Brian Harman handled the wind and the chill Sunday in San Antonio with a pair of key birdies on the back nine Sunday in the Texas Open, closing with a 3-over 75 for a three-shot victory, his first title since the 2023 British Open.

Harman began the final round with a three-shot lead and it soon became a tight battle with Andrew Novak, who was going for his first PGA Tour victory and a spot in the Masters.

Harman never lost the lead, though it dropped to one shot with a bogey on No. 6 and a double bogey on the ninth hole when he had to take a penalty drop after a pulled tee shot and still could only advance it to the fairway.

But he holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the 12th hole to give him some room, and he got up-and-down from a bunker on the par-5 14th and his lead was back to three shots.

He followed that with a pair of bogeys, but left the mistakes at the end to Novak.

“Just so proud of how I handled these conditions,” Harman said. “This golf course gave me all I wanted today and happy to come out on top.”

Novak, two behind with two to play, bogeyed the 17th with a bad chip and the par-5 18th with a bad drive. He shot 76 and fell into a tie for third with Maverick McNealy (72).

Ryan Gerard made his only bogey on the final hole for a 69 to finish runner-up. It was one of only seven rounds under par at the TPC San Antonio.

Harman was still under pressure with two holes to play, especially coming off back-to-back bogeys. His tee shots bounced through the bunker and into the rough, and he pitched to about 12 feet for a stress-free par.

Novak drove over the green, but his pitch up the shelf hit the slope and rolled back to his feet. His birdie chip ran 6 feet by and he missed the putt to fall three behind.

On the 18th, Novak pulled his tee shot in the barren area of trees and scrub brush. He pitched back to the fairway, tried to reach the green and narrowly went into the creek. He had to stand on a boulder to play onto the green and he missed the 10-foot par putt.

Patrick Fishburn had an eagle-birdie finish for a 68 and was part of a group that tied for fifth. The eagle came on the 17th hole, where Fishburn holed a 105-foot putt. It was the longest putt anyone made on the PGA Tour since 2008.

Harman had been struggling since his major breakthrough at Hoylake and was on the verge of falling out of the top 50.

Adding to the difficult of the conditions was his mind being on a close family friend, Cathy Dowdy. She spent time in a coma after helping to rescue Harman’s 6-year-old son from a rip current in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, last October while his family was on vacation.

“Just playing with a heavy heart today. Ms. Cathy, she’s not doing so good,” Harman said.

Cabrera gets 1st Champions Tour title: Angel Cabrera won on the PGA Tour Champions on Sunday, 20 months after he was released after spending two years in an Argentine prison for gender violence. He made a late birdie for a 1-under 71 to win the inaugural James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational in Boca Raton, Florida.

Cabrera, a former Masters and U.S. Open champion, was imprisoned for threats and harassment against two of his ex-girlfriends. He was released on parole in August 2023 and cleared to return to the PGA Tour Champions later that year.

He returns to the Masters next week — former champions have lifetime exemptions — and the 55-year-old Argentine known as “Pato” will arrive with his first victory in more than 10 years.

“Everything I’ve gone through the last few years, being here, having a chance to win, is very emotional,” Cabrera said after he won.

Cabrera, who won the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont and the 2009 Masters in a playoff, was sentenced in July 2021 to two years in prison for threats and harassment of Cecilia Torres Mana, his partner between 2016 and 2018.

In November 2022, he was also on trial for threats and harassment against Micaela Escudero, another of his ex-girlfriends. Cabrera pleaded guilty, the court made the two sentences concurrent and gave him three years and 10 months in prison.

In a lengthy interview with Golf Digest in the months after he was released on parole, Cabrera said he was embarrassed by his behavior and asked his former partners for forgiveness.

“I am repentant and embarrassed,” Cabrera said. “I made serious mistakes. I refused to listen to anyone and did what I wanted, how I wanted and when I wanted. That was wrong. I ask Micaela for forgiveness. I ask Celia for forgiveness. They had the bad luck of crossing paths with me when I was at my worst. I wasn’t the devil, but I did bad things.”

Cabrera told The Daily Mail in an interview published last week that spending time in prison is “one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, not being able to have freedom.”

“The lack of freedom is something really difficult, really hard,” he said. “And on the other hand, you know, I can tell you that the most important thing I feel right now is the second chance, the opportunity to get back on the right track.”