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May 12 2008, AP

Sergio Garcia, the best player without a major, got the next best thing Sunday. Garcia ended the longest victory drought of his career by making a clutch par putt to force a playoff and hitting the island-green 17th on the first extra hole to defeat Paul Goydos in The Players Championship.

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Sergio Garcia, of Spain, holds the winner’s trophy after winning The Players Championship, Sunday, May 11, 2008, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Garcia won on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.