LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — Hudson Swafford received The American Specific for the second time in 5 years Sunday, breaking a late tie with an eagle and shutting with an 8-under 64 for a two-shot victory.
Beginning the ultimate spherical on the PGA West Stadium Course, Swafford adopted his eagle with a birdie on the par-3 seventeenth to win by two over Tom Hoge.
Tied for the lead with Brian Harman and former British Open champion Francesco Molinari at 20 underneath, Swafford pulled forward with a second shot to eight ft for eagle on the par-5 sixteenth. He then ran in a 20-foot birdie putt on the seventeenth, and closed with an 8-foot par.
Molinari, taking part in for the primary time in two months, bogeyed the 18th for a 68 and completed 4 pictures behind.
Swafford completed at 23-under 265 within the three-course occasion for his third PGA Tour title. He additionally received within the desert in 2017 and took the 2020 Corales Puntacana Resort & Membership Championship within the Dominican Republic.
Hoge shot a 68. The 32-year-old from Fargo, North Dakota, missed an opportunity to win his first title in his 201st profession begin.
Lee Hodges, the 26-year-old from Alabama who shared the 54-hole lead with Paul Barjon, had a 70 and tied for third. Barjon shot 73 and completed tenth.
Patrick Cantlay, the FedEx Cup champion and 36-hole lead, was solely 4 underneath on the weekend and completed ninth.
LPGA TOUR
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Danielle Kang wasted no time ensuring she didn’t have one other winless season. She capped off a powerful weekend at Lake Nona by closing with a 4-under 68 for a three-shot victory within the Hilton Grand Holidays Match of Champions.
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Kang ran off 5 birdies in a seven-hole stretch in the midst of ther spherical to put up the low rating of a blustery, cool Sunday in Florida.
She completed at 16-under 272, three pictures away from Brooke Henderson of Canada, who shot 70.
Kang was the lone participant to interrupt 70 on each weekend days (69-68), and the one participant to shoot within the 60s all 4 rounds.
For all her birdies, Kang’s most essential gap may need been a bogey on the sixteenth. She pulled her strategy almost right into a penalty space and needed to play away from the outlet on a tough bunker shot. She then two-putt from about 90 ft, changing a bogey putt from 10 ft.
Gaby Lopez had a 72 to complete third. Nelly Korda, the 54-hole chief and No. 1 participant in girls’s golf, closed with a 75 to tie for fourth.
Former MLB pitcher Derek Lowe beat Annika Sorenstam to win the superstar division.
EUROPEAN TOUR
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Thomas Pieters claimed the sixth and largest European tour title of his profession when he closed with an even-par 72 for a one-shot victory within the Abu Dhabi Championship.
Pieters had 16 pars within the last spherical, selecting to not go for the inexperienced on the par-5 18th when he realized he had a two-shot lead. He completed at 10-under 278, one forward of Rafa Cabrera Bello (70) and Shubhankar Sharma (71).
Viktor Hovland, going for his third win in his final 4 begins, shot 72 and completed two pictures behind together with Victor Dubuisson (69).
Scott Jamieson, who was bidding for a wire-to-wire victory after main on the finish of every of the primary three rounds, fell out of competition with a 77 and tied for tenth.
Rory McIlroy moved to inside two of the lead, courtesy of a141-yard eagle on the par-four ninth and a birdie on 13. He completed with three bogeys over the past 5 holes for a 69 to tie for twelfth.
LATIN AMERICA AMATEUR
LA ROMANA, Dominican Republic (AP) — Aaron Jarvis of the Cayman Islands made birdie on the ultimate gap Sunday for a 3-under 69 and a one-shot victory in a tense ending to the Latin America Beginner Championship.
The victory means Jarvis, a 19-year-old UNLV freshman, earns a spot within the Masters and the British Open at St. Andrews. He is also exempt into the ultimate stage of U.S. Open qualifying.
He would be the first participant from the Cayman Islands to compete on the Masters and British Open.
Jarvis was one shot behind when his second shot into the par-5 18th on the Enamel of the Canine course at Casa de Campo got here up simply quick and took an enormous hop onto the inexperienced. He two-putted for birdie and posted at 7-under 281.
Fred Biondi, a Florida freshman from Brazil, had a one-shot lead till he hit a poor chip from sticky tough off the seventeenth and made bogey. His second shot into the 18th drifted to the appropriate, and he pitched about 30 ft lengthy and made par for a 72.
Santiago De La Fuente of Mexico (71) had a 35-foot eagle try on the 18th. He wound up three-putting for par when a birdie would have pressured a playoff. Vicentie Marzilio of Argentina was two behind and had a 7-foot eagle placed on the final gap. It caught the lip. He shot 71.
PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS
KA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Miguel Angel Jimenez birdied the par-4 18th gap in regulation for a 6-under 66 after which beat Steven Alker with a par on the second playoff gap to win the season-opening Mitsubishi Electrical Championship at Hualalai for the third time.
Alker additionally closed with a birdie for a 66 to hitch Jimenez at 17-under 199. Alker had a birdie putt on the primary playoff for the win. He missed, after which failed to save lots of par from a bunker on the second additional gap in a event that completed Saturday.
OTHER TOURS
Sadom Kaewkanjana of Thailand closed with a 69 for a three-shot victory within the Singapore Open on the Asian Tour. He received by three pictures over Joohyung Kim of South Korea, Yuto Katsuragawa of Japan, whereas Sihwan Kim completed fourth. All 4 gamers earned a spot within the British Open this summer time. Jooyhung Kim wrapped up the Asian Tour Order of Advantage. ... Anthony Quayle closed with a 1-over 73 and held on for a two-shot victory over Daniel Gale within the Queensland PGA Championship on the PGA Tour of Australasia.
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