Round up: Power finish; EPD Tour; Lingmerth bests Rose in The Memorial
Seamus Power
Web.com Tour — West Waterford's Seamus Power closed with a four under 68 to share 14th in the Greater Dallas Open.
Power finish on 15 under par at The Lakes at Castle Hills in Lewisville, Texas, eight behind Tyler Aldridge (68).
Power was 87th in the money list starting the week but earned $8,250 to move 13 places to 74th in "The 25" who will win PGA Tour cards for 2015-6.
EPD Tour - O'Donovan shines
Reeve Whitson (73) slipped back but Lucan's Richard O'Donovan fired a six under 65 to join the Co Down man in a share of 15th in the St Pölten Pro Golf Tour 2015 in Austria.
The former amateur internationals are tied 15th on three under, nine shots behind Dutchman Rainer Saxton who shot a second successive 65 to lead by two strokes on 12 under.
Dubliner Cian Curley (70) and Headfort's Rory McNamara (67) made the cut with a shot to spare on one under.
- T15 WHITSON, Reeve -3 F +2 66 73 139
- T15 O’DONOVAN, Richard -3 F -6 74 65 139
- T35 CURLEY, Cian Par F -1 72 70 142
- T35 MCNAMARA, Rory Par F -4 75 67 142
PGA Tour — Lingmerth outlasts Rose in playoff
Sweden's David Lingmerth outlasted Justin Rose in a three-hole playoff to win his maiden PGA Tour title at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide.
The 27 year old didn't make worse that par over his last 11 holes, closed with a 69 to finish in 15 under par at Muirfield Village.
He was matched by overnight leader Justin Rose, who overcame a socket from a bunker on the 18th hole in regulation before hitting a 55-yard pitch out of deep rough to three feet to save par for an even-par 72 to force the playoff.
On the 18th in the playoff, Rose holed a 20-footer for par but Lingmerth calmly sank a 10-foot putt to stay alive and got ip and down from a bunker on the 18th at the second extra hole to keep things going.
It all ended on the 10th hole where Rose drove into deep rough, hit an attempted cut with a fairway metal into the gallery, chipped 18 feet by the hole and missed his par putt as Lingmerth two-putted from 45 feet for the win.
"I can't believe it," the 27-year-old Swede told TV reporter Peter Kostis. "I'm so happy right now I don't know where to go."
As AP's Dough Ferguson wrote:
"He'll be going to the Masters next year for the first time -- but not the U.S. Open in two weeks. Lingmerth moves to No. 71 in the world and still has to qualify Monday. It was the longest playoff in 40 years of the Memorial, and it could have ended much earlier -- or been avoided -- if not for so many clutch moments."
Tiger Woods played as a single in the first match out and shot a 74 to finish 71st and last on 14 over par, eight shots worse that the players in second last.
