MIRABEL, Quebec — Brittany Lincicome sank a par putt on the 18th hole in a driving rain Sunday to win the Canadian Women’s Open by one stroke.
Lincicome closed with a 2-under-par 70 to edge defending champion Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis, claiming her fifth LPGA Tour victory and second this year. Lewis had the low round of the day with a 67 to finish tied with Wie (72) at 12-under.
Wie, who won the tournament last year in Winnipeg, sank long putts on the 15th and 17th holes to make it close. She needed a birdie on the 18th to force a playoff, but missed the green, took a drop to get relief from a fence, and made par.
Americans took the top five places, with Cristie Kerr (71) and Angela Stanford (72) finishing at 11-under.
• Mark Calcavecchia won the Boeing Classic in Snoqualmie, Wash., for his first Champions Tour title, beating Russ Cochran with a two-putt birdie on the first playoff hole.
Calcavecchia and Cochran shot 7-under 65s to finish at 14-under. Calcavecchia, a 13-time PGA Tour winner making his 31st career start in two seasons on the 50-and-over tour, almost wrapped up the title on the par-5 18th in regulation, but his lengthy eagle putt came up a few inches short.
Chip Beck (68) birdied four of the final five holes to finish third at 9-under. Jeff Sluman (71) was fourth at 8-under.
• Kelly Kraft took the lead when Patrick Cantlay bogeyed the 34th hole, then hung on for a 2-up victory in the 36-hole U.S. Amateur final in Erin Hills, Wis.
Kraft is an accomplished college player who just finished his senior season at SMU while Cantlay, a star at UCLA, is the world’s No. 1-ranked amateur and is considered a rising star with a promising future in the professional ranks.
• Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn captured the Johnnie Walker Championship in Gleneagles, Scotland, winning a five-man playoff on the fifth extra hole.
It was the European Tour’s first five-way playoff in 19 years. Bjorn, who shot a final-round 69, birdied the par-5 18th to defeat South Africa’s George Coetzee (67) for his second victory on the tour in 2011.
Power wins IndyCar race
SONOMA, Calif. — Pole-sitter Will Power held off a furious charge from teammate Helio Castroneves over the final seven laps following a late restart to become the first two-time winner at the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma with a dominating performance.
Power led 71 of the 75 laps to earn his fifth victory of the year, one shy of the IndyCar single-season record. It’s also Power’s second straight win at Infineon Speedway, the same track where his career almost ended in 2009 following a horrific crash.
• Defending Formula One champion Sebastian Vettel won the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa to strengthen his overall lead with seven races remaining.
Vettel started from the pole position to win his seventh race of the season and 17th of his career. The German led Red Bull to a 1-2 finish, with Mark Webber finishing close behind.
Footnotes.
Acclamation led all the way to win the $1 million Pacific Classic by a head at Del Mar (Calif.), holding off Twirling Candy in a furious stretch drive. Jockey Patrick Valenzuela earned the victory 20 years after he won the first Classic with Best Pal.
• Irish rider Daniel Martin won the ninth stage of the Spanish Vuelta while Dutchman Bauke Mollema took the overall leader’s jersey from Joaquin Rodriguez by just one second.
• The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Alberto Contador‘s Tour de France doping case will be examined during a four-day hearing in November.
The Associated Press
