Siem, Moore and Park are your winners in the Far East..Live scoreboards, all tours

At this time of year you have to be up early to watch golf as most of the action is in the Far East where the first of four very lucrative events in the European Tour's Race to Dubai has already completed 4 rounds at the BMW Masters on the Lake Malaren GC in Shanghai meanwhile the PGA Tour's Fall Series with the CIMB Classic on the Kuala Lumpur GC in Malaysia is now over


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Red hot Frenchman Alex Levy 65 66 63 had opened up a 4 shot lead over Jamie Donaldson from Wales who shot -10 62 to get to -18 going into today's final round but it was Germany's Marcel Siem (73) who caught and eventually beat him in a 3 way playoff  on a very windy day on the very long Lake Malaren course. Levy could only manage 78 and Ross Fisher who started the round 11 behind the Frenchman shot 67 to join the playoff... Siem chipped in for birdie from the fringe and neither Fisher or Levy could match him leaving the ponytailed German with his 4th European Tour win.

Meanwhile a no cut field of 78 in muggy Malaysia defending champion Ryan Moore 68 69 67 and Kevin Na 69 68 67 started the day in the lead at -12, however there were 11 players within 4 shots of them including Sergio Garcia and Billy Hurley at -11.
It was Moore who prevailed with another round of 67 -17, to win by 3 shots over Sergio Garcia (69), Gary Woodland 967) and Kevin Na (70) all at -14
Canadian Mike Weir 73 68 72 68 , T21 -7
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Finally from the Far East, the travelling LPGA Tour was in Taiwan this week for the Fubon LPGA Championship on the Miramar GC where world #1 Inbee Park blew her 4 shot lead but after Stacy Lewis missed a crucial 6 footer on the 17th for birdie and Park made hers for a 2 shot lead with 1 to play, she prevailed for the win.
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Stateside, the Champions Tour wrapped up it's year this week with the Charles Schwab Cup Championship on the Desert Mountain Club in Scottsdale Arizona where it took four extra holes, but Tom Pernice, Jr., two-putted for birdie to outlast Jay Haas and  win the 25^th Charles Schwab Cup Championship. Haas put the pressure on Pernice on the 72^nd hole when he rolled in a 37-foot birdie putt from the front fringe to grab a one-stroke lead. Pernice answered moments later when he made a birdie to tie Haas and send it to a playoff. After each birdied the first extra hole, they each matched pars on the ensuing two holes before Pernice ended Haas’ bid for his second win in his last three starts. After Haas made his 15-footer for par, Pernice stepped up and drained the winner, giving him his second playoff win this year.


Bernhard Langer’s Charles Schwab Cup title was the second of his career (he won in 2010) and his 4,152 points were the second most points accumulated in a season. Only Tom Watson with 4,370 in 2003 earned more points. His winning margin of 845 points was the largest by a winner since Tom Watson won by 1,324 points over Jim Thorpe in 2003.


He also won his sixth Arnold Palmer Award as the Tour’s leading money winner in the last seven years (did not win in 2011) and he also won the Byron Nelson Award as the Champions Tour’s scoring leader at 68.03. It was the third time he had won that award (2008, ’09).
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Bryan Angus