Top-ranked Yani Tseng successfully defended her LPGA Thailand title for her 13th LPGA Tour victory, birdieing the final two holes Sunday to hold off playing partner Ai Miyazato by a stroke. The 23-year-old Taiwanese star shot a 6-under 66 to finish at 19-under 269 on Siam Country Club’s Pattaya Old Course.
While Phil Mickelson was charging to his 40th career PGA TOUR victory at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, another battle was unfolding at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Padraig Harrington and European business mogul J.P. McManus entered Sunday’s final round with a three-shot lead and held on for a share of the Pro-am title with [...]
Rafael Cabrera-Bello won the Omega Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday, shooting a 4-under 68 to beat Lee Westwood and Stephen Gallacher by one shot for his second European Tour victory.
Rafael Cabrera-Bello held his nerve against a star-studded field Sunday to win the Dubai Desert Classic, shooting a 4-under 68 to beat Lee Westwood and Stephen Gallacher by one shot for only his second European Tour victory. It appeared to be Westwood’s tournament to win as the third-ranked Englishman took a one-shot lead over Cabrera-Bello into the final round.
Sporting a Tom Selleck-like mustache, Johnson Wagner picked up his third career PGA Tour victory, clearing the Sony Open field by two shots on Sunday in Honolulu.
Steve Stricker overcame a cold putter Monday at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions to win his 12th career PGA Tour victory. 5 THINGS
There are 20 career PGA TOUR victories among the players ranked No. 71-80 that were unveiled Saturday on PGATOUR.COM’s Top 100 Players to Watch in 2012. Unfortunately, just one of those wins came in 2011. Johnson Wagner’s victory at the Mayakoba Golf Classic was the lone TOUR victory among the group. Robert Garrigus, Chez Reavie, [...]
Thanks in part to three birdies in a four-hole span, Hee Young Park collected her first LPGA Tour victory Sunday at the season-ending CME Group Titleholders.
South Korea’s Hee Young Park won the LPGA Tour’s season-ending Titleholders for her first tour victory, closing with a 2-under 70 on Sunday to hold off Paula Creamer and San Gal by two strokes.
South Korea’s Hee Young Park won the LPGA Tour’s season-ending Titleholders for her first tour victory, closing with a 2-under 70 on Sunday to hold off Paula Creamer and San Gal by two strokes.
Dutchman Joost
Luiten celebrated his first European Tour success when he
captured the rain-affected Iskandar Johor Open by one stroke on
Sunday.
• Kruger hits five-under-par in Leopard Creek second round
• George Coetzee drops five shots in last three holes
Jbe Kruger took advantage of a collapse by his fellow South African George Coetzee to race clear in the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek, Malelane.
Coetzee, the only member of the world’s top 100 taking part, led by four shots but then dropped five in the last three holes of his second round.
Kruger, chasing a maiden European Tour victory, stepped in to add a five-under-par 67 to his opening 64 and reach halfway on 131, 13 under. The 25-year-old is four ahead of England’s Seve Benson, the Scot George Murray and the Chilean Felipe Aguilar.
As for the Spaniard Pablo Martin, the winner of the title for the past two years, he finished 155th and joint last after rounds of 81 and 82. They were played alongside Coetzee, who was sailing on smoothly until he found water on the short 7th, his 16th.
After taking five there he duffed a chip on the next and double-bogeyed again, then failed to get out of a greenside bunker at the 9th and dropped another shot.
Kruger, a former Zambia and Zimbabwe Open champion, has missed the cut in the event the last three years but this time has already claimed two eagles and 12 birdies.
Benson had kept pace in the first round but had to settle for a second-round 71. At 163rd on this season’s Tour money list he faces a huge weekend. Only a victory will secure his card for next year.
Murray has no such worries after finishing joint third with Graeme McDowell in the Dunhill Links championship at St Andrews last month.
The 28-year-old from Anstruther started that week 183rd on the Order of Merit and found himself playing with Luke Donald in the final round but outscored the world No1 by three and quadrupled his 2011 earnings.
He added a 69 to his first-round 66 this time while Aguilar, winner of the 2008 Indonesian Open, had a best-of-the-day 64. “As long as you put yourself into contention then you are going to have a fun weekend,” he said.
The former Ryder Cup player Oliver Wilson, on the other hand, missed the cut on three over and at 132nd on the money list could need a top-10 finish at next week’s South African Open to keep his Tour career afloat.
It is only two years ago that the Mansfield golfer was the circuit’s seventh-biggest earner with almost £2m. The nine-times runner-up has earned less than a tenth of that this season.
Sergio Garcia held off fellow Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez to win the Left Handed TaylorMade R11 Driver by one shot on Sunday for his second straight European Tour victory.
Sergio Garcia held off fellow Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez to win the Andalucia Masters by one shot on Sunday for his second straight European Tour victory.
