PATRICK REED WINS WGC CADILLAC CHAMPIONSHIP AND CLIMBS TO WORLD NUMBER 20
Week 10

Patrick Reed overcame a late wobble to win the WGC-Cadillac Championship by a single shot, Chesson Hadley held off Danny Lee by two strokes in wind gusting to 25 mph at Trump International. Canada’s Adam Hadwin birdied four of his final six holes, to overtake Australian Alistair Presnell and win the Chile Classic and Jake Roos emerged from a titanic battle to lift the Barclays Kenya Open title.

10TH MARCH 2014 | 10:09 AM

WGC – Cadillac Championship

Patrick Reed overcame a late wobble to win the WGC-Cadillac Championship by a single shot as Jamie Donaldson posted his best World Golf Championships finish with a share of second place.

Reed was two shots clear overnight at Trump National Doral and doubled that advantage with three birdies and a bogey in his opening four holes.

Donaldson and Bubba Watson reduced the gap to three as Reed recorded nine straight pars, before a missed putt from inside five feet cost the American a bogey at the 14th.

Welshman Donaldson then got within one shot after a magnificent approach to the 17th left him a tap-in birdie, only to bogey the last after finding sand with his approach.

That meant the 38 year old signed for a closing 70 to join former Masters Tournament winner Watson in the clubhouse on three under par, with Reed still needing to negotiate a 55 foot birdie putt on the 17th and the Blue Monster’s daunting 18th, the latter where Martin Kaymer carded the only birdie of the final round.

Reed knocked his effort on the 17th to tap-in range to erase any concerns of a three-putt bogey, then laid up at the last and two putted for victory in his first WGC stroke-play event, having made his debut at the recent Accenture Match Play Championship.

At 23 years old he also becomes the youngest winner of a WGC event, breaking the record of World Number One Tiger Woods by 26 days.

PGA Tour – Puerto Rico Open presented by seepuertorico

Chesson Hadley held off Danny Lee by two strokes in wind gusting to 25 mph at Trump International.

Making his 13th PGA Tour start, the 26-year-old Hadley birdied the final two holes for a 5-under 67. He's the first rookie winner since Jordan Spieth in July in the John Deere Classic.

Hadley finished at 21-under 267 and earned $630,000, a two-year tour exemption and spots in The Players Championship, PGA Championship and Tournament of Champions. He will move into the mid-60s in the world ranking, giving him a chance to get into the Masters if he can crack the top 50 at the end of the Texas Open.

Web.com – Chile Classic

Canada’s Adam Hadwin birdied four of his final six holes, including the last two, to overtake Australian Alistair Presnell and win the Chile Classic, his first career title.

Hadwin, the 54-hole leader, polished off a 3-under 69 to finish at 16-under 272 at the Prince of Wales Country Club course, one better than Presnell, who chalked up three eagles on the day, including a dramatic 18-footer on the 18th to take the clubhouse lead at 15-under.

“I heard roars but I didn’t know what happened,” said Hadwin. “I knew it was going to be close. I said to my caddie on 17 tee that if I make two birdies they can’t catch us.”

The British Columbia resident got up-and-down from a greenside bunker on the reachable par-4, 17th – tees were moved up and it played only 308 yards – for birdie to tie Presnell as he approached the 529-yard, 18th.

Challenge Tour – Kenya Open

Jake Roos hailed it as a “career-changer” after the South African emerged from a titanic battle to lift the Barclays Kenya Open title, claiming his maiden European Challenge Tour win and full exemption for the remainder of the 2014 season.

In a thrilling final day in front of massive crowds at Karen Country Club, the lead exchanged hands numerous times right until the concluding moments of the first event of the Challenge Tour season, with up to five players sharing the lead midway through the final round.

But it was Roos who emerged from the pack, despite thinking his chance had gone when he bogeyed the 16th, having claimed back to back birdies at the previous two holes.

But the 32 year old from Pretoria benefited from a double-bogey at the 17th hole from Frenchman Adrian Bernadet, who was one shot clear at that point.

Roos found himself one clear going down the last, only requiring a par to clinch the title, and he held his nerve with two superb shots to the fringe at the par five 18th before leaving himself with a two-putt from 15 feet to card a two under par 70 and finish ten under for the tournament, one shot clear.

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