Tiger Woods’s withdrawal from the first event of the PGA Tour’s new four-event play-off series didn’t surprise many of his rivals. The FedEx Cup series, which will culminate with next month’s Tour Championship, was designed to bring all the tour’s top players together for four straight weeks.
Davis Love won his first PGA title since 2003, firing a six-under par 66 on Sunday on a course he redesigned to take the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro by two strokes. Sparked by three birdies in a row starting at the 13th hole, the 42-year-old US veteran collected his 19th career PGA triumph by finishing 72 holes at the ,6-million event on 16-under par 272.
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/ 5 November 2005
Those who fostered crimes under apartheid in South Africa didn’t get off easily by simply confessing their deeds, Bishop Desmond Tutu said during a visit to a college campus. ”The stigma of such public shame and humiliation is a heavy price to pay,” Tutu said on Thursday to 2Â 400 people at Guilford College in North Carolina.
KJ Choi and Shigeki Maruyama became the first Asian-born players to enjoy a 1-2 finish on the United States PGA Tour by coming out on top at the Greensboro Chrysler Classic on Sunday. South Korea’s Choi became one of just four Asian-born players who have captured the US PGA event.