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310707 Tim Wilkinson eases into top 40 of the Order of Merit of the USPGA's Nationwide Tour with a strong season ending likely to qualify him for the USPGA tour next year. In the latest tour event the $650,000 Cox Classic presented by Chevrolet, Tim finished
finishing in a tie for 23rd shooting 14 under par on the par 71 course 66/68/68/68. His nearly $NZ7000 prizemoney takes him to a total of $NZ 110,000 for 2007 to move him to 38th place. The highlight for Australasians was the performance of 19 year old Jason Day.
Jason an exciting talent who we have hosted at Lochiel. He started the final round three back but nailed three birdies in his first six holes, and knocked in a 25 foot putt for eagle on the par four ninth to go out in 29 and be tied at 21 under with the winner Roland Thatcher with nine holes to play. But he bogied the 11th while Thatcher nailed birdies to extend his lead and Day could only birdie
the last to get back within one shot second.

290707 Bay of Plenty Open. Just the one sub par round on a difficult day. Sean Riordan from Takaka with a 68 has shot himself to a four shot lead at six under par in the only round to be played as storm conditions swept the Whakatane course from 7am this morning. Travis O'Connell (The Grange) had a 73 to finish second ahead of Tauranga' s Kevin Smith. Jared Pender shot an 80 to lose his overnight leaders tag. Kevin Smith, 75, is on even par after 54 holes.
Riordan probably the most "unkown" player to have won a Bay of Plenty title certainly deserved his win with none of his rounds being above par. The greens from Takaka may well become known for the golf type as a result of Sean's efforts. For a not pretty leaderboard after 54 holes. click here

300707 Tom Watson’s three-shot lead in the Senior British Open was in peril and memories of his back-nine collapse at the U.S. Senior Open three weeks ago came flooding back. But that was in 90-degree heat at Whistling Straits. Today he was at cold and blustery Muirfield, where the five-time British Open winner and master of Scottish links courses is at home. On the last hole he fired his tee shot into a fairway bunker and took two to get out of the sand, but he survived a double bogey to win his third Senior British Open in five years. Watson, who also won two Masters titles and one U.S. Open, captured his fifth senior major with an even-par total of 284 to earn $us324,531 for the victory. He finished one ahead of O’Meara (72) and Ginn (75). That win made it five American victories in a row after triumphs by Peter Oakley in 2004 and Loren Roberts 2006. Seven of Watson’s eight triumphs in Britain have been on Scottish links.

290707 James Gill has finished in a tie for 35th in a star studded line up at the Porter Cup Amateur in New York State shooting
plus two 72/68/71/71/282 to tie with the Australian champion Rohan Blizzard and Kevin Tway (USA). They were an amazing 24 shots
behind the winner a Georgia junior 20 year old Brian Harman who was a member of the US Walker Cup winning side two years
ago." Brian Harman didn’t just break the Porter Cup tournament scoring record. He shattered it like a piece of cheap glass run over by a freight train. Make that two freight trains. Harman closed with a 5-under-par 65 Saturday at Niagara Falls Country Club for a 22-under 258 total, seven strokes better than the previous record set by Casey Wittenberg in 2003. He led wire-to-wire and won by nine shots, equaling the tournament record margin first set in 1962 by Ed Tutwiler and matched in 1975 by Jay Sigel. (Taken from Golfweek) .

300707 Jim Furyk has won back to back Canadian Open titles this morning, taking the lead with a hole-in-one on the 209-yard fourth hole and finishing with a 7-under 64 for a one-stroke victory over Vijay Singh (68). Its Furyks 13th PGA tour victory and first since last September in Ancaster.Three strokes behind Singh after the third round, Furyk birdied two of the first three holes – holing a 35-foot putt on the par-5 first and a 9-footer on the par-4 third – before moving ahead at 13 under with his third career ace.While Furyk feasted on the long par 3 fourth all weekend with the ace and three birdies, Singh had three bogeys and a par on the hole, eight strokes more than Furyk, the difference.Ryan Palmer and George McNeill closed with 66s to tie for third at 13 under, and Bob Heintz (67) and Hunter Mahan (67) followed at 12 under. Grant Waite 72/73 and Craig Perks 77/81 missed the cut and John Daly 75 withdrew.

30007 Natalie Gulbis broke through at the Evian Masters, winning her first LPGA title with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff with Jang Jeong of South Korea this morning. Jang and the 24-year-old American finished tied at 4-under 284. Gulbis had a final round 70, and Jang birdied the last hole to finish with a 72. Jang, the 2005 Women’s British Open champion, birdied three of the last four holes to tie Gulbis, but at the first extra hole, she missed the green with her second shot, and Gulbis birdied. Top-ranked Lorena Ochoa (Mexico) had six birdies in her 68, but bogied the last hole and missed the playoff by one shot and tied for third place with Juli Inkster (USA) and Shin Ji-yai of South Korea. Lynnette Brooky, picked up $US8,426, 75-72-75-76--298, ten over in a tie for 57th, the only kiwi in the field.