Monday, November 29, 1999
Golf Thumbnails
By The Associated Press
PGA of AMERICA
Grand Slam of Golf
POIPU, Hawaii Poipu Bay Resort Golf Course
Winner: Tiger Woods ($400,000).
Score: def. Davis Love III 3 and 2.
Notes: Woods beat Paul Lwarie in the semis. ... Love defeated
Jose Maria Olazabal 6 and 5 to reach the finals. ... Olazabal
beat Lawrie in the third-place match when Lawrie had to concede
after twisting an ankle between the ninth and 10th holes. Lawrie
was leading 1 up at the time. ... Woods has won 10 of the last
14 tournaments. ... Woods is taking the next five weeks off.
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PGA TOUR
The Skins Game
Indio, Calif.
Landmark Golf Club
Winner: Fred Couples (11 skins, $635,000).
Notes: Couples birdied the 18th hole, worth $420,000, the richest
hole in the history of the event. ... Couples 11 skins and $635,000
in prize money were also records. ... Mark O'Meara won five skins
and $245,000; Sergio Garcia two skins and $120,000; David Duval
won zero skins and no money. ... Couples, in winning his third
Skins Game, raised his record earnings to $1,975,000 in seven
appearances. ... Duval, playing in his second Skins Game, was
shut out for the second time.
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AUSTRALASIAN PGA TOUR
Australian Open
Sydney
Royal Sydney Golf Club
Winner: Aaron Baddeley ($0, amateur).
Scores: 67-68-70-69—274 (-14).
Second (276): Nick O'Hern (68-68-70-70) and Greg Norman (70-73-64-69).
Fourth (277): Colin Montgomerie (72-67-67-71), Paul McGinley (67-70-69-71)
and Michael Long (70-68-68-71).
Notes: Baddeley became the youngest champion in the 95-year
history of the Australian Open. ... Baddeley is the first amateur
winner since Bruce Devlin in 1960, and is six days younger than
Ivo Whitton was when he won the 1912 tournament. ... Montgomerie
birdied the first two holes to tie Baddeley at 12 under, but the
teen-ager regained the lead with a birdie at No. 3. ... Norman
and O'Hern each earned $90,000 due to Baddeley's amateur status.
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OTHER TOURNAMENTS
Japan Ladies Tour: JLPGA Meiji Nyugyo Cup, Hibiscus Golf Club,
Miyazaki, Japan (Kaori Higo, Japan, $102,800, 70-67-68-70—275,
-13).
Japan GTO: Casio World Open, Ibusuki Golf Club, Kaimon Course,
Kagoshima, Japan (Tsuyoshi Yoneyama, Japan, $266,600, 70-71-68-65—274,
-14).
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