L.A native Merrick wins playoff at Riviera.. final scoring, all Canucks...this week in golf

PGA TOUR - NORTHERN TRUST OPEN
 Riviera Country Club (7,349 yards, par 71).
$6.6 million. Winner’s share: $1,188,000.

CANADIANS : Stephen Ames WD, Graham DeLaet T26 -2 72,68   David Hearn MC 74,75   Mike Weir MC 75 72


Round 2 wrap

pgatour.com  John Merrick, who lives an hour away from Riviera and went to school at UCLA is 30 and had never won on tour before. Yesterday he hit the perfect shot under the trees on the 18th to escape with par, and he followed with another flawless shot to a skinny section of the 10th green on the second playoff hole to 18 feet. He made another par, and won when Charlie Beljan missed a 5-foot par putt.
It was the second straight year the Northern Trust Open was decided in a playoff on the 10th, a diabolical par 4 at 315 yards that requires skill and strategy, a hole where players are happy to walk off with par. Beljan made bogey twice on the 10th, once in a regulation and then when the tournament was on the line

Merrick had a 69 and finished at 11-under 273.

Fredrik Jacobson missed a 4-foot par putt on the 18th hole that would have put the Swede in a playoff. He wound up with a 69 and tied for third with Charl Schwartzel (70) and Bill Haas (73), who also had chances to win at different stages in their rounds.

The final round contained far more drama than anyone imagined at the start of the day, when Bill Haas (73) had a three-shot lead. Six players were separated by one shot going into the final hour at Riviera, and it easily could have been a repeat of that six-man playoff in 2001 in the cold rain

No one was more disgusted than Schwartzel, the former Masters champion. One shot out of the lead, he missed a 10-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th, and then three-putted the 17th, missing a 6-footer for birdie. He closed with a 70 and tied for third, his seventh straight finish in the top five around the world.

Graham DeLaet had a solid week T21 72 68 69 72 -3




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LPGA TOUR/ALPG/LET - WOMEN’S AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Royal Canberra Golf Club (6,679 yards, par 73).
$1.2 million. Winner’s share: $181,500.


CANADIANS: Maude-Aimee Leblanc DQ, Sara-Maude Juneau MC 74 76, Stephanie Sherlock T55 74 7175 69  -3, Lorie Kane MC 74 72, Rebecca Lee-Bentham T18 66 74 76 69 -7


Round 4 wrap

lpgatour.com   Jiyai Shin (@sjy1470) outdueled amateur Lydia Ko (@lko424) and held off a surging Yani Tseng (@YaniTseng) to capture her 11^th LPGA Tour victory at the ISPS Handa Australian Women’s Open

Shin carded three birdies and two bogeys for a 1-under 72 to finish 18-under for the 2-stroke victory over Yani Tseng

From the looks of the first three holes, it may have appeared that Lydia Ko was giving into the big stage pressure when the third round co-leader double bogeyed and bogeyed the first two holes, making a four shot turnaround after Shin birdied the par 5 No. 1.

But the fifteen-year old posted back-to-back birdies on Nos. 4 and 5 while Shin bogeyed the par 4 5^th to close the gap to one. Ko bogeyed No. 10 to drop two shots back but a two shot swing came on No. 12 when she sank an 18-foot birdie putt to tie things up when Shin found trouble in the greenside bunker for a bogey.

But Shin pulled away after back-to-back birdies on Nos. 14 and 15 while Ko had bogeys on both the 14^th and 17^th. Shin was impressed with Ko’s fight throughout the round and assured the young superstar that she’ll have plenty of chances down the road.

Rebecca Lee Bentham had a solid week T18 66 74 76 69 -7 .





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CHAMPIONS TOUR - ACE GROUP CLASSIC
The TwinEagles Club, Talon Course (7,193 yards, par 72).
$1.6 million. Winner’s share: $240,000.

CANADIANS: Jim Rutledge T20 -3 71 73 69
 

Round 3 wrap

Bernhard Langer two-putted for par from 50 feet on the 18th to finish at 12-under 204, surviving three bogeys and a double bogey to finish one stroke ahead of Jay Don Blake at TwinEagles' Talon Course.

The winner in 2011 and the runner-up last year, Langer earned his 17th victory on the tour. It's the seventh year the 55-year-old has won at least one tournament on the Champions Tour

Tom Pernice Jr. tied for third with John Cook, who birdied Nos. 16 and 18 for a 68 that left him at 9-under 207. David Frost and Rocco Mediate, a Calusa Pines Golf Club member, tied for fifth at 8-under.


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EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR - AFRICA OPEN
East London Golf Club (6,632 yards, par 72).
$1.34 million. Winner’s share: $212,170.



Round 4 wrap

Darren Fichardt overcame some late jitters to seal a fourth European Tour title at the Africa Open and ensure the trophy remained in South African hands for another year.

The 37 year old began the final round tied at the top of the leaderboard with compatriot Jaco Van Zyl, and there was initially no separating the pair until Fichardt pulled four shots clear around the turn.

Three bogeys in four holes left the door open for Van Zyl, but he was unable to take full advantage and Fichardt’s one under par 71 and 16 under total gave him a two shot victory over Van Zyl and France’s Grégory Bourdy.

It represented a fourth straight victory for the home nation, after Charl Schwartzel (2010) and fellow Major Champion Louis Oosthuizen (2011 and 2012) won the first three stagings.





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PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA - QUALIFYING SCHOOL, NO. 2
Sun N Lake Golf Club - Deer Run

CANADIANS: David Markle T63 77 70 76 76 +11, Jace Walker T75 73 75 78 75 +13, Matt Johnston T19 71 69 77 71 (E thru 12) +1, Peter Campbell MC 76 74 , Adam Cornelson T21 76 73 72 69 +2, Derek Gillespie T25 74 74 75 69 +3, Billy Houle MC 78 78 +12, Tai Gyu Kang  80 80 72 78 +22


Round 4 wrap 

126 players were competing for 20 full-time Tour cards in 2013 and American Jhared Hack came out on top at -12. Canadian Matt Johnston made the top 20 T19 E  71 69 77 71, but heartbreak for Adam Cornelson who missed by a shot T21 76 73 72 69 +2


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eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR - PALMETTO HALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Palmetto Hall Plantation, Robert Cupp Course (7,079 yards, par 72) and Arthur Hills Course (6,918 yards, par 72

CANADIANS: Cam Burke T16 E 72 68,74 74 Greg Doherty T51 +6 73 73,73 75 Robbie Greenwell T34 E 69 75,74 74 Matt Hill T69 +15 74 70 80 79,      Mackenzie Hughes MC +2 74, Christopher Magi (a) MC +8 80, Ryan Terdik MCT150



Round 4 wrap

Matt Hendrix of Greenville, SC entered the final round of the eGolf Tour’s Palmetto Hall Championship with the hopes of earning his first tour title, prior to venturing to South America to open up the 2013 Web.com Tour season.

Through 10 holes in Sunday’s final round, the former amateur star had an eight-shot lead and a stranglehold on the event’s $18,000 first-place prize. The rest was a mere formality, as Hendrix polished off a closing 1-under 71 to post 15-under 273 and lock up his first professional win.



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GATEWAY PRO TOUR
Anthem Golf and Country Club, Ironwood, AZ (7,247 yards, par 72)

CANADIANS   Dallas Mengel MC , Ryan Desharnais MC , Quinn Carbol MC , Jordan Krantz T32 +3 69 73 77, Thomas Hay MC,  Craig Gibson MC,  Glen Lengyel MC, Keith Martin T32 +3 75 68 76, Steven Shantz MC, Richard Boychuk MC, James Love T13 -6 71 65 74, Beon Yeong Lee T25 E 71 73 72, Tyler LeBouthillier T38 +9 68 75 82, Brennan Rumancik MC, Jeff Graham MC, Aaron Crawford MC, Wes Heffernan MC, Kent Eger T3 -8 71 71 66, Tyler Mancini MC, Eric Hawerchuk MC
  

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CACTUS TOUR
COURSE: Foothills Golf Club (6,377 yards, par 72)
CANADIANS: Alena Sharp, Jessica Wallace

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SUNCOAST LADIES TOUR
LPGA International Legends Course (6,448 yards, par 72)
CANADIANS: Danielle Mills T4 +2 73 72 73, Natalie Gleadall T19 +8 76 70 78, Chelcia Petersen, Ellen O'Brien


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