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| November 25, 2005 | Friday | Shawwal 22, 1426 |
6th PGA crown for Woods
LOS ANGELES, Nov 23: World number one Tiger Woods fired a final round eight-under 64 to romp to a seven-stroke win over Phil Mickelson and his sixth PGA Grand Slam of Golf crown in Hawaii on Wednesday.
Mickelson, the PGA champion, closed with four-under 68 to finish runner-up on six-under 138 at the event at the Poipu Bay Golf Course in Kauai.
Final round scores:
131 Tiger Woods 67 64
138 Phil Mickelson 70 68
143 Michael Campbell (New Zealand) 73 70
144 Vijay Singh (Fiji) 75 69
New course record
SHENZHEN (China): Francois de la Montagne and Chawalit Plaphol blazed matching seven-under-par 65s to share a new course record and the first-round lead at the 1.3-million-dollar Volvo China Open on Thursday.
The surprise early leaders, without a title between them since Chawalit’s last victory in 1998, led English and Thai veterans Barry Lane and Boonchu Ruangkit by two strokes at the redesigned, par-72 Shenzhen Golf Club.
Leading first round scores:
68 - Toshimitsu Izawa, Yoshiaki Kimura
69 - Taichi Teshima, Masashi Ozaki, Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
70 - Ryoken Kawagishi, Toru Taniguchi, Mitsuhiro Tateyama, Toru Suzuki, Makoto Inoue—Agencies
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