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CASARES, Spain — England’s Ross Fisher beat Masters champion Angel Cabrera on the 39th hole Saturday to set up a World Match Play Championship final against American Anthony Kim, a 5-and-4 winner over Australia’s Robert Allenby.

Fisher won after Cabrera took five shots to reach the green on the final hole. Fisher hit his second shot from 244 yards to 5 feet at Finca Cortesin.

Kim, who beat Allenby 5 and 3 in the Presidents Cup, overcame an early two-hole deficit, pulling away at the 27th hole when he holed an approach from 101 yards.

The winner Sunday will earn $1.1 million.

Viking Classic

MADISON, Miss. — PGA Tour officials canceled the weather-stricken Viking Classic because of unplayable course conditions.

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There will be no makeup date and players will move on to the final event of the season, the Children’s Miracle Network Classic on Nov. 12-15 in Florida.

Annandale Golf Club received 1.75 inches of rain overnight Friday and Saturday, completely soaking an already marginal course that had areas of standing water and large tracts of mud. Madison has received more than 20 inches of rain in six weeks.

Officials postponed, then canceled play Thursday and Friday mornings after nearly constant rain. Slugger White, PGA Tour vice president for rules and competition, said commissioner Tim Finchem had asked the board for permission to play a 36-hole tournament as early as Monday but was unsuccessful.

It is the first time a tournament has been scrapped outright because of weather since the 1996 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. The last rainout came in Houston in 1991, though that event was rescheduled.

Charles Schwab Cup

SONOMA, Calif. — John Cook took a six-stroke lead in a bid for his second Champions Tour victory in three weeks, shooting a 5-under 67 in the third round of the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

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Cook, the Administaff Small Business Classic winner two weeks ago in Texas, had a 19-under 197 total on the Sonoma Golf Club course, the best 54-hole score in a 72-hole tournament since Jack Nicklaus also had a 197 total in the 1990 Senior Players Championship. Cook shot a tournament-record 62 on Friday.

The six-stroke lead is the largest after three rounds on the Champions Tour since Jay Haas had a six-stroke lead in the 2005 Schwab Cup Championship.

Russ Cochran (68) was second at 13 under, and Tom Watson (71) and Brad Bryant (69) were 12 under. Season points leader Loren Roberts (66) was 7 under. Third-place Bernhard Langer (70) was 9 under, 2008 points champ Haas (70) was tied with Roberts at 7 under, while Fred Funk (74), who went into the week 165 points out of the lead, was 2 under. The points winner will receive a $1 million annuity.

Singapore Open

SINGAPORE — Ian Poulter was 4 over through six holes in the third round of the Singapore Open, dropping the Englishman into a tie for the Singapore Open lead with France’s Thomas Levet and Japan’s Kodai Ichihara.

Poulter, five strokes ahead after completing a second-round 64 in the morning, faltered in the afternoon to fall to 8 under before thunderstorms stopped play.

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Levet and Ichihara were both 2 under for the round. Levet completed eight holes, and Ichihara finished seven. Australia’s Andrew Dodt and China’s Liang Wen-Chong were a stroke back, with both finishing nine holes.

Ernie Els was in a group at 5 under. He had 10 holes left. Phil Mickelson was 2 under after 15 holes, and Padraig Harrington was 2 over through eight.

Hana Bank KOLON

INCHEON, South Korea — South Korea’s Na Yeon Choi shot a 1-under 71 and Taiwan’s Yani Tseng had a 70 to share the lead at 5 under after the wet and windy second round of the LPGA Tour’s KOLON Championship.

Sweden’s Maria Hjorth (72) and South Korea’s Jimin Kang (73) were a stroke back, and South Koreans Inbee Park (71), Eun-Hee Ji (71), Ran Hong (71), Song-Hee Kim (72) and Bo-Kyung Kim (74) were 3 under on the Sky 72 Golf Club’s Ocean Course.

Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa was 10 strokes back after a 77.

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