Goydos Wins 3M Championship on First Playoff Hole
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SECTION B VISIT SAMOA NEWS ONLINE @ SAMOANEWS.COM MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 2017 CLASSIFIEDS • CARTOONS • ALOHA BRIEFS & MORE ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ Goydos wins 3M Championship on C M Y K first playoff hole BLAINE, Minn. (AP) 78-player field recorded 1,105 — Paul Goydos had just birdies, beating the old tourna- enough club to win the 3M ment record by one. Early on Championship. the back nine, the tournament On the first hole of Sun- had the appearance of a two- Paul Goydos, left, shakes hands with Gene Sauers after both finished the 18th hole tied for the day’s playoff with Gene Sauers, man race as Goydos and Sauers lead, forcing an overtime hole 18, during the championship round of the 3M Championship golf Goydos was 177 yards away on led by three shots. tournament on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, in Blaine, Minn. (AP Photo/John Autey) the par-5 18th hole. Knowing Sauers put his second shot into the lake fronting the green, Goydos just had to get the ball on the putting surface. Goydos, who shot a tourna- ment-record 60 Saturday, would normally hit a 5-iron, but with a downhill lie and knowing it was safe behind the green, he pulled out his 4-iron and hit it thin. “I thought it’d carry by more than it did, that may have been because of the heavier air,” he said. “The 4-iron was the right club to hit. It just didn’t quite catch.” The ball cleared the hazard by less than a yard and bounced to the back of the green. Two putts later, Goydos was a PGA Champions Tour winner for the first time this year and fifth time overall. It is his third top-10 in 16 events this season. “They’re all special, but the last one always seems to be the most special,” said Goydos, who made his tour debut at this event in 2014. Looking at 191 yards to the front of the green and about seven more to the hole, Sauers, who hit a tour-record 53 of 54 greens in regulation, went with a familiar club. “Hit 5-iron C M previous in regulation and so it Y K was plenty of club,” he said. “I just kind of came out of it a little bit.” It is the second playoff Sauers lost this year. He’s 0-4 in his career. Kevin Sutherland shot 64 to tie for third with Steve Stricker (66) and Brandt Jobe (67), two shots back. Scott Verplank was three back after a 66. Wes Short, Jr. shot a 10-under 62, and was among a quartet of golfers fin- ishing four shots back. That group included Kenny Perry, a co-leader with Goydos and Sauers entering the day. He shot 70. Eleven players were within three shots beginning the round and 16 within four on a course known for its low scores thanks to wide fairways and soft, but fast, greens. In three rounds, the Page B2 samoa news, Monday, August 7, 2017 Turner, Dodgers steamroll Mets 8-0 for season sweep NEW YORK (AP) — Justin curveball and grounded the next Turner’s caught stealing turned pitch up the middle for a 2-0 into a two-out stolen base when lead, and Barnes doubled down a video review determined he the left-field line. reached around Amed Rosario Kike Hernandez singled, in the Pago Plaza - across from ASPA office. to evade the rookie shortstop’s but d’Arnaud blocked a sliding tag, sparking a three-run first Turner as he took the throw inning that started the record- from center fielder Michael COME AND HAVE YOUR HAIR setting Los Angeles Dodgers Conforto and tagged the runner. to an 8-0 rout of the Mets on Runners are 9 for 9 on steal DONE BY PROFESSIONAL Sunday night and their first attempts on Matz this year season sweep of New York. and 32 for 38 in his big league HAIR STYLISTS: Hyun-Jin Ryu (4-6), Tony career. Turner doubled his Cingrani and Kenley Jansen season stolen base total to four, combined on a one-hitter. New and 10 of his 13 homers have York’s only baserunners were come off left-handers. Veronica & Mali on Travis d’Arnaud’s third- LEFT, TOO Call for an appointment or stop by and see us!! inning single and Brandon RHP Yu Darvish played Nimmo’s ninth-inning walk. catch left-handed, two days “Veronica is also a trained barber” Los Angeles crushed the after pitching seven shutout Mets like refuse in a trash com- innings to win his Dodgers’ Tuesday - Saturday 9am to 4pm pactor, outscoring them 57-15 debut. 633-0774 Mondays (Appointments Only) over seven games and outhom- “He’s got a three-pitch mix, ering them 25-11. and he can really do some things Rookie Cody Bellinger hit with the baseball left-handed,” his 32nd homer, a 447-foot, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts two-run drive in the eighth. said. Turner, who like Bellinger FAN CLUB homered for the second straight Hernandez wore the Yoenis day, raised his NL-leading bat- Cespedes No. 52 chain, given to ting average to .349. fans as a promotion Saturday. Ryu extended his scoreless Hernandez said he got it from streak to 15 innings, striking out family who attended the game. eight over seven innings as Los TRAINER’S ROOM Angeles opened a season-high, Dodgers: LHP Clayton Ker- 15½-game NL West lead. Cin- shaw, who hasn’t pitched since grani and Jansen each pitched injuring his back on July 23, will an inning. rejoin the Dodgers on Monday Logan Forsythe hit a two- night in Phoenix. ... C Yasmani run single in the first and came Grandal was out of the starting home on Austin Barnes’ double. lineup, a day after leaving in the Turner made it 5-0 in the third ninth inning due to a sore back. with a two-run, opposite-field “I expect him to be ready drive to right-center off Steven to start on Tuesday,” Roberts Matz (2-5). Bellinger homered said. ... LHP Alex Wood (13-1) against Hansel Robles. threw a bullpen session and Los Angeles has won four adjusted his mechanics, three straight, 13 of 14 and is 24-3 days after feeling fatigue after since July 4, losing three games beating Atlanta. He is to start to Atlanta. The Dodgers’ 79-32 Wednesday. ... 1B Adrian Gon- tvLos Angeles Dodgers’ Corey Seager (5) greets Justin Turner (10) after scoring on Turner’s third record puts them on pace for zalez, who hasn’t played for the inning two-run home run in a baseball game against the New York Mets, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, in 115 wins, and they are just the Dodgers since June 11 because New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) fourth big league team to win 43 of lumbar disk herniation, went or more over a 50-game stretch 2 for 5 with two RBIs in the first — the first since the 1912 New two games of a rehab assign- York Giants, according to the ment at Triple-A Oklahoma Elias Sports Bureau. The others City. were the 1906 Chicago Cubs Mets: RF-1B Jay Bruce and 1884 St. Louis Maroons of missed his second straight the Union Association. games with a sore neck. ... Neil New York has lost nine Walker, 3 for 27 since returning straight to the Dodgers and from a partially torn left ham- seven of eight overall. At 49-60, string on July 28, fouled out the Mets are 11 games under when he pinch hit in the sixth. .500 for the first time since July ... RHP Matt Harvey (right 2014. shoulder stress injury) pitched Matz was removed after a bullpen session and is to 102 pitches and 5 1/3 innings, throw batting practice Tuesday. allowing five runs and six hits. ... RHP Robert Gsellman, on He is 0-4 with an 11.03 ERA in the DL since late June with a his last six starts. strained left hamstring, allowed Corey Seager singled with six runs — three earned — one out in the first, Turner hit and seven hits in 2 2/3 innings into a forceout and then stole for Double-A Binghamton at second. Umpire Will Little Harrisburg. called him out, but replays UP NEXT showed Turner’s right arm Dodgers: RHP Kenta Maeda reached around Rosario’s tag, (10-4) starts Tuesday’s series and the call was reversed. opener at Arizona. Bellinger walked and Matz Mets: RHP Chris Flexen failed to check the runners as (0-1) pitches Tuesday against the Dodgers pulled off a double visiting Texas in his third big Ryan Lochte prepares to start in a preliminary of the men’s 100-meter backstroke at the U.S. Open steal. Forsythe stayed with a league start. swim meet in East Meadow, N.Y., Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. (Richard T. Slattery/Newsday via AP) samoa news, Monday, August 7, 2017 Page B3 Samardzija, Giants beat Dia- mondbacks 6-3 to take series SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — four of its last seven. Diamondbacks infielder The Arizona Diamondbacks are “It’s a part of the game,” Brandon Drury was hit in the heading home still holding the Diamondbacks outfielder David head by a pitch from Cory second NL wild-card spot in Peralta said. “We just have to Gearrin while pinch-hitting in spite of a second series loss to keep working, just have to keep the seventh. Drury fell back- the last-place Giants this season.