Irving, Texas — Jason Day knows all about being a young, up-and-coming golf star. So he didn’t mind one bit sharing the spotlight of his first PGA Tour victory with 16-year-old Jordan Spieth.

Heck, it might have helped.

“I was walking to the fourth hole, and it looked like there was a thousand people following him,” Day said. “It took a little bit of pressure off my shoulders knowing that the good majority of the fans that were following me were close friends and family.”

Spieth was within three strokes of the lead on the final nine holes of the Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday, then drifted back into a tie for 16th. It’s still an incredible finish for a kid who last week was playing in the state high school tournament.

While Spieth likely will be remembered as the big winner of this week, it is Day’s name that will go up on the champion’s wall behind the oversized statue of Nelson near the first tee.

Already in the record books as the youngest winner on the Nationwide Tour — he was 19 — Day had to wait until he was 22 for this breakthrough.

Golf

Yoo wins first tourney

Gladstone, N.J. — Sun Young Yoo arrived at stately Hamilton Farm with modest expectations. She left with a breakthrough victory.

The 23-year-old South Korean player won the Sybase Match Play Championship on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour title, beating Angela Stanford 3 and 1 after dispatching top-seeded Jiyai Shin in the morning semifinals.

Rain shortens Rex Classic

Raleigh, N.C. — It didn’t matter whether it was 54 holes or 72, journeyman golfer John Riegger will take a win any way he can get it.

Riegger was declared the winner of the Nationwide Tour’s Rex Hospital Classic on Sunday with a 54-hole total of 20-under 193 when the tournament was called at 3 p.m. due to rain. The 46-year-old never started the final round.

Khan wins by a stroke

Wentworth, England — Simon Khan won the BMW PGA Championship by a stroke Sunday, shooting a 5-under 66 to come from seven strokes back and capture a tournament the Englishman played in only after receiving a late invitation.

Fredrik Andersson Hed of Sweden (67) and Luke Donald of England (71) tied for second at 5-under 279.

Auto racing

NHRA champs roll

Topeka — Reigning NHRA world champions Tony Schumacher, Robert Hight and Mike Edwards all earned victories at the O’Reilly Auto Parts Summer Nationals on Sunday.

Schumacher narrowly beat Cory McClenathan in Top Fuel, Hight was the winner in Funny Car and Edwards was victorious in the Pro Stock discipline.

Kanaan makes Indy field

Indianapolis — Tony Kanaan spent all weekend cramming to get into the Indianapolis 500. He barely made it.

Two crashes in less than 24 hours sent Kanaan’s team scrambling to get the No. 11 car back together, and the 2004 IndyCar Series champ aced the biggest test of his career with a four-lap qualifying average of 224.072 mph to get his car on the starting grid with 30 minutes left in qualifications. All he had to do was wait to see if the speed would hold up, which it did.

“You live, you learn, and we crashed. Today was just a nightmare,” he said after getting the 32nd starting spot in the 33-car field. “Apart from that, the conditions were the hottest we’ve ever seen. The track was really slick, I saw everybody complaining.”

First hall class inducted

Charlotte, N.C. — The inaugural five members of NASCAR’s new Hall of Fame were inducted Sunday in a ceremony that both honored auto racing’s pioneers and celebrated the entire industry.

NASCAR founder Bill France was lauded for his vision of turning unregulated beach racing into America’s premiere motorsports series. His son, Bill France Jr., was remembered as tough taskmaster who poured his soul into NASCAR.

Richard Petty, the seven-time champion, was credited as the sport’s first superstar, while Junior Johnson was celebrated as the symbol of the sport’s roots.

And then there was Dale Earnhardt, the “champion’s champion” who epitomized the blue-collar spirit at the heart of NASCAR.

The final inductee in Sunday’s ceremony, Earnhardt was represented on stage by his widow, Teresa, and four children, who each took a moment to share their memories of “The Intimidator.” It was a rare picture of unity for a family that’s been largely depicted as fractured since Earnhardt’s 2001 death in the Daytona 500.

Soccer

Wizards fall to Crew, 1-0

Kansas City, Kan. — Emilio Renteria scored on a header in the 64th minute to give the unbeaten Columbus Crew a 1-0 victory over the Kansas City Wizards on Sunday. Renteria’s goal — his second in two games — was the first allowed by the Wizards off a corner kick this season.

Tennis

Sweden’s Robin Soderling returns the ball to France’s Laurent Recouderc. Soderling, the surprise runner-up at last year’s French Open, advanced in this year’s first round on Sunday in Paris.

Venus easily advances

Paris — The red clay of Roland Garros never has been Venus Williams’ best stage — her seven Grand Slam titles all came at Wimbledon or the U.S. Open. At this year’s French Open, she is assured of at least one more performance, thanks to a 6-3, 6-3 victory over former top-10 player Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in the first round.

“I always — goes without saying — believe I can win,” said Williams, whose biggest hitches Sunday were eight double-faults.

Other winners included 2009 runner-up Robin Soderling, who stunned four-time champion Rafael Nadal in the fourth round last year. Soderling won the first nine games and took 49 of 58 points on his serve en route to eliminating French wild card Laurent Recouderc, 6-0, 6-2, 6-3.

Cycling

Australian takes tour

Thousand Oaks, Calif. — Michael Rogers of Australia won the Tour of California on Sunday, overcoming several challenges in the final miles to capture a race overshadowed by Floyd Landis’ accusations of doping by Lance Armstrong.

Rogers won by 9 seconds after holding the lead since Thursday. Despite not having a teammate in the attacking group to help, he repelled all challenges during the 831?2-mile final stage on a hilly circuit in Ventura County while riding for the U.S.-based team of HTC-Columbia.

Basso wins grueling stage

Monte Zoncolan, Italy — Ivan Basso has won the 15th stage of the Giro d’Italia, launching a solo attack on the grueling climb up Monte Zoncolan to move into contention behind overall leader David Arroyo Duran.

Hockey

Czechs world champions

Cologne, Germany — The Czech Republic captured the hockey world championship, ending Russia’s 27-game tournament winning streak with a 2-1 victory on Sunday.

Tomas Vokoun of the Florida Panthers made 35 saves for the Czechs, who have won the world championship title six times since the separation of Czechoslovakia. They also finished first in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005.