RYDER CUP BULLETIN European Captain José María Olazábal has named Miguel Angel Jiménez as his fourth Vice Captain for The 2012 Ryder Cup match against the United States at Medinah Country Club, Chicago, Illinois, from September 28-30.
Jiménez will join Thomas Björn, Darren Clarke and Paul McGinley in an accomplished and knowledgeable ‘Backroom Team’ – the four Vice Captains have between them played in 14 Ryder Cups with no fewer than 11 wins to their credit
LPGA
Fifteen-year-old amateur Lydia Ko enters the final round at the CN Canadian Women’s Open with a chance to rewrite the record books. The New Zealander holds a one-shot lead over major champions Stacy Lewis, Inbee Park and Jiyai Shin, and Chella Choi, who is seeking her first win, with 18 holes of play remaining at Vancouver Golf Club. Ko, the winner of the 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur, will make a bid to become the youngest winner in LPGA Tour history tomorrow when she tees it up in the final group. Born in 1997, she will be 15 years, four months and three days old tomorrow, more than 16 months younger than Lexi Thompson, who set the mark last September at the Navistar LPGA Classic.
Despite her youth, Ko’s resume is impressive. She became the youngest winner on any professional golf tour in January at the Women’s New South Wales Open at the age of 14 years, 9 months and 5 days. Her record was later broken by Brooke Henderson, a sponsor’s exemption this week, at a CN Canadian Women’s Tour event in June 2012. Ko was the low amateur at the 2012 U.S. Women’s Open where she tied for 39th. She has won numerous amateur championships in Australian and New Zealand and earlier this season finished tied for 17th at the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne on the LPGA Tour
Sadly the only Canadian of the 15 who started, to make the cut was Jesica Shepley
Jessica Shepley – 73-74 70, 217, +1
-Missed Cut-
T77 - Lorie Kane – 72-76-148, +4
T86 - Samantha Richdale – 77-72-149, +5
T86 – Rebecca Lee-Bentham – 75-74-149, +5
T100 - (a) Natalie Gleadall – 78-72-150, +6
T100 – Isabelle Beisiegel – 76-74-150, +6
T115 – Alena Sharp – 75-76-151, +7
T123 – (a) Christine Wong – 79-73-152, +8
T128 – (a) Brooke Henderson – 77-76-153, +9
T128 – Kirby Dreher – 75-78-153, +9
T128 – (a) Augusta James – 75-78-153, +9
T133 – Sara-Maude Juneau – 81-73-154, +10
T139 – (a) Jisoo Keel – 77-78-155, +11
T148 – (a) Brittany Marchand – 80-77-157, +13
152 – (a) A Ram Choi – 84-77-161, +17
Live scoring http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx
PGA Tour
pgatour.com With no bogeys over his final eight holes, Sergio Garcia turned a three-shot deficit into a two-shot lead over Nick Watney with a 2-under 69. He is at 10-under 203, and only four players were within four shots of the lead. Such were the conditions that Garcia was the only player among the final 18 to finish who broke 70. The greens are lightning quick, brown and baked out, in fact Tiger 3 putted 4 times on route to his 72.
Garcia, who was ranked as low as 103 in the world in putting stats, is putting beautifully these days and after his win last week at Greensboro, he is on his way to surging to the top of the Fed Ex Cup standings..
Kevin Stadler played early, when the greens still had some moisture, and had a remarkable round of 65 without any bogeys. He moved up from a tie for 42nd to alone in third place, three shots behind. Brandt Snedeker started strong and closed with nine pars, which was equally impressive, for a 68 that put him four back
Phil Mickelson might still be in the game. Twice a runner-up at Bethpage Black -- both times in the U.S. Open -- Mickelson played early Saturday and had a 67. That eventually put him in the large group at 4-under 209 that included Woods, Louis Oosthuizen, Lee Westwood and Charl Schwartzel, an impressive collection of players who have either won a major or been No. 1 in the world
David Hearn is T18 at +1 70 73 67 and Graham DeLaet T43 at E 75 67 72
live scoring click http://www.pgatour.com/leaderboards/current/r027/
Canadian Tour
3rd round scoring..
Trey Denton, Madison, MS 70-66-67 (-10)
Eugene Wong, North Vancouver, BC 68-67-68 (-10)
Joe Panzeri, Meridian, ID 70-64-70 (-9)
Stephen Bidne, Surprise, AZ 68-67-69 (-9)
Hugo Leon, Chile 69-69-67 (-8)
Brian Unk, Lewis Center, OH 68-68-69 (-8)
Matt Makinson, Coquitlam, BC 69-67-69 (-8)
Cody Slover, Visalia, CA 60-71-67 (-8)
Kyle Stough, Laurel, MD 68-70-68 (-8)
6 players tied at -7 including Canadians David Byrne, David Markle, Stuart Anderson and Matt Daniel.
(Toronto, Ont., August 25, 2012)golfcanada - After three rounds at the venerable Scarboro Golf & Country Club two men stand atop the packed leaderboard. Rookie professional Eugene Wong of North Vancouver, BC, making his third start on the Canadian Tour and fourth as a pro, is tied with Trey Denton of Mississippi who is making his 32nd start on the Canadian Tour. Both Denton and Wong finished the day at 10-under for the tournament and will play in the final group on Sunday.
Wong, who turned pro in mid-July, has made three of three cuts on the Canadian Tour and is poised to join the winner's circle for the second time in 2012. The 2012 PAC-12 player of the year and former Jack Nicklaus Award winner won earlier this season while still a member of the NCAA's Oregon Ducks.
The highly-touted Wong will need to fend off Denton, who is twice a bridesmaid on the Canadian Tour - coincidentally, with both of those playoff losses coming in Ontario's capital.
Sitting one shot back of Wong and Denton is 2011 International Rookie of the Year Joe Panzeri and Canadian Tour rookie Stephen Bidne. Both Panzeri and Bidne had up and down rounds but managed to finish off strong. For his part Bidne finished the day with an eagle on 16 as well as birdies on 17 and 18. Panzeri meanwhile finished with birdies on two of his last four holes including a clutch birdie on 18
Three players, including 2011 Canadian Tour winners Hugo Leon (ATB Financial Classic) and Brian Unk (Seaforth Country Classic), along with Coquitlam, BC's Matt Makinson are all 8-under and just two shots off the pace. Makinson will be looking to bounce back tomorrow after carrying the outright lead for a brief period at 11-under before a double bogey on the par 4 15th hole derailed his round.
CHAMPIONS Tour
2012 Boeing Classic
Snoqualmie, Washington
TPC Snoqualmie Ridge
pgatour.com ..Sixty-four-year-old Tom Jenkins missed shooting his age by one stroke, but his bogey-free, 7-under 65 was good enough to move him into the top spot after 36 holes of this year’s Boeing Classic. Jenkins is two-strokes in front of Willie Wood, last week’s winner at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open, and five other players, including defending champion Mark Calcavecchia, trail by three.
Canadians Jim Rutledge T48 +1 72,73 and Rod Spittle T8 -5 69 70
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