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Tuesday, June 18, 2019
East Oregonian
Henderson wins Meijer
LPGA Classic
Woodland’s key
3 shots get him a
U.S. Open win at
Pebble Beach
By EDDIE PELLS
AP National Writer
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif.
— Very soon, Gary Wood-
land will be a father of three,
and odds are he’ll answer
the same way about the kids
as he will about the three
shots that cemented him as
a U.S. Open champion.
Which is his favorite?
They’re all perfect in their
own, special way.
Woodland’s Father’s Day
at Pebble Beach included
a fl ushed 3-wood that set
up birdie to give him a
two-shot cushion, a wedge
clipped off the 17th green
that helped him preserve it,
then a 30-foot birdie putt on
No. 18 that ended the tour-
nament with a fl ourish —
and put him in the record
book, to boot.
“My whole life, I’ve been
able to compete and win at
everything I’ve done,” he
said. “It’s taken a while,
but it’s trending in the right
direction.”
Straight past Tiger
Woods in the record book,
in fact.
Woodland, whose wife,
Gabby, is expecting twins
in a couple of months to
join their soon-to-be-2-
year-old son, Jaxson, got to
13-under-par 271 with that
closing birdie, beating by
one the record Woods set
for a U.S. Open at Pebble
Beach during his 15-shot
romp to victory in 2000.
Pebble Beach played
tougher that year.
But to say Woodland
took the easy way to his fi rst
major title would be missing
the point.
He spent the entire day
holding off Brooks Koepka,
who himself was shoot-
ing for history — trying
to become the fi rst player
since 1905 to complete a
U.S. Open three-peat.
Koepka made clear early
that he was up for the chal-
lenge. He opened with four
birdies over the fi rst fi ve
holes to pull within a shot of
Woodland, who was play-
ing one hole behind.
“I thought, ‘Yeah, we’ve
got a ballgame now,’”
Koepka said.
They did, except it
wasn’t a back-and-forth
ballgame. Woodland never
surrendered the lead.
It was at one shot when
Woodland drove to the mid-
dle of the fairway on the
par-5 14th, faced with the
choice between laying up,
the way most players have
all week, or going for it and
hoping the shot would hold
on the severely sloping put-
ting surface.
“We sat there and
thought about it for a while
and said, ‘Let’s go, we’re
out here to win,’” Wood-
land said.
The ball just cleared the
bunker fronting the green,
took two hops and rolled
toward the collar left of the
pin. A chip and a putt later,
Woodland had a birdie and
a two-shot lead.
“The 3-wood on 14 was
what gave me the confi -
dence to even execute the
shot on 17,” he said.
That shot, made while
still clinging to the two-shot
lead, added to Tom Wat-
son’s chip-in from the sand
in 1982 and Jack Nicklaus’
1-iron off the fl ag 10 years
before that on the grow-
ing list of history-making
moments on that storied
17th green.
With his ball on the front
A9
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Gary Woodland posses with the trophy after winning the
U.S. Open Championship golf tournament on Sunday in
Pebble Beach, Calif.
right edge of the putting
surface, but with a small
hill blocking his path to the
hole, Woodland took out his
wedge and made pure con-
tact, sending the ball over
the hump then back onto the
green, where it checked up
and ran out to tap-in range
for par.
“When I started to tran-
sition into golf, the short
game was what was really
bad, to be honest,” Wood-
land said. “And so my
whole deal was, I had to
hit chips off putting greens
all the time, and there were
some times where superin-
tendents weren’t a huge fan
of me.”
He’s not bad with the put-
ter on those greens, either.
After Koepka’s birdie
putt on No. 18 slid just past
to close his tournament at
10 under, Woodland car-
ried a two-shot lead onto the
18th green and needed to
get down in only three from
30 feet to secure the trophy.
He got down in one
instead, raised his hands to
the heavens, then fi nished
with a huge fi st pump.
Not bad for a guy who
thought basketball would
be his best sport but gave it
up after a year of playing in
college so he could get seri-
ous about golf.
“The question about if
I ever dreamed of making
the putt on the last hole of
a U.S. Open when I was a
kid, no, I didn’t,” Wood-
land said. “But I hit a lot of
game-winning shots on the
basketball court when I was
a kid.”
Koepka said he wasn’t
upset about this weekend.
He became the fourth
player — joining Lee Tre-
vino, Lee Janzen and Rory
McIlroy — to break 70 in
all four rounds of the U.S.
Open, but the fi rst to not
walk away with the tro-
phy. The main reason: Min-
utes after Koepka fi nished,
Woodland became the fi fth
player to break 70 in all four
rounds.
When it was over, Wood-
land shared a long hug
with his father, Dan, who
coached him hard in every
sport he played except for
golf when he was growing
up — made him work for
his wins, made him earn
everything he got.
Father’s Day. A U.S.
Open title. What’s not to
love?
“I wouldn’t be where I
am today without my dad
and the way he treated me
and the way he was hard
on me,” Woodland said.
“And that’s something that
I look forward to doing
with my son.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.
(AP) — Brooke Henderson
won the Meijer LPGA Classic
to break the Canadian record
for tour victories with nine.
The 21-year-old Hender-
son led wire-to-wire for her
second victory in three years
at Blythefi eld Country Club,
closing with a 2-under 70 in
chilly conditions to hold off
Lexi Thompson, Nasa Hata-
oka, Su Oh and Brittany
Altomare by a stroke Sunday.
Henderson broke a tie with
Sandra Post for the Canadian
record on the LPGA Tour and
also moved ahead of George
Knudson and Mike Weir for
the overall country mark.
Also the Lotte Champi-
onship winner in April in
Hawaii, Henderson matched
the tournament record of 21
under that she set in 2017
(when the course played to a
par of 71) and also was tied last
year by So Yeon Ryu. Hen-
derson opened with consecu-
tive 64s, playing 30 holes Fri-
day after rain delayed the start
Thursday, and had a 69 on
Saturday to take a two-stroke
lead into the fi nal round.
Thompson followed her
course-record 62 in the third
round with a 68, closing
with an eagle for the second
straight day. The 2015 winner
at Blythefi eld, she was com-
ing off a victory last week in
New Jersey.
Hataoka shot 65, also mak-
ing an eagle on the par-5 18th.
Oh had a 66, and Altomare
shot 68.
The KPMG Women’s
PGA Championship, the third
major championship of the
year, is next week at Hazeltine
in Minnesota.
Web.com Tour
China’s Xinjun Zhang
birdied the third hole of a play-
off with Dylan Wu in the Lin-
coln Land Championship for
his second Web.com Tour vic-
tory of the season.
Zhang closed with a
6-under 65 to match Wu at
15 under at Panther Creek in
Springfi eld, Illinois.
The 32-year-old Zhang had
already wrapped up a PGA
Tour card for next season. He
regained the lead in the season
standings, with the fi nal top
25 earning PGA Tour cards.
Wu fi nished with a 63 in
his second career Web.com
Tour start.
Zhang also won the
Dormie Network Classic in
April in San Antonio.
Other tours
Grayson Sigg shot the sec-
ond 59 in Mackenzie Tour-
PGA Tour Canada history
to fi nish third in the GolfBC
Championship. The 24-year-
old former University of
Georgia player birdied the
fi nal three holes and six of
the last seven at Gallagher’s
Canyon in Kelowna, Brit-
ish Columbia. Jake Knapp
won for the second time in
three starts this year, clos-
ing with an 8-under 63 for a
one-stroke victory over Jon-
athan Garrick (64). Sigg fi n-
ished three strokes back at 17
under. Brady Schnell had the
only other 59 on the Mack-
enzie Tour in the 2014 ATB
Financial Classic. Jason Bohn
shot a 58 in 2001 on what was
then the Canadian Tour. ...
Jillian Hollis won The For-
syth Classic in Decatur, Illi-
nois, for her second Syme-
tra Tour victory of the year.
She closed with a 2-under 70
for a two-stroke victory over
Mind Muangkhumsakul. ...
Da Yeon Lee shot a 2-under
70 for a two-stroke victory
in the Korean LPGA’s Korea
Women’s Open. Lee fi nished
at 4-under 284. So Young Lee
was second after a 77. ... Ai
Suzuki won the Japan LPGA’s
Suntory Ladies Open, closing
with a 2-under 70 for a one-
stroke victory over Mamiko
Hika. ... France’s Cyril Bou-
niol won the Suzhou Open
by a stroke to become the
fi rst European winner in PGA
Tour China history.
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