HAINAN, China – Minjee Lee patiently navigated Jian Lake’s undulating greens again Friday to stretch her lead to six strokes in the Blue Bay LPGA.

Already a two-time winner on the LPGA Tour, the 20-year-old Australian followed her opening 7-under 65 with a bogey-free 67 in windier afternoon conditions off Hainan Clear Water Bay.

“I had a pretty solid round,” Lee said.”I had 3 under the first nine, so I was happy with my start. In the middle, I had a couple loose shots here and there, but I could get up-and-down. Then I finished off with two birdies. Overall, pretty solid round.”

Three days after Typhoon Sarika roared through the South China Sea beach resort, the wind finally kicked up as Lee played the back nine. The wind makes it more difficult to hit targets in valleys and on plateaus on the large, tiered greens.

“I don’t think it’s easy out there,” Lee said. “It’s still windy and the greens are really undulated, so you have to be in the right places. It’s not easy.”

Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., fired a 3-over 75 and was at even par for the tournament. The 19-year-old is playing for the fourth straight week in Asia and plans to make it six in a row with stops in Malaysia and Japan.

Alena Sharp of Hamilton was even par in her round to sit tied for 24th at 1-over par. Marie-Aimee Leblanc of Sherbrooke, Que., carded a round of 2-over and was plus-14.

Germany’s Caroline Masson was second at 6 under after her second straight 69. She birdied four of the last five holes – the lone par coming on a 3-foot birdie miss on the par-4 15th.

“You’ve just got to be smart and you’ve got to be accepting out there,” Masson said. “Some holes play very tough with certain wind and certain pin positions. So sometimes you have to hit a perfect shot in the perfect spot and get lucky, as well, to get it on the right side of the green or keep it on the green or get it close.”

“A lot of times, you hit a decent shot and you end up missing the green, so it’s important to stay patient and trust in the short game, and I think that’s what I did today. I made some really good up-and-downs out there, and kind of made the birdies when I had the chances on the last few holes.”

She won the Manulife LPGA Classic in Canada in September for her first LPGA Tour victory.

“Today it was important to stay patient out there, be confident and kind of be relaxed and not try to force things too much,” Masson said. “I think I’ve gotten a little more relaxed on the golf course after my win, so that’s definitely a good thing.”

Spain’s Carlota Ciganda and American Jessica Korda were 5 under.

Ciganda had a 71. She had an emotional first LPGA Tour victory Sunday in a playoff in South Korea.

Korda followed her opening 67 with a 72. She had five birdies, a double bogey and three bogeys.

Lee birdied three of the four par 3s, the last with an 18-footer from the fringe on the 116-yard 17th. She also birdied the par-3 fourth and seventh, and followed with a downhill 30-footer on the par-5 eighth. She ended a par streak with a downhill 12-footer for birdie on the par-4 16th.

After the birdie on 17, she missed a chance on the par-5 18th when her low wedge approach skipped up a ridge and left her a downhill 20-footer that missed on the right edge.

The 2012 U.S. Girls’ Junior champion won last year at Kingsmill and in April in Hawaii.

“I’ll just try to play my own game,” Lee said. “I don’t really want to go in with too high of expectations because I don’t know what the conditions are going to be like. It could get windy. … ”

“I’m not going to be any more or less aggressive or more or less conservative. It just depends on where you are on the fairway and where the pin is. I’ll take it from there.”

China’s Xi Yu Lin (68), South Korea’s Chella Choi (72) and Germany’s Sandra Gal (73) were 4 under.

“Yesterday, the rhythm was kind of slow. Today, the rhythm was right there, pretty smooth,” Lin said. “Also my mood is pretty good, as well, as far as the putting.”

Second-ranked Ariya Jutanugarn, the tour leader with five victories, was 2 under after a 71. Michelle Wie and Charley Hull each shot 70 to also reach 2 under. Wie got into the field on a sponsor exemption.

Defending champion Sei Young Kim was 1 under after a 72. The South Korean player won last year in wind and rain without shooting a round in the 60s.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Justin Thomas had a 6-under 66 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead halfway through the CIMB Classic, staying within striking distance of the tournament record he set in winning the title here last year.

He started the second round in a three-way share of the lead with Keegan Bradley and Derek Fathauer after opening with a 64, and followed up with a bogey-free round containing six birdies to move to 14 under, two shots clear of Asian leader Anirban Lahiri.

Thomas, who won his first PGA TOUR title here last year in a tournament record 26 under, wasn’t entirely happy with his iron shots and wedges in the second round but remains hopeful of producing some very low scores on the weekend at the TPC Kuala Lumpur.

“The thing about this course, you can go shoot 12- or 13-under in a day,” he said, “so hopefully I can get it going a little bit this weekend … like I did last year.”

Lahiri had eight birdies but finished with a 66 after a double-bogy on his final hole Friday, leaving him at 12 under.

“Both yesterday and today I’ve played good – I think I played solid right through,” Lahiri said. “It’s just very disappointing to finish the way I did. Both days I think I left four or five shots out there coming in. I would have liked to be in a better position the way I’ve played, but it’s not over yet.”

Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., fired a 3-under 69 to sit tied for 34th at 4-under par. David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., was next-to-last in the 78-player field at 8-over par after shooting a round of 1-over 73.

Russell Knox, James Hahn and Hideki Matsuyama were in a tie for third at 11 under.

Ryan Moore, who won the CIMB Classic in 2013 and 2014k, moved into a share of eighth at 8 under with a 65 in the second round, making up for an opening 71.

Fathauer had a 70 and was in a share of sixth place, and Bradley had a 71 in the second round to slip into a tie for eighth.

There is no cut for the tournament, so the whole field of 78 will play on the weekend.

HAINAN, China (AP) — Minjee Lee birdied the final three holes for a 7-under 65 and a two-stroke lead Thursday in the Blue Bay LPGA, playing in perfect conditions two days after Typhoon Sarika hit the resort.

Lee hit a long flop shot to a foot from a difficult angle on the par-5 18th on Jian Lake’s Blue Bay course, back in top shape after a large cleanup effort. The 20-year-old Australian was delayed traveling from the event that ended Sunday in South Korea and finally got to the resort Wednesday, limiting her to nine holes of practice.

“Maybe it’s better,” Lee said. “I think it was pretty similar for a lot of the girls. I just took it as it is. It’s OK. … We have an amazing view from our hotel room and the course is in great condition. I think we’re really lucky to be here.”

American Jessica Korda and Germany’s Sandra Gal shot 67 on the long course with large rolling, tiered greens with small effective landing areas.

“It’s in great shape and we had no wind,” Gal said. “There’s lot of tiers and little pockets on the greens, so you really got to know where to pitch it and you got to be sharp with your wedges and distances.”

Lee hit to 6 inches to set up a birdie on the par-5 14th. She has two LPGA Tour victories, winning last year in Kingsmill and in April in Hawaii.

“I just took it one shot at a time and didn’t get ahead of myself,” Lee said. “Just played my own game today and a lot of my putts dropped.”

Gal holed out from 89 yards for eagle on the par-4 second hole. She settled for par on 18 when her chip from light rough just off the green, hit the downslope, ticked the flagstick and ended up 12 feet away.

“I think we’re very lucky that the course is in such great shape and that we all got here safe and the typhoon didn’t do too much damage,” Gal said. “It’s all good.”

Korda birdied three of the final four holes.

Spain’s Carlota Ciganda, coming off a playoff victory last week in Incheon for her first LPGA Tour title, was three strokes back at 68 along with South Korea’s Chella Choi.

Ciganda didn’t practice after arriving late.

“I thought it was better to rest,” Ciganda said. “I knew the course and my caddie just went and walked the course. Just hit some chips and putts to try to get the speed of the greens. No practice. Just go and play. I like it. Keep it simple.”

Canada’s Brooke Henderson birdied four of the last five to join Germany’s Caroline Masson and American Austin Ernst at 69. The 19-year-old Henderson is playing for the fourth straight week in Asia and plans to make it six in a row with stops in Malaysia and Japan.

South Korea’s Sei Young Kim, the winner last year in the wind without shooting a round in the 60s, opened with a 71. Second-ranked Ariya Jutanugarn also shot 71. The Thai star leads the tour with five victories.

Michelle Wie had a 72, playing alongside Gal and Na Yeon Choi. The slumping American got into the field on a sponsor exemption.

“Just going to play out the rest of the season and then I’m going to go back home to Hawaii, take some time off and try to regroup for next year,” Wie said.

Na Yeon Choi had two double bogeys in an 82. The South Korean player threw her ball in the water on 18 after missing a 12-foot eagle putt and tapping in for her lone birdie.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Justin Thomas began his title defense with an 8-under 64 at the CIMB Classic on Thursday, making nine birdies and a bogey to move into a three-way tie with Keegan Bradley and Derek Fathauer for the first-round lead.

Thomas, who won his first PGA Tour title here last year in a tournament-record total 26-under-par 262, said he felt at ease in the opening round of the PGA Tour-sanctioned event.

“If there’s such a thing as an easy 8-under, it was,” Thomas said. “I wedged it great. I took advantage of the first three par 5s.

“I was just very comfortable and hit it in there close a couple of times and made a couple putts, but it was a pretty low-stress day.”

Bradley had six birdies on the front nine and an eagle at the par-5 10th but then had two bogeys on his next three holes before recovering with birdies at the 16th and 17th.

England’s Paul Casey was one stroke behind the leaders at 7 under, one clear of Asian Tour leader Anirban Lahiri and two ahead of a group of four at 5 under, including Sergio Garcia and Aaron Baddeley.

Ryan Moore, who won the CIMB Classic in 2013 and 2014, opened with a 71 in his first tournament since he delivered the winning Ryder Cup point for the Americans.

He was one of 13 players tied for 44th at 1 under, including Ian Poulter, who was making his first PGA Tour-sanctioned start since a foot injury in May caused him to take off the rest of the season. Poulter tied for 28th last week at the Macau Open, his first tournament back.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Ian Woosnam, Davis Love III, Meg Mallon and Lorena Ochoa have been selected for the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Also selected Tuesday for induction was Henry Longhurst, a London Sunday Times columnist who later became a golf commentator for the BBC.

The induction will be Sept. 26 in New York.

The five inductees were chosen by a 16-member “selection commission” led by Jack Nicklaus, Nancy Lopez, Gary Player and Annika Sorenstam, along with nine golf administrators and three journalists.

Woosnam is a former world No. 1 who won the Masters in 1991. Love is a former PGA champion with 20 career PGA Tour victories. Mallon won 18 times on the LPGA Tour, including four majors. Ochoa won 27 times and two majors when she retired at No. 1 in the world.

LONDON, ON – Freedom 55 Financial announced today it has extended its endorsement agreement with PGA TOUR golfer and Team Canada Young Pro Squad athlete, Mackenzie Hughes. The London-based company signed Hughes as its first #TeamFreedom athlete in 2014 and has since assisted the young Canadian on his road from Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada to achieving his goal of being a PGA TOUR card holder. The new agreement between the athlete and company will span an additional three years.

Hughes is one of many young athletes on the Freedom 55 Financial #TeamFreedom roster, a group of young Canadian athletes striving to reach the pinnacle of their athletic dreams. Freedom 55 Financial assists these athletes on their path to achieving their dreams while emphasizing the values of goal-setting and surrounding themselves with the right people they need to succeed.

“At Freedom 55 Financial, we’re dedicated to helping Canadians achieve their goals and dreams. Mackenzie is a tremendous young athlete and it has been the utmost pleasure to witness his path from our event in London to achieving his dream of being a PGA TOUR member,” said Mike Cunneen, Senior Vice-President, Freedom 55 Financial. “Mackenzie serves as a great representation of the values we express as a company while also being a role model to Canadian youth as a member of Team Freedom”

A Dundas, ON native, Hughes recently earned his PGA TOUR membership last season after winning the Price Cutter Championship and finishing in the Web.com Tour’s top 25 money rankings during the regular season. Hughes and Freedom 55 Financial have enjoyed the path to the PGA TOUR together. From being named Freedom 55 Financial Canadian Player of the Year and one of “The Five” at the 2013 Freedom 55 Financial Championship (Mackenzie Tour) event in London, ON, to transitioning to the Web.com Tour over the last three seasons and graduating to the PGA TOUR for the 2016/17 season. Last week, Hughes made his debut as a PGA TOUR card holder at the Safeway Open in Napa, CA, finishing T13.

“I am incredibly thankful to Freedom 55 Financial for being a teammate and great supporter as I have made my way to achieving a lifelong dream,” said Mackenzie Hughes. “I am excited to extend my partnership as a member of Team Freedom and continue to set new goals and aspirations on the TOUR.”

VENICE, Fla. – Ten Canadians are among 210 competitors vying to punch their tickets to the third and final stage of LPGA Qualifying School from Oct. 20-23 at the Plantation Golf & Country Club.

Playing on the Bobcat and Panther courses, all athletes will compete in the 72-hole stroke-play event (with no cut) to earn one of the Top 80 slots (plus ties) to advance to the third stage at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla., from Dec. 1-4.

Canadians in the field:

• Aram Choi, Surrey, B.C.
• Christina Foster, Toronto, Ontario
• Jennifer Ha, Calgary, Alberta
• Sara-Maude Juneau, Quebec City, Québec
• Anna Kim, Richmond Hill, Ontario
• Taylor Kim, Surrey, B.C.
• Jennifer Kirby, Paris, Ontario
• Megan Osland, Kelowna, B.C.
• Elizabeth Tong, Thornhill, Ontario
• Vivian Tsui, Markham, Ontario

Players failing to advance to the final stage will receive 2017 Symetra Tour status depending on completion of 72 holes.

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NAPA, Calif. – Right when Brendan Steele thought he might have a chance to win at Silverado, all he could think about was how he lost.

A year ago, Steele had a 54-hole lead in the PGA Tour’s season opener when he made a sloppy bogey on the 12th hole, shot 40 on the back nine and threw it away. He was two shots behind on Sunday in the Safeway Open with little room for error when he three-putted No. 12 for bogey and figured he was done.

“I thought that was it for me,” Steele said. “I thought I would have to do something special. Last year, I tried not to make mistakes.”

This time, he made birdies.

Steele overcame a four-shot deficit in the final round, closed with three straight birdies on rain-soaked Silverado for a 7-under 65 and won by one shot over a faltering Patton Kizzire. It was Steele’s first victory in 141 starts on the PGA Tour dating to his rookie season when he won the Texas Open.

“This is a little bit of redemption from last year,” Steele said. “It’s nice to close it off this way.”

It was a tough ending for Kizzire, who had a one-shot lead going into the final round and looked like a winner when he stuffed his tee shot into 2 feet for birdie on the 11th hole for a two-shot lead.

He struggled to hit fairways the rest of the way, and while he dropped only one shot on the 12th, he couldn’t keep Steele from gaining ground.

Steele hit 2-iron onto the green at the par-5 16th for a two-putt birdie. His 18-foot birdie putt on the 17th curled in the left side of the cup. And then he hit wedge into the par-5 18th and poured in a 7-foot birdie putt.

“You’ve got to really make something happen, especially when the conditions are soft,” Steele said. “I wanted to be aggressive and I didn’t want to just kind of coast in and just make sure that I had a decent week.”

He had a great week, which sends him back to the Masters for the first time since 2012.

Kizzire drove left into the base of trees on the par-5 16th and had to chip out sideways, eventually making a 15-foot par save from the bunker. With a wedge on the 17th, he left it short and watched it spin back off the green, forcing him to save par again. His final chance was to birdie the final hole and force a playoff. He drove left again, had to lay up and then missed the green with a 9-iron and failed to chip in. Kizzire closed with a 70.

“It was intense,” Kizzire said. “I didn’t finish it off. I’m really disappointed, but I played well. It’s a building block, for sure.”

Johnson Wagner stayed close the entire back nine but had to settle for pars over the final eight holes. He closed with a 70 and tied for third with Paul Casey (69), former Cal star Michael Kim (67) and Scott Piercy (70).

Casey has finished no worse than fourth in his last four tournaments dating to the FedEx Cup playoffs.

“So close, isn’t it?” Casey said. “I mean, I played great. I had another wonderful week.”

Steele, who finished at 18-under 270, won for the first time since the anchored stroke for long putters was outlawed at the start of the year.

He made the switch right after the new rule was proposed in 2014, and while he putted well at times, he still had doubts he could make the big putts when they mattered. Sunday at Silverado answered those questions, along with getting rid of that sour memory from last year when he made five bogeys in six holes on the back nine.

“You don’t often get that chance in life to really redeem yourself in the same way at the same place, and to basically do just the opposite,” Steele said.

The final round was delayed two hours by rain that began soaking Silverado on Friday and led to delays the rest of the way. The third round was not completed until Sunday morning, and Kizzire made a birdie on the final hole for a 66 to take his first 54-hole lead.

And for the longest time, he made it last.

Piercy fell back with a pair of bogeys at the end of the front nine. Casey also dropped careless shots. Phil Mickelson had his chances, too.

In his first domestic fall PGA Tour event in a decade, Mickelson was poised to make a charge on the back nine until missing too many chances. He closed with a 67 and tied for eighth. Mickelson has finished in the top 10 in one-third of his 549 career starts on tour.

Kizzire did well to stay in the game. After his bogey from a fairway bunker on No. 12, Kizzire holed a 15-foot par putt on the 14th after driving under a tree, made another 15-footer on the par-5 16th and a nervy 5-footer for par on the 17th to keep his hopes alive. He just couldn’t make birdie, and it cost him.

Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., finished with a share of 13th in his debut as a PGA Tour member after graduating from the Web.com Tour. The Team Canada Young Pro Squad member collected eight birdies on the day to close with a 4-under 68 after three consecutive rounds of 69.

CARY, N.C. – Doug Garwood ran away with the SAS Championship on Sunday for his first PGA Tour Champions title, closing with an 8-under 64 for a four-stroke victory.

The 53-year-old Garwood won in his 44th start on the 50-and-over tour . He finished at 16-under 200 in the regular-season finale at Prestonwood Country Club.

“It hasn’t really settled in yet,” Garwood said. “Someone asked me last week when my last tournament win was and I blanked, I couldn’t think of one, so now I won’t have so much trouble. Feels great. It was a great day, played well. Beat a champion in Bernhard Langer, and Larry Mize in my group.”

Langer, two strokes ahead of Garwood and Mize entering the day, had a 70 to finish second.

“Doug just played phenomenal,” Langer said. “His putter was hot. He just hit it and went in, hit it and went in. He started walking after it and it dropped. He was like 9 under after 16 holes. That’s pretty amazing golf.”

Garwood birdied the last three holes on the front nine for a 6-under 30, made it four in a row on the par-4 10th, added birdies on the par-5 13th and 16th and closed with a bogey.

“The putter was obviously hot today,” Garwood said. “I made a little adjustment. I was aiming a little bit right yesterday and I worked on that and rolled in the 12-footer on 1, rolled in the 40-footer on 3 from the fringe, a short putt, about 4-footer on 4 for a two-putt birdie.

“I guess they were saying I was walking them in. The first one at 7 I was walking because it was short. I just played it off like I thought it was going in. Then same thing on 8 and same thing on 9. I knew I had made those when I was walking.”

Garwood earned $315,000 to jump to 19th on the money list with $798,744. He also got a two-year exemption to the Mitsubishi Electric Championship in Hawaii.

“I didn’t figure it would ever happen really,” Garwood said. “I never anticipated winning. I’ve never been goal oriented, you know, projecting the future. I like to take it a day at a time, just live in the now. I just enjoy playing golf.”

Langer had four birdies and two bogeys. The 59-year-old German star leads the tour with four victories and $2,697,459. He won the 2012 event.

“I just didn’t have my A-game today,” Langer said. “I missed a few shortish putts from eight to 10 feet, three of four of them that I made the last few days. Then missed a few fairways as well. And this course out of the rough, it’s a very tough golf course because you don’t know how far that ball’s going, whether you get a flyer or not. And when it hits the green, it doesn’t stop.”

Mize shot a 69 to tie for third with Tom Byrum (65) and Jeff Sluman (68) at 11 under. Miguel Angel Jimenez (65) was 10 under, and Colin Montgomerie (67) topped the group at 9 under.

Calgary’s Stephen Ames shot 68 to finish T19 at 5-under. Fellow Canadian Rod Spittle of St. Catharines, Ont., closed with a 73 to earn a share of 55th.

The top 72 players on the money list earned spots in the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs opener, the PowerShares QQQ Championship at Sherwood in California on Oct. 28-30.

Corey Pavin finished 72nd with $183,192, but is sidelined by a right elbow injury and won’t play at Sherwood. Michael Bradley was 73rd, $2,388 behind Pavin. Bradley closed with a 69 to tie for 13th at 6 under. John Daly got in at 70th with $191,261 after skipping the event.

A spot also was available for the top finisher in the top 10 in the tournament who ended up outside the top 72 for the season, but all the top-10 finishers were in the top 72.

INCHEON, South Korea – Carlota Ciganda beat Alison Lee with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff Sunday in the rainy LPGA KEB HanaBank Championship after each player lost big leads.

The 26-year-old Spaniard won with a 6-foot putt after Lee’s birdie chip from the rough off the back edge of the green missed a half-inch to the right.

Ciganda overcame a five-stroke deficit to Lee on the front nine, then blew a five-stroke lead on the final five holes – getting into the playoff when Lee bogeyed the par-5 18th after hitting her third shot into the water.

Ciganda played the final five holes in 4 over – making a double bogey on 14 and bogeys on 16 and 18 – for a 2-over 70 at Sky 72 in the event that had an emotional start with Se Ri Pak ending her Hall of Fame career Thursday in front of her home fans.

Three-strokes ahead of U.S. Women’s Open champion Brittany Lang entering the day, Lee had a 75 to match Ciganda at 10-under 278 on the Ocean Course. The 21-year-old American, still a student at UCLA, is in her second season on the tour.

Ciganda won her first LPGA Tour title and became the third European winner this year, joining Sweden’s Anna Nordqvist and Germany’s Caroline Masson.

Ciganda birdied five of the first eight holes, taking a one-stroke lead with a 6-foot birdie putt on the par-3 eighth. The two-time European Solheim Cup player added a 20-footer on the par-4 10th and was five strokes ahead entering the par-4 14th. She made a double bogey there, dropped another stroke on the par-4 16th and three-putted 18.

Needing a par on 18 for her first victory, Lee hit a wedge that smacked into the front bank and bounced into the water. She was able to drop a few feet off the right edge of the green, chipped past and made a 5-footer to force the playoff.

Lee had four birdies in a five-hole stretch in the middle of the round to seemingly fall out of contention. But while Ciganda faltered in the group ahead, the American made a 5-foot birdie putt on the par-4 15th and a 12-footer on the par-3 17th.

China’s Shanshan Feng (70) and South Korea’s Min-Sun Kim (71) tied for third at 8 under. Feng had her third straight top-four finish in Asia after tying for fourth in China and finishing second last week in Taiwan. The tour will return to China next week for the Blue Bay LPGA on Hainan Island, then make stops in Malaysia and Japan.

Lang had three bogeys in a 75 to tie for third at 7 under.

Lexi Thompson, the winner last year, had a 73 to tie for 13th at 4 under. Second-ranked Ariya Jutanugarn (69) and No. 3 Gee Chun (71) also were 4 under.

Hamilton, Ont., product Alena Sharp carded a 74 to earn a share of 39th.

Top-ranked Lydia Ko closed with a 74 to tie for 51st at 3 over. She has four victories this year, one behind Jutanugarn for the tour lead.

Fourth-ranked Brooke Henderson also struggled, shooting 78-72 on the weekend to finish at 5-over. The Canadian teen plans to play all six weeks in Asia.