8am Round-Up: Another Champions Tour win for Bernhard Langer
The German bear American duo Kevin Sutherland and Woody Austin in a play-off to claim his fourth Champions Tour victory this season and 29th overall since turning 50.
“I blew tournaments when I had a lead and I’ve come from seven behind, so you just never know,” said Langer after holing a three-foot birdie putt on the first hole in the play-off to claim a second success in the event.
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Hide AdA day after his 59th birthday, Langer birdied the par-5 18th in regulation for a five-under 67 to match Austin (67) and Sutherland (64) on 13-under 203 at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge.
Colin Montgomerie closed with a 68 - nine shots better than his opening effort - to finish joint-55th.
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First-round leader Ross Drummond finished joint-third behind Englishman Gary Marks in the inaugural Willow Senior Golf Classic at Hanbury Manor.
Marks, who’d shot a 63 in the second round, secured his first European Senior Tour title in just his 17th event with a two-shot victory over South African James Kingston.
Drummond finished a shot further back after a closing 70 to earn £18,300.
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Euan McIntosh celebrated his Scottish Order of Merit title triumph in style by coasting to an eight-shot victory in the South East District Open at Royal Musselburgh.
The 47-year-old Turnhouse player carded rounds of 70, 63, 67 and 64 for a 16-under-par total to finish well clear of defending champion Matt Clark (Kilmacolm) in second place.
McIntosh, a reinstated amateur, has made an incredible return to the domestic scene since deciding to make a comeback just over a year ago.
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Hide AdHe secured a Scotland return after a 27-year gap in the Home Internationals at Nairn earlier this month and recorded eight top-10 finishes in 10 counting events in the Scottish Order of Merit.
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Catriona Matthew finished in a tie for 37th as world No 2 Ariya Jutanugarn coasted to a four-shot win in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open in Calgary.
Matthew closed with a 71 for a two-under-par 282 total to earn $11,880.
Jutanugarn as she shot a six-under-par 66 to finish on 23-under, four shots clear of South Korean Sei Young Kim.
It was Jutanugarn’s fifth win of the season.
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Graham Fox (Clydeway Golf) and Jason McCreadie (Largs) shared the spoils in the Tartan Tour’s Kerr Investments Pro-Am at Dumfries & Galloway.
The duo shot matching rounds of 65 and 63 in the Order of Merit event for 12-under-par totals, finishing one ahead of Greig Hutcheon (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre Inchmarlo).
Fresh from winning the Scottish Young Pros Championship for a third time in four years, Paul O’Hara (North Lanarkshire Leisure) finished fourth on 131.