp and one more Swede, Sebastian Soderberg.  Noren’s closing round was then a fairly comfortable endeavor, for with Kieffer (75), Dantorp (74) and Soderberg (74) all backsliding, he started out birdie-bogey, then rattled off 125 straight pars before a birdie at the 601-yard finisher pushed the margin of victory to four.  Second place was taken by resurgent  Dane Soren Kjeldsen (who backed up his surprise victory at the Irish Open with another impressive showing) while third was shared by Kieffer, Dantorp, Soderberg and France’s Alexander Levy, who closed with 71…………Chinese star Wen-Chong Liang recorded his maiden victory in Japan at the Japan Golf Tour Championship, running away to a five-shot victory that might well have been even larger but for as nondescript final nine.  The 36-year-old Liang’s dominance was reflected in the fact that he won wire-to-wire, initially taking a one-stroke Thursday lead over a quartet of players with an opening 67, then maintaining that margin (over South Korean Young-Han Song) via a Friday 68 that was marred only by a double-bogey at the par-4 17th.  But it was on Saturday that Liang really took control, posting seven birdies en route to a 65 that left him five ahead of Australian Brad Kennedy and  six up on both Song and Japan’s Ryutaro Nagano.  Sunday, then, was a day on which he controlled his own destiny and control it he did, birdieing three of his first six holes to charge far out in front, allowing bogeys at the 12th and 17th to be of little consequence………… Battling gusting winds as he came down the homestretch, 29-year-old Justin Harding birdied the short par-5 18th hole twice – the first in regulation, then as the first hole of sudden death – to catch, then defeat, Vaughn Groenewald at the Vodacom Origins of Golf event, at Langebaan.  A former U.S. collegiate start at Lamar University, Harding opened the 54-hole event with a steady 72, then carded a six-birdie, two-bogey 68 which lifted him to within one of the 36-hole leaders, Andrew Curlewis and little-known Englishman Henry Featherstone.  Curlewis would fall into a tie for seventh with a 73 during the Saturday finale while Featherstone would hang around, closing with a 70 that left him one shy of the playoff.  Groenewald, meanwhile, came out of left field, opening with 73-69, then bogeying his first hole on Saturday before turning things around to card a stellar 66 – but he would, alas, come up one shy in the playoff.