Even if top U.S. players Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk had opted to play in the Target World Challenge, the lack of Americans in the field would have been evident. The international feel at the event is proof U.S. dominance in golf is coming to an end.

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We guess they had to make the official announcement. But the news that Tiger Woods is the PGA Tour Player of the Year after a season that saw him win eight times — including two majors — is a bit on the anticlimactic side.

Trailing by five strokes entering the day, Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem shot a 5-under 66 in Sunday's alternate-shot format to grab a share of the lead, then made par on the first playoff hole to beat Scotland and claim Germany's second World Cup title.

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Australia's Nick O'Hern chipped in from a greenside bunker on the fourth hole of a playoff with Peter Lonard to win the Australian PGA on Sunday, his first major professional title since 1999. O'Hern holed out from the sand near the 18th green to end a series of 56 top-10 finishes without a victory. It allowed him to clinch the 2006 Australasian Order of Merit.

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Alvaro Quiros shot a 5-under 67 Sunday to beat Charl Schwartzel by one stroke and win his first European Tour event at the Alfred Dunhill Championship. The Spaniard had seven birdies and two bogeys at Leopard Creek Country Club to finish at 13-under 275 overall. "I had a lot of luck, so I have to be happy," said Quiros, who was playing in his fourth tour event. "I don't know how to play conservatively, so I just went for it." Schwartzel, who had led going into the final round, shot a 72.

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Charl Schwartzel shot his third successive 68 Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship. His 12-under total of 204 had him two shots clear of European Ryder Cup player Lee Westwood and Welshman Mark Pilkington. They shot rounds of 67 and 65 respectively at the ?1-million European Tour event being played at the par-72, 6,631-meter (7,672-yard) Leopard Creek Country Club.

The United States made seven consecutive birdies to end the front nine, vaulting up the leaderboard. Wales finished its day with five straight, and Scotland strung together four in a row to put itself into contention. Still, they're all looking up at Sweden and Argentina entering Sunday's final round of the last World Golf Championships event of the year.

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Charl Schwartzel took a two-stroke lead at the Alfred Dunhill Championship on Friday in his attempt on a second title in three years. Schwartzel his a second-round 4-under 68 at the ?1-million European Tour event being played at the par-72, 6,631-meter (7,672-yard) Leopard Creek Country Club. He was 8-under overall. While Schwartzel shot seven birdies and three bogeys, Ernie Els was struggling to make the cut set at 2-under.

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Argentina's Andres Romero and Angel Cabrera shot a 4-under 67 Friday, building a three-shot lead after two rounds of the World Cup. Romero and Cabrera extended their streak of bogey-free holes to 35 to draw clear of the field in the final World Golf Championships event of the season.

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Stewart Cink called a rain squall at Sany Lane "the worst conditions I'd ever played in," on Thursday. But that didn't keep the United States from a decent first round at the World Golf Championships. Cink and teammate J.J. Henry finished 5-under 66, two shots behind three countries tied for first.

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