Sunday, February 28, 2016


Adam Scott takes lead in Honda Classic 

Adam Scott required only one hole to take the lead from Sergio Garcia in the final round of thed Honda Classic in Florida today.
Scott holed a putt from 15ft while Garcia made par.
Scott now leads at 10 under par with 17 holes to play, one ahead of Garcia who is three ahead of those who are joint third on six under par.

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Oosty wins Perth International by one stroke - 

first victory anywhere in two years


ASIAN TOUR NEWS RELEASE

Perth, Australia: South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen proved unstoppable when he closed with a final round one-under-par 71 an aggregate of 16-under-par 272 to mae the ISPS Handa Perth International his first victory in two years today and his first ever in Australia ... on his competitive debut in the country.


Despite the spirited challenges from France’s Alexander Levy and Australia’s Jason Scrivener, Oosthuizen kept his composure to win the A$1.75 million event by one shot at the Lake Karrinyup Country Club. 
Levy signed off with a 66 to take second place while Scrivener took the outright third position with his 274 total at the Perth showpiece which saw the return of the best players from the Asian Tour to Australia after seven years.

Singapore’s Mardan Mamat emerged as the leading player from the Asian Tour after he carded a 71 to take sole possession of eighth place with his 278 total.


Victory was especially sweet for Oosthuizen as his win marked his return to the winner’s circle after two years. The 2010 Open Championship winner was also making his first ever professional appearance in Australia.

“It's been two years since I won, so it's great to be back in the winning circle. And to do it here in Perth is really special. It's important to know that you can still win events, and not get too far from winning tournaments or too long from winning tournaments. This will be great for my season going forward,” said Oosthuizen. 


The South African, who came into the week as the highest ranked player in the field at world number 21, stumbled with an early bogey on the second hole.


He then saw his overnight three-shot advantage quickly wiped out when Scrivener carded his third birdie on seven to briefly share the lead. 
The South African however responded immediately with two birdies on seven and eight to get back to the front and cruised home with an outward 36 despite making a bogey at the last.


“I don't change my game plan. I do what I think is best with each shot, where I give myself the best birdie opportunity.  You get nervous, but you feed off that. It's great to be nervous with three holes to go in a tournament because it means you're up there somewhere. 


“You've got a chance of winning it.  That's what we do all the hard work for. To try and get into that position and it's a great feeling to be able to do that and win a tournament,” said Oosthuizen. 
Scrivener, who had the local crowd cheering him on, conceded his title chances were effectively lost after marking his card with a pair of bogeys on nine and 10.


“Those soft bogeys on 9 and 10 really killed my momentum. Once I made those bogeys, I kind of knew my chances of winning were gone,” said the Australian.

 

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72) Length: 6,531metres. prizemoney in euros

272 - Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 70-64-67-71 (186,760).

273 - Alexander Levy (FRA) 70-67-70-66 (124,506).

274 - Jason Scrivener (AUS) 69-67-69-69 (70,148).

275 - Gregory Bourdy (FRA) 73-71-65-66, Peter Uihlein (USA) 65-68-71-71 (51,771 each).

276 - Romain Wattel (FRA) 66-73-65-72.

277 - Brett Rumford (AUS) 68-65-73-71.

278 - Mardan Mamat (SIN) 69-69-69-71.

279 - David Lipsky (USA) 72-67-72-68, Julien Quesne (FRA) 73-69-69-68, Magnus A Carlsson (SWE) 68-71-71-69, Benjamin Hebert (FRA) 70-70-68-71, Peter Senior (AUS) 69-73-66-71, Mikko Korhonen (FIN) 71-70-66-72.

280 - Wade Ormsby (AUS) 69-73-70-68, Nick Cullen (AUS) 68-76-67-69, Robert Dinwiddie (ENG) 70-71-69-70, Masahiro Kawamura (JPN) 70-72-68-70, Andrew Johnston (ENG) 70-71-68-71, David Drysdale (SCO) 69-70-69-72, Marcus Fraser (AUS) 69-73-65-73 (14,599 each).

281 - Aron Price (AUS) 71-71-72-67, Soomin Lee (SKOR) 74-70-69-68, Richard McEvoy (ENG) 75-67-70-69, Terry Pilkadaris (AUS) 73-69-70-69, Daniel Nisbet (AUS) 70-70-71-70, Matthew Griffin (AUS) 72-71-65-73, Richard Lee (CAN) 68-71-68-74.

282 - Jeunhung Wang (SKOR) 71-68-75-68, David Bransdon (AUS) 71-68-73-70, Adilson da Silva (BRA) 72-67-73-70, Ashley Hall (AUS) 69-73-70-70, Jamie McLeary (SCO) 71-69-71-71, Shiv Kapur (IND) 66-73-71-72, Panuphol Pittayarat (THA) 73-67-70-72 (9,316 each) (T29).

283 - Himmat Rai (IND) 74-67-73-69, Scott Arnold (AUS) 68-71-70-74.
 
SELECTED TOTAL
284 Michael Sim (Sco) 69 72 68 75 (T38) (7,283)

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US PGA Tour

From leader to chaser: Fowler remains hopeful after third-round stumble

Rickie Fowler may have dropped five behind at the Honda Classic, but he still expresses optimism ahead of Sunday.
Rickie Fowler may have dropped five behind at the Honda Classic, but he still expresses optimism ahead of Sunday. ( Getty Images )
By GOLFWEEK.COM
By Jeff Babineau

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida. – Rickie Fowler probably knew he was testing fate when he played the first two rounds of the Honda Classic without a single bogey on his scorecard. On Saturday, the golf gods came calling, ganging up on him, and he paid the price.
A couple of bad bounces and a frustrating day on the greens left Fowler without a single birdie to show for four hours of hard work. By the time he added up the strokes, he’d shot 4-over 74, changing roles from a leader to playing the part of chaser. He’ll begin Sunday trying to capture his fifth victory in his last 20 official starts, but it will take some excellent play to get there. He trails co-leaders Adam Scott and Sergio Garcia by five shots.
“I got a couple of bad breaks, but that’s going to happen,” Fowler said. “I had some good breaks the first couple of days. I still swung it all right. Made a couple bad swings, but I just couldn’t get the right reads. Struggling on the greens.”
Fowler hit 10 fairways and 13 greens (one more green than he hit Friday in shooting 66), but he could not get a putt to fall. He shot 38 on his opening nine (giving up eight shots to Scott, and seven to Garcia), and tried to stop the bleeding on the back nine, when his lone bogey arrived after three-putted the 14th hole from 38 feet. It marked only his third over-par round of the 2015-16 season.
“I felt I hit a lot of good putts, got the speed somewhat dialed in, but I just wasn’t seeing them right,” he said. “With nothing going in, it’s hard to get any momentum, or get anything going.”
He fought through the best he could, and actually made some good pars coming home, when the winds stayed steady and the greens started growing firmer. On this golf course, five shots is not an insurmountable amount of strokes to make up, and with only three players ahead of him (Garcia, Scott and Blayne Barber), he can give chase with a good start and solid round.
“I’m not out of it,” shrugged Fowler, who lost in a playoff at the Waste Management Open in his last start. “Obviously, I’m a little further back than I would have liked to have been. I’d liked to have been closer, or possibly out front. But both Adam and Sergio are playing well out there. (It was) unfortunate for Adam to make the number he did on 15 (Scott made quadruple-bogey 7), but it just shows you how quickly it can jump up and get you.”
Yes, love it or loathe it, the Bear Trap isn’t short on drama, and late on Sunday, no lead – or leader – will be safe. The shots are difficult, and there are few places to miss. Double bogeys can lurk about anywhere. If there was any silver lining to Fowler’s struggles on Saturday, it was this: Fowler said the round reminded him of his Saturday at The Players last year, when he could get little going with the putter and shot 71, his high round of the week. A day later, he played the last six holes of regulation in 6 under and won the tournament in a playoff.
He believes PGA National’s Champion Course can lend itself to that type of wild finish.
“The last four or five holes, you could play them 2 or 3 under and make up five or six shots,” Fowler said. “That’s depending on what you do, and what the other guy does, and you’re never wishing bad on anyone. But if you play some good golf, you can make up some ground here.”
THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARD
par 210 (3x70)

T1


65 69 67 -- 201
T1

70 65 66 -- 201
3


70 66 69 -- 205
T4

69 69 68 -- 206
T4

66 66 74 -- 206
T6

71 69 67 -- 207
T6 -- -3 1:10 pm 69 70 68 -- 207
T6 -- -3 1:10 pm 70 67 70 -- 207
T9 -- -2 1:00 pm 73 65 70 -- 208
T9 -- -2 1:00 pm 71 66 71 -- 208
T11 -- -1 12:50 pm 73 70 66 -- 209
T11 -- -1 12:50 pm 70 72 67 -- 209
T11

69 71 69 -- 209
T14 -- E 12:40 pm 69 74 67 -- 210
T14 -- E 12:30 pm 72 71 67 -- 210
T14 -- E 12:30 pm 70 71 69 -- 210
T14 -- E 12:20 pm 72 69 69 -- 210
T14 -- E 12:20 pm 69 72 69 -- 210
T14 -- E 12:10 pm 71 70 69 -- 210
T14 -- E 12:10 pm 72 67 71 -- 210
T14 -- E 12:00 pm 67 71 72 -- 210
T22 -- 1 12:00 pm 70 73 68 -- 211
T22 -- 1 11:50 am 70 72 69 -- 211
T22 -- 1 11:50 am 67 75 69 -- 211
T22 -- 1 11:40 am 72 70 69 -- 211
T22 -- 1 11:40 am 71 70 70 -- 211
T22 -- 1 11:30 am 71 70 70 -- 211
T22 -- 1 11:30 am 70 71 70 -- 211
T22 -- 1 11:20 am 71 69 71 -- 211
T22

70 70 71 -- 211
T22 -- 1 11:10 am 66 72 73 -- 211
T32 -- 2 11:10 am 69 74 69 -- 212
T32 -- 2 11:01 am 73 70 69 -- 212
T32 -- 2 11:01 am 67 75 70 -- 212
T32 -- 2 10:52 am 68 74 70 -- 212
T32 -- 2 10:52 am 71 71 70 -- 212
T32 -- 2 10:43 am 70 72 70 -- 212
T32 -- 2 10:43 am 74 68 70 -- 212
T32 -- 2 10:34 am 68 73 71 -- 212
T32 -- 2 10:34 am 75 65 72 -- 212
T32 -- 2 10:25 am 71 65 76 -- 212
T32 -- 2 10:25 am 67 66 79 -- 212
T43 17 3 5 -2 75 67 73 -- 215
T43 13 3 1 -1 73 68 73 -- 214
T43 -- 3 10:16 am 73 70 70 -- 213
T43 -- 3 10:16 am 72 71 70 -- 213
T43 -- 3 10:07 am 69 74 70 -- 213
T43 -- 3 10:07 am 72 71 70 -- 213
T43 -- 3 9:58 am 70 73 70 -- 213
T43 -- 3 9:58 am 71 71 71 -- 213
T43 -- 3 9:49 am 72 69 72 -- 213
T43 -- 3 9:49 am 73 68 72 -- 213
T43 -- 3 9:40 am 73 68 72 -- 213
T43 -- 3 9:40 am 71 69 73 -- 213
T43 -- 3 9:31 am 72 67 74 -- 213
T43 -- 3 9:31 am 75 65 73 -- 213
T43 -- 3 -- -- 71 68 74 -- 213
T58 2 4 5 -1 73 68 74 -- 215
T58 2 4 3 -1 67 75 73 -- 215
T58 2 4 3 -1 70 72 73 -- 215
T58 2 4 2 -1 75 67 73 -- 215
T58 2 4 2 E 75 64 75 -- 214
T58 2 4 -- -- 71 72 71 -- 214
T64 9 5 8 -2 65 73 79 -- 217
T64 4 5 2 E 71 72 72 -- 215
T64 4 5 2 E 71 72 72 -- 215
T64 8 5 1 1 71 69 74 -- 214
T68 5 6 7 -1 72 71 74 -- 217
T68 2 6 6 E 69 72 75 -- 216
T68 8 6 3 1 72 70 73 -- 215
T71 2 7 7 E 71 70 76 -- 217
T71 11 7 5 2 71 70 74 -- 215
T73 -- 8 8 1 71 68 78 -- 217
T73 3 8 6 2 73 68 75 -- 216
T73 3 8 5 2 71 72 73 -- 216
T73 13 8 3 3 75 67 73 -- 215
77 -- 11 12 2 68 74 77 -- 219

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