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In a stunning finish which broke a PGA Tour record that had stood for 58 years, Kevin Streelman claimed his second career PGA Tour victory by birdieing his last seven holes at the TPC River Highlands to steal the Travelers Championship by a single shot.  The 35-year-old Streelman barely registered as an afterthought heading into the weekend as his opening rounds of 69-68 left him eight shots behind halfway leader Scott Langley.  His fortunes improved considerably on Saturday, however, when a six-under-par 64 brought him within four strokes of 54-hole leader Ryan Moore – though much of the ground he’d gained seemed to vanish early on Sunday after two early bogeys left him six in arrears and off the radar screen.  But Streelman partially righted the ship with a birdie at the par-4 9th, then caught fire at the 12th, where he began a dash home that ultimately saw him hole a 40-footer for birdie at the 16th and, knowing he had a chance to win, a nine-footer at the last for his second consecutive 64 and a 265 total.  The charge allowed Streelman to overtake Sergio Garcia (67) and K.J. Choi (67), as well as Aaron Baddeley (69), all of who had spent the back nine jockeying for the lead until being passed just before the wire.  Streelman finished his round with an amazing 10 straight one-putts, and his seven-birdie closing barrage bettered the old record for consecutive closing birdies (set by Mike Souchak in the 1956 St. Paul Open) by one..................Finland's Mikko Ilonen celebrated the occasion of his 300th European Tour start with his fourth career victory on the circuit, hanging on down the stretch to claim a wire-to-wire triumph at the Irish Open.  The 34-year-old Ilonen, who long ago won the 1999 Western Ireland Amateur, grabbed his initial lead on Thursday via a course record-setting 64 that included birdies on five of his last seven holes.  The lead was expanded to two strokes after a Friday 68, then shrunk to one through 54 holes when Ilonen added a Saturday 69 while England's Danny Willett set a new course record with a 63 that included a hole-in-one at the 179-yard 7th and birdies over four of his final five holes.  Sunday initially shaped up as a battle between these two, with Ilonen going out in 34 and Willet overcoming a bogey at the 165-yard 3rd to turn in 35.  Willett, however, failed to mount a back nine charge, coming home in one-over-par 36 to finish in a tie for third.  Ilonen too only held his ground down the homestretch, recording pars at holes 10-17.  This left the door slightly open for Edoardo Molinari and the 33-year-old Italian indeed made a late move, recording birdies at the 13th, 16th and 18th to finish on 272.  Unfortunately this still left him two behind Ilonen, whose cautious bogey at the 532-yard closer saw him home a winner.  Molinari's run was not entirely in vain, however, as he, Willett and England's Matthew Baldwin all earned spots in the upcoming British Open field via their high finishes..................Yoshitaka Takeya, who'd never previously finished a season ranked higher than 134th in annual earnings, claimed his first Japan Tour victory at the Japan Golf Tour Championship, in Ibaraki.  The 34-year-old Takeya had never posted even a single top 10 on the circuit but wasted little time in taking charge this week, carding opening rounds of 69-65 to share the halfway lead with one of the tour's hottest players, Dong-Kyu Jang of South Korea.  Both players then added Saturday 69s to share a three-stroke 54-hole lead over Sang-Hee Lee and Kyung-Tae Kim, setting up a finale which saw Jang tumble from contention with a closing 73 marred by a triple-bogey eight at the 519-yard 2nd.  Takeya, meanwhile, reached the 9th tee one under par on the day, then proceeded to reel off five consecutive birdies, building a lead large enough that bogeys at the 71st and 72nd did little more than cut the margin of victory to two strokes over Lee, who closed with 67.

Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 12:38PM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

Week 25 Results

PGA Tour - Travelers Championship  -  Kevin Streelman  (265)
European Tour - Irish Open  -  Mikko Ilonen  (271)
Japan Tour - Japan Golf Tour Championship - Yoshitaka Takeya  (271)
LPGA Tour - U.S. Women's Open  -  Michelle Wie  (278)
LET - Allianz Ladies Slovak Open  -  Camilla Lennarth  (277)
JLPGA Tour - Nichirei Ladies  -  Ji-Yai Shin  (204)
Champions Tour - Encompass Championship  -  Tom Lehman  (201)
Web.com Tour - Air Capital Classic  -  Sebastian Capellen  (262)
E Challenge Tour - Belgian Challenge Open  -  William Harrold  (266)
Symetra Tour - Four Winds Invitational  -  Nicole Vandermade  (204)

Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2014 at 12:02PM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

Around Pinehurst

In a unique experiment which saw the U.S. Women's Open contested over the very same golf course only four days later, the United States Open returned to the No.2 Course at Pinehurst in 2014 - but to rather a different layout than that which had previously hosted the Open in 1999 and 2005.  This was because of a significant restoration/renovation performed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, a major undertaking that included the rebuilding of greens and bunkers, and the replacement (with native sand and wire grass) of the rough which had usurped Donald Ross' splendid sand-strewn playing corridors over the decades.  The result was a striking layout which, it could be boasted, utilizes nearly 75% less water than before - a wonderful environmental advancement certainly, but really only a drop in the bucket relative to so many extra acres of maintained turf required of most championship courses due the USGA's failure to regulate modern equipment.  Especially in its enhanced state, Pinehurst's 7,562-yard, par-70 layout would prove rather a different sort of Open site, with its wide fairways (and lack of punishing rough) enouraging more aggressive driving, and the often steep pitch of its greens mandating a somewhat more lenient setup in terms of speed and firmness.  In theory, it was a golf course that might produce a wider-than-usual array of contenders.  But in the event, it was strictly a one man show.  Martin Kaymer took control of this U.S. Open on Thursday when, after watching some lower-than-expected scoring on television in the morning, he methodically took Pinehurst apart in the afternoon with a stunning round of five-under-par 65.  He opened with a birdie at the 402-yard 1st and, save for a bogey at the 424-yard 7th, never looked back, eventually playing Pinehurst’s vaunted final five holes in three-under par, logging birdies at the 473-yard 14th, the 528-yard par-4 16th and the 202-yard par-3 7th.  And it would be this late run which gained him separation from the field as his lead was three strokes over 2010 Open winner Graeme McDowell, Brendon de Jonge, the recently hot Kevin Na and 49-year-old journeyman Fran Quinn, whose last U.S. Open start came way back in 1996.  In broadcaster parlance Saturday is “moving day,” but it was on Friday that Kaymer simply left the rest of the field behind, posting a second consecutive 65 (this time bogey-free) to set a new 36-hole Open scoring record and, more importantly, extend his lead to an imposing six shots.  This margin itself tied a record (set by Tiger Woods in 2000 and Rory McIlroy in 2011) and in the process Kaymer became only the sixth player in the event’s 114 playings ever to reach double digits under par.  Though scoring was not dramatically low overall, Kaymer’s barrage may have inspired the USGA to toughen things up on Saturday, with two-time Open winner Retief Goosen (who shot 71) suggesting that “Some of the pins look like they’re about to fall off the greens.”  And on a day when scores did indeed climb, Kaymer suffered through several semi-anxious early moments, bogeying the long 2nd before having to take an unplayable lie off a wayward drive at the long par-4 4th, then ultimately holing a clutch 15-footer for bogey.  But if so one-sided an event could have anything resembling a turning point, Kaymer provided it at the par-5 5th when, after driving into a native area, he laced a 7 iron inside six feet, then converted the putt for an eagle to regain both of his lost strokes.  Three more bogeys would follow but with his lead trimmed to four, Kaymer recorded a clutch birdie at the 451-yard 18th, thus ending the day with his cushion relatively intact at five strokes.  Putting to rest any chance for a Sunday collaspse, Kaymer's closing 69 was the sole sub-70 round turned in by anyone in the final eight pairings.  And while nobody ever moved closer than four strokes throughout the day, there were, at least a few moments of semi-suspense in the latter stages of the front nine.  This came about when Kaymer, who had already birdied the driveable par-4 3rd, made bogey after driving into the native sand at the 7th, then lay shy of the green at the 502-yard par-4 8th after again missing the fairway off the tee.  With Compton at that moment sitting on four under par, the potential for the lead to dwindle to three was apparent.  But Kaymer got it up-and-down at the 8th, Compton bogeyed the 9th, and Kaymer promptly birdied the 9th by stuffing an eight iron to within four feet, pushing the lead back to five and, for all intents and purposes, slamming the door.  His stroll home was an easy one and when he holed a 15-footer for par at the last, Kaymer emerged as both the first German and the first continental European ever to claim the American championship.  He also became only the seventh wire-to-wire winner in the Open’s history and joined Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Seve Ballesteros and Ernie Els as the only players to win two Major championships before their 30th birthday since the onset of the Official World Ranking in 1986.  As Rickie Fowler so succinctly put it: “Martin was playing his own tournament.”  And so he was.

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Week 24 Results

PGA Tour - U.S. Open  -  Martin Kaymer  (271)
JLPGA Tour - Suntory Ladies Open  -  Sun-Ju Ahn  (274)
E Challenge Tour - Najeti Hoetels Open  -  Jordi Garcia Pinto  (277)
Symetra Tour - Decatur-Forsyth Classic  -  Madison Pressel  (210)

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Emerging from a three-year victory drought with a golf swing reconfigured to ease pressure on his oft-injured back, Ben Crane claimed his fifth career PGA Tour victory at the FedEx St Jude Classic, the Tour’s final tune-up prior to the U.S. Open.  After opening with a bogey-free seven-under-par 63, Crane’s win was, in fact, wire-to-wire – though with heavy rains preventing play from finishing on each of the first three days, it did not readily appear that way.  But a second round 65 (whose only bogey came at the par-4 18th) cushioned Crane’s lead significantly before Saturday’s weather sent him home with 12 holes left to play in his third round.  He then completed those 12 in par figures on Sunday morning, and thus retained a three-stroke lead over Troy Merritt, which, in turn, allowed a relatively cautious approach to Sunday afternoon’s finale.  Indeed, Crane’s approach proved so cautious that he carded a three-over-par 73 (which included a safe bogey at the last) and held on to edge Merritt by only one – and in the process become the first man to win on the PGA Tour without a final-round birdie since Justin Leonard did it in this same event in 2005.  Among the marquee names preparing for the upcoming U.S. Open, 2012 Open champion Webb Simpson (who closed with 66) tied for third with Matt Every (70) and Carl Pettersson (69), while Ian Poulter carded Sunday’s low round (a 64) en route to finishing in a five-way tie for sixth.  Phil Mickelson, meanwhile, moved into the edges of Sunday contention after birdieing the 11th and 12th holes but ultimately fell bak to close with 72, and a tie for 11th……………… Playing against a relatively light field in the week before the U.S. Open, Sweden’s Mikael Lundberg ended a six-year victory drought by defeating homestanding Bernd Wiesberger on the first hole of sudden death to claim the Lyoness Open, in Austria.  The 43-year-old Lundberg (whose two previous E Tour victories had both come in the Russian Open) began the week in fine form, posting rounds of 67-68 to take a one-shot halfway lead over England’s Lee Slattery.  He crumbled badly on Saturday, however, double-bogeying the 376-yard 3rd early and later adding four back nine bogeys en route to a seemingly crippling 76.  But now trailing 54-hole leader (and defending champion) Joost Luiten by six, Lundberg mounted a major Sunday charge, birdieing four of his first five holes to pull into contention, then ultimately posting four more birdies at holes 11-15 to post a closing 65 and take the early clubhouse lead.  In close pursuit were Luiten and Wiesberger, the event’s 2012 winner and the clear favorite among the Austrian gallery.  Luiten, for his part, played uneven golf on Sunday, matching four birdies with four bogeys through his first 15 holes, then coming up one stroke shy when he couldn’t find one more birdie among the final three.  But Wiesberger fared better, actually taking the lead (via his fifth birdie of the day) at the 607-yard 15th before bogeying the 591-yard 16th, and ultimately deadlocking with Lundberg on 276.  The playoff hole was the par-3 18th, where Lundberg proceeded to stun the gallery by holing a tricky downhill 40-footer for birdie, and just that quickly the title was his……………… Forty-five-year-old Taichi Teshima’s last victory on the Japan Golf Tour came at the 2007 Casio World Open, yet despite this seven-year lull, he held together admirably during an up-and-down final to ultimately claim his seventh career title, the venerable Japan PGA Championship.  Teshima, who finished 70th in 2013 J Tour earnings and might well have been considered in the twilight of his career, opened with rounds of 70-68-69 at the Golden Valley Golf Club, good enough to take a one-shot 54-hole lead over recent Kansai Open winner Koumei Oda and South Korea’s Kyung-Hoon Lee.  He then solidified his position by opening with two birdies on Sunday before bogeys at the 8th and 10th brought him back towards the field.  Timely birdies at the 12th and 14th rebuilt his cushion, however, ultimately allowing Teshima the luxury of bogeying the 472-yard 16th and still winning by one.  Oddly, both Oda and Lee matched Teshima’s closing 71, though both had significant chances at victory.  Oda, for his part, fell off the lead by bogeying the 14th, 15th and 16th, while Lee lost his chance with bogeys at the 15th and 16th……………… Thailand’s 47-year-old Thaworn Wiratchant has long been a force on the Asian PGA Tour and that trend continued in his homeland as Wiratchant notched his 17th career victory on the circuit with a come-from-behind triumph at the Queen’s Cup.  After an opening 71 left him five shots behind countryman Poom Saksansin, Wiratchant fell one shot further behind Saksansin with a second round 68, then crept back within five (and four behind Bangladesh’s Siddikur Rahman) following a Saturday 67.  He would surely need some help on Sunday, then, and both Saksansin and Siddikur were relatively obliging, each closing with one-over-par rounds of 72 (Siddikur finishing with a heartbreaking bogey at the last).  This left the door somewhat ajar and Wiratchant promptly crashed through it, turning in 34 before adding birdies at the 11th, 12th and 14th.  A bogey at the par-4 17th drew him briefly back to 11 under par but with everything on the line, Wiratchant coolly rolled in a five-footer for birdie at the par-5 finisher which, ombined with Siddikur’s stumble, secured the win……………… Less than a week shy of his 28th birthday, South African Lyle Rowe broke through for his maiden Sunshine Tour victory, closing with a five-under-par 68 to claim the Zambia Sugar Open in Lusaka.  After opening with a disappointing 76, Rowe played himself into the third round lead via middle rounds of 69-66, then pulled steadily away from the field under cold and windy conditions on Sunday.  He began his runaway with birdies at the 1st, 2nd and 4th to turn in 32, then added a fourth birdie at the 531-yard 10th.  His momentum was briefly stemmed by a bogey at the short par-3 11th, but Rowe responded by stepping on the gas once more and adding three more birdies, first at the 12th, then on back-to-back par 5s at the 13th and 14th.  By this point the lead had grown to five, with only an irrelevant bogey at the 564-yard closer allowing runner-up Neil Schietekat to pull within four, while P.H. McIntyre and Ulrich van den Berg shared third, a full six shots back. 

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Week 23 Results

PGA Tour - FedEx St Jude Classic  -  Ben Crane  (270)
European Tour - Lyoness Open  -  Mikael Lundberg  (276)
Japan Tour - Japan PGA Championship  -  Taichi Teshima  (279)
Asian Tour - Queen's Cup  -  Thaworn Wiratchant  (272)
Sunshine Tour - Zambia Sugar Open  -  Lyle Rowe  (279)
LPGA Tour - Manulife Financial LPGA Classic  -  Inbee Park  (261)
JLPGA Tour - Yonex Ladies  -  Misuzu Narita  (208)
Champions Tour - Legends of Golf  -  Fred Funk & Jeff Sluman  (159)
Euro Senior Tour - ISPS Handa PGA Seniors Championship  -  Santiago Luna  (270)
Web.com Tour - Cleveland Open  -  Steve Alker  (270)
E Challenge Tour - Fred Olsen Challenge de Espana  -  Moritz Lampert  (264)
Symetra Tour - FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship  -  Min Seo Kwak  (204)

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Marked for international stardom since winning back-to-back Asia-Pacific Amateurs (and their associated Masters exemptions) in 2010 and ’11, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama went a long way towards validating those predictions by scoring his first PGA Tour win, a playoff triumph over Kevin Na at the Memorial Tournament.  It was a wild week at Muirfield Village, beginning with Rory McIlroy’s Thursday 63 (which included a double-bogey), a superb round which the streaking Northern Irishman promptly followed with a disastrous 78.  But the event’s real ups and downs were saved for the final nine on Sunday, when a host of big name contenders held or shared the lead, all to collapse near the close.  The  biggest crash came from Masters champion Bubba Watson, who seemed well on his way to his third win of the year before bogeying the short par-4 14th, then carding a double-bogey at the par 5 15th after hooking his tee shot miles out of bounds.  He could do no better than three pars thereafter, missing the playoff by a shot.  World number one Adam Scott also had his chances, grabbing a share of the lead through 11 holes before a watery double-bogey at the par-3 12th (and subsequent bogeys at holes 14-16) ended his hopes.  And then there was Matsuyama who, following Watson’s collapse, stood two ahead before promptly double-bogeying the 16th (with a water-bound tee shot) and bogeying the 17th.  Enter the 30-year-old Na, who’d teed off two hours before the leaders and carded an eight-under-par 64 to get in the clubhouse at 13-under-par 275.  Needing a birdie to tie him, Matsuyama stuffed his approach at the 18th inside six feet, holed the putt, then promptly won with an up-and-down par on the first playoff hole (the 18th) after Na pulled his drive left, into a creek……………Though not quite as impressive as 50-year-old two-time 2014 winner Miguel Angel Jimenez, 44-year-old Thongchai Jaidee continued his own measure of agelessness at the Nordea Masters, besting Victor Dubuisson and Stephen Gallacher on the first hole of sudden death to claim his sixth career European Tour title.  Following rounds of 69-70-68, Jaidiee trailed 54-hole leaders Henrik Stenson and Eddie Pepperell by four shots on Saturday night but wasted little time mounting a charge on Sunday, birdieing his first three holes en route to an outgoing 33, then adding an eagle at the 552-yard 11th and birdies at both the 14th and the par-3 15th on his way to a seven-under-par 65.  With both Stenson (71) and Pepperell (72) playing well enough only to linger on the periphery of contention, Jaidee was left to do battle primarily with Dubuisson and Gallacher, with the former having the best chance to win outright.  But having birdied five of his first 11 holes to get to 16 under par, Dubuisson could only manage pars over his final seven holes, eventually three-putting for par from just off the fringe at the par-5 18th.  Gallacher, meanwhile, stood four under on the day and 16 under overall through 16 holes, bogeyed the 209-yard 17th to fall back, then holed a 20-foot birdie putt at the last to fight his way into the playoff.  But the extra session would be short-lived as Jaidee managed to birdie the 18th while Dubuisson and Gallacher could only manage pars, and just that quickly it was over……………In an event which, in recent years, has become as noteworthy for the British Open berths it awards as for the intrinsic value of its title, South Korea’s Dong-Kyu Jang claimed both with a three-shot victory at the Mizuno Open.  The 25-year-old Jang stood two shots off the halfway lead following rounds of 70-67, then jumped into a two-shot 54-hole lead of his own following a third round 67.  With four Open Championship spots up for grabs, winning was not an absolute necessity, but Jang went out in 33 before being slowed by bogeys at the par-5 11th and the 13th.  But with his lead now trimmed to one, Jang rallied to birdie both the 17th and 18th to pull away at the wire.  His closest third round pursuer, Juvic Pagunsan of the Philippines, closed with a 70 to nail down the second Open slot, while a pair of players who mounted strong Sunday charges, South Korea’s Hyung-Tae Kim (66) and Japan’s Tomohiro Kondo (67) tied for third to claim the final two berths.  Also gaining places in the Royal Liverpool field were Japan’s Yusaku Miyazato and South Korea’s Hyung-Sung Kim, who stood first and second in the Japan Tour Order of Merit after the completion of play.

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Week 22 Results

PGA Tour - Memorial Tournament  -  Hideki Matsuyama  (275)
European Tour - Nordea Masters  -  Thongchai Jaidee  (272)
Japan Tour - Mizuno Open  -  Dong-Kyu Jang  (273)
LPGA Tour - ShopRite LPGA Classic  -  Stacy Lewis  (197)
JLPGA Tour - Resort Trust Ladies  -  Teresa Lu  (201)
Champions Tour - Principal Charity Classic  -  Tom Pernice Jr  (204)
E Challenge Tour - D+D Real Czech Challenge  -  Thomas Linard  (269)

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Less than a week after achieving world number one status for the first time in his career, Adam Scott greatly solidified his position atop the Official World Ranking by winning the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, defeating reigning PGA champion Jason Dufner on the third hole of sudden death.  Both Scott and Dufner began Sunday’s final round in a seven-way tie for 11th place, yet only two strokes behind leaders David Toms, Chris Stroud, Hideki Matsuyama and Chad Campbell.  Campbell (74) fell from contention with back-to-back double-bogeys at the 6th and 7th while Stroud and Matsuyama remained in the mix until getting derailed early in the final nine.  Toms, however, maintained a one shot lead at the turn before bogeys at the 10th, 13th and 14th ultimately dashed his hopes.  Scott and Dufner, meanwhile, mounted charges, with Scott getting to three under par on the day before double-bogeying the par-4 9th, then bouncing back with a three-under-par 32 on the back to close with 66, and a 271 total.  Dufner, meanwhile, stood four under through 10, missed a short par putt at the par-5 11th, then regained that lost stroke with a clutch 25-foot birdie putt at the last.  After both men parred the first extra hole (the 18th), Dufner stuffed his approach inside of five feet at the 17th but could do no more than extend the playoff after Scott holed from 14 feet before him.  Finally, upon returning to the 18th, Scott made his second straight birdie (this time from seven feet) to clinch the title..................In a week in which his much-publicized wedding plans with Danish tennis star Caroline Wozniacki were finally cancelled for good, Rory McIlroy seemed to find that bachelorhood indeed suited his golf game, as he roared home with a final round 66 to claim the European Tour's flagship event, the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.  The victory was his first worldwide in 2014 and seemed to put an exclamation point on the on-again, off-again relationship whose tribulations seemed at times to affect the performance of the former world number one over the previous 18 months.  McIlroy - like most of the field - seemed largely irrelevant on a Thursday which saw Denmark's Thomas Bjorn break the Wentworth course record with a stunning 62, enough to give him a two stroke lead over Ireland's Shane Lowry and three over Spain's Rafael Cabrera-Bello.  And indeed for two more days the event appeared firmly under Bjorn's control, particularly after he reeled off six consecutive back nine birdies en route to posting a Saturday 67, staking him to a five-shot 54-hole lead over Luke Donald and six over the resilient Lowry.  But having slept on so huge a lead, Bjorn struggled on Sunday, triple-bogeying the 418-yard 6th en route to an outgoing 39 that allowed numerous players back into the fray.  Lowry, for his part, hung close after eagling the 4th and birdieing the 5th, but an eventual double-bogey at the 470-yard 13th, followed by a bogey at the 15th, ultimately relegated him to second.  McIlroy, meanwhile, also eagled the 4th on his way to an outgoing 34, then birdied the 10th, 12th and 13th to move into the lead.  Finally, with his biggest victory since the 2012 PGA Championship laying within reach, he birdied both of the two closing par-5s to hold off Lowry by one..................Beginning the final round four shots off the lead, 35-year-old Koumei Oda roared home with a closing 67 to claim his seventh career Japan Tour title - and in dramatic fashion - at the Kansai Open.  Oda began the week quietly with a 71 before lifting himself into a 54-hole tie for third via middle rounds of 66-69.  Paired with the two men in front of him - leader Yoshinori Fujimoto and Tetsuji Hiratsuka - on Sunday, he closed to within three shots at the turn via an outgoing 34, then drew within one of Fujimoto with birdies at the 12th and 14th.  Both players bogeyed the 475-yard 15th, and when Fujimoto followed that by bogeying the 204-yard 16th, the pair were deadlocked.  Fours at the 17th brought them to the 72nd tee still square at which point Oda called forth his most brilliant golf, reaching the 563-yard 18th in two and holing his putt for eagle, pulling away to win by two..................Thirty-two-year-old Christiaan Basson won for the third time on the Sunshine Tour, posting a remarkable bogey-free 197 total to cruise to a five-shot triumph at the Lombard Insurance Classic.  A winner of the 2012 Royal Swazi Open on this same golf course, Basson began the week with a relatively quiet 69 before a second round 66 brought him to within two strokes of 36-hole leader Jake Redman.  But Basson's Sunday finale was a round to remember as he made three early birdies to turn in 33, then caught fire on the back nine, making two birdies and an eagle (at the 504-yard 12th) early, then birdieing his final three holes to come home in 29, for a career-best 62.  Among those tying for second, Redman held up nicely under the final round pressure, standing four under par through the 13th and ultimately closing with a fine 69 - yet he wasn't even within shouting distance.

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Week 21 Results

PGA Tour - Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial  -  Adam Scott  (271)
European Tour - BMW PGA Championship  -  Rory McIlroy  (274)
Japan Tour - Kansai Open  -  Koumei Oda  (273)
Sunshine Tour - Lombard Insurance Classic  -  Christiaan Basson  (197)
LatinoAmerica - Lexus Panama Classic  -  Julian Etulain  (271)
LPGA Tour - Airbus LPGA Classic  -  Jessica Korda  (268)
LET - Deloitte Ladies Open  -  Kylie Walker  (213)
JLPGA Tour - Bridgestone Ladies Open  -  Sun-Ju Ahn  (208)
Champions Tour - Senior PGA Championship  -  Colin Montgomerie  (271)
Euro Senior Tour - See Champions Tour (Above)
Web.com Tour - Rex Hospital Open  -  Byron Smith  (268)
E Challenge Tour - Karnten Golf Open  -  Moritz Lampert  (265)
Symetra Tour - Symetra Classic  -  Mallory Blackwelder  (206)

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