Katherine Hull gets second LPGA event

Australia's Katherine Hull rallied to win the Navistar LPGA Classic on Sunday for her additional career LPGA Tour title, affairs advanced with a baboon on the par-5 17th and finishing with a two-putt par for a 5-under 67 and a one-stroke achievement over Brittany Lincicome.

Hull, the above Pepperdine amateur who aswell won the 2008 Canadian Women's Open, accomplished at 19-under 269 on the links-style Senator blueprint at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill complex. After aperture with a 68, she had three beeline bogey-free 67s.

"It's in fact absolutely validating," said Hull, who began the annular three acclamation abaft Cristie Kerr. "I feel like my game's the best its anytime been, and I apperceive it's traveling to get better, too. I anticipate I've consistently struggled to try to put four acceptable circuit calm and I was able to do that this week."

On the par-4 18th, Hull absent the fairway to the larboard and was faced with a arduous lie. She hit her access on the green, 50 anxiety from the hole. Her baboon try chock-full 5 anxiety abbreviate and she adored par for the achievement and $195,000 first-place check.

"I would accept admired a tap-in, for sure," Hull said. "Putting is the best allotment of my game, so I was animated to see it drop."

Lincicome bankrupt with a 65. "You know, 65 on the final day, that's appealing cool," Lincicome said.Lincicome was the aboriginal to congratulate Hull, active assimilate the blooming and spraying her with a achievement beer.

"It's a little overwhelming," Hull said. "It apparently won't hit me until later. You just get so focused on active and just finishing that you don't anticipate about annihilation else."

"Today, things just didn't go my way," Kerr said. "If I had played bisected as able-bodied as I had played the aboriginal three days, it would accept been no contest."

Playing in the final accumulation with Hull, Kerr pushed her access attempt to the appropriate of the blooming on 18 and two-putted for a bogey. Had she won the tournament, she would accept becoming abundant credibility to yield over aboriginal abode in the Rolex Amateur of the Year standings. She remained third abaft Yani Tseng and Ai Miyazato.

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Toms takes McGladrey Classic lead

The 43-year-old David Toms shot a 4-under 66 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead in the McGladrey Classic, the second of the PGA Tour's five Fall Series events. He, coming off a first-round 64, had a 10-under 130 total on the Sea Island Club's Seaside Course, hitting 16 of 18 greens in regulation in the second round.

Toms has won tournaments in his home state of Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. He said "Maybe it's the warm weather ... growing up in the South, when it was cold I probably went hunting or something else. I didn't play a whole lot of golf in bad weather."

Toms shook off bogeys on the 10th and 14th holes to take the lead with a tap-in birdie putt at the par-5 15th and a 10-foot birdie putt at the par-4 16th.

 The 46-year-old Durant had a bogey-free round, holing a 20-footer for par on his final hole, the par-4 ninth. He has made only one bogey, at the 14th hole Thursday, and has missed only three fairways and four greens the first two days.

Neither Toms nor Durant have won since 2006. Toms won the second tournament of the schedule that year in Hawaii, while Durant won the last, at Disney World.

The big difference between them is that Toms remains assured of his PGA Tour card for the 2011 season, based on his standing on the money list (58th). Durant is 131st and must climb into the top 125 by the end of the season to regain full status.

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Westwood reinjures right ankle but will insists playing

It is said that Lee Westwood hurt his right ankle again. He didnot lose his heart and he decided to play on Thursday at the Dunhill Links Championship with the world No. 1 ranking in sight.

Westwood aggravated the injury when he slipped on a steep slope by the seventh tee at Kingsbarns, but he insisted going on to complete the first round in 2-under 70.

“I felt a twinge and I panicked a bit,” he said. “I’ve had treatment and I’m going to play on.”

The Englishman took a seven-week layoff to rest the ankle, returning to action last week to help Europe regain the Ryder Cup. Westwood has been warned that if his ankle deteriorates he might have to rest at home for six months instead of playing golf.

He has a opportunity to replace Tiger Woods as No. 1 in the world on Nov. 1 if he finishes inside the top 20 at the Dunhill Links and next week when he defends his Portugal Masters title.

He is four off the lead after the first round, tied for 47th place. But the ankle was his bigger concern on Thursday.

“My main priority has to be to get myself and my golf in the best possible shape for the Masters next year,” he said.

“I made a mistake two months ago playing in the Bridgestone Invitational when it was not right. I should have rested after The Open at St. Andrews.

“Now it is a case of rehabbing and resting again.”

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Westwood will turn to personal goals in 2011

Lee Westwood says he will not be a PGA Tour member next year, only coming to America for the majors, World Golf Championships and occasional tournaments around them.

The 37-year-old Englishman said Wednesday that he will put his family first in 2011, remaining based in Europe despite a chance to compete for the FedEx Cup and the $10 million bonus.

“Why would you take up membership in the States when you’ve been the most successful player in the world this year?” Westwood said. “When you’ve come in second in two major championships, you must be doing something right. Why not stick to the same schedule?”

Westwood has a chance to end Woods’ 278-week run atop the world ranking by finishing in a three-way tie for second or better at the Dunhill Links Championship, which starts Thursday on three coastline courses with St. Andrews as the host course.

Westwood, a runner-up at the Masters and British Open, could become only the third player to reach No. 1 without having won a major. The others were Fred

Couples, who won the Masters a month after reaching No. 1, and David Duval, who was No. 1 in 1999 and captured the British Open two years later.

Westwood says he has been asked by American officials to join their tour, but after another successful Ryder Cup for Europe, he turned his focus to personal goals.

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Two players of U.S. turn from Ryder Cup to PGA Tour

After being on the losing side at the Ryder Cup, Matt Kuchar and Zach Johnson returned from Wales this week wanting more out of the match-play event.

They’ll have to settle for a strong start to the PGA Tour Fall Series.

Kuchar and Johnson are the only two U.S. Ryder Cup players in the field for this week’s McGladrey Classic at the Sea Island Club’s Seaside Course. The two relative newcomers in the Ryder Cup went 3-2-2 for the U.S., which lost by one point to Europe at Celtic Manor.

The two are playing this week mainly because they are residents of St. Simons Island.

Rain pushed the singles matches in the Ryder Cup to Monday, so Kuchar and Johnson didn’t arrive home until Tuesday night. The two were on the course Wednesday to play in the McGladrey pro-am, and were candid about their experiences in one of the most dramatic Ryder Cup finishes ever, the first since 1991 that came down to the final singles match.

Johnson, who was playing in his second Ryder Cup, won the 11th of the 12 singles matches against Padraig Harrington to give Hunter Mahan and the U.S. a fighting chance.

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USA still struggles with aggregation concept

With the tears of his teammates spilling about him, Phil Mickelson declared the United States’ Ryder Cup defeat on Monday as one of the a lot of aching moments of his career.

Mickelson, a adept of eight Ryder Cups, was able to accumulate his affections in analysis afterward Europe’s nerve-wracking one-point achievement at Celtic

Manor, but his words conveyed a faculty of disappointment that burst any angle that the Americans don’t affliction about this accident as abundant as they should.

“I acquainted added disappointment that I accept anytime felt,” said Mickelson. “We put a lot of affection and activity into it, and we capital to win abominable bad. We absolutely believed we were traveling to win, and we came aural bisected a point.”

Teammates Hunter Mahan and Bubba Watson could not ascendancy their affections as Corey Pavin’s U.S. ancillary reflected on a blood-tingling final day in which the visitors’ adventurous improvement fell abbreviate by the aboriginal of margins.

Europe’s celebration didn’t appear about because of any abridgement of caring from the Americans. And it wasn’t, as has been appropriate in the past, because of personality clashes in the U.S. team.

Yet there was still a faculty that while the American band enjoyed anniversary other’s aggregation and was accommodating to action for a accepted cause, the abstraction of a aggregation ambiance did not sit as by itself with them as it did for the Europeans.

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Europe holds on to win blood-tingling Ryder Cup

Graeme McDowell capped an acclaimed year for himself by accepting the Ryder Cup for Europe in the actual endure singles bout on Monday.

McDowell formed in a 15-foot baboon putt on the 16th hole, again bankrupt out Hunter Mahan to accord Europe the 14 1/2 credibility it bare to accost the adored gold trophy.

It was the aboriginal time back 1991 that the Ryder Cup was absitively by the final singles match, a abstruseness fabricated accessible by the Americans accepting big wins from its best players and a beauteous improvement by 21-year-old amateur Rickie Fowler.

Europe, advanced by three credibility traveling into the final round, took the aboriginal advance in eight of the nine matches and appeared on its way to addition beating on home soil. It all angry so quickly.

Tiger Woods holed out from the fairway for hawkeye during a seven-hole amplitude that he played in 7-under par. Steve Stricker won the aperture bout and Phil Mickelson congenital a big advance to win late. Again came Fowler, the aboriginal PGA Tour amateur to play in the Ryder Cup, acceptable the endure three three holes with birdies — including putts of 15 anxiety on the 17th and 18th—to acquire an doubtful bisect adjoin Edoardo Molinari.

That gave the Americans 13 1/2 points, and they alone bare a bisect in the endure bout to absorb the cup. Just as Fowler was getting chock-full by his teammates, Mahan fabricated a cheeky baboon putt on the 15th to cut McDowell’s advance to 1 up.

It abiding didn’t attending that way as he accursed a tee attempt down the average and hit his access to 15 feet, abrogation him a quick putt.

“The best putt I’ve hit in my life,” McDowell said.

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