Golf:Ryan Moore ended five years of frustration when he survived a three-way play-off to win the €3.5 million Wyndham Championship.

Moore, the 2004 United States amateur champion, was widely regarded as potentially another Tiger Woods when he turned professional the following year, but he has struggled since, mainly due to a left hand injury.

"The whole time I've been on the PGA Tour I haven't been healthy," said Ryan after sinking an 18-foot birdie putt at the third extra hole to beat fellow American Kevin Stadler and win his first PGA Tour title.

"That was for five years worth of exhaustion.

"I can't really say I've been myself the whole time I've been out here. It's just been a battle to get myself feeling like myself again."

Moore, 25, played his first regular tour event in Greensboro in 2004, and said he felt a certain loyalty to the tournament.

"To start here and win here is pretty exciting," said Moore, who collected €642,000 to jump to 25th on the tour money list, with the victory. "I couldn't have done it in a better place."

Earlier, Jason Bohn was eliminated with a bogey at the first extra hole, while Moore and Stadler halved the next with pars.

Moore came from four strokes behind in the final round, shooting a five-under-par 65 in ideal conditions at Sedgefield, but he thought he had blown it when he bogeyed the final hole of regulation after missing an eight-foot putt.

But with Bohn already in the clubhouse after a sizzling 62, Stadler then bogeyed the last too, also missing from eight feet.

The three finished locked on 16-under 264, one stroke ahead of Sergio Garcia (70), who almost joined the play-off when his bunker shot at the last stopped on the edge of the hole.

"I should have been in a different position," said Garcia after he surrendered a three-shot lead over the final 11 holes and shot a 70 to finish fourth at 15-under-par 265.

The Spaniard seemed in control when a birdie on the seventh hole moved him to 18-under, but a three-putt bogey at the next hole seemed to take the wind of his sails and his confidence completely evaporated when he bogeyed the par-four 11th after

firing his six-iron approach shot over the green.

"The bogey on 11 rattled me quite a bit, because it was one of my best swings," Garcia said.

"I bogeyed the next and then hit a couple of bad drives coming in. I just didn't feel it all day.

"Even when I was three-under, I wasn't comfortable. I was fighting my swing a little bit, fighting myself and unfortunately I wasn't good enough."