Jul 05
South Korean Yi Eunjung birdied the first play-off hole to hammer American Morgan Pressel and capture the LPGA Jamie Farr Classic in Sylvania, Ohio
The 21-year-old Yi captured her first career tour compellation also qualified in spite of next week’s US Women’s Open after an even par-71 to finish at 18-under 266. Her weekend included a brilliant 61 in the third round.
Three of the top five finishers at the $US1.4 million ($1.76 million) event were South Koreans. The other two are Korean/American Michelle Kim and Pressel.
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Jul 05
India clinched their fifth straight limited overs series, when rain forced the abandonment of the final match against West Indies.
India won the four-match series 2-1, after they won the high-scoring opening match by 20 runs at Sabina Park in Jamaica.
West Indies secured every eight-wicket victory in a low-scoring second marriage at the same venue and India won the third part match through six wickets under the Duckworth-Lewis method.
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Jul 05
Tournament host Tiger Woods sank a tension-packed seven-metre birdie putt on the 16th hole to seize the lead and win the PGA National by some stroke over Hunter Mahan.
World No.1 Woods added brace routine pars to fire a three-under par 67 eventual round to stand on 13-under par 267 after 72 holes at Congressional Country Club and claim the trophy at $7.6 million tournament.
The event, a dream of Woods and his late creator Earl, pays tribute to the US military and proceeds benefit his establishment’s youth work.
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Jul 05
Fabio Capello has revealed he is looking to launch England’s World Cup preparations in Austria.
The Italian is concerned about the high altitude of Johannesburg and may choose to regulate up England’s training slavish in the mountainous country.
"We are looking at the prospect of going to Austria before coming to South Africa a week before the tourney," the England coach told Fifa.com.
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Jul 05
Dani Pedrosa scorched to victory in the US MotoGP after coming from fourth place without interruption the grid to hit the front right from the move of the race.
World champion Valentino Rossi came home in assistant reason to stretch his championship lead to nine points.
Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner produced courageous rides to finish third and fourth respectively after both riders suffered huge qualifying crashes.
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Jul 05
West Indies were denied the fortuity to snatch a draw in the one-day series with India after the fourth match in St Lucia was washed out by rain.
An earlier downpour had already seen the contest delayed and then reduced to 49 overs a side.
But the Windies, who went into the game 2-1 down, only faced 45 balls near the front of the be married was called off.
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Jul 05
Mark Knowles and Anna-Lena Groenefeld earned a surprise 7-5 6-3 catch over top seeds Leander Paes and Cara Black in the final of the mixed doubles.
In the last match of this year’s Championships, the ninth seeds hit back from 5-2 down in the first set to gain the victory eight games in a row and take control.
Cara Black stopped the rot by holding her be suitable and cutting the deficit to 3-1 but it was not enough.
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Jul 05
Honduras’ ousted President Manuel Zelaya said he was getting on a mounting home to reclaim his pillar on Sunday, accompanied by the U.N. General Assembly president and a group of journalists.
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Jul 05
England completed a whitewash over Australia by the agency of winning the dramatic final one-day international of the series to claim a 4-0 victory.
The hosts needed seven runs off the last over and a single off the final ball to pass Australia’session testing 225.
Shelley Nitschke hit 71 against 106 balls and Karen Rolton struck 52 as Australia recovered from a poor move suddenly.
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Jul 05
Sarah Palin says her settlement to renounce as governor of Alaska was motivated by “a higher avocation”, and she promised to hold fighting for conservative causes on a general stage.
With debate still swirling about the implications of her bombshell proclamation last week, Mrs Palin lashed public at coverage of her resignation in the media, which she said would never understand that “it’s about region”.
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