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May20
Sang-Moon Bae won the Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title, beating Keegan Bradley by two strokes after blowing a four-stroke lead. The 26-year-old South Korean closed with a 1-under 69 to finish at 13-under 267.
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May19
Auto Racing: Jimmie Johnson became the first four-time winner of NASCAR’s annual All-Star race Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Johnson got a fast final pit stop from his Hendrick Motorsports crew to restart the race in second for the 10-lap sprint to the finish.
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May18
Earlier this week, I watched many of the area’s top prep golfers for about 12 hours at three tournaments at three different courses. Here’s a look back at my week at the, uh, office.
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Tennis: Less than 10 days away from the French Open, top-ranked Novak Djokovic wasted a chance to serve out the match and was beaten 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 by sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych in the Italian Open quarterfinals in Rome on Friday. In the semifinals, Berdych will face six-time Rome champion Rafael Nadal, who defeated fellow Spaniard David Ferrer 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.
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Golf great Ken Venturi, who overcame dehydration to win the 1964 U.S. Open and spent 35 years in the booth for CBS Sports, died Friday afternoon. He was 82. His son, Matt Venturi, said he died in a hospital in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Venturi had been hospitalized the last two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia, and then an intestinal infection that he could no longer fight. Venturi died 12 days after he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. He couldn’t make it to the induction. His sons, Matt and Tim, accepted on his behalf after an emotional tribute by Jim Nantz, who worked alongside Venturi at CBS. “When Dad did receive the election into the Hall of Fame, he had a twinkle in his eye, and that twinkle is there every day,” Tim Venturi said that night. – AP
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May17
Earlier this week, I watched many of the area’s top prep golfers for about 12 hours at three tournaments at three different courses. Here’s a look back at my week at the, uh, office.
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Golf: Keegan Bradley shot a 10-under 60, completed by a short birdie at the 428-yard ninth hole, to break the TPC Four Seasons course record Thursday and match the best round ever at the Byron Nelson Classic in Irving, Texas. He equaled Phil Mickelson’s 60 at Phoenix as the best round on the tour this season.
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Southern California’s Sam Smith shot a course- and school-record 62 on Thursday at Palouse Ridge Golf Club but California held the lead after the first day of the NCAA Division I Men’s Pullman Regional. Smith’s 10-under effort has USC fourth at 272 behind No. 1-ranked California (23-under 265), Saint Mary’s (267) and San Diego State (270) in the 14-team field.
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May14
Community Colleges of Spokane and its freshman leader, Evan Omelia, came up just short in the Southwestern Oregon Invitational golf tournament that wound up Monday at Bandon, Ore. CCS failed to win a men’s title for the first time in 10 tournaments this year, bested 600-601 by Skagit Valley.
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May13
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – A weekend filled with sharp words between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia came down to one last showdown Sunday in The Players Championship, this one staged across the water in a tiny, terrifying section of the TPC Sawgrass. Tied for the lead with two holes to play, Woods kept his shots on land and made two pars.
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May12
Tied for the lead with two holes to play, Tiger Woods kept his shots on land and made two pars.
Sergio Garcia hit three balls into the water for a quadruple bogey-double bogey finish, handing The Players Championship victory to Woods.
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May11
The 2015 U.S. Open is 787 days away but Chambers Bay is essentially ready right now. The links-style golf course near Tacoma has undergone nearly all of the additions, revisions and tweaks recommended by the USGA after hosting the 2010 U.S. Amateur. Customers who walk to the first tee will tour roughly the same layout that awaits the world’s best players in June 2015.
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Kellogg senior golfer Kaceelyn Pouttu wants to win her fourth straight Idaho 3A state title, but she wants a few other things even more. Pouttu wants to help the Wildcats win a team title after nine straight years of state finishes between second and fourth. And she wants coach Simon Miller, who is stepping down after the season, to depart with a state championship.
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May10
The 2015 U.S. Open is 787 days away but Chambers Bay is essentially ready right now.
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Golf: Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy had their best start ever Thursday in The Players Championship. It still wasn’t enough to catch Roberto Castro, who had never played the TPC Sawgrass and made a debut he won’t soon forget at Ponte Verda Beach, Fla. Castro hit shots into tap-in range on the famed 17th and 18th holes on his way to a 9-under 63 in perfect scoring conditions in the morning. He tied the course record held by Fred Couples and Greg Norman, and it gave him a three-shot lead – the largest 18-hole margin in 21 years at Sawgrass – over McIlroy and Zach Johnson.
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May09
The worst thing about returning to golf for Adam Scott is that he had to leave the green jacket behind. In the three weeks since becoming the first Australian to win the Masters, Scott says he has walked to his closet each morning and slipped on the green jacket. He left that behind at his home in the Bahamas. Now it’s back to golf at The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Scott spent a few days in New York after winning the Masters, and the rest of the time he has been on an island. He says he was tempted to go home to Australia to celebrate, but he wants to win more majors. TPC begins today at 10 a.m. (Golf) – AP
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May04
Golf: Phil Mickelson has figured out the secret to the greens at Quail Hollow. Or maybe he’s just had a lot of good bounces for two days. Mickelson opened with a pair of 15-foot birdie putts, dropped in a 40-foot putt at the turn and made back-to-back birdies late in his round Friday. He finished with a 5-under 67 for a two-shot lead going into the weekend at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Joe Daley learned at rookie orientation that as a PGA Tour member, he had access to the vast TPC network. He was at tour headquarters that week and wasted no time taking advantage of this perk, sneaking out to play the TPC Sawgrass and holing out from the 10th fairway for eagle. That was December 1995.
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May03
Golf: Rory McIlroy kept the ball in play and set up plenty of birdie chances Thursday in the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C. He ran off six birdies in a seven-hole stretch around the turn at Quail Hollow for a 5-under 67 that left him in a large group atop the leaderboard as the first round was winding down.
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April29
Billy Horschel sensed the time had come for him to win his first PGA Tour event. This could explain the composure he displayed in the face of two final-round weather delays and a 27-foot putt he had to make on the final hole to avert a playoff. Horschel tied a course record at the TPC Louisiana with an 8-under 64 in the final round of the Zurich Classic on Sunday in Avondale, La., which was good enough to win by one stroke over D.A. Points.
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