Matsuyama triumphs in Shanghai
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JAPAN’S Hideki Matsuyama has set his sights on winning his first major after cruising to his maiden World Golf Championship title with a dominant seven-shot victory at the US$9.5-million WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai yesterday.
Matsuyama, who won the Japan Open earlier this month, began the day with a three-shot cushion and carded a 6-under-par 66 in the final round to finish on 23-under overall.
“Winning today, I feel has got me closer to being able to compete a lot better in the major tournaments,” said the 24-year-old, the first Asian to win an individual WGC title.
“My next goal is to win a major and I’m going to do all I can to prepare well for that.”
The youngest player to win the HSBC Champions, which is co-sanctioned by all the major tours, Matsuyama is also the first Japanese to win a European Tour event since Isao Aoki in 1983.
British Open champion Henrik Stenson hit a final-round 65 to share second place with American Daniel Berger (69), good enough to take the Swede past US Masters champion Danny Willett of England at the top of the European Tour’s Race to Dubai standings.
World No. 3 Rory McIlroy remains third in the standings behind Willett after shooting a final-round 66 to finish in a share of fourth with American Bill Haas (69) on 15-under.
Willett finished a disappointing week at the Sheshan International Golf Club with a 75 to end at 14-over.
Italy’s former champion Francesco Molinari (70) shared sixth on 14-under with England’s Ross Fisher (68) and American Rickie Fowler (68).
In Kuala Lumpur, China’s Feng Shanshan won her second Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia title in three years yesterday.
Feng, who won in 2014, had stormed into the lead with a 7-under 64 in a rain-interrupted third round that forced her and several others to wait until early yesterday to finish up.
She then started the final round with a bogey on the first hole but regained her footing to finish at 17-under for a three-stroke win over Norway’s Suzann Pettersen.
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