MOBILE, Ala. – Dorothy Delasin rolled in an 8-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden death playoff to edge Korea’s Hee-Wan in the LPGA Tournament of Champions on Sunday.
Delasin posted a final-round 69 and Han shot a 68, including a back-nine 32 to tie Delasin at 8-under-par 280. Laura Davies also made a great final-round charge, shooting a tournament-best 65 that left her one shot out of the playoff at 7-under 281.
With the victory at the Magnolia Grove Crossings Course, Delasin qualified for next week’s season-ending ADT Tour Championship. She needed to finish fifth or better to jump from No. 33 on the LPGA money list to the top 30.
She climbed to No. 22 with $476,170, bumping Suzanne Pettersen out of the No. 30 slot. With the win, Delasin also qualified to play in the Tournament of Champions for two more years.
“It looked like it might break away and then it went in the side door,” Delasin said of her winning putt. “It was just a rush of emotion that was all built up. It just came out.”
Han and Delasin each had birdie putts to win on the final hole of regulation and both came up short, Han missing a 30-footer and Delasin missing a 15-footer.
Immelman, Sabbatini capture World Cup
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. – South Africa’s Trevor Immelman and Rory Sabbatini combined to shoot a 1-over-par 73 Sunday for a four-stroke victory at the World Cup.
Immelman and Sabbatini finished at 13-under 275 and gave South Africa its second World Cup title in three years and fifth overall. Ernie Els and Retief Goosen teamed up to win in 2001, when the World Cup was played in Japan.
The U.S. team of Jim Furyk and Justin Leonard was in contention until going bogey-triple bogey at Nos. 12 and 13. The Americans shot a 3-over 75 and finished in a tie for fifth at 4-under 284.
The South Africans, who each earned $700,000 for the win, started the alternate-stroke round with a seven-stroke lead over Furyk and Leonard and France’s Thomas Levet and Raphael Jacquelin
But it was England’s Paul Casey and Justin Rose who made a charge for the lead. Ten strokes back at the start of the round, the Englishmen shot a 5-under 67 and settled for second at 9-under 279.
The Americans fell off the pace after carding a triple-bogey 7 on the 440-yard 13th after Furyk hit his tee shot into the water. That trouble followed a bogey at No. 12.
Furyk and Leonard tied for fifth Ireland’s Padraig Harrington and Paul McGinley.
Levet and Jacquelin finished 8 under, and Germany’s Alex Cejka and Marcel Siem finished fourth at 6 under.
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