6th PGA crown for Woods

Published November 25, 2005

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