Rookie Derek Lamely has won the weather-delayed Puerto Rico Open during a Monday finish on the rain-softened tropical course. Lamely finishes at 19-under-par 269 to outlast Kris Blanks at Trump International Golf Club-Puerto Rico, a palm-fringed 7,526-yard course which was deluged by rain early in the competition.
Rookie Derek Lamely has won the weather-delayed Puerto Rico Open during a Monday finish on the rain-softened tropical course. Lamely finishes at 19-under-par 269 to outlast Kris Blanks at Trump International Golf Club-Puerto Rico, a palm-fringed 7,526-yard course which was deluged by rain early in the competition.
This is one time the party got started without Ernie Els. As he walked off the 18th green with a four-shot victory in the CA Championship, ending the longest and most discouraging drought of his career, some well-heeled friends were at cocktail party up the road at PGA National to get ready for a tournament no less important than the World Golf Championship that Els won at Doral.
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The World Cup of Golf is moving to a new home in southern China and will return in 2011 as a biennial event to accommodate the sport’s inclusion in the Olympic Games. The 28-team competition will shift from the Mission Hills Shenzhen complex near Hong Kong to the Mission Hills Resort on Hainan, China’s island province in the South China Sea, the Asian Tour said in a news release Monday.
For maybe the first time in his life, Charl Schwartzel found himself rooting against Ernie Els. Els had a 25-foot par putt on the 14th green. Miss it, and he and Schwartzel — two South Africans, the final pair at the CA Championship — would be tied for the lead with four holes left. Make it, and Schwartzel would stay one shot behind the guy whose swing he tried to emulate for years.
With a brilliant final round at Doral, Ernie Els is a winner again, and so is the game of golf.
Streelman, Collins lead going into final day in Puerto Rico
Streelman, Collins lead going into final day in Puerto Rico