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SPORTS Tuesday 29 May 2018
Birdie on 18 gives Lee

a victory on her birthday

By NOAH TRISTER 18. The 18th hole was 470 her first child.
AP Sports Writer yards Sunday. There were Kim and Lee were briefly
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — 44 birdies there in the final tied at 15 under, but then
Minjee Lee's task was simple: round. Lee made a tap-in birdie
A birdie on No. 18 would "The tee was up," she said. on the par-5 14th, while Kim
win her the tournament. "I was pretty confident that bogeyed 15. Lee saved par
It was a manageable par I could get there in two if I on 15 despite a wayward
5, the easiest hole on the had a good drive." drive into a bunker.
course in the final round. Lee made her winning "I wasn't sure where I was
After a good drive, her putt from about 3 feet. score-wise then. That par
second shot came closer She finished at 4-under 5 is reachable in two, so I
to trouble than much of the 68 and 16 under for the think a lot of people would
gallery probably realized. tournament. Kim (67) shot have made birdie there,"
"I almost clipped the tree," a 32 on the back nine and Lee said. "The next tee shot
Lee said. "I overcut it a little birdied No. 18, but it wasn't I just pulled into the bunker.
bit, but it finished out in a enough to force a playoff ... I think that was really
good position." at Travis Pointe Country important for me to hole
Lee's shot came to rest just Club. that par putt just to keep
to the right of the green, "I kind of knew that 16 was the momentum going."
and from there it was a the number and I mean, Lee had gone 38
simple chip and putt for the I give my best," Kim said. consecutive holes without
birdie that gave her a one- "I make some good shots a bogey before making Minjee Lee, of Australia, waves after winning the LPGA Volvik
stroke win over In-Kyung and birdies." one on the par-4 17th. That, Championship golf tournament on the final hole at the Travis
Kim at the LPGA Volvik Moriya Jutanugarn (65) combined with Kim's birdie Pointe Country Club, Sunday, May 27, 2018, in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Championship on Sunday. finished third at 14 under. on 18, left the two golfers Associated Press
Lee, who turned 22 on Lee took a two-stroke lead tied, but Lee still had the first six holes, but Lee did as stroke last year. Shanshan
Sunday, won for the first into the final round, and 18th to come. well. Feng, the 2017 winner ,
time since 2016. It was the that was her margin over Su Oh (68) and Lindy "It's hard to get close when finished tied for 21st this
Australian's fourth career playing partner Stacy Lewis Duncan (69) finished at somebody does that," time.
victory. before Lewis (71) bogeyed 13 under, and Megan Lewis said. "She played The LPGA has had a
Lee three-putted for a No. 7 and 8. Kim emerged Khang (67) was another great all day and played different winner in each of
bogey on No. 17, dropping as the biggest threat to stroke back. Lewis finished solid. When she needed its 13 tournaments this year.
into a tie with Kim, who Lee when she birdied four at 11 under along with to make a par putt, she The U.S. Women's Open
finished her round about of the first five holes on the Ariya Jutanugarn (69) and did, and didn't make any starts Thursday at Shoal
the same time. So Lee back nine. Lewis is playing Danielle Kang (70). mistakes."
needed a birdie to win on four months' pregnant with Lewis birdied three of the Creek.q
Lee lost this event by one
New Zealand Olympic 5,000m silver medalist Quax dead at 70

WELLINGTON, New Zealand careers and above else
(AP) — New Zealand runner getting to know a great
Dick Quax died on Monday man and friend."
at the age of 70 after a Dixon said he would
long battle with cancer. remember Quax as
Regarded as one of his "my great friend and
country's greatest runners, competitor" while Nick Willis,
Quax won a silver medal who won a silver medal for
in the 5,000 meters at the New Zealand in the 1,500
1976 Olympics and also meters at the 2008 Beijing
set a world record for the Olympics and a bronze
distance. medal in the same event at
Born in The Netherlands in Rio de Janeiro eight years
1948, Theodorus Jacobus later, described Quax as
Leonardus "Dick" Quax "one of the all-time greats."
moved to New Zealand "Thanks Dick Quax for being
with his family as a child such a great role model to
and, along with John me, and influence to our
Walker and Rod Dixon, he sport as an athlete, coach
became part of a golden and meet promoter. Will be
era of New Zealand In this July 30, 1976, file photo, Finland's Lasse Viren, right, sprints over the finish line to win the sorely missed," Willis wrote.
middle-distance running in gold medal in the Olympic men's 5,000 meters final ahead of New Zealand's Dick Quax, left, Quax was diagnosed with
the 1970s. and West Germany's Klaus Hildenbrand at the Montreal Olympics in Montreal, Canada. throat cancer in 2013,
He finished a close second Associated Press but told an interviewer
behind Finland's Lasse in January "I'm not dying
Virren in the 5,000 meters at Walker, who won the gold Quax. social media. "''He helped of cancer, I'm living with
the Montreal Olympics and medal in the 1,500 meters "Dick was one of me a lot as a young athlete cancer."
a year later, he set a then- at Montreal and was a the hardest-working and I will always be grateful A family friend said he
world record of 13 minutes, world record-holder at the competitors on and off the for our time shared during passed away at an
12.9 seconds in Stockholm. mile, led the tributes to track," Walker posted on and after our running Auckland hospital.q