Sun, 10/31/2010 - 20:49 by harsheeb
Selangor -- Ben Crane had a late eagle and a final-hole birdie Sunday in winning the PGA Tour-sanctioned Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia by one stroke.
Crane finished with a 2-under-par 69 Sunday and had a tournament total of 18-under 266, one stroke better than Brian Davis. Crane won $1 million but neither the winnings nor the title will be counted on official PGA totals.
Davis shot 5-under 66 in the final round and finished second at 17 under. Luke Donald (67 Sunday) and Martin Laird (66) tied for third.
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Sat, 10/30/2010 - 22:12 by harsheeb
Selangor -- Ben Crane birdied three of his last four holes Saturday and owns the lead after three rounds of the PGA Tour-sanctioned Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia.
Crane shot 5-under-par 66 in the third round and is at 16-under 197 with 18 holes to play. Carl Pettersson overcame a pair of early third-round bogeys and matched Crane's 66 and is alone in second at 14-under.
Five golfers, including Mardan Marat, who had a 65 Saturday, are tied for third four strokes behind Crane.
Pariya Junhasavasdikul, who shared the second-round lead with Crane, had an even-par 71 Saturday and fell back into a five-player tie for eighth at 11-under.
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Fri, 10/29/2010 - 21:34 by harsheeb
Selangor -- Pariya Junhasavasdikul had a late charge Friday and is tied with Ben Crane for first halfway through the PGA Tour-sanctioned Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia.
Junhasavasdikul had five birdies in his last seven holes and shot 6-under 65 and Crane had a bogey-free 7-under 64, putting them at 11-under 131 after 36 holes.
First-round leader Ricky Barnes shot 69 and is tied with Ryan Moore (68) for third at 10-under 132. Carl Pettersson (68) is in fifth at 9-under.
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Thu, 10/28/2010 - 21:58 by harsheeb
Kuala Lumpur-- Ricky Barnes had a bogey-free 8-under-par 63 Thursday and is the leader after the first round of the PGA Tour's Asia Pacific Classic Malaysia tournament.
Barnes had four birdies in his first six holes in grabbing the lead. He has a 1-stroke lead over Ryan Moore, whose 7-under 64 was also bogey-free. Brian Davis, Carl Pettersson and Charlie Wi are tied for third at 6-under. Four more golfers are at 5-under.
Barnes opened with two pars but then birdied Nos. 3 and 4. After a par at the fifth hole, he had back back-to-back birdies at 6 and 7. On the second nine, Barnes had birdies on each of the four odd-numbered holes.
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Sun, 10/24/2010 - 22:10 by harsheeb
Kuala Lumpur-- Jimin Kang had birdies on three of her last four holes Sunday and claimed a come-from-behind victory at the LPGA Malaysia golf tournament.
Kang started the third round three strokes off the lead but had a 6-under-par 65 Sunday and won by a stroke. It was her second LPGA title but first in nearly 5 1/2 years.
She had a 54-hole total of 9-under 204, just ahead of Juli Inkster's 8-under 203. Inkster shot 4-under 67, including an 18th hole bogey, in the final round. Second-round co-leader Maria Hjorth (71 Sunday) tied Mika Miyazato (69), who was a first-round co-leader, for third.
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Sat, 10/23/2010 - 21:18 by harsheeb
Kuala Lumpur-- Maria Hjorth, whose Saturday round featured an eagle, pulled into a tie with Lee Jee-young for the lead after two rounds of the LPGA Malaysia golf tournament.
Hjorth had four bogeys in a five-hole span Saturday en route to a 3-under-par 68. Lee had a second-round of 1-under 70. They are tied for the lead at 6-under 136 after 36 holes of the 54-hole event.
Kim Song-hee also shot 68 Saturday and is alone in third at 5-under.
First-round co-leader Mika Miyazato (72 Saturday) is tied with Natalie Gulbis (68) and Juli Inkster (67) for fourth, two strokes off the lead.
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Sun, 10/03/2010 - 20:03 by harsheeb
Bangkok -- Guillermo Garcia-Lopez claimed his second ATP title with a three-set victory Sunday over Jarkko Nieminen at the Thailand Open tennis tournament.
Garcia-Lopez advanced to the championship match with a three-set win over world No. 1 Rafael Nadal in the semifinals capping a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 win by finishing off his fourth match point opportunity.
The final game had Nieminen serving but Garcia-Lopez had the advantage for much of the 16-point game. Garcia-Lopez got to his fourth match point with a well-executed drop shot and finished off the win with a forehand winner that dropped Nieminen to 1-9 in ATP championship matches.
It was the second career tournament win for Garcia-Lopez, whose other title was in May 2009 in Austria.
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Sun, 10/03/2010 - 06:24 by harsheeb
Kuala Lumpur -- Mikhail Youzhny and Andrey Golubev each won tight matches Saturday and advanced to the title match of the Malaysian Open.
The fourth-seeded Youzhny took out Igor Andreev 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 while Golubev, seeded eighth, ousted fifth-seeded David Ferrer 7-5, 7-6 (7-4).
Sunday's championship match will be the fourth meeting between Youzhny and Golubev. All of the previous matches have been won by Youzhny.
Youzhny will be the third Top 11 player faced by Golubev this week. He beat world No. 5 Robin Soderling in the second round before topping No. 11 Ferrer. Youzhny is ranked No. 9 this week.
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Sat, 10/02/2010 - 00:18 by harsheeb
Kuala Lumpur -- Andrey Golubev knocked off top-seeded Robin Soderling in straight sets Friday during quarterfinal play at the Malaysian Open tennis tournament.
Golubev, seeded eighth, led from the outset in taking a 6-3, 6-2 win over Soderling, ranked fifth in the world. Golubev saved all four break-point chances he faced and was able to finish off four of the eight he forced on Soderling.
Golubev lost only 15 points in his eight service games in finishing off the match in 72 minutes.
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Thu, 09/30/2010 - 20:58 by harsheeb
Kuala Lumpur -- No. 1-seed Robin Soderling dropped just one game Thursday in grabbing a quarterfinal slot at the Malaysian Open tennis tournament.
Soderling rolled over Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-0, 6-1 in 63 minutes. He set the stage for the match by winning 75 percent of the points in the first set. He did face two break-point situations in the second set but saved both.
Eighth-seeded Andrey Golubev earned the quarterfinal spot opposite Soderling with a 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) win over Kevin Anderson. Golubev won only six more points (71-65) in the match but had a pair of first-set breaks to take the advantage.
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Wed, 09/29/2010 - 21:06 by harsheeb
Kuala Lumpur -- Igor Andreev ousted No. 2-seeded Nikolay Davydenko in three sets Wednesday at the Malaysian Open tennis tournament.
Andreev capped Wednesday's play with a 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 6-3 decision over Davydenko. Andreev rallied from a 1-5 deficit in the first-set tie-breaker and lost only six points in five games serving in the third set of the second-round match.
Milos Raonic also pulled off a second-round upset, stopping Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-7 (8-10), 7-6 (11-9), 6-3. Raonic lost seven points -- five in one game -- in his four third-set service games.
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Wed, 09/29/2010 - 07:59 by harsheeb
KualaLumpur -- A Malaysian law intended to deal with animal traffickers and poachers may be too late to save some of the country's endangered species, wildlife activists say.
After years of wildlife being decimated by human activities, Malaysia finally responded with a wildlife conservation law called "overdue," Inter Press Service reported Tuesday.
Conservationists, concerned that Sumatran rhinos, orangutans, Malayan tigers and clouded leopards a losing their fight for survival, will be watching how the new law is implemented.
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