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    PGA TOUR       EUROPEAN TOUR       JAPAN TOUR       SUNSHINE TOUR      

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                           KORN FERRY       CHALLENGE       AMERICAS

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It took 188 starts for eight-year veteran Jimmy Walker to break through for his first PGA Tour victory but his timing was immaculate; instead of solidifying his earnings for 2013 by claiming the Frys.com Open, he instead recorded the first official victory of the 2014 season (and with it a Masters invite) as the event was the hroundbreaker in the Tour’s new calendar-crossing wrap-around schedule.  Though the field boasted few of the stars that it was suggested might play under the new arrangement, it produced a final-round leaderboard dotted with both up-and-coming names (American Brooks Koepka and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama) as well as veterans like Walker, Kevin Na and, somewhat out of left field, 50-year-old Vijay Singh.  For much of the week, it looked like Koepka – recent winner of a three-victory battlefield promotion from the European Challenge Tour to the E Tour, and here on sponsor exemption he didn’t request – might break through for a lightning-bolt debut victory, particularly after rounds of 67-64-67 staked him to a two-shot 54-hole lead.  The lead actually grew to four during Sunday’s front nine but as the pressure mounted Koepka wilted, bogeying the 9th and 11th, then, following a bounce back birdie at the 12th, both the 16th and 17th to blow himself out of contention.  Walker, meanwhile, had been miles off the halfway lead with rounds of 70-69, then exploded with a Saturday 62 that included 10 birdies.  Thus entering the final round three strokes behind Koepka, he proceeded to post a six-birdie, one-bogey 66 that included a steady two-under-par 34 on the last nine.  Though lacking any closing fireworks, the round was good enough to provide a two-shot margin over the surprising Singh (who carded rounds of 65-68 on the weekend) and three over a quartet that included Na, Matsuyama (who also closed with 66), Koepka and Scott Brown.................. Spending some time on his native European Tour before returning to the United States, Englands’s David Lynn claimed his second career E Tour title at the Portugal Masters, but required some final-round fireworks to do so.  Lynn had opened with back-to-back rounds of 65 before a Saturday 73 (punctuated by a double-bogey at the par-5 17th) badly damaged his hopes.  Indeed, he plummeted into a tie for 16th, six shots behind countryman Paul Waring and four in back of Jamie Donaldson and Scott Jamieson – the latter of whom nearly made history on Saturday by tying the E Tour’s single-round record with an 11-under-par 60.  None of the three leaders were able to break 70 on Sunday, however, leaving the door open for multiple contenders to play their way into the mix.  For Lynn a good deal of magic was required and he responded by birdieing the first two holes, then adding three more en route to an outgoing 30.  A bogey at 10 threatened to sap his momentum but he stepped up near the close, carding birdies at the 14th, 15th and 17th, then making par at the 463-yard finisher when his approach barely cleared a water hazard fronting the green.  The result was a dazzling 63 – and an opportunity to wait around to see how his 266 aggregate would stand up.  But in the end, nobody ever really had a chance to catch him, with South African Justin Walters getting close by running off four straight birdies at holes 14-17, but then needing to hole a 40-foot par putt at the last just to claim solo second..................Twenty-three-year-old Yoshinori Fujimoto claimed his second career Japan Tour victory at the Toshin Golf Tournament, his four-day total of 264 easily besting a solid domestic field by four shots.  Fujimoto began the week strongly with rounds of 63-64 to take a two-shot halfway lead, then maintained that margin following a two-under-par 70 on Saturday.  But on Sunday he threw it back into high gear, carding seven birdies – including clinchers at both the 17th and 18th – to pull away from 35-year-old six-time Japan Tour winner Koumei Oda, who could do no better than a closing 69.  Third place was shared by Yosuke Tsukada and 28-year-old Chinese star Ashun Wu, the latter raising eyebrows by opening on Thursday with a tournament-low 62 and closing with a 63 – the latter, unfortunately, coming after a Saturday 75 left him too far back in the back to truly challenge down the stretch..................South African Charl Schwartzel, who’d previously contended on multiple continents in 2013 but not logged a win, finally broke through, edging homestanding Wen-Chong Liang and 2011 British Open champion Darren Clarke by one at the Nanshan China Masters.  For a while it seemed like the popular Clarke might finally emerge from a lingering slump, as he shared the 54-hole lead with Liang after carding rounds of 72-68-68.  Schwartzel, for his part, needed a Saturday 68 just to creep within three of the leaders, and after bogeying the par-5 7th hole on Sunday, his prospects seemed dim indeed.  But on the challenging Montgomerie Course of the Nanshan International Golf Club, he proceeded to card birdies at the 9th, 12th, 15th and 16th to make a late rush back into contention.  Liang, meanwhile, had stumbled with bogeys at the 4th and 5th, while Clarke had birdied the par-4 6th to grab the outright lead.  But Clarke’s putter would desert him at the 13th (where he missed a three-footer for par) and while he regained the stroke by birdieing the par-5 15th, a subsequent bogey at the 169-yard 17th would ultimately provide Schwartzel with his narrow margin of victory..................Playing in his homeland, 26-year-old former PGA Tour player Sung-Hoon Kang won for the first time on the Asian circuit, rolling to a five-shot runaway victory at the C.J. Invitation in Seoul.  It was the third playing of the fledgling event, and with the first two having been won by tournament host K.J. Choi, the week’s initial storyline was whether Choi might become the first player ever to win a single Asian Tour event three successive times.  Unfortunately, the popular Choi was well in arrears before a Sunday 73 left him in a tie for 21st, opening the door for Kang to take a two-troke 54-hole lead over Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg via rounds of 68-69-69.  Wasting little time on consolidating his position, Kang then ran off four straight birdies at holes 3-6 on Sunday to pull far enough out in front that subsequent bogeys at the 8th and 16th did little more than give his pursuers a glimpse of him in the distance..................Twenty-five-year-old J.J. Senekal won for the first time on the Sunshine Tour, claiming the final event of the Vodacom Origins of Golf series in a playoff with seven-time tour winner Titch Moore.  Senekal entered Friday's final round one stroke behind Riekus Nortje and level with Moore and Jake Roos, then went out in two-under-par 34 to move into the lead on the seaside St Francis Links course.  A bogey at the 10th slowed his momentum before three straight bogeys at the 14th, 15th and par-5 16th seemed to beach his chances entirely.  But rallying boldly, Senekal proceeded to birdie both the par-3 17th and the 443-yard 18th (the latter via a 25-foot putt from the fringe), then caught a giant break when the far more experienced Moore bogeyed the finisher to deadlock the pair on four-under-par 212.  Both men then attempted to sieze the moment by birdieing the 18th on the first extra hole but playing the tough par 4 a second time, Moore buried his approach beneath the lip of a greenside bunker, allowing Senekal to raise the trophy with a routine par.  

Posted on Monday, October 14, 2013 at 01:42AM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

Week 41 Results

PGA Tour - Frys.com Open  -  Jimmy Walker  (267)
European Tour - Portugal Masters  -  David Lynn  (266)
Japan Tour - Toshin Golf Tournament  -  Yoshinori Fujimoto  (264)
Asian Tour -  C.J. Invitational  -  Sung-Hoon Kang  (276)
Sunshine Tour -  Vodacom Origins Final  -  J.J. Senekal  (212)
OneAsia Tour -  Nanshan China Masters  -  Charl Schwartzel  (279)
Australasian Tour - Western Australia Open  -  Josh Geary  (273)
LatinoAmerica -  Puerto Rico Classic  -  Ryan Sullivan  (205)
LPGA Tour - Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia  -  Lexi Thompson  (265)
JLPGA Tour - Stanley Ladies  -  Soo-Yun Kang  (204)
Champions Tour - SAS Championship  -  Russ Cochran  (199)
Euro Senior Tour - Dutch Senior Open  -  Simon Brown  (143)

Posted on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 11:20AM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

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It took five full years but Shingo Katayama, the winningest Japan Tour player of his era, claimed his 27th career title at the Coca-Cola Tokai Classic, defeating Hidemasa Hoshino and Satoshi Tomiyama on the first hole of sudden death.  Katayama, who lost the same event in a playoff in 2012, struggled over the first 36 holes, his rounds of 74-76 leaving him on 150, a full 10 shots off the halfway lead.  But a Saturday 64 (the week's lowest round by two shots) moved him back to the edges of contention before a birdie-eagle start on Sunday pushed him meaningfully into the mix.  Katayama would ultimately make a clutch birdie at the 17th to close in 67, then wait as Hoshino bogeyed the 18th and Tomiyama finished with two pars, bringing the trio home deadlocked on 281.  Kunihiro Kamii recorded two eagles during a Sunday-best 66 to claim solo third (three shots off the pace), while a prominent American entry, 24-year-old Peter Uihlein, closed with a strong 68 to tie for seventh..................Long-hitting Australian Scott Hend won for the second time on the 2013 Asian Tour, surviving demanding conditions imposed by both the incoming Typhoon Fitow and a tricky Taiwan Golf & Country Club layout to claim the Mercuries Taiwan Masters by three strokes.  Hend stood one ahead of American Sam Cyr after opening with rounds of 69-72-70, then closed with a methodical 74 that included pars at his first eight and last eight holes, with bogeys in between at the 9th and 10th.  Cyr, for his part, triple-bogeyed the par-4 5th and doubled the par-4 9th, eventually steadying himself to card a 77 which actually held up well in a steady rain and wind gusts that peaked at over 50 mph.  On an afternoon whose low round was a 71 by Thai veteran Thaworn Wiratchant, up-and-coming Thai prospect Arnond Vongvanij carded a 73 to climb into a tie for third with Bangladesh's Siddikur (77), while Panuphol Pittayarat put an exclamation point on the day's challenges by shooting a Sunday 79, but only falling from third to solo fifth. 

Posted on Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 07:38PM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

Week 40 Results

Japan Tour - Coca-Cola Tokai Classic  -  Shingo Katayama  (281)
Asian Tour - Mercuries Taiwan Masters  -  Scott Hend  (285)
Australasian Tour - Western Australia PGA Championship  -  Jack Wilson  (278)
LPGA Tour - Reignwood LPGA Classic  -  Shanshan Feng  (266)
JLPGA Tour - Japan Women's Open  -  Mika Miyazato  (288)
Euro Senior Tour - English Senior Open  -  Steen Tinning  (199)

Posted on Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 04:09AM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

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It was a long road back indeed for David Howell but the 37-year-old Englishman finally ended a seven-year, back injury-induced victory drought by claiming the Dunhill Links Championship in a playoff with rapidly rising American Peter Uihlein.  Howell, previously a four-time E Tour winner, rose as high as number nine in the world in 2006 before plummeting all the way to 569th during his long struggle, then remerged somewhat by climbing back to 62nd in the Order of Merit in 2012.  Paired with actor Hugh Grant in what was also a marquee pro-am event contested over three St Andrews-area courses, Howell began the week slowly, trailing leader Tom Lewis by six after 36 holes.  But a third-round 63 over the Old Course brought him within two of the Saturday lead before a closing 67 (keyed by five birdies between holes 2 and 7) saw him home on 265.  Uihlein, meanwhile, also started slowly (a 71 at Carnoustie) before flirting with history by carding a second-round 60 at Kingsbarns.  Impressively, he then added a Saturday 65 at St Andrews (aided by an eagle at the par-4 18th) before marching home in 69 to gain his spot in a playoff - a relatively brief affair which Howell won by holing a 12-footer or birdie on the 18th green.  Shane Lowry would ultimately share third with halfway leader Lewis, who closed with a clutch 64 that cemented his playing privileges for 2014………………Twenty-year-old Masahiro Kawamura presented evidence that Hideki Matsuyama may not be Japan's only young golfing star of note, stepping into the spotlight by claiming his first professional victory at the Asain Tour co-sanctioned Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open.  Bothered earlier in the season by a thumb injury, Kawamura began the final round two shots behind South Korea's red-hot Sung-Joon Park and fell to four back after going out in one-over-par 36.  He quickly rallied, however, charging home with a bogey-free five-under-par 31 that included obviously clutch birdies at the 15th, 17th and 18th.  Kawamura still needed help, however, and Park, who'd previously logged five top-5 finishes in his last eight Japan Tour starts, obliged him, making disastrous bogeys at both the 16th and 17th holes, then missing a 10-foot birdie attempt at the last to essentially surrender the trophy.  Because of the event's co-sanctioned status, the victory secures 2014 status on both the Japan and Asian circuits for Kawamura.  Also notable - beyond Park's continued fine play - was the third-place finish of 2009 PGA Championship winner Y.E. Yang, the 41-year-old South Korean's first top-10 finish worldwide in what has been a very disappointuing season………………In a dramatic (if slightly confusing) close to the inaugural Web.com Finals, Chesson Hadley claimed his second victory of the season at the Tour Championship, but was edged out for the Finals’ money title by John Peterson, who thus earned a fully exempt spot on the 2014 PGA Tour.  Hadley closed with a clutch 69 to claim victory, but perhaps more significant were the performances of the three runners-up whose status for 2014 was not guaranteed coming into the Finals: Peterson, Brad Fritsch (who closed with a clutch 66) and 54-hole leader Scott Gardiner, all of whom punched their PGA Tour tickets as a result.  Also significant was Lee Williams, whose 55-foot birdie putt at the last proved just enough to get him in as well.

Posted on Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 06:23PM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

Week 39 Results

European Tour - Alfred Dunhill Links Championship  -  David Howell  (265)
Japan Tour - Asia-Pacific Panasonic Open  -  Masahiro Kawamura  (275)
Asian Tour -  See Japan Tour (Above)
LET - LaCoste Ladies Open de France  -  Azahara Munoz  (266)
JLPGA Tour - Dunlop Ladies Open  - Na-Ri Lee  (211)
Champions Tour - Nature Valley First Tee Open  -  Kirk Triplett  (205)
Web.com Tour - Web.com Tour Championship  -  Chesson Hadley  (270)
Symetra Tour - Symetra Tour Championship  -  Megan McChrystal  (275)

Posted on Sunday, September 29, 2013 at 11:45AM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

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And the world’s hottest golfer got hotter.  Sweden’s Henrik Stenson, runner-up at the British Open and WGC-Bridgestone, third-place finisher at the PGA Championship and winner of the Deutsche Bank Championship, capped off the best run of golf of his career by cruising to a wire-to-wire victory at the season-ending Tour Championship, and with it claiming the FedEx Cup title and its lucrative $10 million bonus.  The win marked the completion of a comeback of sorts.  Indeed it returned Stenson to the number four spot in the OWR, a position he occupied briefly after winning the 2009 WGC-Match Play before tumbling out of the top 200, his game presumably affected by great financial losses suffered through investments with convicted swindler Allen Stanford.  But this week at East Lake, Stenson seemed borderline invincible, opening with rounds of 64-66 to take a four-shot halfway lead, then briefly extending the margin as far as nine during Saturday’s rain-bothered round before ultimately ending the day still four up.  But lest the remainder of the field get too excited about their chances on a Sunday which saw the rain-softened East Lake ripe for the taking, Stenson methodically posted two birdies and 11 pars over his first 13 holes to stay out in front, then offset a bogey at the 14th with a bounce-back birdie at the par-5 15th to hold steady down the stretch.  Ultimately posting a two-under-par 69, he never opened the door wide enough to allow anyone else a serious chance of overtaking him.  Twenty-year-old Jordan Spieth, the event’s youngest-ever competitor, did manage a gallant Sunday run, reeling off seven birdies from the 7th through the 16th before an ill-timed bogey at the 17th allowed Stenson an easy walk home.  Spieth (who closed with 64) would tie for second with Steve Stricker and in the process cap a stunning rookie campaign which saw him begin the year without status and end up with a win, nearly $4 million in earnings and selection (as a captain’s pick) to the Presidents Cup team.  Stricker briefly crept within two strokes after eagling the 15th, and his share of second helped him net a $2 million FedEx Cup bonus – a check which would have been for $3 million had he holed birdie putts at either of the last two holes.  World number one Tiger Woods, the top FedEx Cup seed coming in, imploded on Friday afternoon (playing holes 14-17 in six over par) en route to tying for 22nd and a second-place finish in the bonus pool.  Webb Simpson, who carded the tournament’s low round on Sunday (63) finished fourth………………France's Julien Quesne looked like anything but a winner early in the final round of the Open D'Italia, having begun Sunday four shots behind third-round leader Marcus Fraser, then digging his hole significantly deper with a double bogey at the par-4 2nd hole.  Quesne would regain those lost strokes with birdies at the 4th and 6th, then creep back into the edges of contention by recording back-to-back birdies at the 10th and 11th.  By now, both Fraser and his closest 54-hole pursuer, local hero Francesco Molinari, had failed to break par on the outward half, opening the door for Quesne, as well as Ireland's David Higgins and veterans Steve Webster and Fredrik Andersson Hed, all three of whom turned in 33.  Fraser would hang around through 14 holes before three straight bogeys derailed him, while Molinari lingered on the fringes until a double-bogey at the par-3 16th ultimately sunk him to a disappointing closing 75.  Higgins, Webster and Andersson Hed, meanwhile, continued marching nearly in lockstep as each posted two birdies and a bogey over the closing holes - a circumstance which might well have led to a playoff had Quesne not turned up the heat, drawing even even with birdies at the 15th and 17th, then adding one final birdie at the par-4 18th to take a precariouis lead which, in the end, would hold up.  The victory was the second on the E Tour for the 33-year-old Quesne, who'd previously won at the 2012 Open de Andalucia………………Twenty-nine-year-old Neil Schietekat, an eight-year veteran of the Sunshine Tour, finally broke through for his maiden victory at the Platinum Classic, riding a closing 68 to a three-shot victory over Jaco Ahlers.  Schietekat began Saturday’s final round one stroke behind 36-hole leader Jacques Kruyswijk but holed his approach to eagle 404-metre par-4 3rd hole to move ahead early.  He then solidified his position significantly by reeling off birdies at holes 7, 8 and 9, building a large enough lead that eight straight pars and a closing bogey made his back nine a relatively uneventful affair.  Ahlers closed with a fine 69 in cold and windy weather but simply couldn’t make up enough ground, while James Kamte came home in 70 to take solo third, four shots behind.  The unheralded Kruyswijk struggled in trying to close out his first win, carding six outgoing bogeys on Saturday en route to a closing 75 and a tie for fifth place………………A former winner on both the PGA and Web.com Tours who briefly retired for three years due to a wrist injury, Andre Stolz claimed his first victory since the 2011 Thailand Open by defeating fellow Australian Michael Wright on the fifth hole of sudden death to capture the inaugural South Pacific Open Championship in New Caledonia.  Stolz played the most consistent golf throughout the week over the shortish Tina Golf Club layout, posting rounds of 67-66-69-66 to deadlock with Wright (who closed with 69) on 16-under-par 268.  The playoff then involved playing the 342-metre 18th hole repeatedly, with both men posting routine fours over the first four playings before Wright pulled a 3 iron into a lateral water hazard the fifth time, allowing Stolz to clinch his fifth career Australasian Tour title with a routine par. 

Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 10:06PM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

Week 38 Results

PGA Tour -  Tour Championship by Coca-Cola  -  Henrick Stenson  (267)
European Tour - 70° Open D'Italia Lindt  -  Julien Quesne  (276)
Japan Tour - ANA Open  -  Koumei Oda  (273)
Sunshine Tour - Platinum Classic  -  Neil Schietekat  (201)
Australasian Tour -  South Pacific Open Championship  -  Andre Stolz  (268)
JLPGA Tour - Munsingwear Ladies Tokai Classic  -  Sakura Yokomine  (201)
Champions Tour - Pacific Links Hawaii Championship  -  Mark Wiebe  (205)
Euro Senior Tour - French Riviera Masters  -  Peter Fowler  (205)
E Challenge Tour - Kazakhstan Open  -  Johan Carlsson  (270)
Symetra Tour - Volvik Championship  -  Hannah Yun  (202)

Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 11:51AM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

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In a tournament that will likely be remembered far more for its events of Friday than those of its Monday finish, Zach Johnson rallied to claim his second PGA Tour win of 2013, beating Nick Watney by two at the BMW Championship.  But while there was plenty of excitement during the rain-delayed finish, it was indeed Friday which stole the show, highlighted by Jim Furyk becoming only the sixth player in PGA Tour history to shoot 59, as he posted 11 birdies, one eagle and a bogey over the par-71 Conway Farms layout.  The epic round also launched Furyk into the halfway lead, though most storylines beyond the 59 itself were overshadowed by another rules infraction involving world number one Tiger Woods, in this case Woods’ failure to acknowledge the movement of his ball while removing a loose impediment – a move which Hall-of-Famer Johnny Miller later suggested would “raise some eyebrows” among Woods’ fellow players.  Remarkably, Woods recovered from this potentially image-shattering incident with a strong 66 on Saturday to creep within four of the lead before - per his recent pattern - fading on Sunday to tie for 15th.  Furyk, meanwhile, posted a 69 on Saturday to remain atop the leaderboard, one ahead of Steve Stricker (who carded a third-round 64), two up on defending FedEx Cup champion Brandt Snedeker and three ahead of Johnson, who’d been lingering quietly after opening with a Thursday 64.  The leaders never got on the golf course Sunday before heavy rains terminated the day’s play, but Furyk managed to keep his momentum going into the final nine on Monday, remaining atop the board through the first 10 holes.  Eventually, however, three subsequent bogeys would result in his failing to hold a final-round lead for the sixth consecutive time, opening the door for both Johnson and Watney to make their moves.  Watney, for his part, posted seven birdies (and a bogey) among his first 14 holes but could only find one last birdie down the stretch, coming home with a Sunday-low 64.  Johnson, meanwhile, played flawless golf, carding clinching birdies at the 16th and 17th holes to complete a 65 and claim the title..................Twenty-seven-year-old Joost Luiten became the second native of The Netherlands to win his national title since the dawning of the European Tour, and the first to claim two E Tour titles in a single season, by winning the KLM Open on the first hole of  sudden death over Miguel Angel Jimenez.  Luiten, who nearly won this event as a 21-year-old Challenge Tour player in 2007, had trailed the 49-year-old Jimenez (the event’s 1994 champion) and Pablo Larrazabal by three after 36 holes before sweeping into the lead with a Saturday 66 in windy, rainy conditions.  He then birdied two of his first five holes on Sunday but still lost ground as Jimenez birdied four of his opening six, setting up a back nine duel that included an untimely bogey by Jimenez at the 15th, and both men eventually finishing bogey-par to deadlock on 12-under-par 268.  Thus back to the 18th tee of the links-like H.S. Colt-designed Kennemer Golf & Country Club they went, and when Jimenez drove into the right rough and ultimately made bogey from the fringe, Luiten was able to claim his third (and most popular) E Tour victory with a routine par………………Thailand's 46-year-old Thaworn Wiratchant won for the 15th time on the Asian Tour and for the second time in this event, closing with a four-under-par 68 to claim the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship in Taiwan.  Playing over the same Linkou International Golf & Country Club course over which he won the tournament's inaugural playing in 2010, Wiratchant began Sunday's final round one stroke behind American rookie Chan Kim but made his move early, carding four birdies (against one bogey) over his first six holes, then adding one more birdie at the par-4 13th to get to 13 under par.  The long-hitting Chan, meanwhile, had begun his Sunday with an eagle (at the par-5 1st) and three birdies over his first 10 holes to retain the lead.  But with the pressure to claim his maiden victory mounting, Chan stumbled badly, bogeying the 14th, 15th and 16th holes in rapid succession to fall one back of Wiratchant, then failed to to post a needed birdie at the 17th or 18th to lose by one.  Angelo Que of the Philippines, who posted a closing 66 (the day's low round) claimed solo 3rd, four shots back..................Andrew Curlewis waited more than six years between his first and seconds Sunshine Tour victories, but he only had to wait seven days between his second and third, claiming his his second straight win at the Vodacom Origins of Golf tournament in Parys.  Playing in windy conditions during Friday’s third and final round, Curlewis rallied from a four-stroke 36-hole deficit by carding the day’s low round, a four-under-par 68, to get in the clubhouse on seven-under-par 209.  Second-round leader Lyle Rowe then came to the par-5 18th needing a birdie to secure his maiden victory but, after pulling his second shot left, could do no better than five and a playoff.  Playing the 18th again, Rowe hit his second shot into the reeds along the Vaal River, allowing Curlewis to clinch victory with a two-putt birdie after he reached the green in two.  Daniel Greene and Ulrich van den Berg shared third after closing rounds of 70 and 71 respectively, while Michael Hollick rounded out the top five by finishing with a 71.  The victory boosted the long struggling Curlewis into 18th on the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit as the Tour prepared for several lucrative E Tour co-sanctioned events coming in late autumn.

Posted on Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 05:19PM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off

Week 37 Results

PGA Tour - BMW Championship  -  Zach Johnson  (268)
European Tour - KLM Open  -  Joost Luiten  (268)
Asian Tour - Yeangder Tournament Players Championship  -  Thaworn Wiratchant  (275)
Sunshine Tour - Vodacom Orgins: Parys  -  Andrew Curlewis  (209)
LPGA Tour - Evian Championship  -  Suzann Pettersen  (203)
LET - See LPGA (Above)
JLPGA Tour - Japan LPGA Championship  -  Bo-Mee Lee  (205)
Euro Senior Tour - Russian Senior Open  -  Simon Brown  (204)
Web.com Tour - Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship  -  Sung-Yul Noh  (272)
E Challenge Tour - Kharkov Superior Cup  -  Daan Huizing  (273)
Canada - Tour Championship of Canada  -  Max Gilbert  (268)

Posted on Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 12:07PM by Registered CommenterDaniel | Comments Off