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Wes Short Jr., of Austin, Texas, celebrates winning the PGA Tour
Champion’s Shaw Charity Classic golf event in Calgary, Alberta,
Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019.
Associated Press
Wes Short Jr. birdies

final hole to win

Shaw Charity Classic

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) tions at Canyon Meadows
— Wes Short Jr. took full Golf and Country Club un-
advantage of a fortunate til it warmed up in the af- Hannah Green, of Australia, poses with the trophy after winning the LPGA Cambia Portland Classic
golf tournament in Portland, Ore., Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019.
bounce. ternoon. McCarron rolled Associated Press
Short made a short birdie in a 39-foot putt for eagle
putt on the final hole to win on the 18th hole to card a Hannah Green rallies past
the Shaw Charity Classic by round of 5-under 65, which
one stroke on Sunday. pulled him into a tie for the Noh to win Portland Classic
His second shot on the par lead with Short and Tom
5, 18th hole at Canyon Gillis at 12 under. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — the same margin after 14 or too less,” Green said.
Meadows Golf and Coun- “It was going a little fast- Australia’s Hannah Green holes. But, she struggled “I think just hearing that
try Club just cleared the er than I wanted, kind of overcame a three-shot def- down the stretch and set- confirmation to say, yeah,
water before bouncing off banged the stick and went icit with a final round 5-un- tled for a final-round 71 and that’s the right line, is just
a rock and onto the green. in,” McCarron said. “Just to der 67 Sunday to win the 20 under. what I needed. Especially
“I caught a little bit of a thin do that to have a chance Portland Classic and deny Down three strokes af- on the putt on 17.”
three wood and pushed was really cool, but I teenager Yealimi Noh’s bid ter Noh made a birdie at Green made par on the
it a little bit,” Short said. “I shouldn’t have put myself to become the third Mon- the 14th, Green knew she 72nd hole and Noh, after
thought it might have been in that position to begin day qualifier to win on the needed to make a move. hitting her second shot over
over, but it hit a rock and with.” The Charles Schwab LPGA Tour. “I guess that’s when you re- the green and sending her
kicked up on the green. It Cup points leader then Green erased a three-shot ally need to hang in there,” third a good distance past
was a really good break.” watched as Short made deficit with two birdies over Green said. “I was just really the hole, made bogey.
After his eagle attempt his clutch birdie, while Gil- the final four holes at Co- happy that I was hitting fair- “It was all going good till
came up short, he tapped lis fell back into fourth at 10 lumbia Edgewater Coun- ways and greens, like giving 16 I think, just the last two
in a three-foot putt for a under with a double bogey try Club. She finished at 21 myself some opportunities. bogeys on 16, and 18, re-
final-round 4-under 66 and on the last hole. under and won for the sec- ... I had some bad strokes ally hurts, because I was
a a 13-under 267 total — “Wes obviously got a great ond time this season. She out there and completely playing OK up until that,”
just ahead of two-time de- break on 18, hit the rocks in claimed the KPMG Wom- missed the hole, but when I Noh said. “I really thought
fending champion Scott the hazard and bounced en’s PGA Championship in was holing putts, you know, I could hang in there, but
McCarron. on the green and birdied June. they are in the middle, so just made a couple mis-
“It probably looked five, six it to win the tournament,” The 22-year-old Green, one I was really happy about takes.
feet and I was sure glad it said McCarron, who had of five two-time winners on that. “ Noh was playing in her sev-
went in,” Short said. “All the bogeys on 16 and 17 be- tour this year, said she re- Green closed within two enth tour event this year,
hard work you put into this fore his eagle on the final lied on her experience in strokes with a birdie at the with her best finish a tie
stupid game comes to the hole. “Sometimes those winning her first major ear- 15th and was within one for sixth at the Thornberry
top.” Short’s final round in- things happen when you lier this summer. after Noh made bogey at Creek Classic in early July.
cluded six birdies and two win. He got the good “I think I can definitely say No. 16. Green forged a tie She was trying to join Ca-
bogeys to give the 55-year- breaks and I made a few that KPMG, having that ex- at 21 under with a clutch nadian Brooke Henderson,
old golfer from Austin, bad swings with poor tim- perience, definitely helped birdie putt at the 17th. who won the 2015 Portland
Texas, just his second-ever ing, unfortunately.” me, especially the last five “I felt like I was reading Classic, and Laurel Kean,
PGA Tour Champions vic- Second-round leader holes,” Green said. “Grind- greens really well all day a winner at the State Farm
tory. His last one was also in Steve Flesch shot 69 to fall ing out and making sure but towards the end, I LPGA Classic in 2000, as
Canada at the 2014 Que- back into third at 11 under. that I stayed patient.” wasn’t sure if I was over- the only qualifiers to win in
bec Championship. “I wanted to play aggres- The 18-year-old Noh, who reading them, so I had my LPGA history.
The start of the final round sively and I drove it great turned down an offer to caddie — I told him what Brittany Altomoare carded
of the three-day event was and I ironed it okay on the play for UCLA and instead point I was looking at, and a 69 and finished third at 17
delayed by 30 minutes due front, but I just didn’t make went pro in February, led I asked whether, what his under. Henderson (71) and
to thick fog and golfers also any putts today,” Flesch by three strokes entering opinion was and whether Nasa Hataoka (66) tied for
had to battle chilly condi- said.q the final round and held he thinks it was too much fourth at 15 under.q