Henley survives comedy of errors at Honda Classic

PGA Tour
The Honda Classic
PGA National
Palm Beach Gardens
Canadians  Stephen Ames 73 75 MC, Mike Weir 72,70 MC  David Hearn T6 -6 67,70 70 67


Round 4

The closing hour at PGA National was a series of blunders by the contenders and even the winner.

Russell Henley made good on his second chance at the 18th hole Sunday and won the Honda Classic after a wild day that began with Tiger Woods walking off the course with a back injury and ended with a four-man playoff

Henley was in a three-way tie for the lead, 40 yards left of the flag on the par-5 18th in regulation, when he chunked a chip so badly that it only got halfway to the hole. He had to two-putt for par, and then watched as Rory McIlroy nearly made a great escape from an otherwise bad afternoon.

McIlroy, who lost a two-shot lead, hit a 5-wood from 236 yards to just inside 12 feet for an eagle and the win. It narrowly slid by on the right.

In the playoff, Henley was the only player to reach the 549-yard hole in two, and he two-putted from about 40 feet for birdie. Ryan Palmer missed a 10-foot birdie putt. McIlroy went from the back bunker to the front collar and had to scramble for par, and Russell Knox laid up and missed a 20-foot birdie attempt

David Hearn (67)finished 6-under par to tie with American Will MacKenzie for sixth

Woods abruptly quit after 13 holes and was driven straight to his car. He later said he had lower back pain and spasms, and was unsure if he could play at Doral next week. And then came all the mistakes by four guys trying to win.


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LPGA
HSBC Women’s Champions
Singapore


Round 4  Final

Paula Creamer sank what may have been the putt of her career to clinch her 10th career LPGA victory at the HSBC Women’s Champions. Creamer drained a 75-foot eagle putt on the second sudden-death playoff hole to defeat Spain’s Azahara Munoz. The victory snaps a 79 event winless streak for Creamer that dated back to the 2010 U.S. Women’s Open Championship.

Creamer shot a 3-under 69 on Sunday to force the playoff with Munoz who finished with a 2-under 70. The duo finished atop the leaderboard at 10-under par.

Creamer and Munoz escaped a three-player playoff with Hall of Famer Karrie Webb who had a late round collapse to fall out of contention. Webb bogeyed three of her final six holes including the par 5 18th hole where she hit the lip of a fairway bunker. She had a three-shot lead after seven holes and said some bad decisions down the stretch put her in trouble spots. The 20-year LPGA Tour veteran finished with a 2-over 74 and one shot out of the playoff



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European Tour
Tshwane Open
CopperLeaf Golf and Country Estate


Round 4  Final

Ross Fisher overcame a gallant charge from Michael Hoey before eventually charging to a 3 shot victory at the Tshwane Open. Having started the day five shots clear, Hoey reduced the deficit to just one after 11 holes, but then double bogeyed the 12th after finding water with his approach.

Fisher then eagled the long 15th to extinguish any realistic hopes the chasing pack may have rendered, as he secured his fifth European Tour title and first since 2010 with a closing round of 70.

That gave him a 20 under par winning total, three clear of Hoey and South African Danie Van Tonder.

 

 

 

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Ames goes into the Hall of Fame

The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame is proud to announce that Stephen Ames of Calgary has been elected as the 2014 inductee into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.

Ames, a dual citizen of Canada as well as Trinidad and Tobago is four-time winner on the PGA TOUR. With his induction in the player category, Ames will become the 74th honoured member of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.

“The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame seeks to recognize excellence as golfers, contributors and supporters of the game,” said Ian Clarke, Chair of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame Selection Committee. “Stephen Ames has excelled on the biggest stage in our sport and it is fitting that he will be recognized for his respective accomplishments.”

Ames’ induction ceremony into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame is anticipated to take place in Calgary during the Shaw Charity Classic, a tournament he is a founding patron of.

"As a proud Canadian, I am truly humbled by this great honour," said Stephen Ames. "The opportunity to join this exceptional company of names in front of my friends and family at home in Calgary is something that I will cherish for a long time."

STEPHEN AMES

Stephen Ames, 49, enters the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame as a prominent professional player, having amassed four PGA TOUR victories and over $19.5 million in career earnings.

A dual citizen of both Canada and Trinidad and Tobago, Ames resides in Calgary and began playing professionally in 1987. He is past champion of the Trinidad and Tobago Open (1989) and won his first professional title on American soil at the Pensacola Open on the Ben Hogan Tour (now the Web.com TOUR) in 1991.

Prior to playing on the PGA TOUR, Ames spent five seasons competing on the European Tour where he captured the 1994 Open V33 Grand Lyon and the Benson & Hedges International Open in 1996. He qualified for the PGA TOUR in 1997, earning exempt status for the 1998 season by finishing third at qualifying. Ames won his first PGA TOUR title in 2004 at the Cialis Western Open, defeating Steve Lowery by two strokes.

In 2006, Ames captured one of the TOUR’s marquee events, winning The Players Championship by six strokes over Retief Goosen. His victory at TPC Sawgrass was played against 48 of the top 50 players in the world and vaulted him at that time to No. 27 in the Official World Golf Rankings. Ames is also a two-time champion of the Children’s Miracle Network Classic (2007 & 2009). In major championship play he has finished inside the top-10 on six occasions. His best finish was a tie for fifth at The Open Championship in 1997.

In 2013, the Stephen Ames Foundation funded the inaugural CJGA Stephen Ames Junior Cup presented by RBC at the Country Club of the Hamptons in Calgary, AB. Since 2005, Ames has proudly hosted the Stephen Ames Cup, a Ryder Cup style tournament featuring a team of Canadian junior players versus Team Trinidad & Tobago.  In addition, the Stephen Ames Foundation provides funding for junior golf programs and other children's initiatives in Canada and Trinidad and Tobago

Day wins a thrilling final at the World Matchplay

Many people who didn't know Victor Dubuisson before this week at Dove Mountain sure do now..


PGA Tour
World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play
Dove Mountain
Arizona

Final wrap

Quarter-Finals
Victor Dubuisson 1up vs Graeme McDowell    Jordan Speith vs Ernie Els 4&2   Louis Oosthuizen vs Jason Day 2&1    Jim Furyk  vs Rickie Fowler 1up

Semi finals 
Rickie Fowler vs Jason Day 2&1      Ernie Els vs Victor Dubuisson 1up

Final
Jason Day beats Dubuisson 1up 23 holes


Jason Day never trailed in the hard-fought championship match as he ran his Accenture record to 14-3 and won for the second time in his PGA TOUR career. The victory was the second-seeded Day's first in a World Golf Championships and made the 26-year-old, who finished third at Dove Mountain a year ago, the tournament's youngest winner.

Victor Dubuisson was 2 down standing on the 17th tee, then promptly won them both to send the match  to extras with some miraculous shot making and recovery's and he kept up that act until the  the driveable 15th, the 23rd of the match. Both players hit their drives to the right of the green. Dubuisson chipped long, though, and his Houdini touch deserted him on the 32-footer for birdie. When Day buried his 4-footer he had the win.

Ernie Els who lost to Dubuisson 1dn in the semi lost 1dn to Rickie Fowler in the consolation final.

Dubuisson, who equaled the highest finish ever by a Frenchman on the PGA TOUR, now has enough FedExCup points as a non-member to join as a Special Temporary Member for the rest of the year. That allows him to accept unlimited sponsor exemptions if he decides to take up membership.


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LPGA
Honda LPGA Thailand
Siam CC


Round 4 Final

Anna Nordqvist shot -4 68 in the final round to win the Honda LPGA Thailand by 2 shots. The 26-year old from Sweden beat Inbee Park -6 66 -13, Catriona Matthew -7 65 -11 and Michelle Wie -3 69 -10

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Bryan Angus  (notes from europeantour.com BBC Reuters, AP)                                                    

Bubba wins at Riviera.....Final scoreboards

PGA Tour
Northern Trust Open

Thursday Feb 13 – Sunday Feb 16, 2014

Riviera CC  ∙   Pacific Palisades,  CA

 

Canadians   Mike Weir MC   David Hearn MC   Graham DeLaet T70  70 73 72 73 +4


Round 4 Final

Bubba Watson closed with a 7-under 64 for a two-shot victory in the Northern Trust Open. It was his first victory since the 2012 Masters, a stretch of 41 tournaments worldwide.

Watson started the final round four shots behind and was simply flawless. His final birdie of a 64-64 weekend gave him the lowest closing round by a winner of this event since Doug Tewell’s 63 in 1986.

Dustin Johnson also played bogey-free, but it wasn’t enough. He closed with a 66 for the second straight tournament. Just like last week at Pebble Beach, he had to settle for second.

Graham DeLaet (70-73-72-73) finished in a tie for 70th at 4-over par. He has not finished outside the top-10 since October of last year, when he missed the cut at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

 

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Champions Tour

ACE Group Classic

Friday Feb 14 – Sunday Feb 16, 2014

TwinEagles GC (Talon)  ∙   Naples,  FL

 

Canadians    Rod Spittle T11 -7 70,70 64 69 , Jim Rutledge T11 -7 72 73 64


Round 3  Final

Kirk Triplett won the ACE Group Classic on Sunday for his third Champions Tour title, holing a 6-foot par putt on the final hole for a one-stroke victory.

The 51-year-old Triplett shot a 6-under 66 to finish at 16-under on TwinEagles’ Talon Course. He won the 50-and-over tour’s Pebble Beach event the last two years after winning three times on the PGA Tour.

Defending champion Bernhard Langer, Duffy Waldorf and Olin Browne tied for second. Playing in the final threesome, Triplett, Langer and Waldorf were tied for the lead with a hole to play.

On the par-4 18th, Waldorf drove into a bunker and wound up with a bogey for a 66. Langer’s second shot sailed left, and his 12-footer for par curled around the cup for bogey and a 67.

Triplett’s second shot from a divot landed about 25 feet from the pin. His birdie putt went past the hole and he made the 6-footer for the victory

Jim Rutledge shot an 8-under 64 Sunday to climb 31 spots up the leaderboard, into a tie for 11th. Rutledge finished 7-under par for the tourney and was tied with Rod Spittle (69)

 

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Web.com Tour

Pacific Rubiales Colombia Championship Presented by Claro

Thursday Feb 13 – Sunday Feb 16, 2014

Bogota CC  ∙   Bogota,  COL

 

Canadians  Riley Wheeldon MC 68 80, Adam Hadwin -7 69 71 66, MacKenzie Hughes MC, Nick Taylor E 71 71  Cam Burke MC  Albin Choi MC  Roger Sloan  MC


Round 3 Final

Alex Cejka won the Web.com Tour’s season-opening Colombia Championship, setting a course record with an 8-under 63 in the completion of the third round before rain washed out play.

The 43-year-old Czech-born German played the final 16 holes of the third round Sunday morning at water-logged Bogota Country Club, birdieing four of the last five holes to reach 14-under.

Cejka was halfway through the final round when play was suspended and the round wiped out. At the time, he had a one-stroke lead over Andrew Putnam. Cejka won the last of his four European Tour titles in 2002. He’s winless in 270 career starts on the PGA Tour

Adam Hadwin shot a 5-under 66. He tied for 11th at 7-under par. The finish is the best he’s had on the circuit since last July, when he tied for 7th at the Utah Championship.

Nick Taylor had a good showing in his debut as a Web.com Tour member. Taylor, finished 3-under par and tied for 41st after rounds of 71-71-68

 

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European Tour

Africa Open

East London GC

Eastern Cape

Round 4 (Final)

Thomas Aiken overcame Oliver Fisher in a play-off to secure victory in the Africa Open and cap a fine run of form.

The South African secured his third European Tour title and first on home soil with a 30 foot birdie putt on the first extra hole at East London Golf Club.

An eagle from 12 feet at the third had been the highlight of Aiken’s 67, as he and Fisher spent much of the afternoon neck-and-neck.

The Englishman had started with a bogey after missing the opening green, but responded with five birdies amidst two further dropped shots and would have won had his birdie effort from 15 feet at the last dropped rather than burn the edge of the hole.

 

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LPGA

ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open

Victoria GC

Victoria, Australia

Canadians  Lorie Kane T28 71 71 75   Rebecca Lee Bentham T28 69 73 77  Sue Kim T45

 

 

Round 4 Final

Karrie Webb won the Women’s Australian Open for the fifth time Sunday, shooting a 4-under 68 in the final round to beat Chella Choi by one stroke.

Webb birdied the 18th hole to take the outright lead, then watched as Choi, who shot a course-record 62 on Saturday to take a share of the third-round lead, pushed a 10-foot putt wide of the hole at 18 to miss the chance for a playoff.

Webb, who clinched her 40th LPGA title, finished at 12-under 276 overall. She previously won the Australian Open in 2000, 2002, 2007 and 2008

Sixteen-year-old Lydia Ko of New Zealand, the world No. 4, was also unable to challenge Webb, struggling with her putt on the back nine and shooting a 73. She finished tied for third with American Paula Creamer (68) and Frenchwoman Karine Icher (71).

Tied for 28th at 2-under par was Rebecca Lee-Bentham77, and Lorie Kane75. Sue Kim of Langley, B.C. finished at even-par, tied for 45th

Alena Sharp and  Maude Aimee-LeBlanc MC

 

 

 

 

 

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Walker hangs on to win Pebble... Coetzee breaks through in JoBurg

PGA Tour
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am

Thursday Feb 6 – Sunday Feb 9, 2014

Pebble Beach Golf Links  ∙   Pebble Beach,  CA

Canadians    Mike Weir (SH) E 70 73 76  Brad Fritsch (MP) +5 77 72

Round 4

Jimmy Walker led by as many as six shots Sunday in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, only for it to be decided by his final putt. He ran his birdie attempt 5 feet by the hole, and had to make that for par to close with a 2-over 74 and a one-shot win over Dustin Johnson and Jim Renner

"It's drama, man," Walker said on the 18th green. "It was too much for me."

But it was a familiar outcome for Walker, a 35-year-old Texan who only four months ago was regarded as one of the best players to have never won on the PGA Tour. This was his third win of the PGA Tour season, a streak that began in October about an hour away at the Frys.com Open




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European Tour

JoBurg Open

Royal Johannesburg and Kensington GC

JoBurg, RSA


Round 4 Final

After 24 top-ten finishes, George Coetzee finally secured his maiden European Tour title at the Joburg Open.

A closing six under par 66 saw the 27 year old finish on 19 under, three shots ahead of compatriot Justin Walters, England’s Tyrell Hatton and Korean Jin Jeong.

With three Open Championship places on offer, Challenge Tour graduate Hatton was the unlucky player to miss out on an invite to Royal Liverpool – his position of 276th in the Official World Golf Ranking lower than that of Jeong and Walters

 

 

 

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Champions Tour
Allianz Championship

The Old Course at Broken Sound  ∙   Boca Raton,  FL

 

Canadians  Rod Spittle -8 69 69 70  Jim Rutledge -4 73 71 68
 

Round 3 Final

Michael Allen won the Allianz Championship on Sunday for his sixth Champions Tour title, beating Duffy Waldorf with a two-putt birdie on the second hole of a playoff.

After Allen holed out on the par-5 18th, Waldorf had a chance to extend the playoff, but missed an 8-foot birdie putt after finding the front bunker in two.

Allen closed with a 3-under 69 to match Waldorf at 18-under 198 on The Old Course at Broken Sound. Waldorf, winless on the 50-and-older tour after winning four times on the PGA TOUR, shot 67




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Kevin Thistle leaving Coppinwood

After 5 full seasons at Coppinwood Kevin Thistle has sent a letter to the members advising them he is stepping down from his role as President and GM of the private facility in Uxbridge.

In a phone conversation he told me that it is an amicable split, members of the ownership group are going to take a more hands on approach this year, and decided to cut back on expenditure.

After 16 years building Angus Glen into one of this country's top "public" facilities, the new owners at Coppinwood came to Kevin during a time of turmoil and asked him to bring his members are kings attitude and experience to right their ship.

Kevin went from overseeing up to 4 tournaments plus public play a day, 7 days a week at Angus Glen to one tournament a week, and the challenges of dealing with a small but demanding membership.

"It was a different challenge for sure but I enjoyed it and am glad to be part of the growth the club has enjoyed in the last 5 years"

Kevin will take some time with his wife and 2 children to look ahead, he told me he has had several calls, nothing in stone, and will continue to use the membership he has at the club when and if spring ever rolls around.


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