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Happy hunting ground Fizpatrick survives sudden death shoot-out against Scheffler to claim Heritage victory M ATT FIZPATRICK survived a nail biting playoff with Scottie Scheffler to win his second RBC Heritage title yesterday, as the world No. 1’s the start of the day with early birdies on Hilton Head Island. Scheffler made a birdie at 15 to pull within two of the leader, and another at 16 to narrow the gap to one, setting up a tense showdown on the formidable 18th. ballooned his shot and came up well short and wide of the green. Scheffler gave himself a chance of making par with a fine chip, but it was in vain after Fitzpatrick sank his birdie putt to secure his fourth PGA Tour victory

Priyansh, Connolly help Punjab hammer Lucknow EXPLOSIVE knocks from opener Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly helped top of the table Punjab Kings hammer Lucknow Super Giants by 54 runs to stay unbeaten in the season yesterday. Priyansh struck 93 off 37 balls and fellow left-hander Connolly hit 87 to power Punjab to this season’s highest total of 254-7 after being invited to bat first in Chandigarh. In reply, Lucknow managed just 200-5 as Punjab consolidated their top spot in the 10 team table with five wins and one no result in six matches. An early reprieve for Connolly proved costly for Lucknow after skipper Rishabh Pant decided not to review an lbw call in the second over from Mohsin Khan and replays suggested the ball would have hit the stumps. Australia’s Connolly was on four at the time and put on 182 runs for the second wicket with Priyansh as the two bludgeoned the opposition attack with 16 sixes between them. “It was exceptional, some of the shots were jaw dropping,” said Punjab skipper Shreyas Iyer.“I was just talking to Cooper and Priyansh, we were challenging as to who will hit the most sixes for the season, they are up for it.” Priyansh reached his second fifty of the season in 19 balls and soon the Lucknow attack had no answers for the batting blitz. Connolly went after Aiden Markram with three straight sixes and Priyansh finished the over with two more in a 32-run 13th over and Punjab looked at 300. But pace bowler Prince Yadav took down Connolly and Priyansh fell three balls later in the next over to miss out on a century. Mohsin dismissed Shreyas for five but Australia’s Marcus Stoinis steered the team to a mammoth total with his 16-ball 29. Mitchell Marsh, who hit 40, and Ayush Badoni (35) handed Lucknow a brisk start and Pant hit 43 but regular wickets and the ever-increasing run rate kept the team behind the chase. Markram hit a valiant 22-ball 42 and despite a few dropped catches from Punjab fielders Lucknow lost their third straight match. In the first match of the day, Rinku Singh hit an unbeaten 53 to lead Kolkata Knight Riders to their first win of the IPL sea son as they beat Rajasthan Royals by four wickets. – AFP

late charge fell just short. Fitzpatrick, who had started the day three strokes clear of Scheffler, seemed set for victory with steady golf including 14 consecutive pars, but nearly threw it away with his first bogey of the day at the 18th. In a sudden death shoot-out, the Englishman’s superb approach yielded a rare birdie on the Harbour Town Golf Links’ treach erous final hole, for victory. Fitzpatrick said striking an “out of this world” four-iron to secure the last-gasp win had taken “a lot of grit.” “To go out today and go toe-to-toe with Scottie and get over the line there on the 73rd is special,” he said. The two men had gone back-and-forth at

Faced with the 458-yard par-four flanked by water and marshland, Fitzpatrick failed to find the fairway from the tee, leaving him a tough approach from shallow sand, directly into howling winds. Fitzpatrick felt the nerves as he badly underhit his chip from the greenside rough and failed to make the 23-foot putt he needed for victory. Both on 18-under after 72 holes, after final rounds of 67 for Scheffler and 70 for Fitzpatrick, the pair returned to the last tee box. This time both men found the fairway. But Fitzpatrick’s approach landed just 13 feet from the pin, while Scheffler uncharacteristically

“Every time he needed something, he made something happen – if it was holding a long putt, chipping in from off the green, you name it, he was doing it,” said Scheffler. “He earned this win, for sure.” Having won here in 2023, it was 31-year-old Fitzpatrick’s second success at the tournament in South Carolina – a happy hunting ground where he frequently holidayed with his family as a youngster. “This is a tournament I wanted to win grow ing up arguably more than any of the majors, before I kind of understood more about the game,” he said. “But to win it twice means the world.” – AFP still. I’m just fortunate that I at least got into the playoff,” said 29-year-old Green, who joined Kim and Im on 17-under 217. “I had that putt, very similar line, in regulation. “It still was a tough putt so really glad it went in the hole.” Green is in red-hot form, winning the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore and the Women’s Australian Open and Australian WPGA this year. Although it’s her third LA Championship crown, Green couldn’t lean on familiarity with the course. She won in 2023 and 2024 at Wilshire Country Club, while this year’s edition was played at El Caballero for a second straight season because of course reno vations at Wilshire. Im, a 13-time LPGA winner, started the day with a two-shot lead after a rol lercoaster third round that saw her eight-shot advantage evaporate with four straight bogeys. With the help of a chip-in eagle at the par-five 11th she was up by one with two holes to play but bogeyed the par three 17th on the way to a two-under 70. “Just a little disappointed because I had a good chance for the win,” she said. Kim’s chances of a second LPGA title looked dim after a double bogey at the 10th but she powered back with a five under 67, joining the leaders with an eagle at the par-five 16th. They returned to 18 for the playoff, where Im missed the green with her sec ond shot and Kim missed her birdie attempt to set the stage for Green. – AFP

Green wins third LA title

AUSTRALIA’S in-form Hannah Green birdied the first hole of a three-way play off to capture her third LA Championship title yesterday on the LPGA Tour. Green curled in a long birdie putt at the first hole of sudden death to

edge South Koreans Kim Sei young and Im Jin-hee for her eighth LPGA crown. She had muscled her way into the playoff with a 4-under 68 that included five birdies on the back nine. The victory in the last event before the first women’s major of the year, next week’s Chevron Championship in Houston, is Green’s fourth world wide this year. “I felt like I was doing what I said I wanted to do yesterday, hit more greens,” said Green,

who started the day two shots off Kim’s lead and admitted that after a birdie and

two bogeys on the front nine. “I hon estly didn’t think I was in the tourna m e n t

Hannah Green hits a tee shot on the 13th hole during the final round of the JM Eagle LA Championship yesterday. – AFPPIC

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Rahm coasts to LIV Golf victory in Mexico JON RAHM cruised to a six-stroke vic tory with a final round of 64 yesterday at a LIV Golf event in Mexico City over shadowed by reports of behind-the scenes tour turmoil. Bouncing back from a disappoint Rahm’s Legion XIII also won the team event by a comfortable margin.

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Rahm drove to within a yard of the pin at the 390-yard third hole for a tap-in eagle. Two more birdies gave Rahm a six shot lead, before the chasing David Puig marginally reined him in with an eagle at the par-five seventh. But while Puig faltered with a pair of bogeys down the stretch to end at 15 under par, Rahm completed a bogey free round to finish the tournament 21 under par. It was Rahm’s second win this sea son on the LIV tour, after a victory in Hong Kong last month. Josele Ballester completed an all Spanish podium, third on 14-under. – AFP

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“I’m fortunate to have these team mates. They’re unbelievable, and hope fully only better to come,” said Rahm. Following reports last week that the breakaway LIV tour is on the verge of collapse due to the possible with drawal of Saudi Arabian financing, some pundits had even speculated the Mexico City event would not go ahead. But after LIV CEO Scott O’Neil reas sured staff that the current season would continue “full throttle” it was business as normal on the surface at the Club de Golf Chapultepec. Making the most of some short early par-fours, and the high altitude,

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