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Tuesday 28 May 2019
Bronte Law shoots 67 in wire-to-wire win at Kingsmill

By HANK KURZ Jr. shot. Sagstrom, also seek-
AP Sports Writer ing her first career victory,
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — got within one at No. 15
Bronte Law was scuffling, with a birdie, but missed
missing fairways off the tee makeable birdie putts on
and scrambling for pars the next two holes before
while a host of challengers the bad luck on the finish-
tried to play catch-up. ing hole.
A 15-foot birdie putt on the Henderson was a non-
16th hole finally brought re- factor for most of the day,
lief. with 14 pars and one birdie
“It was definitely a relief,” in her first 15 holes before
she said after winning the birdies at Nos. 16 and 18.
Pure Silk Championship on “To shoot 3 under on a Sun-
Sunday for her first career day and be that close to
LPGA Tour victory. the leaderboard and know
“I’d hit a really good putt that you left some out there
on the previous hole before is a good thing,” she said.
and it kind of hit a spike “So definitely just looking
mark,” she said about her forward to the rest of the
sixth consecutive par. “I summer. “I think this was a
thought it was middle cen- good way to lead into the
ter and didn’t make that U.S. Open next week.”
one.” Hataoka, who lost here
Law closed with a 3-under in a playoff with Ariya Ju-
67 to win by two shots. tanugarn last year, also
The 24-year-old English- Bronte Law, of England, holds the winner’s trophy after winning the Pure Silk Championship golf climbed into tie for sec-
woman, a former star at tournament at Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Va., Sunday, May 26, 2019. ond-place tie with a clos-
UCLA, held a share of the Associated Press ing birdie. Hsu at one point
lead after all four rounds doubled her lead with the pete at the top on a week- I was like, I mean, I couldn’t climbed into a share of
and finished with a 17-un- birdie on No. 16. Two-putt ly basis, which is the whole hit it more perfect. second, but the par-5 15th,
der 267 total on the River pars on the last two holes goal out there,” she said. “I was excited about the which she had eagled the
Course at the Kingsmill Re- capped the victory in her “This was the perfect way shot anyway.” last two days, ended her
sort. 56th career start. to prepare, I guess.” Wei-Ling Hsu, who had an bid. She hit her second shot
“It was a grind,” Law said. “It feels surreal to be honest Sagstrom’s approach to eagle, seven birdies, two right of the green and well
Madelene Sagstrom, after coming so close,” she the par-4 18th hit the flag- bogeys and a double bo- past — out of bounds —
Brooke Henderson and said. stick, bounced straight gey in a 66, finished fifth. and eventually two-putted
third-round co-leader Nasa It is also, she said, a nice down and then bounded Law got a nice break on for a double bogey. She
Hataoka tied for second. way to finish the week lead- well away. She then two- the par-4 eighth hole when birdied Nos. 16 and 18.
Sagstrom shot 66, Hender- ing up to the U.S. Women’s putted, preserving Law’s she hit her drive well right, Cristie Kerr, the only three-
son 68 and Hataoka 69. Open next week in Charles- lead. but it bounced off a steep time champion, had the
Law, who came from 10 ton, South Carolina. While her ball was in flight. slope back into the center top round of the week,
shots back on the last day After the close call, “to be Sagstrom said, she was of the fairway. She hit her coming within one shot of
to get into a playoff in the in contention and (for it) to thinking, “Oh, that looks approach to 6 feet and the course record with a
LPGA Mediheal Champi- be that very next time out really, really good. Then I made it to lead by three, 63. She just missed a birdie
onship three weeks ago playing was really cool and heard it hit and I was like, then hit three more drives putt at the par-4 18th to fin-
in Daly City, California, shows me that I can com- ‘Please don’t bounce off.’ well right, but lost just one ish at 11 under.q
Capitals investigating Kuznetsov

video showing white powder

By STEPHEN WHYNO carried a message saying drugs and an “unknown
AP Hockey Writer it was why Russia lost in the women,” called a friend
The Washington Capi- world hockey champion- and left.
tals said Monday they ship semifinals. It showed The 27-year-old Kuznetsov
have confirmed star Evg- Kuznetsov talking to some- was Washington’s leading
eny Kuznetsov is shown in one and lines of white pow- scorer in the playoffs when
a now-deleted video on der and American dollar it won the Stanley Cup a
social media that appears bills can be seen on the year ago.
to show him in a hotel room table. Kuznetsov does not This season, the Russian
with lines of white powder touch anything on the ta- center had 72 points in 76
on a table in front of him. ble in the 22-second video. games but just one goal
In a statement sent to The In a statement to Russian during a first-round loss to
Associated Press by spokes- news outlet Sport Express, Carolina.
man Sergey Kocharov, the Kuznetsov said the video is Asked about the video be-
team says it is in the process from 2018 in Las Vegas after fore Game 1 of the Stanley
In this April 24, 2019, file photo, Washington Capitals center of gathering facts and will the Capitals won the Stan- Cup Final, Deputy Commis-
Evgeny Kuznetsov (92), of Russia, stands on the ice during the have no further comment ley Cup. In that statement, sioner Bill Daly said the NHL
second period of Game 7 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff
series against the Carolina Hurricanes in Washington. at this time. Kuznetsov said he went to would not have any defini-
Associated Press The video posted on Twitter a friend’s hotel room, saw tive comments Monday. q