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SILVIS, Ill. - While the rest of the leaders faltered, Dylan Frittelli surged to his first PGA Tour title.

Frittelli won the John Deere Classic on Sunday, closing with a 7-under 64 for a two-stroke victory over Russell Henley. The South African earned a spot next week in The Open, finishing at 21-under 263 after the bogey-free final round at TPC Deere Run.

One of eight players within two strokes of the lead entering the lead, Frittelli was looking forward to the tournament's charter flight to Royal Portrush.

''I'm sure it's going to be a fun flight,'' Frittelli said.

A two-time winner on the European Tour, Frittelli birdied the par-5 17th after blasting out of a greenside bunker to 11 feet, and closed with a par on the par-4 18th.

Frittelli had tied for 46th in each of his last two starts.

''I don't want to say it was easy out there. It just felt a whole lot easier than it has been the last few weeks,'' Frittelli said. ''I calmed my nerves down.''

Henley shot a tournament-best 61. Andrew Landry, who opened Sunday in a two-way tie for the lead, was 18 under after a 69.

Rookie Collin Morikawa (66), the runner-up last week in Minnesota, and Chris Stroud (67) followed at 17 under. Morikawa hit all 18 greens in regulation.

Henley's career-low effort included six birdies on the back nine, capped by one on No. 18 - the same hole he double-bogeyed Friday. Henley made six putts of at least 7 feet, including 26- and 46-footers.

''If you would have told me at the start of the day, 'We'll give you 66,' I'd have said, 'That's pretty good.' So to get five better than that is really awesome,'' Henley said.

But Henley, who finished well before Fritteli hit the turn, could only watch from the clubhouse as Frittelli surpassed him and everyone else in the field.

Frittelli, who opened with rounds of 66, 68 and 65, started the final round with three straight birdies. He matched Henley with a chip-in on No. 10 and took the lead for good with a 20-foot birdie putt on the 11th hole.

Landry birdied No. 14 to pull within two shots. But Landry went with his putter 30 feet from the pin while off the green on the par-4 15th hole, and left his try short on his way to his third bogey of the day.

Moments later, Frittelli got out of a bunker by using the green's downward slope to his advantage, where he made a birdie putt that effectively ended the drama in the Quad Cities.

''You can't give up shots to the rest of the field,'' Frittelli said. ''When I saw the leaderboard, putting downhill, I thought, if I make this (I'll get) a little bit of breathing room with Russell in the clubhouse already.''

Frittelli, who made the winning putt for the University of Texas in the 2012 NCAA Tournament, became the second player from that Longhorns team to win at TPC Deere Run. Jordan Spieth won in 2013 and 2015.

The kids continue to be more than alright.

A week after Matthew Wolff earned his PGA Tour card by winning the 3M Open, Collin Morikawa locked up membership for next season.

The 22-year-old Cal product, in just his fifth pro start, tied for fourth Sunday at the John Deere Classic to collect 122.5 non-member FedExCup points and run his season total to 456.5. With just three weeks left in the regular season, that number, which currently would slot Morikawa at 88th, will assuredly be more than No. 125 in the final standings, meaning Morikawa can count on earning his card for the 2019-20 season.

“I had the confidence to know I was going to do it,” Morikawa said. “… I knew it was going to take a low score today if I was going to move up. Even [par] wasn't going to do you good, and everyone was making birdies out there. It feels really good and it's definitely a little weight off the back.”

Morikawa opened the week with a 1-under 70 but followed with 66-65-66. He didn’t make a bogey on the weekend and eagled twice on Sunday. He now has two straight top-3 finishes after tying for second last week.

“It doesn't stop here,” Morikawa said. “I have two more starts at the Barracuda and Wyndham [and] really I want to get into those playoffs, and the only way I can do that is if I win.”

Morikawa wasn’t the only youngster to add to his FedExCup haul at TPC Deere Run. Doc Redman, who turned pro last summer after two seasons at Clemson, tied for 37th to earn 14.5 points and increase his non-member total to 358.5.

He is 34.5 points clear of No. 125 Danny Willett’s total, but unlike Morikawa his spot inside that top 125 is not guaranteed yet. If he fails to earn more points than No. 125, Redman will still qualify for the Korn Ferry Tour Finals.

Oklahoma State product Viktor Hovland shot 64 Sunday to climb to T-17, which netted him 52 points. He now has 173 for the season. With just one more start remaining, he’ll likely need something special to earn his card for next season, though he’ll get another chance via the KFT Finals.

AKRON, Ohio - Retief Goosen birdied the final two holes to win the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship on Sunday at Firestone Country Club for his first PGA Tour Champions title.

The 50-year-old Hall of Famer from South Africa broke a tie for the lead with a 15-foot putt on the par-4 17th and made a 10-footer on the par-4 18th for a 2-under 68 and a two-stroke victory over 65-year-old Jay Haas and Tim Petrovic.

Three strokes ahead after opening rounds of 69 and 62, Goosen dropped a stroke behind Scott Parel on Saturday with a 75. The two-time U.S. Open champion rebounded from a bogey on the par-4 first with an eagle on the par-5 second, then parred the next eight. He offset a double bogey on the par-4 11th with birdies on the par-3 12th and par-4 13th, but dropped another stroke on the par-4 14th.

Haas closed with a 67, and Tim Petrovic shot 68.

Parel had a 73 to tie for fourth with Kent Jones (71) at 2 under.

Steve Stricker, the first-round leader after a 64, shot a 72 to finish sixth at 1 under. He was coming off a victory two weeks ago in the U.S. Senior Open at Norte Dame, and also won the major Regions Tradition in May.

STATELINE, Nev. - Tony Romo completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the American Century Championship for his second straight victory in the celebrity tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course.

The former Dallas Cowboys and current CBS analyst closed with a 2-over 74 and scored 20 points to finish at 71 in the modified Stableford scoring system. Former pitcher Mark Mulder, the winner from 2015-17, was 10 points back after a 71 and a 24-point day.

Romo became the fourth player in tournament history to successfully defend the title. With Romo an amateur, the $125,000 first prize was donated to official tournament charity Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

''It's an honor to win this tournament,'' Romo said. ''I came in with confidence and this is some of the best golf I've played these past few weeks. When I won last year, every shot mattered. This year, it was easier. That's why we practice so much.''

Jennifer Kupcho came up short in a weekend bid to win the Marathon Classic, but she got a nice consolation prize.

With her T-5 finish Sunday, Kupcho earned one of five qualifying spots for players who weren’t already qualified for the AIG Women’s British Open in three weeks.

“It's great, just coming off two missed cuts,” Kupcho said. “Obviously, I wanted to come out and play strong.”

Kupcho, the 2018 NCAA champ, winner of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur and former world amateur No. 1, earned $52,798 with her best finish since turning pro this summer. She will jump from 124th on the money list to 94th with $89,459 through six starts as a pro. At year’s end, the top 80 in money earn Category 1 status for next year, which is the tour’s equivalent of fully exempt status. 

“It's definitely great to get a little bit of confidence going and see my game on the upswing,” Kupcho said.

Tiffany Joh, Linnea Strom, Pavarisa Yoktuan and Mariajo Uribe also earned spots into the Women’s British Open.

City rage after Red Bulls win controversial derby

Published in Soccer
Sunday, 14 July 2019 19:55

Daniel Royer scored his sixth and seventh goals of the season in the New York Red Bulls' 2-1 win over New York City FC on Sunday in a game rocked by controversy.

Royer scored from the penalty spot before half-time to tie the match at one-all. He then scored quickly after a disputed throw-in in the 60th minute for his first multi-goal game of 2019. The win lifted the Red Bulls (9-7-4, 31 points) three spots to third in the Eastern Conference standings.

Royer headed the Red Bulls into the lead in the 60th minute on a sequence that left NYCFC protesting the decision to award the hosts a throw-in instead of a corner.

After the visitors cleared the ball, assistant referee Corey Rockwell appeared to point his flag downward toward the corner flag, the signal for a corner kick. Instead, the Red Bulls' Marc Rzatkowski took the throw-in quickly and Cristian Casseres Jr. crossed into the box, where Royer headed it beyond goalkeeper Sean Johnson.

Johnson and several of his teammates pleaded with referee Alan Kelly after the goal, and Kelly and Rockwell held a discussion, but the goal stood. According to the telecast on FS1, Rockwell had in fact ruled for a corner, but Kelly then overruled the decision.

Earlier, Royer's penalty kick leveled the match in the first minute of first-half stoppage time. Kelly immediately pointed to the spot as NYCFC's Maxime Chanot caught Brian White with an outstretched leg as White tried to take down Alex Muyl's cross from the right. Royer ripped his spot kick into the top left corner beyond Johnson's dive.

NYCFC had the lead after seven minutes. After a give-and-go with Heber, Maxi Moralez sprayed the ball wide right to Anton Tinnerholm, who curled in a cross toward goal with his first touch. Heber ran onto it, side-footing it with his first touch off the underside of the crossbar and over the goal line.

It was Heber's seventh goal for New York City FC (7-3-8, 29 points), which fell one spot to sixth in the East with their second consecutive defeat.

Before those losses, NYCFC had gone 12 games without a defeat, but they fell to 1-5-1 all-time in away matches against their Hudson River rivals.

PERTH, Australia -- After landing in Perth to begin preparations for the new campaign, Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer puffed out his cheeks and said, "It's been a long summer."

He said it with a smile, but it was a reference to the problems that have piled up since the end of last season.

Star midfielder Paul Pogba says he wants to leave. Romelu Lukaku wants to join Inter Milan. Victor Lindelof's agent says the Swede could be tempted by a move to Barcelona.

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Two young players have arrived -- Daniel James and Aaron Wan-Bissaka -- but attempts to add more new signings have been hit by rival clubs slapping what United believe are unrealistic price tags on their players. Leicester want £90 million for Harry Maguire. Sean Longstaff has made just nine Premier League appearances but is valued at more than £50 million by Newcastle.

Solskjaer and his staff will spend more than three weeks on tour among visits to Australia; Singapore; Shanghai; Oslo, Norway; and Cardiff, Wales, and the Norwegian has a laundry list of problems to solve before the important stuff starts against Chelsea on Aug. 11.

1. Paul Pogba

It is the issue that will dominate until the transfer deadline. The midfielder said he wants a "new challenge" after three seasons at Old Trafford and is being chased by both Juventus and Real Madrid. United want to keep him and, speaking to the media at the WACA cricket ground Wednesday, Solskjaer was quick to reference the 26-year-old's contract, which still has three years to run. Three days later, the manager implied Pogba could even be a captaincy candidate. United -- as Solskjaer has pointed out -- do not need to sell, but he must decide whether he can get the best out of Pogba this season. The France international's attitude in training during the tour will tell him a lot.

2. How to approach the Europa League

Solskjaer has brought a host of young players to Australia, including Mason Greenwood, Angel Gomes, James Garner, Tahith Chong and Axel Tuanzebe. The United manager has hinted he might use the Europa League to give them more experience next season, and the six tour games -- starting with Perth Glory on Saturday -- will be a good indicator of whether or not they are up to it. Playing on Thursday nights isn't ideal, but United can't afford to throw away the Europa League because it's inconvenient. It might be their best chance of getting back into the Champions League.

3. Challenges at the back

United have brought six centre-backs with them to Australia -- Lindelof, Eric Bailly, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, Marcos Rojo and Tuanzebe -- while continuing their pursuit of another one, Maguire. Solskjaer cannot accommodate them all. Lindelof was one of United's best players last season, and both Jones and Smalling have signed new long-term contracts. Rojo insists he has been told he is part of Solskjaer's plans, while Bailly, when fit, is one of the most natural defenders in the squad. Still, if Maguire comes in, it is likely at least one will have to leave, and it will be down to Solskjaer to decide who that is.

4. Is it a risk to let Lukaku go?

Lukaku wants to join Inter Milan and United are open to him going if the Serie A side can stump up £80 million. The striker has split fans since arriving from Everton two years ago, but he is still the closest thing in the squad to guaranteed goals. He has averaged nearly a goal every two games at Old Trafford and it would be a risk to let him leave without bringing in another proven goal scorer as a replacement. There aren't enough goals in the team as it is.

5. Where the squad needs work

After finishing sixth last season, you could argue that every area of the squad needs work, but there is a significant issue in the centre of midfield. Solskjaer relied heavily on a midfield three of Pogba, Nemanja Matic and Ander Herrera during his impressive run of results after taking over from Jose Mourinho, but Herrera has gone and will need to be replaced. Andreas Pereira has been handed a new contract, and it might be that the Brazilian is asked to play a more prominent role this season along with fellow academy graduate Scott McTominay. More will be expected of £48 million Fred, too, after a hit-and-miss first season in England, but he is yet to join the squad in Australia after staying behind for personal reasons.

Middlesex 384 and 189 for 5 (Robson 73*, SImpson 56) lead Glamorgan 171 (Helm 5-53, Roland-Jones 4-45) by 402 runs

Two weeks ago, Middlesex were bottom of Division Two and Toby Roland-Jones had taken only five wickets at an average of almost three figures. But after beating Gloucestershire last week, they are currently well placed to defeat Glamorgan over the next two days move to within touching distance of the leaders.

They closed on 189 for 5, a lead of 402, and are likely to bat until shortly before lunch in the third day and leave Glamorgan a mammoth target in the remaining time.

Roland-Jones has played a large part in his team's resurgence, taking ten wickets in the match last week, four in the first innings here and on a lively Sophia Gardens pitch, will hope to add to his tally in Glamorgan's second innings.

The home team, after their disastrous start the previous evening when they resumed on 25 for 4, made a partial recovery as David Lloyd and Billy Root put on 59 for the fifth wicket. But after Lloyd's dismissal for 67 and Root for 32, Glamorgan lost their last five wickets for only 28 runs.

Roland Jones started the collapse when he had Root caught at second slip, bowled Chris Cooke with one that kept low and followed up by having Lloyd caught behind and Graham Wagg also held by Dawid Malan in the slip cordon.

Steve Eskinazi was caught at slip in Lukas Carey's second over before Nick Gubbins was well caught by Lloyd on the third attempt also at slip, and when Malan was run out by half the length of the pitch following a poor call by his partner, Middlesex were 49 for 3.

George Scott made a useful 23 before - for the second time in the game - he shouldered arms and had his off stump removed by Dan Douthwaite. From then Sam Robson and John Simpson settled into their productive partnership, although the pitch was not so bowler friendly as it had been earlier in the game.

The fifth-wicket pair both posted fifties, with Simpson particularly strong through the on side but in the final over he drove Marchant de Lange to extra cover where Root held on to a low catch.

Eoin Morgan hailed England's heart-stopping victory in the World Cup final at Lord's as the culmination of a four-year journey, and singled out Ben Stokes for particular praise after the manner in which he carried the team's hopes in both their faltering run-chase and then the Super Over.

Stokes top-scored for England with 84 not out from 98 balls in their regulation 50 overs, having rescued the team from 86 for 4 in the 24th, then - while battling fatigue - added a further eight runs from three balls in the Super Over.

"To come through it is extraordinary," said Morgan. "He's almost superhuman. He really carried the team and our batting line-up. I know Jos [Buttler] and his partnership was extraordinary, but to bat with the lower order the way he did I thought was incredible.

"The atmosphere, the emotion that was going through the whole game, he managed to deal with that in an extremely experienced manner. And obviously everybody watching at home will hopefully try and be the next Ben Stokes."

It was particularly sweet for Stokes to be England's hero in light of what happened to him on the last occasion that England reached a World final, the World T20 in India in 2016, when he was hit for four sixes by West Indies' Carlos Brathwaite.

"I have said this a number of times about Ben, I think a lot of careers would have been ended after what happened in Kolkata," Morgan said. "Ben on numerous occasions has stood up individually and in a unit for us. He leads the way in training, in any team meetings we have, and he's an incredible cricketer. And today he's had a huge day out and obviously we are thankful for that."

Speaking with the World Cup trophy sitting next to him at Lord's, Morgan joked that he was carrying it around with him as much as he could because he still could not believe the extraordinary circumstances by which his team had inched over the line, beating New Zealand on boundary countback after they could not be separated on the field.

"To me and to the team, and everybody who has been involved over the last four years, it means absolutely everything," Morgan said. "The planning, the hard work, the dedication, the commitment and the little bit of luck today really did get us over the line.

"It's been an absolutely incredible journey to everybody around the country and around the world who has followed us and supported us, thank you so much. It's been phenomenal."

It was a contest that could not be separated by runs scored, in regulation play nor during the Super Over, but were England inadvertently awarded one run too many during the chaotic scenes of Trent Boult's final over to Ben Stokes?

In what was later pinpointed by New Zealand's captain Kane Williamson as the key "uncontrollable" of England's run-chase, Stokes inadvertently sent a throw from deep midwicket skimming to the third man boundary, after diving for his crease in a bid to complete his second run.

After consultation with his colleagues, Kumar Dharmasena signaled six runs for the incident, meaning that England - seemingly drifting out of contention needing nine runs from three balls, were suddenly right back in the hunt needing three more from two.

However, according to Law 19.8, pertaining to "Overthrow or wilful act of fielder", it would appear that England's second on-field run should not have counted, making it a total of five runs for the incident, not six.

The law states: "If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be any runs for penalties awarded to either side, and the allowance for the boundary, and the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act."

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The crucial clause is the last part. A review of the footage of the incident shows clearly that, at the moment the ball was released by the New Zealand fielder, Martin Guptill, Stokes and his partner, Adil Rashid, had not yet crossed for their second run.

There is potential scope for ambiguity in the wording of the law, given that it references throw or "act", which may pertain to the moment that the ball deflected off Stokes' bat. However, there is no reference to the batsman's actions at any other point in the Law.

Speaking before questions about the Law came to light, Eoin Morgan said: "I wasn't quite sure what had happened to start with because, obviously, he dived and there was dust everywhere and the ball deflected through and all the Blackcaps standing around going "What's going on?" So I was trying to figure out, did he hit it, did the keeper hit it?

"I was trying to stay in the moment. I wasn't celebrating. It is not something you celebrate or cheer, well I don't because that could be us on the other side of it, and there's margins like that today that we spoke about. We spoke about that just chatting in the outfield the finest of margins today of guys ducking balls when they could have scored or different case scenarios, stealing runs where guys should have stopped them. It does emphasise that you need to be on top of your game."

Kane Williamson was left to regret the small margins that left them runner's up for the consecutive World Cups. "You can't sort of look at that and think that perhaps that decided the match," he said. "There were so many other bits and pieces to that game that were so important. When it comes down to a tie, you start looking at every single delivery, don't you? It was a pretty tough pill to swallow that when, yeah, when we were looking pretty likely with Trent bowling really, really well, so one of those things.

Though Stokes was unable to take England all the way in the remainder of that over, he and Jos Buttler teamed up in the Super Over to score a further 15 runs to give England the trophy after New Zealand this time were the team to match their total, only to lose on boundary countback.

The ICC has been approached by ESPNcricinfo for comment.

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