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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2014
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PGA
Noh refuses to wilt, takes first PGA Tour triumph
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ASSOCIATED TICKET Jeff Overton reacts during the final round of the Zurich Classic golf tournament at TPC Louisiana in Avondale, La., on Sunday.
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AVONDALE, La. — Seung-Yul Noh overcame windy conditions and his nerves, shooting a 1-under 71 on Sunday to win the Zurich Classic by two shots for his first PGA Tour victory.
While Noh, the leader through three rounds, never fell out of first, he did make his first three bogeys of the tournament and briefly fell into a tie with Keegan Bradley, the 2011 PGA Championship winner who had the gallery behind him.
But Bradley did himself in with a bogey on the fifth hole and a triple bogey on the sixth while Noh remained steady enough to hold off remaining challengers.
The 22-year-old South Korean player, the youngest winner this season, wore yellow and black ribbons on his hat to honor the more than 300 dead or missing in a ferry accident in waters off his home country.
After taking the third-round lead and becoming the first to play 54 holes at TPC Louisiana without a bogey, he said he hoped he could string together one more bogey-free round and come through with a victory to lift the spirits of his nation.
He accomplished the second part, and he'll take it. His best finish in 77 previous PGA Tour starts was a tie for fourth at the 2012 AT&T National.
The seventh first-time PGA Tour winner in the last 10 years in the event, Noh finished at 19-under 269 and earned $1,224,000.
Andrew Svoboda and Robert Streb tied for second. Svoboda had a 69 and Streb shot 70.
Jeff Overton, who briefly pulled within a stroke of Noh on the back nine, had a 70 to finish fourth at 16 under.
Bradley would up with a 75 to tie for eighth at 13 under.
On Saturday, Bradley worked his way into the final group, two stroked behind Noh, with a 65.
Overton bogeyed 11 when he hit his drive into a bunker left of the fairway and his second shot over the fairway and right of the cart path. He never got closer than two strokes again.
Robert Garrigus, who narrowly made the cut Friday, had the best score Sunday with a 64. The round included a 374-yard drive with a tail wind on 18, which he birdied to finish at 14 under.
MLB
Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Tommy Milone (57) heads to the dugout after being pulled in the seventh inning against the Houston Astros on Sunday in Houston.
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McHugh strong in Astros 5-1 win against Athletics
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HOUSTON — Collin McHugh allowed two hits over eight 2-3 stellar innings as the Houston Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 5-1 on Sunday.
McHugh (2-0) followed up his first outing where he struck out 12 and allowed three hits in six 2-3 innings at Seattle on Tuesday with another dominant performance.
He struck out seven and walked three, allowing one run in the longest outing of his career. His previous longest outing had been seven innings on Aug. 23, 2012 against Colorado when he was a member of the New York Mets.
After the first, McHugh retired 23 of the next 24 batters, including 19 straight before Brandon Moss was hit by a pitch with two outs in the ninth. Moss stole second and came around to score on Alberto Callaspo's single — McHugh's first run allowed in 15 1-3 innings this season.
The right-hander, who Houston claimed off waivers from Colorado during the offseason, got out of trouble in the first after loading the bases with two outs with a walk to Callaspo by getting Josh Reddick to pop out to end the inning.
Raul Valdes got the final out to complete the two hitter.
Jed Lowrie, who singled in the first inning, drew a walk in the third for McHugh's lone base runner until the ninth.
Jose Altuve had two hits, including a two-run home run in the seventh, and Jonathan Villar also had two hits, including a two-run triple.
Dexter Fowler gave the Astros a 1-0 lead in the third with a groundout scoring Villar, who had doubled with one out and reached third on an Altuve single.
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