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International News
Ian Poulter carded a closing 72 which
was one over par to edge out China's Liang Wen-chong by one shot and
complete a nervous wire-to-wire victory in the Barclays Singapore
Open. With former Asian number one Liang in the clubhouse at nine
under following a final round of 70, Poulter needed to par the 18th
which he did to secure his first win since the Dunlop Phoenix in
Japan in 2007 and the first on The European Tour since Madrid the
previous year. This win took Poulter to World Nș 15, a jump of 9
places.
England's Ross Fisher completed a memorable marathon effort by
beating American Ryder Cup player Anthony Kim to win the Volvo World
Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesin near Casares in Spain. The
28 year old, who boosted his chances of making his own Ryder Cup
debut in Wales next October, won the final four and three after
playing an 126 holes in four days. The win took Fisher to his career
highest ever at Nș 17, a jump of 9 places.
This week's other winners
were Toru Suzuki at the Mynavi ABC Championship on the Japan Tour
and Peter Whiteford at the Apulia San Domenico Grand Final on the
Challenge Tour. The weather-stricken Viking Classic and part of the
Fall Series on the PGA Tour, was cancelled because of unplayable
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World Number
Two Phil Mickelson beat South Africa's Ernie Els by one shot to win
the World Golf Championships-HSBC Champions following an exciting
final round in Shanghai. With Els in the clubhouse following a nine
under par 63 and the third course record of the day, Mickelson
survived finding rough twice on his final hole to claim a second
HSBC Champions title in three years and second WGC title of his
career following March's CA Championship success. Els had his only
bogey of the day at the 18th after hitting his approach into the
water at the front of the green. Mickelson cements his position as
Nș 2, while Els jumped 8 places to Nș 16. Lee Westwood finished tied
8th and moved to World Nș 4.
Toshinori Muto came from two
behind overnight to win The Championship by LEXUS on the Japan Golf
Tour with a stunning seven-under-par round final round of 64 and to
win by two strokes from Kim Kyung-Tae. This third career Japan Golf
Tour victory sees Muto climb 72 places to Nș 136.
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Grégory
Bourdy held off a sustained charge by Rory McIlroy, who shot 64, to triumph
by two shots at the UBS Hong Kong Open after a final round of 67 earned him
victory with a score of 19 under par 261. He produced a nerveless round that
continued the superb putting that had been a prominent feature of his play
all week in Fanling. This win, and Bourdys third on The European Tour
earned him a place at the season-ending Dubai World Championship presented
by: DP World while McIlroy's second place finish took him to the head of the
European Tour Race to Dubai Ranking. Bourdy climbs 131 places to Nș 86,
while McIlroy jumped 4 places to a career high of World Nș 13.
World
Number One Tiger Woods won the JBWere Australian Masters at Kingston Heath
from Australian Greg Chalmers. Woods, the joint leader after 54 holes with
Chalmers and James Nitties, fired a final round 68 at the historic 6455
metre par 72 layout in Melbourne's to prevail by two shots from Chalmers
whose final round 70 earned him outright second place. Wood's lead at the
top of the Official World Golf Ranking became 7.08 average points.
Stephen Ames fired a round-of-the-day 64 and then won a three-way play-off
to win the Children's Miracle Network Classic on the PGA Tour at the Lake
Buena Vista course in Florida. Ames clinched a fourth career PGA Tour title
when Justin Leonard and George McNeill failed to par the second extra hole.
The win took Ames back into the World Top 50 with a jump of 22 places to Nș
49.
Yasuharu Imano secured his first win on the Japan Golf Tour in
four years with a two-stroke victory at the Taiheiyo Masters, a win that
took him to World Nș 78, an improvement of 46 places. Hennie Otto pared the
first hole of a sudden-death playoff to defeat Titch Moore and win the
72-hole R1-million MTC Namibia PGA Championship on the Sunshine Tour. This
win moved Otto up 98 places to Nș 241.
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Lee Westwood
won the Dubai World Championship presented by: DP World after a bogey free
final round 64 secured a six shot victory and with it The Race to Dubai
title for 2009. Westwood, who led by two overnight, fired one of the finest
rounds of his career to take the 830,675 first prize at the Earth course
and at the smae time become European Number One for the second time in his
career. The win takes him back to World Nș 4 and equalling his career best.
Ross McGowan came second to move to World Nș 70 while Rory McIlroy's third
place finish moved him to World Number Ten and marks the first occasion in
the history of the Official World Golf Ranking that Europe can boast six
players in the World Top Ten.
Further European success was achieved
in Japan at the Dunlop Phoenix where 2009 Challenge Tour Rankings. Runaway
winner Edoardo Molinari defeated 2008 European Number One Robert Karlsson in
a play-off after the pair tied on 13-under-par 271, six shots ahead of their
nearest challengers. Molinari jumps 24 places to World Nș 63 while Karlsson
moved up 3 to World Nș 25.
Australia's Marcus Both won his maiden
Asian Tour title by securing a one-stroke victory over Malaysia's Shaaban
Hussin at the Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open. The win took Marcus Both to the
World Nș 243 and a leap of 123 places.
Koumei Oda
produced an excellent final round performance to win the Casio World Open on
the Japan Golf Tour at Kochi Kuroshio Country Club. Starting the day in a
three-way tie for the lead with Ryo Ishikawa and Shigeki Murayama, Oda had
seven birdies in 10 holes starting from the sixth and finished with a
seven-under-par 65. His 21-under-par total left him three ahead of Ishikawa
whose four-under 68 contained six birdies and two bogeys. Tetsuji Hiratsuka
finished third on 16-under-par 272. Oda's win moved him up to World Nș 76,
an improvement of 39 places
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