Sunday, January 11, 2015

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SULLIVAN WINS PLAY-OFF AFTER 

SCHWARTZEL LATE BOGEYS


FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Englishman Andy Sullivan snatched the South African Open Championship from Charl Schwartzel after a dramatic play-off at Glendower Golf Club, Gauteng, Johannesburg

Sullivan, pictured with the championship trophy, by courtesy of Getty Images(c), fired a remarkable approach from the trees to 12 feet at the first extra hole and sank the putt to secure his first European Tour win.
Schwartzel took a five- shot lead into the final round and, despite an error-strewn display, still led by four with five holes to play.
However, the former Masters Tournament champion then failed to get up and down from a plugged lie in a greenside bunker on the 14th and three-putted the 16th to run up a double bogey 6, before a poor tee shot on the 17th led to another bogey and left him tied with Sullivan on 11 under par.
The players returned to the 18th for a sudden-death play-off and, after both had missed the fairway, Sullivan produced a stunning recovery for a winning birdie.
Sullivan, who held a one-shot lead at the halfway stage but bogeyed the first four holes as playing partner Schwartzel birdied them, started the day seven shots off the lead but carded four birdies, a chip-in eagle and one bogey in a closing 67.
The 27 year old from Nuneaton, who turned pro after winning the 2011 Scottish open amateur stroke-play title and helping GB and I win the Walker Cup match at Royal Aberdeen that year, perhaps thought his chance had gone when he left a long birdie putt on the 18th a few inches short, but Schwartzel's shaky finish led to a 74 and ensured extra holes were required.
"It's unbelievable," Sullivan said during the trophy presentation. "After Saturday I didn't think I stood much of a chance with Charl getting ahead that far.
"I just dug in there yesterday and today and found myself in a position where I had a chance to win. My caddie said over the last few holes 'no regrets' and I've definitely got no regrets over the last few holes, especially that play-off hole.
"Charl has won Major Championships; my caddie said ‘expect him to hole’ (his third shot) and he nearly did. I was delighted just to hit the green and have a chance to win and I'm just glad I took it.

"I didn't want to give him a second chance to take the title away from me so I am absolutely delighted and I hope the guys at Nuneaton Golf Club are having a few beers for me!
"To just play on The European Tour is something I've wanted to do my whole life, so to win an event just caps it all off and to do it in South Africa where I have always enjoyed playing, it has just been an incredible week."

Lee Slattery from Southport carded a closing 69 to finish third, just one shot outside the play-off, with Spain's Pablo Martin another shot back in fourth after also recording a 69.
Former US Amateur champion Matt Fitzpatrick had been the first player to put the pressure on playing partner Schwartzel with birdies at the second and fourth, but the 20 year old from Sheffield double-bogeyed the seventh and ran up a triple bogey on the 13th after finding water to finish joint fifth.
SCOTSWATCH. David Drysdale, joint second five shots off the lead, after three rounds, failed to get a final-round challenge going.
He finished with a 74, his worst round of the tournament, for a share of 11th place on 282. The Cocksburnpath man earned 17,300 euros. It should have been much more.
Paul Lawrie repeated his third-round, one-over-par 73 on the final day and finished T55.
He had a final total of four-over-par 292 with earlier rounds of 71, 75 and 73.
Paul Lawrie tweeted: "Not the week I was looking for but first week since October, it's no disaster. Need to hit more fairways though. Thanks everyone."
Lawrie earned 3,500 euros from the prizefund.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72) Yardage7,564. Players from S Africa unless stated otherwise. Prizemoney in Euros.
279 Andy Sullivan (England) 66 70 74 67; Charl Schwartzel 68 69 66 74 (Sullivan won play-off at first extra hole: Sullivan 158,500; Schwartzel 115,500).
278 Lee Slattery (England) 70 74 65 69 (69,000)
279 Pablo Martin (Spain) 71 68 71 69 (49,100)
281 Thomas Aiken 70 71 70 70, Matthew Fitzpatrick (England) 73 68 67 73, Jared Harvey 71 69 70 71, Paul Maddy (England) 71 71 68 71, Gary Stal (France) 75 66 69 71, Alessandro Tadini (Italy) 71 68 73 69 (28,667 each).

SELECTED TOTALS
282 David Drysdale (Scotland) 68 72 68 74 (T11) (17,300)
285 Ernie Els 67 77 69 72 (T20) (11.120)
292 Paul Lawrie (Scotland) 71 75 73 73 (T55) (3,500)

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Johnson, Walker, Bae, Henley share spotlight

FOUR-WAY TIE FOR HAWAII LEAD

CBSSports.com wire reports
KAPALUA, Hawaii -- The first US PGA Tour event of the year in Hawaii hardly resembles a working vacation.
Zach Johnson, pictured, putted for birdie on every hole, the fifth time in his career that he didn't miss a green in regulation. Jimmy Walker got in the mix with five birdies in eight holes. Russell Henley and Bae Sang-Moon held their own on another gorgeous day at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.

They are part of a four-way tie for the halfway lead, the largest log jam at the 36-hole mark in the 17 years this winners-only event has been played at Kapalua.
Geoff Ogilvy wasn't part of the mix, though he might have seen this coming when he spoke earlier in the week about the first PGA Tour event of the year.
"There's a little bit of rust going on, less than there used to be," Ogilvy said. "I think in the good old days ... they hadn't hit a shot in a few months and they'd show up and shank their first three shots on the range. They would just cruise into the year, basically. I think that happens a lot less these days."
There's not much evidence of it now.
Along with that four-way tie for the lead, 10 players were within two shots of the lead going into the third round, and half of the 34-man field within five shots.
Johnson gets the most attention as the defending champion, hopeful of joining the Aussie duo of Ogilvy and Stuart Appleby as the only back-to-back winners at Kapalua (Appleby won three in a row). 
He made seven birdies in his round of 6-under 67 and was the first to reach 11-under 135.
Walker, a winner last year on Oahu, was the only player to reach 12 under until confusion over the wind and a little indecision cost him a three-putt bogey on the 17th. He wound up with a 68. 
Henley recovered from a sluggish start for a 70, while Bae played bogey-free -- and birdie-free over the last eight holes -- for a 69.
"I think it's so competitive," Henley said. "I think the way guys look at it now, it's a great opportunity to have a good finish and get off to a great start, if not win."
Johnson got off to a great start last year when he won, his only victory of 2014.
His only bogey on another benign day above the blue Pacific was a three-putt on the eighth hole. He birdied all the par 5s, though the last one required a little more work. 
Johnson popped up his drive, which still went 294 yards because of the 150-foot drop from the tee to the fairway. He had to pound a 3-wood to get beyond the neck of the fairway, and then he flew his third shot beyond the flag.
Shots like that used to roll off the back of the green. In soft conditions, this one stayed, and Johnson made a 15-foot birdie putt.
"I had a full shot," Johnson said. "At the same time, usually you've got to play 15 yards from the hole. That's strange and rare, but that's the way it is. We played a little early today. The ball just didn't release. You have to pay attention there. As we get more wind the next couple days, I think this place will dry out."
Walker completed a two-putt birdie on the par-5 15th by making a 6-footer into the grain to take the lead.
 He hammered his tee shot on the downhill 17th and, adjusting for the drop in elevation over the gorge in front of the 17th green, he figured it was an 8-iron from 170 yards.
The uncertainty was the wind, and not totally convinced of his club selection, he hit chunky and barely got onto the green. He three-putted from 70 feet for his only bogey, and then failed to birdie the 18th.
No matter. He was tied for the lead, in the final group going into Sunday's third round. That wasn't all that surprising.
Walker played in Asia in November, and then he played twice in Florida during December. So even though he took his family to Utah over Christmas, he arrived to Maui last week feeling ready to go.
Hideki Matsuyama and Charley Hoffman each shot 66 for the low rounds Saturday, leaving them in the group a shot out of the lead. Hoffman ran off seven birdies in an eight-hole stretch to share the lead, only to hit into the hazard on the 17th for a double bogey. He bounced backed with his seventh birdie of the back nine.
Hoffman was the last player to qualify for this winners-only event with a victory in Mexico in November.
"Second round of the year, just trying to get my feet wet," Hoffman said. "Made a bunch of birdies, hit a lot of good shots, and one unfortunate swing. You can get away with a few bad swings out here, but not on the 17th hole." 

LEADING HALFWAY TOTALS
Par 146 (2x73)
135 Zach Johnson 68 67, Jimmy Walker 67 68, Sang-moon Bae (S Korea) 66 69, Russell Henley 65 70
136 Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 70 66, Charley Hoffman 70 66, Brendon Todd 69 67, Patrick Reed 67 69, Robert Streb 67 79

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139 Bubba Watson 70 69 (T12).

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