McIlroy catches Scott on the last hole to win Australian Open... Live scoring

Emirates Australian Open
November 28 - December 1, 2013
Royal Sydney Golf Club,
Sydney

Round 4 Final

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy has snatched the Emirates Australian Open title from the hands of Adam Scott to claim his first victory of the year at Royal Sydney Golf Club.

Trailing Scott for the majority of Sunday, the World Number 6 sunk a 12 foot birdie on the 18th green to collect his first title since November 2012, while it was heartbreak for Scott who bogeyed the last.

McIlroy’s final round of 6-under 66 was just too good for Scott who with a 1-under 71, (his worst round of the tournament), finished at 17-under the card in second position.

2006 Australian Open Champion John Senden finished in third position, for his trouble claiming one of three spots up for grabs in the 2014 Open Championship.


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Alfred Dunhill Championship
Leopard Creek GC
Malelane RSA

Round 4  Final

Charl Schwartzel continued his remarkable sequence of results at Leopard Creek Country Club with a four shot victory over a spirited Richard Finch in the Alfred Dunhill Championship.

A winner by 12 shots last year, the 29 year old has also been a runner-up four times in the event where he collected his first European Tour title in 2005.

After a double bogey on the tenth hole of his first round, the World Number 21 went 62 holes without dropping a shot and a closing 67 saw him finish 17 under par for the week.

 

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"Double Down Under"..Jason Day wins leads Australia to World Cup

It was originally called the Canada Cup when it was founded back in 1953 by Canadian industrialist John Jay Hopkins, who hoped it would promote international goodwill through golf. They changed its name to the World Cup in 1967 and it traveled the globe and grew to be one of golf's most prestigious tournaments throughout the 1960s and 1970s, but interest in the event faded to the point that the event was not held in 1981 or 1986.

After 3 years from 2007 through 2009 at the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China it was changed to a bi-centennial event and this year it is at the Royal Melbourne GC in Australia with a format that will mimic the Olympic format in 2016

Players in the top 15 on the Official World Golf Ranking gain access to the World Cup, with the exception that there will be no more than four players for any country. After the top 15, up to two players are allowed per country until the field of about 60 is filled.

Individual stroke-play was instituted this year for all four rounds to mirror the Olympic format, and the best two scores from each country will determine the team placings.

The individual competition offers $7 million in prize money. The winning individual player gets $1.2 million; the winning team gets $600,000. Twenty-five teams played, including David Hearn of Brampton, Ontario and Brad Fritsch of Ottawa for Canada




PGA TOUR/EUROPEAN TOUR - WORLD CUP OF GOLF
COURSE: Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Composite Course (7,024 yards, par 71).
PURSE (INDIVIDUAL): $7 million. Winner’s share: $1.2 million.
PURSE (TEAM): $1 million. Winners’ shares: $300,000 each.

CANADIANS  David Hearn 70 71 71 71, Brad Fritsch 71 73 70 73

Round 4 final
After nearly withdrawing due to a family tragedy, Jason Day made an emotional return to golf at the ISPS HANDA World Cup of Golf to win his first tournament in more than three years at Royal Melbourne on Sunday.

His 7-foot putt to save par on the 16th hole held off a faltering Thomas Bjorn. Day had a 70 for a 10-under total of 274. That was two strokes better than Denmark's Bjorn, who finished with a 71 after two late bogeys.
Day's last victory came at the HP Byron Nelson Championship on the PGA TOUR in 2010, although he's had four top-five finishes in majors since 2011.

The World Cup was Day's first tournament in five weeks and came less than two weeks after he learned that eight of his relatives, including his grandmother, died in the devastating Nov. 9 typhoon in the Philippines.

Masters champion Adam Scott finished third after a 66, three strokes behind. Scott, who was trying to win his third tournament in a row, shot a 75 on the opening day, including a 9 on the 12th hole, and spent the rest of the tournament trying to catch up.

Day earned $1.2 million for winning the individual title and helped Australia win the team portion of the World Cup. Day and Scott, who each holed approach shots for eagles Sunday, shared the $600,000 first-place team prize.
American Matt Kuchar shot a 71 to finish fourth in individual stroke-play, three behind Day.

Ryo Ishikawa of Japan (69) and Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand (70) finished tied for fifth, seven behind the winner

David Hearn 71 and Brad Fritsch 73 ended up 5th in the team standings


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LPGA TOUR - CME GROUP TITLEHOLDERS
COURSE: Tiburon Golf Club (6,540 yards, par 72).
PURSE: $2 million. Winner’s share: $700,000.

CANADIANS: Rebecca Lee-Bentham 65 76 75 75 +3

Round 4 Final

Shanshan Feng of China seized control early and was flawless in the final round of the LPGA Tour season, closing with a 6-under 66 to win the LPGA Titleholders and claim the richest prize in women’s golf Sunday.

Gerina Piller stayed within one shot and had a 10-foot birdie attempt on the final hole that would have forced a playoff. It narrowly missed, and Piller had to settle for a 69 and her best finish on the LPGA Tour

Natalie Gulbis, tied for the 54-hole lead with Pornanong and Piller, wasn’t up to the task. Going for her first win in six years, Gulbis didn’t make a birdie until the 14th hole, and by then she couldn’t stop a spectacular slide. Gulbis closed with an 82

Inbee Park, who clinched player of the year last week in Mexico, had a 68 to finish fifth. She won the LPGA Tour money title.

The only other award at stake Sunday was rookie of the year. That went to Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand, who closed with a 72. She won by one point over Caroline Masson of Germany.

Lydia Ko, the two-time Canadian Women's Open champion, finished her first tournament as a pro in a tie for 21st at 4-under par. After leaving more than $1-million in prize money on the table competing as an amateur, the Korean-born New Zealander cashed her first official cheque as a pro for $16,063.

Toronto's Rebecca Lee-Bentham carded a second straight round of 75 to finish in a tie for 43rd at 3-over par



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CHAMPIONS TOUR - QUALIFYING SCHOOL, FINAL STAGE
COURSE: TPC Scottsdale Champions Course

CANADIANS  Jim Rutledge T2 65 67 72 65 -15, Marc Girouard 74 70 77 73 +10, Ken Tarling 69 73 76 75 +9


Round 4 Final

Neither rain, nor near-sleet, nor gloomy skies, could keep Wes Short Jr. (Austin, Texas) from his appointed final round. After a three-hour rain delay at the start, Short battled through adverse weather conditions and then near darkness late in the day to win the 2013 Champions Tour National Qualifying Tournament at the par-71 Champions Course at TPC Scottsdale.

With temperatures only reaching the low 60s, Short, posted a 3-under 68 in a steady afternoon drizzle on Friday and his 72-hole total of 20-under 264, tied an all-time Champions Tour record set by Jeff Freeman at this same venue two years ago

Short Jr. easily outdistanced both Mike Reid (Westminister, Md.) and Canadian Jim Rutledge (Victoria, B.C.) by five strokes, earning him medalist honors by the largest margin in a National Qualifier since Bob Gilder in 2000

Rutledge started the day outside the top 12 and was looking at having no exempt status for 2014 before he teed off. However, after turning in 2-under 33, he made four birdies on the back nine to shoot 65, equalling the low round of the day, and he quickly moved up the leaderboard into an eventual T2, the fourth straight year he’s finished among the top eight at the National Qualifier. Rutledge also finished T2 at TPC Scottsdale in 2011

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EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR - SOUTH AFRICA OPEN
COURSE: Glendower Golf Club (6,899 yards, par 72).
PURSE: $1.49 million. Winner’s share: $235,685.

Round 4 Final

Denmark’s Morten Ørum Madsen won his first European Tour title with a two shot victory in the South African Open Championship hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni.

Madsen got his season off to the perfect start by winning the opening event of the 2014 Race to Dubai after picking up five shots in his last round, all with birdies, to finish ahead of South Africans Jbe Kruger and Hennie Otto at Glendower GC on 19 under par.

The 25 year old, ranked 244 in the world before this win, made consistent scores throughout the four days, overcoming four bogeys in his first round with just three more in the rest of the tournament.

Madsen was today playing alongside overnight leader and pre-tournament favourite Charl Schwartzel, who squandered a three shot lead to finish tied for fourth with Italy’s Marco Crespi on 16 under.

 

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PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA - CHILE OPEN
COURSE: Los Leones Golf Club, Santiago, Chile ( 6,948 yards, par 72)
PURSE: $150,000
CANADIANS Adam Cornelson 71 73 69, Matt Johnston MC

Round 4 Final

Timothy O'Neal of Savannah Georgia made an eagle on the first hole of a three-man sudden-death playoff to win the 87th Abierto de Chile on Sunday.

With the victory, his second on NEC Series PGA TOUR Latinoamérica this season, O'Neal jumps to No. 3 on "Los Cinco" and is in position to earn Web.com Tour status for the 2014 season. O'Neal of Savannah, Ga., Florida's Ryan Blaum and Argentina's Sebastián Saavedra finished 72 holes at 13-under 275.

The playoff was contested on No. 18, a 511-yard par-5 where O’Neal had about 200 yards to the flag on his second shot.

“I was in between the 4- and the 5-iron," he said. "I went with the 4-iron and I hit it a little left, but luckily it caught the slope and rolled back towards the hole and I had about a six-footer for eagle, which I was fortunate to make.”

After that fortunate break, his opponents' chances of beating him all but evaporated. Saavedra, who had reached the playoff after a record-breaking round of 10-under 62, made a great sand shot to get within a foot of the hole in three.

Meanwhile Blaum, who almost holed out from a greenside bunker for the win in regulation, missed a 25-foot putt from off the green past the hole on his eagle try. For Blaum it was his second runner-up finish in a row


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WEB.COM TOUR - QUALIFYING SCHOOL, SECOND STAGE
COURSES: Plantation Preserve GC (FL), Southern Hills Plantation (FL), Bear Creek Golf Club (CA), Shell Landing GC (MS)
CANADIANS: Jon Mills, Yohann Benson, Ben Silverman, Max Gilbert, Matt Hill, Corey Renfrew, Eugene Wong, Darren Wallace


Yohann Benson of Montreal finished tied for fourth at the Plantation Preserve Golf Course & Club in Plantation, Florida to move on to the final stage. Ben Silverman (T50) of Thornhill, Ont. and Jon Mills (T67) of Belleville, Ont. both failed to advance.

Plantation Fl
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Quebec's Max Gilbert, the 2013 PGA Tour Canada Tour Championship winner, finished tied for fourth at the Southern Hills Plantation Club in Brooksville, Florida. Matt Hill of Sarnia, Ont. missed advancing to the final stage by three strokes after finishing tied for 31st.

Brooksville Fl
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Former top ranked amateur Eugene Wong of North Vancouver was among five Canadians who advanced to the final stage of Web.com qualifying school.
Wong, the former NCAA player of the year in 2010, finished tied for seventh at Bear Creek Golf Club in Murrieta, California despite a final round 78.
Darren Wallace of Vancouver wasn't as fortunate. His final round 74 left him one stroke shy of advancing to the final stage. Cory Renfrew of Victoria finished 55th and also missed the cut.

Murreita, Ca
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Cam Burke of New Hamburg, Ont., finished tied for eighth at Shell Landing Golf Club in Gautier, Mississippi. Derek Gillespie of Oshawa, Ont., was tied for 11th and also moved on. However, Stuart Anderson of Sooke, B.C. missed making the final stage by a single stroke as did Michael Gligic of Burlington, Ont. Marc-Etienne Bussieres (33rd) of Gatineau, Quebec and Toronto'sDavid Lang (73rd) also missed the cut.

Gautier MS
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Fellow Canadians Albin Choi, Justin Shin, Roger Sloan and Devin Carrey previously advanced through a pair of second stage qualifiers last week





Bryan Angus  ( files from europeantour.com, pgatour.com)

Uihlein...USGA...It's all about 'U' this morning..

We had this info last Sunday but out of respect from our colleague who asked it be held back until it became official, I am posting it now. Tip of my cap to Uihlein who comes from one of America's wealthiest families (Wally Uihlein is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Acushnet Company, a golf equipment manufacturer which comprises Titleist and other brands), so he could have spent his life lying on a beach, but he chose to go play the Challenge Tour and earn his stripes.

 

 

europeantour  American Peter Uihlein has been awarded the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award following a hugely successful first season on The European Tour, in which he won his maiden title and finished 14^th  in The Race to Dubai.

 

The 24 year old is the first player from the USA to win the prestigious award, and follows in the footsteps of golfing legends such as Sir Nick Faldo (1977), Sandy Lyle (1978), José María Olazábal (1986) and Colin Montgomerie (1988) and more recently Sergio Garcia (1999), Ian Poulter  (2000), Paul Casey (2001), Martin Kaymer (2007) and Matteo Manassero (2010).

 

Having turned professional in December 2011 following a glittering amateur career, Uihlein secured a European Challenge Tour card for 2013 and made a promising start. He also received several invitations for European Tour events, and took advantage of the opportunities to notch top ten finishes in the Tshwane Open and the Open de España early in the season.

 

His season-changing victory came in May, at the Madeira Islands Open, through which he earned full European Tour playing rights and meant his schedule changed dramatically for the rest of the year. He continued to show he could deal with the step up, finishing tied tenth in both the BMW International Open and the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open, before a fine spell in the second half of the campaign.

 

In August the Floridian was denied a second title by a barnstorming finish from Grégory Bourdy in the ISPS Handa Wales Open where he finished second and he maintained that superb form at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, where he came within a whisker of recording the first 59 in European Tour history at Kingsbarns in the second round.

 

The 12 under par 60 helped him tie for the lead after 72 holes, but he was thwarted by David Howell at the second hole of a sudden-death play-off. In his next appearance on The European Tour, Uihlein tied for fifth in the BMW Masters presented by SRE Group, the first event in the inaugural Final Series.

 

The Oklahoma State University graduate was thrilled to be the 49^th recipient of the award, which was launched in 1960.

 

 “I was supposed to start the year on the Challenge Tour, but instead I was 11^th in The Race to Dubai heading into the final event, so it wasn’t what I’d planned on but obviously it’s fantastic the way it has worked out.”

 

Before joining the paid ranks, Uihlein won the 2010 US Amateur Championship, and won four points from four matches in the 2009 Walker Cup.

 

 

 

USGA Power struggle

(by Ron Sirak for Golf Digest)

 

Personally most of us don't give a rat's about who reports to who in the sleepy offices of the USGA, more importantly what the decisions are being made at the governing body of the game in the States..

 

However apparently they are no different from so many other offices, and here is a report by our fine colleague Ron Sirak about the power play that has been taking place down in New Jersey..

 

......After losing a power struggle to bring broad organizational changes to the United States Golf Association, including what sources say was a bid to create a long-term chief-executive position, president Glen Nager will leave the organization for good when his second one-year term expires Feb. 8, Golf Digest has learned. "I have been involved with the USGA for eight years," Nager said, "and after I leave I won't be a part of it again."

Nager's plan, presented in September during the Walker Cup at the National Golf Links of America, not only failed, but its audacity unified a group not unfamiliar with political infighting and coalesced support for USGA executive director Mike Davis and incoming president Thomas J. O'Toole Jr., both of whom would have had diminished roles under the proposed restructuring.

According to sources, Nager, who described himself as a "lame duck" in an interview with Golf Digest, wanted O'Toole removed from the 15-person Executive Committee and passed over as president, and he wanted Davis to report to a chief executive.

"I am maintaining my commitment to confidentiality—apparently others haven't," Nager told Golf Digest. "I hold myself to a higher standard. It is not appropriate for me to discuss this while I am still in office. The issue that needs to be discussed is what makes for a great organization as opposed to a mediocre organization. I am trying to be as dignified and gracious as I can. Not everyone loves me. But leadership is a lonely responsibility."

 "I have tried to promote such discussions at the USGA. But to encourage candor in the discussions, I have also asked that our discussions be kept private among the participants. In this spirit, I prefer to avoid comment on this story, regardless of any inaccuracies in it."

As an ex-president, Nager, 55, stood to remain in an influential position in the USGA, if past protocol had been followed. In two years, he would have become vice chairman of the five-person Nominating Committee, and in four years he would have chaired that committee. But that was before Nager's idea to take the power away from the Executive Committee and give it to a long-term chief executive—perhaps himself.

 "The USGA can't get to Tom O'Toole fast enough," says one longtime insider, describing the mood at the Far Hills, N.J., headquarters as O'Toole prepares to succeed Nager as president beginning with the organization's annual meeting in February.

According to another source, Nager had lost the support of the USGA Nominating Committee, Executive Committee, staff and many past presidents, a startling slide so soon after a string of successes that included prevailing over the PGA Tour and PGA of America on banning the anchored putting stroke and negotiating a $1.1 billion TV deal with FOX. The FOX deal was announced Aug. 7, a month and a day before the Walker Cup ended.



Bryan Angus

 

Stenson wins the 'double", Scott wins Aussie Masters

Henrik Stensen having already won all the marbles on the PGA Tour including the $10m bonus has just won the Race to Dubai, completing what has become known as the "double..


European Tour
DP World Tour Championship, Dubai
Jumeirah, Golf Estates
UAE


Round 4 Final

Henrik Stenson hailed a "dream season" as he claimed a historic double in fitting fashion by storming to victory in the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.

Stenson became the first man to win The Race to Dubai and FedEx Cup on the US PGA Tour thanks to a commanding six shot victory at Jumeirah Golf Estates.

The 37 year old carded a flawless closing 64, signing off in style with a tap-in eagle on the 18th, to finish with a tournament-record total of 25 under par, with money list rival Ian Poulter a valiant second following a 66.

France's Victor Dubuisson was two shots further back in third, with Dutchman Joost Luiten fourth and a trio of former World Number Ones - Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood - sharing fifth

Stenson won his first European Tour title in 2001 but then went through the first of two career slumps, the second coming in 2011 and leaving him 230th in the Official World Golf Ranking at the start of last year.

Add in some serious health problems - one caused by a parasite infection he contracted while on holiday - and Stenson's form in 2013 is all the more remarkable, with a share of third place in the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open followed up by runners-up finishes in The Open and WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and third place in the US PGA Championship in a five-week spell.

He then won the second FedEx Cup play-off event, the Deutsche Bank Championship, to move to the top of the standings, and although Tiger Woods regained top spot as Stenson finished 33rd in the BMW Championship in Chicago, as one of the top five heading into Atlanta Stenson's destiny was firmly in his own hands



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PGA Tour
OHL Classic at Mayakoba

El Camaleon 

Riviera Maya,  Mex

Canadians   Mike Weir 72 69 72 75   Stephen Ames 76 68 MC

Round 4 Final

Harris English won the rain-delayed OHL Classic at Mayakoba for his second PGA TOUR title, pulling away for a four-stroke victory in a 29-hole Sunday finish.

English closed with a 6-under 65 after completing the third round in the morning with a 68. He moved into contention Saturday morning in the second round, matching the lowest round of his tour career with a 62

The 24-year-old former University of Georgia star finished at 21-under 263. Brian Stuard shot a 67 to finish second.

Third-round leader Robert Karlsson had a 72 to drop into a tie for sixth at 15 under.

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LPGA
Lorena Ochoa Invitational Presented by Banamex
Guadalajara, Mexico


Round 4 Final

Lexi Thompson displayed nerves of steel during the final round of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational as she sank a 5-foot birdie putt on the 72nd hole to clinch her second LPGA Tour victory this season
The Floridian fired rounds of 72-64-67-69 to claim a one-stroke victory over Stacy Lewis.

It was head-to-head battle between Thompson and Lewis throughout the majority of Sunday’s final round. After both players made the turn at 2-under-par for the day, Lewis dropped three strokes behind Thompson with a bogey at the par-4 12th.

Despite the untimely bogey, Lewis quickly recovered with back-to-back birdies at the par-4 12th and par-3 13th to pull even with Thompson. The string of birdies would continue for Lewis at the par-4 14th and for the first time this week, she found herself atop the leaderboard by one stroke.

While Lewis quickly made her way to the top of the leaderboard, she saw her lead dwindle with a bogey at the par-3 17th to drop into a tie with Thompson


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WEB.COM TOUR: Q-School - Stage II

Kingwood Texas,

Former amateur stars Albin Choi and Justin Shin were among the four Canadians who advanced to the final stage of the Web.com Tour qualifying school

Choi, the former Canadian Amateur Champion and an eight time winner in college, finished tied for 16th at a second stage qualifier at Deerwood Golf Club in Kingwood, Texas. He was joined by Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C., who finished tied for third, and Devin Carrey of Surrey, B.C., who finished in a tie for eighth. Sloan is looking to get back onto the Web.com Tour after finishing 87th on the money list in his rookie campaign in 2013

Dustin Risdon of Calgary (T33 at Kingwood), Edmonton's Steve Lecuyer (T64 at Kingwood) and Will Mitchell of Whitby, Ont. (T56 at McKinney) all failed to advance past the second stage

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McKinney Texas

Over at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, Justin Shin of Maple Ridge, B.C. finished 15th and was among the 22 players who advanced to the final stage. Shin, like Choi, turned pro earlier this year after leaving college. The former Team Canada National Team Member made one of three cuts on PGA Tour Canada, finishing tied for 18th at the Great Waterway Classic in his first professional event.

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There are four more second stage qualifiers scheduled for this week.
Everyone advancing to the final stage in La Quinta, California next month is guaranteed at least conditional status on the Web.com Tour in 2014




Australian Masters
Nov 14-17, 2013

Par Rating: 71

The Royal Melbourne Golf Club Inc.

 

Round 4 Final

Adam Scott has successfully defended his Talisker Masters title, winning by two shots at Royal Melbourne Golf Club.

Starting the day four shots clear of the field, Scott saw his lead dwindle as American Matt Kuchar fired around the composite layout.

A playoff loomed as the pair were tied on 14-under the card before a double bogey on the 18th for Kuchar handed Scott the title.

“You can’t think about the result until you’re walking up the last and you know where things stand,” said Scott who made par on the last to finish with a tournament total of 14-under 270.

The Talisker Masters is Adam Scott’s second PGA Tour of Australasia title in as many weeks meaning the Queenslander has only the Emirates Australian Open standing in the way of his Aussie golf Triple Crown

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Bryan Angus

Sunday Golf story..Scott wins Aussie PGA... Dubuisson stuffs the field in Turkey

EUROPEAN TOUR - TURKISH AIRLINES OPEN
COURSE: The Montgomerie Maxx Royal (7,100 yards, par 72).
PURSE: $7 million. Winner's share: $1,166,600.

Round 4 Final

Victor Dubuisson kept his cool in the face of a high-profile chasing pack to earn his first professional victory amid Henrik Stenson just staying top of the Race To Dubai standings at the Turkish Airlines Open by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Despite France’s Dubuisson heading into the final round with a five-shot lead, there were many that believed he would succumb to the pressure of having the likes of Ian Poulter, Tiger Woods, Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson hot on his heels.

He dispelled those beliefs with a masterful performance that belied his tender years, picking up the title and subsequent €848,930 prize on the back of a near-flawless 69.

While the 23 year old's victory represented a worthy story in itself, the Race standings quickly came into focus, too, with The European Tour’s season finale just days away.

It is still Stenson, aiming to top the money lists on both sides of the Atlantic following his FedEx Cup triumph, who leads the way following his seventh-placed finish.

He holds around a 214,000-point lead over Rose, with Poulter sitting just behind in fourth having ended this event joint sixth

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PGA TOUR - MCGLADREY CLASSIC
COURSE: Sea Island Resort, Seaside Course (7,005 yards, par 70).
PURSE: $5.5 million. Winner's share: $990,000.

CANADIANS: Stephen Ames 67 79 MC, Brad Fritsch 74 74 MC, David Hearn 74 66 70 69 -1, Mike Weir  70 71 68 72


Round 4 Final

In the final round of the The McGladrey Classic at Sea Island Golf Club, Chris Kirk shot a 4-under 66 to win his second PGA TOUR event, earning 500 FedExCup points

Tied for the lead in The McGladrey Classic, Kirk was on the other side of the 18th fairway trying to envision an approach that would cover the flag and set up a birdie chance for the win. Those plans changed when Baird, with the ball below his feet in a fairway bunker, topped a 4-iron and watched his ball roll 90 yards and into a hazard. Baird is now 0-for-365 in his PGA TOUR career, and it looked for the longest time that he finally would win.

Kirk played for par, closed with a 4-under 66 for a one-shot victory, and became the first player from Sea Island to win The McGladrey Classic

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LPGA TOUR/JAPAN LPGA TOUR - MIZUNO CLASSIC
COURSE: Kintetsu Kashikojima Country Club (6,506 yards, par 72).
PURSE: $1.2 million. Winner's share: $180,000.

CANADIANS; Rebecca Lee-Bentham, -1 71,70


Round 3 Final

Taiwan’s Teresa Lu ended an eight-year quest for her first professional win as she captured the Mizuno Classic title by two-shots over South Korea’s Chella Choi. Lu overcame a two-stroke deficit on Sunday and fired the low-round of the week with an 8-under 64 to finish with a three day total of 14-under-par 202

 

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PGA TOUR OF AUSTRALASIA/ONEASIA TOUR - AUSTRALIAN PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
COURSE: RACV Royal Pines Resort (7,378 yards, par 72).
PURSE: $1.25 million. Winner's share: $225,000.


CANADIANS:  Richard T. Lee

Round 4

U.S. Masters champion Adam Scott shrugged off a two-hour lightning suspension to fire a four-under-par final-round 67 on Sunday and claim a four-stroke victory in OneAsia’s Australian PGA Championship, presented by Coca-Cola.

Aussie Scott, who spent his childhood on the Gold Coast, was 14-under-par for four rounds at the 6,747-metre (7,378-yard) RACV Royal Pines Resort course, with American Rickie Fowler (68) second and Australian PGA academy trainee Jack Wilson (68) alone in third at eight under.





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ASIAN DEVELOPMENT TOUR - PGM MIDF KLGCC MASTERS
COURSE: Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club
PURSE: $65,000
CANADIANS:  Lindsay Renolds

NOTES: Renolds is coming off a tie for fourth in the previous event. He currently trails Iain Steel by just $2,000 for third place on the Tour's money list. ...The top three players on the Order of Merit at the end of the season will secure playing rights on the Asian Tour for 2014.




PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA - PERU OPEN
COURSE: Los Inkas Golf Club, Lima, Peru
PURSE: $150,000
CANADIANS: Mackenzie Hughes 73 73 MC, Derek Gillespie 65 74 70 -7, Matt Johnston 72 77 MC

Round 4 in progress

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eGOLF PROFESSIONAL TOUR - CABARRUS CLASSIC
COURSE: Cabarrus Country Club, Concord, N.C.
CANADIANS: Ted Brown 70 67 67 -12 T5, Cam Burke MC

Round 3 Final

At the Mid Pines Classic in August, T.J. Howe of Osceola, PA earned his second win of the 2013 season before heading off to what would be a successful week at the pre-qualifying stage of Web.com Tour Q-School. At the eGolf Tour’s Cabarrus Classic this week, Howe again persevered, this time grabbing win No. 3 on the year with a final-round 68 at host Cabarrus Country Club.

With Q-School’s second stage laying on the horizon next week in Texas, Howe hopes to again use victory’s momentum as a propeller further up the ladder of golf’s pecking order – and eventually onto the PGA TOUR.





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Bryan Angus   ( files from BBC Reuters, europeantour.com  pgatour.com  lpga.com )

Golf Canada to announce new title sponsor for Canadian Women's Open..

Golf Canada and the LPGA Tour will hold a media conference on Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. to announce the new title sponsor of the Canadian Women’s Open Golf Championship.

The media conference will take place downtown Toronto at Real Sports Bar & Grill and media unable attend in person can join via teleconference. 

In additional to the title sponsor, Golf Canada and the LPGA Tour will also announce the host venue for the 2014 Canadian Women’s Open.

 

My pal Ian Hutchinson, a regular on my FAIRWAYS Golf Show ( Thursday's 9-10am www.nextsportstar.com ) tells us on his Golf News Now blog that it will be CP taking over as the sponsor from CN and the venue in 2014 will be back at the London Hunt Club...

 

Scott Simmons, CEO of Golf Canada is scheduled to join me at 905an on Fairways this week.

 

Stay tuned..

 

 

Bryan Angus

Johnson wins a thriller in Shanghai....Couples wins in San Fran

EUROPEAN/PGA TOURS
WGC-HSBC Champions
Sheshan International
Shanghai, China

Canadian  Graham DeLaet  71 68 65 69  T6  -15

Round 4 Final

Dustin Johnson survived a final round European assault to claim the WGC-HSBC Champions after a fascinating finish in Shanghai.

He recovered superbly from seeing his overnight three shot lead wiped out in the first two holes with a decisive scoring burst - playing the last six holes in five under par at Sheshan International to card a closing 66 and finish 24 under par, three ahead of defending champion Ian Poulter.

All three members of the final group shot 66, meaning Poulter finished one ahead of Ryder Cup team-mate Graeme McDowell, with another player responsible for the 'Miracle at Medinah', Spain's Sergio Garcia, two shots behind in fourth after a closing 63.

Johnson began the final round three shots clear of Poulter but three-putted the opening hole as the Englishman birdied the first and second, while McDowell birdied the first three to share the lead with Poulter.

Birdies on the eighth and ninth got Johnson back into a share of the lead and although Poulter edged in front with a birdie on the 12th, Johnson birdied the 13th and matched Poulter's birdie on the 14th to set up a grandstand finish.

Johnson was left alone in the lead when Poulter was unable to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker on the 15th, although with the 16th being a reachable par four and the par five 18th still to come, the result was far from settled.

None of the final group tried to drive the green on the 16th, although Johnson's length meant he could hit a long iron just ten yards short and he promptly chipped in for an eagle two.

Poulter's birdie putt did not look like going in until it just caught the left edge of the hole and wobbled in, but Johnson still held a two shot lead on 23 under with two to play.

That became a three shot lead thanks to a birdie on the 17th from five feet and gave Johnson a welcome cushion playing the 18th, the hole where he drove into the water to run up a double bogey seven on Saturday.

Unsurprisingly Johnson hit an iron off the tee and laid up with his second, eventually missing a short birdie putt after Poulter and McDowell had done likewise


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CHAMPIONS TOUR
Charles Schwab Cup Championship,
TPC Harding Park

Round 4 Final

Fred Couples won the Champions Tour's season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship on Sunday, and Kenny Perry topped the yearlong points race to earn a $1 million annuity.

Couples ended a 16-event winless streak dating to the Senior British Open in July 2012, closing with a 2-under 69 for a six-stroke victory over Bernhard Langer, Peter Senior and Mark O'Meara. He has nine victories in four seasons on the 50-and-over tour after winning 15 times on the PGA TOUR.



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Bryan Angus  ( notes europeantour.com  pgatour.com)

DJ ties course record cruises to 5 shot lead in Shanghai....live scoreboards

Dustin Johnson equalled the Sheshan International course record with a brilliant nine under par 63 to take control of the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai.

The Ryder Cup star birdied six of his first seven holes in a blistering start and, having dropped his only shot of the day at the tenth, picked up four shots in his last six holes.
That took the big-hitting Johnson to 12 under par, and five shots clear of compatriots Bubba Watson and Boo Weekley and first round leader Rory McIlroy.

McIlroy reached ten under par with a hat-trick of birdies on the way out, but did not create a single birdie opportunity on the back nine and paid a heavy price for a gamble on the last.

Having seen his tee shot leak right and finish a yard from the water, the undeterred 24 year old went for the green in two at the par five but only succeeded in finding the lake. After taking a drop, McIlroy fired a spectacular fourth to ten feet, but missed the putt for a third bogey of the day and level par 72.

Graham Delaet 71 68 -5 is T11, 7 shots off the pace

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CHAMPIONS TOUR
Charles Schwab Cup Championship

TPC Harding Park  ∙   San Francisco,  CA

Round 1
Australia's Peter Senior shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead in the Champions Tour's season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

The 54-year-old Senior had nine birdies, an eagle and three bogeys at TPC Harding Park to match the event first-round record set by Jim Thorpe in his 2003 victory at Sonoma Golf Club.

"That was probably the best round of golf I've played this year," Senior said. "I putted well and hit it well."

David Frost shot 64, missing a short putt on the 18th hole. Fred Couples was third at 65, and Mark O'Meara had a 66. Bernhard Langer, Steve Elkington and Duffy Waldorf shot 67.

Charles Schwab Cup points leader Kenny Perry topped the group at 68. Perry entered the event 612 points ahead of second-place Langer. If Langer wins the tournament, Perry needs only to finish fifth or better take the season title and $1 million annuity


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Bryan Angus  (edit, notes from europeantour.com, pgatour.com )