PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Nico Echavarria didn’t make a bogey all weekend. Shane Lowry was on his way to doing the same, until the very end. And that’s what decided the Cognizant Classic.
Echavarria — who was three shots back with three holes left — shot a 5-under 66 on Sunday to win at PGA National, finishing at 17-under 267 and beating Lowry (69), Austin Smotherman (69) and Taylor Moore (68) by two shots.
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Hannah Green of Australia reacts after winning the HSBC Women's World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Suhaimi Abdullah)
Hannah Green of Australia poses with the tournament trophy after winning the HSBC Women's World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Suhaimi Abdullah)
Shane Lowry of Ireland hits from the third tee during the final round of the Cognizant Classic golf tournament, Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Nico Echavarria of Colombia reacts to his birdie putt on the 17th hole during the final round of the Cognizant Classic golf tournament, Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Nico Echavarria of Colombia holds the Cognizant Classic Trophy at the end of the final round of the Cognizant Classic golf tournament, Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Lowry — who remains snakebit by PGA National, where he has finished in the top 11 for five straight years without a victory — was undone by double bogeys at the par-4 16th and par-3 17th, both after tee shots went way right and into the water.
It was Echavarria’s third PGA Tour win and first in the United States, and this one earned a second Masters invitation for the 31-year-old from Colombia.
Lowry — who has been in contention at PGA National in each of the last five years and had late leads in 2022 and 2024 — was rolling along, chipping in for birdie on the par-4 ninth to start a run where he went 5 under in a five-hole stretch. And he had a three-shot lead over Echavarria going to the par-4 16th. That’s where his nightmare began.
SINGAPORE (AP) — Australian Hannah Green closed with a 3-under 69 and won the HSBC Women’s World Championship for a second time, holding off fast-finishing American Auston Kim to claim a one-stroke victory Sunday.
Green had an erratic back nine with three birdies and three bogeys that nearly opened the door for Kim. The Australian tapped in for bogey at the last to finish at 14-under 274 at Sentosa Golf Club to win for the second time in three years.
Minjee Lee, who shared the 54-hole lead with Green, shot 72 and tied for third with Angel Yin (71) and Pauline Roussin-Bouchard (68) of France. Top-ranked Jeeno Thitikul, who won last week in her native Thailand, closed with a 73 and tied for 31st. That ended her run of eight straight top 10s.
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa (AP) — Casey Jarvis seized control with three birdies in his opening five holes and closed with a 3-under 67 to win the South African Open on Sunday, earning him a spot in the Masters and the British Open this year.
Jarvis won for the second straight week on the European tour, following his victory last week in the Kenya Open. The South African Open for the first time came with an invitation to the Masters. It also offered three spots to the leading players not already eligible for the British Open.
Francesco Laporta of Italy closed with a 69 and tied for second with Frederic Lacroix of France (65) and Hennie Du Plessis of South Africa (69).
Du Plessis was the main challenger to Jarvis for most of the day. He was two shots behind playing the 18th but finished with a bogey, which cost him a spot in the British Open. Those places went to Laporta and Lacroix because of their better world ranking.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Alistair Docherty picked a good spot for his first Korn Ferry Tour victory, making a short birdie on the final hole Sunday to win the Argentine Open and earn a spot in the British Open this summer at Royal Birkdale.
Docherty hit wedge to 3 feet for birdie on the final hole for a 5-under 65, giving him a one-shot victory over S.Y. Noh and Chris Forte.
Forte close with a 61 well ahead of the final group of Docherty and Noh. There was a three-way tie until Noh had to hit two off the tee at the par-5 15th and made bogey to fall one behind. Noh also made birdie on the 18th for a 66.
Docherty, Canadian-born who played at Chico State, finished at 22-under 258 and moved to No. 2 on the Korn Ferry Tour points list.
Daniel Hillier closed with a 4-under 67 for a two-shot victory over Lucas Herbert in the New Zealand Open, becoming the first New Zealander since 2017 to win his national open. Herbert closed with a 67 and earned a spot in the British Open as the leading finisher not already eligible. Hillier already had earned his way to Royal Birkdale by finishing on the top 25 in the Race to Dubai on the European tour last year. ... Agathe Laisné closed with a 6-under 65 to win the Ford Women's NSW Open in Australia for her first Ladies European Tour title. She won by one shot over April Angurasaranee of Thailand and South Korean amateur Soomin Oh.
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Hannah Green of Australia reacts after winning the HSBC Women's World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Suhaimi Abdullah)
Hannah Green of Australia poses with the tournament trophy after winning the HSBC Women's World Championship at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Suhaimi Abdullah)
Shane Lowry of Ireland hits from the third tee during the final round of the Cognizant Classic golf tournament, Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Nico Echavarria of Colombia reacts to his birdie putt on the 17th hole during the final round of the Cognizant Classic golf tournament, Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Nico Echavarria of Colombia holds the Cognizant Classic Trophy at the end of the final round of the Cognizant Classic golf tournament, Sunday, March 1, 2026, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
The U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, triggered retaliatory strikes on multiple countries in the region and is reverberating around the world.
Related violence expanded Sunday to a growing number of places, with a rising death toll. Israeli strikes targeted Tehran. Iran fired drones and missiles at Israel and sites around the Gulf, prompting three close U.S. allies to say they are ready to defend their interests in the region.
The joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, which started Saturday, stoked fears of a wider war and damage to the world economy. Global reaction ranged from jubilation to condemnation.
The strikes came two days after the latest U.S.-Iran talks, as Trump pressured Tehran for a deal to constrain its nuclear program. A senior White House official said Sunday that “new potential leadership” in Iran has suggested they are open for talks with the U.S. and that President Donald Trump says he is “eventually” willing to talk. The official said on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations.
For now, though, Trump said in a video posted Sunday that the operation in Iran — “one of the most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen” — will continue until “all of our objectives” are achieved.
Iran’s provisional governing council started its work Sunday and is expected to name a new supreme leader. Iran’s theocracy has struggled with growing dissent following nationwide protests over the economy that morphed into anti-government ones.
In Tehran on Sunday, the streets were largely deserted as people sheltered during heavy airstrikes, witnesses told The Associated Press, speaking anonymously for fear of retribution.
Israel said it had worked with the U.S. for months to plan the attacks. The U.S. military said targets in Iran included Revolutionary Guard command facilities, air defense capabilities, missile and drone launch sites and military airfields.
One of the first strikes hit near the offices of the 86-year-old Khamenei, who had ruled since 1989 and held ultimate power. Iranian state media reported Khamenei’s death, without details. Israel said that it also killed dozens of other top Iranian military officials.
Iranian state media said more than 200 people have been killed. In southern Iran, at least 165 people were killed when a girls’ school was struck, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. The Israeli military said it was not aware of strikes in the area. The U.S. military said it was looking into the reports.
The U.S. and Israel also struck Iran last June during earlier nuclear talks and claimed to have weakened Iran’s air defenses, military leadership and nuclear program. The Trump administration has asserted that Iran had been rebuilding its nuclear program, which Tehran has insisted is for peaceful purposes.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who had mediated nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, said after the second full day of hostilities that “the door to diplomacy remains open.”
“Although the hope was to avoid war, war should not mean that the hope of peace is extinguished,” he wrote on X. “The sooner talks are resumed the better it is for everyone.”
Iran launched retaliatory missiles and drones targeting Israel and nearby Arab Gulf countries hosting U.S. forces. Three U.S. service members have been killed, according to U.S. Central Command.
“You have crossed our red line and must pay the price,” Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said in a televised address Sunday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called on the United Nations to ensure accountability from the U.S. and Israel for their role in Khamenei's killing. He wrote in a letter Sunday that such conduct “recklessly opens a dangerous Pandora’s box, eroding the bedrock of sovereign equality and the stability of the international system.”
Eleven people have been killed in Israel as loud explosions caused by missile impacts or interceptions could be heard in Tel Aviv. Israel’s rescue services said that nine people were killed and more wounded in a strike that hit a synagogue in the central town of Beit Shemesh.
Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen have vowed to resume attacks on Red Sea shipping routes and on Israel, according to two senior Houthi officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because there was no official announcement from leadership.
Trump listed grievances stretching back to the beginning of the Islamic Republic following a revolution in 1979 that turned Iran from one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East into a foe. Iran’s ballistic missile program and support for armed proxies in the region were other issues he cited.
Tensions had escalated in recent weeks as the Trump administration built up the largest force of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades.
Trump said “heavy and pinpoint bombing” in Iran would continue through the week or longer. He told Iranians to take cover, but urged them to later rise up and topple the Islamic leadership.
Trump also acknowledged in a video posted Sunday that there would likely be more American troops killed.
Britain, France and Germany said in a joint statement Sunday that they are ready to work with the U.S. and its partners to help stop Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone strikes.
The statement by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said they are “appalled” by Iran’s “reckless” strikes on their allies, which threaten their service members and citizens in the region.
“We will take steps to defend our interests and those of our allies in the region, potentially through enabling necessary and proportionate defensive action to destroy Iran’s capability to fire missiles and drones at their source,” their statement said. “We have agreed to work together with the US and allies in the region on this matter.”
The strikes elicited mixed global reactions, including angry protests, celebrations and calls by world leaders for a return to negotiations and peace.
At least 22 people were killed in clashes with police in northern Pakistan and in the southern port city of Karachi after hundreds of protesters stormed the U.S. Consulate there, authorities said.
Shipping companies suspended their vessels’ traffic through the Suez Canal. The strikes could rattle global markets, particularly if Iran makes the Strait of Hormuz unsafe for commercial traffic. A fifth of worldwide traded oil passes through the strait.
There were global repercussions from disrupted air travel in the region, with hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded or diverted to other airports after Israel, Qatar, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain closed their airspace.
Melley reported from London and Charlton from Paris. Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Amir Radjy in Cairo, Matthew Lee in Washington, and AP journalists around the world contributed to this report.
Paramilitary soldiers and police officers walk past a burning police's armoured vehicle, which was set on fire by Shiite Muslims during a protest over the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Muhammad Farooq)
Rescue workers and military personnel carry a body of a victim from the scene where several people were killed by an Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Police fire tear gas shell to disperse Shiite Muslims protesters near the U.S Consulate during a rally condemning the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
Paramedics evacuate wounded people from the site of a deadly Iranian missile strike in Beit Shemesh, Israel Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
People watch from a rooftop as a plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
This image from video provided by U.S. Central Command shows a missile being launched from from a U.S. Navy ship in support of Operation Epic Fury on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (U.S. Central Command via AP)
This image from video provided by U.S. Central Command shows a missile being launched from from a U.S. Navy ship in support of Operation Epic Fury on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (U.S. Central Command via AP)
Rescue workers and residents search through the rubble in the aftermath of an Israeli-U.S. strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (ISNA via AP)
People sits in a shelter after warning sirens sound following Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Vehicles drive along a highway following Israeli and U.S. strikes in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Vehicles queue outside a gas station following Israeli strikes in the city, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Smoke rises on the skyline after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
