DUBLIN, Ohio — If Lorena Ochoa keeps this up, soccer soon might be taking a backseat to women's golf in Mexico.

Ochoa outdueled Jee Young Lee down the stretch, pulling away with birdies at the 13th and 14th holes, to shoot a 7-under 65 and win the Wendy's Championship for Children by three shots yesterday.

"In Mexico, soccer is everything. Golf is, like, 1 percent," the Guadalajara native said with a laugh. "I feel fortunate to have so much support. It's been great. I'm very proud to be from Mexico. We're learning. ... It used to be soccer, soccer, soccer. Now there's also golf."

Ochoa and Lee, playing in the same group, were tied at 22 under through 12 holes.

"It was like match play," Ochoa said. "It was a different feeling, to look at the scoreboard and see everybody else three or four shots behind."

But Ochoa hit an 8 iron to 6 feet and rolled in the birdie putt at 13 and then spun a wedge near the hole at 14 and made the 15-footer to regain a two-shot lead. She was never threatened again as she parred out to finish at 24-under 264.

Lee, a rookie who started the day two shots back of Ochoa in second place, closed with a 6-under 66 and shared second place at 267 with Stacy Prammanasudh, who shot a 64.

The $165,000 first-place check raised Ochoa's earnings this year to $1,840,774, moving her past Karrie Webb and into first place on the money list.

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PGA: Will MacKenzie made a 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole to close out at 1-under 71 and pick up his first PGA Tour victory by one stroke over veteran Bob Estes at the Reno-Tahoe Open in Reno, Nev.

MacKenzie, a 31-year-old former door-to-door hammock salesman in his second year on tour, finished at 20-under 268.

Champions: Eduardo Romero sank a 2-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole against Lonnie Nielsen to win The Tradition, the final major this season on the Champions Tour, at Aloha, Ore.

Romero (65) and Nielsen (70) both finished at 13-under 275.

U.S. Amateur: Richie Ramsay became the first Scotsman to win the U.S. Amateur in 108 years, defeating John Kelly, 4 and 2, in the final at Chaska, Minn.