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Defending champion Tiger Woods suffered a nightmare finish to his delayed first round at the U.S. Open, eventually coming home in a four-over-par 74 at Bethpage Black on Friday. World number one Woods, who had been at level-par with four holes to play, finished with a run of double bogey, bogey, par, bogey to leave him with a mountain to climb after the first 18 holes
Diminutive South Korean Ji-Yai Shin was walking tall after a superb two-stroke victory from Australian Katherine Hull at the HSBC Women’s Champions tournament in Singapore on Sunday. Seven adrift at halfway and still six behind with a round to go at Tanah Merah, the 20-year-old British Women’s Open champion took the title with her second successive 66 for an 11 under total of 277. Hull had started the final round with a two-shot advantage thanks partly to a final-hole birdie in the third round Shin, who collected $300,000 for her latest triumph, birdied the first four holes and then picked up further strokes on the 11th and 15th to put the pressure on her big rival