Edoardo Molinari wins at Gleneagles

GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) — Edoardo Molinari birdied the final three holes at Gleneagles on Sunday to win the Johnnie Walker Championship and secure a place on Europe's Ryder Cup team.

The 29-year-old Italian received a wild card pick from European captain Colin Montgomerie, a few hours after shooting a 1-under 71 during the final round to beat Brett Rumford by a shot.

"I was under a lot of pressure out there because I did not know if second place was going to be good enough to impress Colin Montgomerie with the wild-card situation," Molinari said. "So the win was very important to me."

Molinari finished at 10-under 278. Overnight leader Francesco Molinari - Edoardo's brother - shot 75 to share third with Wales' Jamie Donaldson and Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain. Jimenez also secured a Ryder Cup spot, as did Sweden's Peter Hanson, who finished tied for 19th.

"My caddy told me on the 16th tee that with a couple of birdies I could still win and I feel fantastic to have been able to do that," said Molinari, who trailed Rumford by two shots at the time, only to birdie the next two holes to draw even.

Rumford did not expect to be in contention for his third European Tour victory but, a pair of closing birdies left him with a 2-under 70 and the clubhouse lead.

"It was never going to be a day of low scoring," he said. "The wind was very strong out on the course and very difficult to read."

The decision by Jimenez to seek a late entry to play at Gleneagles rather than attend his nephew's wedding in Malaga paid off.

He started the tournament in the ninth and last automatic qualifying place to play in the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor. An even-par 72, which left him at 7 under, earned him a share of third place and his fourth match against the United States team.

"It means a lot to me," the 46-year-old Jimenez said. "It means more as you get older and now to be playing alongside the likes of Martin Kaymer and Rory McIlroy will mean I am playing with a third generation.

"My nephew and my family understood about the wedding - they told me I had to what I had to do, and that's what I did."

On a day of high winds and high scoring, Hanson also secured his Ryder Cup debut with a 73 and a 2 under finish. He had recently climbed into automatic qualifying position by winning the Czech Open.

"I was very tired coming here to Scotland and I have been battling not to think about making the team," Hanson said. "But now I am going to celebrate."

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Tiger tumbles with a triple bogey at Barclays

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — One swing cost Tiger Woods any chance of winning The Barclays.

Now he can only hope get gets to keep playing after Sunday.

Four shots out of the lead to start the third round, Woods hit a shocking 3-wood off the first tee - part pop-up, part duck-hook - that sailed over the trees and off the property at Ridgewood Country Club. It led to a triple bogey, and he never got those three shots back.

Woods finished with back-to-back birdies for a 1-over 72 that put him well behind the leaders.

"In the end, it probably cost me a chance to win the tournament," said Woods, who rallied to get to 3-under 210. "But I'm pleased how I sucked it up and got it back the rest of the day, when it easily could have gone the other way. Hitting a ball like that, it can derail you. And it didn't. I got it right back."

It was hard to believe the swing came from someone who had only missed two fairways over the first 36 holes. Woods attributed it to having too many swing thoughts swirling between the ears.

"I got caught between two swings," he said. "And I wasn't committed to what I was doing. I wasn't focused on exactly what I should have been doing, what I've been doing on the range, what I've been doing the last couple of weeks. And it backfired."

The top 100 in the FedEx Cup standings advance to the second round next week in the Deutsche Bank Championship outside Boston. Woods started the playoffs at No. 112, and he seemed safe after opening with a 65 to share the lead.

At one point Saturday, after a bogey from a fairway bunker on the ninth hole, Woods was projected outside the top 100. That was his last big mistake, however.

Woods hit to the front of the green in two on the 616-yard 13th hole for an easy up-and-down for birdie, and his 3-wood on the 587-yard 17th stopped 20 feet from the pin for a two-putt birdie. He finished with a 7-iron to 8 feet for birdie on the 18th.

Equally important were two pars in the middle of his round.

After his atrocious start, Woods hit through the green on the sixth hole and chipped poorly to about 10 feet. He made that putt for par, then escaped with par after getting mud on his ball in the middle of the seventh fairway.

Woods' approach sailed right of the green and bunkers, leaving no room for error. The pitch under tree limbs landed in the rough, trickled onto the green and he made an 8-foot putt.

"I need to make that putt to not let it slide any further," he said.

Woods all but ruled himself out of the tournament, although Sunday looms large.

He most likely will need a round somewhere around par or better to advance to Boston, and the better he plays, the higher he moves up and increases his chances for the third round in Chicago, which is for the top 70.

In the meantime, he's still working on his swing, although there remains a higher priority.

"Posting a score," Woods said. "Always."

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Trio tied for lead after 2nd round at Gleneagles

GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AP) — Gary Boyd and David Lynn of England and Julien Guerrier of France were tied for the lead at the Johnnie Walker Championship on Friday, completing two rounds at 9 under.

Guerrier shot a 5-under 67, while Boyd and Lynn had 68s. Marc Warren of Scotland (70), Mark Foster of England (67) and George Coetzee of South Africa (68) were two shots back.

Simon Dyson of England shot a 70 to grab a share of seventh place at 6-under. He is four places outside of qualifying for the European Ryder Cup team and needs to capture the Johnnie Walker to ensure automatic selection for the event at Celtic Manor.

Also at 6 under were Paul McGinley of Ireland (70), Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain (68) and Edoardo Molinari of Italy (68).

Jimenez was a late entry as he looks to secure his place on the Ryder Cup team, while Molinari is hoping a good showing will help him earn a captain's pick.

Guerrier, who captured the 2006 British Amateur championship and turned professional right after the 2007 Masters, was inspired by Martin Kaymer's recent run to the PGA Championship title.

"I watched Martin Kaymer, 26 years old, make the fantastic title in the U.S. PGA and I said, 'He's a good player, but I'm a good striker and I can do it,'" Guerrier said. "So I try to do it and don't try too much, just play your golf, play your best and go see the flag and play it. That's all."

European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie missed the cut and will now focus on his Sunday night choice of captain's picks.

"I just think it's super that everyone is performing to the best of their ability," Montgomerie said after shooting 71 and 76 to finish at 3-over.

"I can't please everybody, the only way I could do that was to pick 20 players, but I have to leave out some good players, some winners," the Scott said. "It's a good headache to have."

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Woods plays his best round of the year

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — Yes, that really was Tiger Woods' name atop the leaderboard.

In his first tournament since his divorce, Woods finally looked like the No. 1 player in the world Thursday at the Barclays when he opened with a 6-under 65, his lowest score of the year, to share the lead with Vaughn Taylor. It was his first time leading after any round on the PGA Tour since the Tour Championship last September.

"It's exciting to hit the ball flush again," Woods said. "It's something I've been missing all year."

He didn't miss much at Ridgewood Country Club. Woods hit all but one fairway and putted for birdie on all but two holes. And while he hit his driver only twice, they were two of his best shots of the day - including on the 291-yard fifth hole, where his drive landed pin-high and settled 15 feet away.

Was it just a coincidence that his game showed up so soon after his marriage was dissolved?

"I can't really say that's the case," he said. "As far as golf, it was nice to put it together."

Woods and Taylor both played in the morning, when the greens were smooth and the conditions were only breezy. They had a one-shot lead over Adam Scott, Brian Gay and Ryan Palmer. Scott played in the afternoon, where a gust of wind played tricks on him at the final hole and led to bogey.

Scott endured a long day in the pro-am Wednesday and didn't think Ridgewood would serve up a 65 to anyone.

"Seeing some good scores this morning made me change my mind," he said.

That one of those scores belonged to Woods was hardly a surprise.

"For him to piece things together can't be too hard," Scott said. "He's very good."

The last time Woods' was atop the leaderboard after any round of any tournament was when he won the Australian Masters on Nov. 15, less than two weeks before his life caved in on him - the car crash after Thanksgiving night, details of adultery, five months away from the game and a broken marriage, which officially ended Monday.

His golf hasn't been very good either, which is why Woods began the FedEx Cup playoffs 112th out of 125 players who qualified. He was so low down the list that he was first to tee off under a sunny sky at Ridgewood, the first time he's done that in his PGA Tour career.

It worked to his advantage.

"With fresh greens, everybody in our group was making putts on the front nine," Woods said. "You had to get it today."

And he did. The 65 was his lowest score in 46 rounds, dating to a 62 in the BMW Championship last year. Taylor grinned when asked if he was surprised to see Woods' name on the leaderboard.

"Somewhat, you know?" he said. "It's good to see him back up top."

With sunshine and a light breeze, conditions were ripe for scoring. Palmer had a chance to join the leaders until a three-putt bogey on the 18th put him at 66. Even though the greens became bumpy in the afternoon after so much foot traffic, the course was soft enough to allow for good scores. There were 14 players who shot 67, including Davis Love III, defending champion Heath Slocum and Stewart Cink.

Phil Mickelson, with his ninth chance in the last four months to replace Woods at No. 1 in the world, made only one birdie for a 72.

For Woods, the timing could not have been better.

Only the top 100 in the FedEx Cup standings advance to the second round of the playoffs next week in the Deutsche Bank Championship. Woods at least needs to make the cut, then finish in the middle of the pack. He had a better solution.

"I figure if I win, I should be OK," Woods said.

For one of the few times this year, he gave himself ample reason to believe that. Woods opened with a 3-wood down the middle of the fairway, a pitching wedge to 15 feet below the hole and a birdie putt.

More followed, even on the par 5s, which have given Woods fits in recent months.

He mostly used his 3-wood off the tee, figuring that was enough to reach the corners without having to take on the tops of trees that line the fairways. Plus, with saturated conditions from rain earlier in the week, tour officials allowed players to lift, clean and place their golf balls in the fairway.

"With the ball in hand, it's much more important to hit the fairways," Woods said. It was the first time since the 2006 British Open at Royal Liverpool that he hit his 3-wood off the tee on every par 5.

The two times he hit the driver turned out to be two of his best shots of the day.

After the tee shot on the par-4 fifth - only six players hit that green off the tee - Woods used driver into the wind on the 18th, hitting it so well that he had only a 7-iron into the green. He hit a punch shot to just over 6 feet for a final birdie.

"It was just a low, bullet fade right around the corner," he said. "It was just the shape of the shot, because it was different than most of the 3-woods I played all day. I didn't hold a single 3-wood. I was turning them over. Now, the shape of the driver in the complete opposite direction ... and I hadn't hit a driver since the fifth hole."

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Woods looks to stay in playoffs, earn Ryder pick this week at Barclays

The FedEx Cup has never caught on to the extent that the Tour hoped it would, and those ads in which players drone on about its significance are tedious and a classic oversell.

Still, Commissioner Tim Finchem had to do something when his big stars were routinely skipping the Tour Championship, and the end of the season was so woefully lacking in definition.

Thus, the FedEx Cup, now in its fourth year.

The PGA Championship calls itself "Glory's Last Shot," but that slogan is almost as apt for the FedEx, which tries to wrap a tidy bow around the year in golf. Sometimes it even succeeds.

Then again, you could change the marketing to, The FedEx Cup: It's Big-Market Golf.

This week's Barclays at New Jersey's Ridgewood Country Club begins a four-week bake-off in New York (across the Hudson from Ridgewood, but close enough), Boston, Chicago and Atlanta.

A field of 125 players at the Barclays will be pared down to 100 (Deutsche Bank), which will become 70 (BMW), which will finally become 30 for the Tour Championship, Sept. 23-26.

But we may not have to wait that long to answer some of the game's burning questions; tournaments this week may bring clarity to a season that's been hard to reconcile.

Is Tiger finished? Will his long-awaited divorce, announced this week, free his mind and lower his scores? What's with Phil? Does the U.S. Ryder Cup team have a prayer of winning in Wales?

And should we be celebrating the emergence of all of the game's 20-somethings, or just the foreign-born ones?

In Scotland, European captain Colin Montgomerie will keep a keen eye on the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, as it's the last event for Euro hopefuls to qualify on points.

Then again, he'll have to monitor the Barclays, too, because that field will include as yet unqualified European stars Paul Casey, Luke Donald, Padraig Harrington and Justin Rose.

Although he has an enviable embarrassment of riches, Monty in some ways has a tougher task than U.S. captain Corey Pavin. (This assumes it's harder to leave players off a team when said players are performing well, like, for example, the Molinari brothers.)

As usual, though, most American fans will focus squarely on Woods, who needs to play well at the Barclays not just because it's been almost a year since he won on Tour (at the '09 BMW), but because if he turns in yet another middling showing in a season full of them he won't qualify for the rest of the playoffs.

He's a lowly 112th in FedEx Cup points, which means he will have to move up at least 12 spots this week. At least he won't have third-seeded Jim Furyk to beat. Furyk was disqualified for missing his pro-am time Wednesday morning.

There's also the matter of Woods needing a captain's pick from U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin, a predicament no one expected to see Woods in for at least another six to eight years.

Phil Mickelson would dearly love to win a tournament whose title sponsor is one of his biggest corporate supporters.

And the Rookie of the Year title is still up for grabs, as is the Player of the Year honor, for that matter.

It's been a trying summer for the golf course, which had to weather the second hottest July on record in New Jersey. A 1929 A.W. Tillinghast design, Ridgewood got raves when it hosted the '08 Barclays. (The '09 event was held at less widely praised Liberty National.) The mostly poa annua greens slope severely, mostly from back to front, and are guarded by deep bunkers.

Mickelson, who played 18 holes at Ridgewood with select Barclays company the week of the PGA, tied for 19th place there in 2008. Given that he tied for 52nd last year, he is likely happy to be back.

Victories in one or more of the FedEx playoff events by any of the five players with two wins on Tour this year (Ernie Els, Furyk, Justin Rose, Steve Stricker, Hunter Mahan) would seem to be good enough to merit election as Player of the Year.

Finchem's four-headed FedEx monster has given us a shining moment or two (Camilo Villegas in 2008 comes to mind), and a bit of narrative to take us into the offseason. Let's hope for more of the same this year. Last year's FedEx result, Tiger winning the $10 million first prize the same day Phil won the Tour Championship, seems like such a long time ago.

Here at home, on the banks of the Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., new gem Chambers Bay (2015 U.S. Open) will get its first significant test over five days of match play at the U.S. Amateur.

The sun shines all over the Seattle area, where not only will Chambers be the first muni to host the Amateur, the Champions Tour will drop in for the Boeing Classic at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge.

Nationwide Tour strivers, who will play in the Knoxville News Sentinel Open at Fox Den C.C., are at that point in the season where they have to resist the urge to check the money list hourly. (Not that making the PGA Tour provides a buffer against the game's cruelties. Kevin Johnson, who won in Knoxville last year, has made just four cuts and $63K in 22 starts on Tour in '10.)

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Questions for... Martin Kaymer

As the FedEx Cup playoffs begin outside New York City at the Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey, Martin Kaymer is in Manhattan to talk with the media, shop for clothes and enjoy the city's restaurants and nightlife. The PGA Championship winner was not eligible for the FedEx Cup Playoffs because he is not a member of the PGA Tour. On Tuesday afternoon after ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ, the 25-year old native of Dusseldorf, Germany, dropped by the SI offices with his girlfriend, Allison Michelleti, and his agent, Johan Elliott.

What have you been doing since the PGA Championship?
Not a lot to be honest. I haven't hit a golf ball since Sunday at the PGA. I was just trying to realize what happened. I was in Jamaica last week just relaxing. I was in the pool and on the beach.

Have you swung a club?
Yes. I stand in front of the mirror and make swings. I also need to watch the Golf Channel. I'm addicted to that.

After finishing seventh at the British Open and eighth at the U.S. Open, you must have felt pretty confident going into Whistling Straits?
Right away I felt very comfortable on the golf course. It didn't play like a links course but it looked like one. It has a very European style that I really enjoyed. My short game was really good that week. I could read the greens very well. Sometimes you go on a golf course and you feel very comfortable on the greens.

Before you won the PGA Championship, most American golf fans associated golf in Germany with Bernhard Langer, a two-time Masters champion and presently the top-ranked player on the Champions Tour. Did the two of you have a conversation after the PGA?
He sent me a text message saying congratulations and that hopefully that the PGA is just one of many majors that I will win in my career. I only see him twice a year at the Masters and the BMW International in Germany. He lives in Florida and I live in Germany.

You seemed to have brought some of Langer's reserve and calmness to your golf game.
I'm German. I'm a pretty conservative guy. I learned very early that it doesn't help your game when you're mad. It just hurts you. If you're upset about the golf shot the next two or three holes it doesn't help. I learned this lesson very earlier from my parents who wouldn't allow my brother and I to break any clubs. To this day I have never broken a club, not even accidentally.

You had a very emotional win at the BMW International in 2008. Your mother was battling cancer and she died shortly after the tournament ended. Was that your biggest win until the PGA?
That was obviously a huge win for me. But field-wise the tournament that I won at Loch Lomond last year at the Scottish Open was my biggest win [before the PGA Championship]. It was a world-class field that included a lot of good American players.

What's next for you now that you're over the mountain of winning a major.
I hope that over the next few years that I will play as consistently as I did the last couple of years. One of my biggest goals I have is to win the British Open at St. Andrews. That would be pretty cool. When I turned pro in 2005 my goal was to win a major and play in the Ryder Cup and to be the No. 1 player in Europe. I can accomplish all three of those things this year.

I know that you plan to play more in the States next year, but how important is it for you to support the European Tour?
It's very important that the European Tour and PGA Tour help each other out. Everybody struggles a little bit in these times of financial crisis. If the European Tour players can help out the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour help us out a little bit then I think both tours will be fine.

What do you think you will get out of your game from playing in the States?
I can see that when I play in America, especially in Florida, it's different grass than what I'm accustomed to playing in Europe. So I think I can improve my results over here by playing more tournaments, especially on the different grasses, where you learn different kinds of golf shots. I think I can also learn a lot as a person from my playing on the PGA Tour.

In Florida you will be playing on Bermuda grass. Talk about the differences from that grass and the bent grass you play in Europe.
When the European Tour goes to Spain we play on the Bermuda, but it's not like in Florida. In Europe we don't really play with grain. On the Bermuda greens you have to read the grain sometimes more than you do the break. When you have a putt that's left-to-right, the Bermuda grass might be growing in the opposite direction.

At the end of last season you broke your foot in a go-cart accident. Did you learn a lesson from that experience and are you riding the go-carts less now?
After my surgery I couldn't play golf. And I think four or five months later I was back on the go-cart. But I drove like a little girl.

Does this mean you take it easy on the Autobahn?
I'm German so I like fast cars. I'm sponsored by BMW so I drive a 2010 M3. It's a manual with a Techtronic on the steering wheel with 330 horsepower. It can get up to 170-180 miles per hour in a matter of seconds.

German golf fans could only see the PGA Championship on Sky TV, a pay network. What's the state of golf in the country?
We used to have four European Tour events in Germany, but this year we only had one, the BMW in Munich. It will be huge for us if we were to get the Ryder Cup in 2018. But obviously soccer is the biggest sport that we have.

Does it bother you that many people will remember your PGA Championship more for the two-stroke penalty that was assessed to Dustin Johnson on the 72d hole than the fact that you won the tournament on a tough scoring day in a three-hole playoff?
It was like 1999 when Paul Lawrie won the British Open after Jean Van de Velde made the mistakes on the last hole. I think when a lot of people talk about that British Open they talk about Van de Velde. I have no influence on this kind of thinking. Obviously everybody wished that Dustin wouldn't have made the mistake. He deserved to be in the playoff. It was tough for me and Bubba [Watson] to see that. You never want to see a colleague penalized like this. But for me at the end of the day it didn't matter to me if I played one or two golfers.

It was probably overlooked in the aftermath of Dustin's fiasco, but you had to make a 15-footer for par on the 72nd hole to just get in the playoff.
It took my caddie and I a long time to read that putt. I had made that putt many times in the practice rounds. Because we knew that the pin was going to be there one day. We had putted it from many angles. It was a right-to-left downhill putt that was very fast. But it was difficult to see because it was in the shadow. For 17 holes all the greens had been in the sun until the last hole. I hit a pure stroke and I just waited to hear the roar of the crowd. It was a pretty cool feeling.

On the last playoff hole with Bubba you both are in the right rough. What were you thinking as you got to your ball?
I was very surprised when I saw Bubba pulling out a long club because I had 215 yards to the flag and he was about 15 to 20 yards behind me. So he had about 230 yards over that ditch. I was expecting him to hit it on that right side and if he got a flyer it would roll on the green. I was never expecting him to go for the flag. So once he hit it in the water I think it would have been stupid for me to go for it. I would have needed some luck to get over the water and I didn't want to rely on that. I knew that the best that he could do was a five and by laying up I knew I could give myself a chance to make a par and make no worse than a five.

What do you know about Celtic Manor in Wales, the site of the Ryder Cup in October?
It's a very long golf course. It's not going to be the best weather in Wales. The golf course sits down in a little valley. But it's built for the Ryder Cup.

Do you believe in all the hype about the European team being the favorite?
We have a good team but it's match play. When we play stroke play, you take the players that we have this year and the players that the Americans have and take the average score, I think we would score better. But it's not all about that.

This will be your first Ryder Cup as player but two years ago Nick Faldo let you tag along with the team at Valhalla because he knew you would soon be a star on the European side.
I went to all the team meetings and dinners and functions. But I didn't feel like I belonged there. Now it's my time. It's very exciting for me and my family.

When are you playing next?
I'm playing in Holland at the KLM Open in September. Then I'll go practice in Phoenix for a couple of weeks before the Ryder Cup. I had been playing a lot of golf for the last few months coming into the PGA. Too much. I wanted to make the Ryder Cup so bad.

When do you practice?
I like to go out to the range early in the morning when the sun comes up. You can hear the birds and no one else is there. This is very relaxing for me.

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Hanson wins Czech Open after 3-way playoff

CELADNA, Czech Republic (AP) — Peter Hanson won the Czech Open after a three-way playoff Sunday with Gary Boyd and Peter Lawrie, keeping his Ryder Cup hopes alive.

The Swede won the European Tour event with an 18-foot birdie on the second extra hole - the par-4 18th.

Hanson needed a victory to have a chance of making Colin Montgomerie's European team for the Ryder Cup.

"Today was really hard," Hanson said. "I was lucky in the end, after I got off to a bad start. It feels fantastic."

Hanson led by four strokes overnight, but had a disastrous front nine that included three straight bogeys. But birdies on fifth, 10th and 16th kept him in contention and he managed a 2-over 74 to finish at 10-under 278 at the Prosper Golf Resort.

"I put myself in a great position yesterday and I'm feeling absolutely great that I managed to do it," Hanson said.

Irishman Lawrie, who started eight shots behind Hanson, had an eagle on the 10th and finished with a 66, while English rookie Boyd had a 68.

Englishman Simon Dyson - another Ryder Cup hopeful who needed a win to qualify - shot a 70 and dropped from second overnight into a share of fifth.

Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain, who co-designed the 7,155-yard course at the northeastern Czech town, tied for seventh after a 73.

Jimenez was eighth in the standings before Celadna and close to automatically making the Ryder Cup.

Jimenez won't be playing next week at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, Scotland, the final event in the race for the nine automatic Europe Ryder Cup spots.

"It means so much to get in the top nine," Hanson said. "It turned out in the end that both me, Miguel and Simon Dyson, who had so much to play for, didn't play our best in the end. But I managed to scrape it round the back nine and make that birdie on 16 to get into the playoff."

Sweden's Oskar Henningsson won in Celadna in 2009, the European Tour's first year in the Czech Republic since 1997.

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