HAINAN ISLAND, China – South Africa’s Lee-Anne Pace won the rain-shortened Blue Bay LPGA on Monday for her first LPGA Tour title and second worldwide victory in nine days.

Four strokes ahead with five holes left when play was suspended Sunday because of darkness, Pace finished off a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory over Germany’s Caroline Masson.

The 33-year-old Pace won the South African Women’s Open last week for her ninth Ladies European Tour victory. She’s the second South African-born champion in LPGA Tour history, joining 15-time winner Sally Little. The victory was her third in China, following the LET’s Sanya Ladies Open in 2010 and 2013.

Pace made a 6-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th to finish at 16-under 200 at Jian Lake Blue Bay.

Masson birdied the final three holes for a 67.

Michelle Wie and Jessica Korda tied for third at 11 under.

Wie finished with a 70. She tied for fifth last week in South Korea in her first start since withdrawing from the Evian Championship in September after reinjuring her right hand.

Korda, tied for the second-round lead with Pace, closed with a 72.

Rain delayed play for nearly four hours Sunday with the leaders halfway through the round, leading to the Monday finish in the tournament cut from 72 to 54 holes after play was washed out Friday. The start Monday also was delayed by showers.

The tournament was the fourth stop on the six-event Asian Swing. The LPGA Taiwan Championship is next week, followed by the Mizuno Classic in Japan.

SAN ANTONIO – Michael Allen made a 5-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 6-under 66 and a two-stroke victory Sunday in the Champions Tour’s AT&T Championship, and Bernhard Langer wrapped up the Charles Schwab Cup title.

Allen birdied three of the final four holes on TPC San Antonio’s AT&T Canyons Course. He finished at 15-under 201 for his second victory of the season and seventh overall on the 50-and-over tour. He won the Allianz Championship in Boca Raton, Florida, in February.

Marco Dawson was second after a 71. He bogeyed Nos. 16 and 18.

Woody Austin had a 71 to finish third, three strokes back.

Langer closed with a 69 to tie for sixth at 10 under. He has a tour-high five victories – two of them majors – and leads the money list.

The top 30 on the money list qualified for the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship next week in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Esteban Toledo, 31st on the money list entering the week, birdied the final three holes for a 68 to tie for 12th at 8 under and move to 27th. Toledo made a 20-foot birdie putt at 16 and hit approach shots at 17 and 18 with 4 feet.

He bumped Mark Calcavecchia, 30th entering the week, from the Schwab field. Calcavecchia tied for 72nd in the 81-player field at 4 over with rounds of 77-72-76.

Canada’s Rod Spittle tied for 33rd at 3-under 213. Stephen Ames tied for 47th at even-par 216.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -Robert Streb hasn’t seen many early indications of a happy ending throughout his career.

That included his first PGA Tour victory.

He started the McGladrey Classic with a tee shot he hooked into a bush, leading to a double bogey, and spent the next two days worried only about making the cut. Five shots behind going into the final round Sunday, he drove into a bunker on the opening hole and made bogey. Even after he made five birdies to get back in the mix, he three-putted the 13th for bogey to fall four shots behind with five holes to play.

“And at that point I was like, `Well, I’ll just see how many birdies I can try to make on the way in,'” Streb said. “And I got on a pretty nice little run.”

Streb ran off four straight birdies, closed with a 7-under 63, and then waited 90 minutes to see if it would hold up. He got into a three-way playoff at Sea Island with Brendon de Jonge and Will MacKenzie, and won on the second extra hole with the most significant shot of his young career.

He hit 8-iron at the par-3 17th that covered the flag and settled 4 feet behind the hole for his 10th birdie of the day.

“Very thrilled,” Streb said, mainly because winning had not sunk in.

The 27-year-old from Oklahoma has never played in a major. Now he’s going to the Masters in April, the PGA Championship next August, and the option to play events for only the top tier players, from Kapalua to Bay Hill to Memorial to Colonial.

“It’s pretty exciting,” Streb said. “I don’t have any emotions yet, but very thrilled.”

De Jonge had his best chance yet to win for the first time, and the only consolation was not having to look back at anything he did wrong. His lone regret was a pedestrian bunker shot on the par-5 15th and failing to make an 8-foot birdie putt. He closed with a 65. De Jonge hit his tee shot on the 17th in the playoff to about 30 feet left of the pin, though that became an even longer putt when Streb stuffed his 8-iron.

“What can you do? He hit a great shot,” de Jonge said. “And as I said, it’s nice for him to have a birdie. It’s a good way to win the tournament.”

MacKenzie, who started the final round tied for the lead, closed with a 68. He also failed to birdie the 15th that would have given him the outright lead, and then he was happy to just get into the playoff. He three-putted from 80 feet for bogey on the 16th to fall out of the lead. He answered with a 5-foot birdie on the 17th, and then he had to lag a putt from 80 just short of the 18th green to get into the playoff.

But it didn’t last long. MacKenzie found a bunker right of the 18th green on the first extra hole, blasted out to 30 feet and made bogey.

Streb had to made about a 4-footer for par in the playoff just to keep going. He was nervous over that putt, and the putt for the win. But he came through with a win that not even he would imagined when he walked off the 13th hole with a bogey.

It’s been like that his whole career.

Streb grew up at Oak Tree, though he had to leave home for college. Oklahoma didn’t have a scholarship to offer – Streb always wanted to be a Sooner. And he didn’t think he was good enough for Oklahoma State except to try to walk on.

Instead, he went to Kansas State. He met his wife, Maggie, who is expecting their first child (a girl) in February. He got his degree in marketing in case golf didn’t work out. And then he hit the minor leagues with great resolve.

Streb got to the PGA Tour after three years, and then narrowly lost his card. He failed to get it back for last season, though he took advantage of his limited starts by finishing second in New Orleans. Later in the season, he figured he was headed to the third round of the FedEx Cup playoffs until Jason Day made a birdie on the last hole at the TPC Boston that bumped Streb out of the top 70.

He has been motivated to get better every step of the way.

“I guess it kind of keeps you hungry,” he said. “You’re obviously not going to achieve all your goals right from the get go. Well, at least I didn’t.”

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -Robert Streb hasn’t seen many early indications of a happy ending throughout his career.

That included his first PGA Tour victory.

He started the McGladrey Classic with a tee shot he hooked into a bush, leading to a double bogey, and spent the next two days worried only about making the cut. Five shots behind going into the final round Sunday, he drove into a bunker on the opening hole and made bogey. Even after he made five birdies to get back in the mix, he three-putted the 13th for bogey to fall four shots behind with five holes to play.

“And at that point I was like, `Well, I’ll just see how many birdies I can try to make on the way in,'” Streb said. “And I got on a pretty nice little run.”

Streb ran off four straight birdies, closed with a 7-under 63, and then waited 90 minutes to see if it would hold up. He got into a three-way playoff at Sea Island with Brendon de Jonge and Will MacKenzie, and won on the second extra hole with the most significant shot of his young career.

He hit 8-iron at the par-3 17th that covered the flag and settled 4 feet behind the hole for his 10th birdie of the day.

“Very thrilled,” Streb said, mainly because winning had not sunk in.

The 27-year-old from Oklahoma has never played in a major. Now he’s going to the Masters in April, the PGA Championship next August, and the option to play events for only the top tier players, from Kapalua to Bay Hill to Memorial to Colonial.

“It’s pretty exciting,” Streb said. “I don’t have any emotions yet, but very thrilled.”

De Jonge had his best chance yet to win for the first time, and the only consolation was not having to look back at anything he did wrong. His lone regret was a pedestrian bunker shot on the par-5 15th and failing to make an 8-foot birdie putt. He closed with a 65. De Jonge hit his tee shot on the 17th in the playoff to about 30 feet left of the pin, though that became an even longer putt when Streb stuffed his 8-iron.

“What can you do? He hit a great shot,” de Jonge said. “And as I said, it’s nice for him to have a birdie. It’s a good way to win the tournament.”

MacKenzie, who started the final round tied for the lead, closed with a 68. He also failed to birdie the 15th that would have given him the outright lead, and then he was happy to just get into the playoff. He three-putted from 80 feet for bogey on the 16th to fall out of the lead. He answered with a 5-foot birdie on the 17th, and then he had to lag a putt from 80 just short of the 18th green to get into the playoff.

But it didn’t last long. MacKenzie found a bunker right of the 18th green on the first extra hole, blasted out to 30 feet and made bogey.

Streb had to made about a 4-footer for par in the playoff just to keep going. He was nervous over that putt, and the putt for the win. But he came through with a win that not even he would imagined when he walked off the 13th hole with a bogey.

It’s been like that his whole career.

Streb grew up at Oak Tree, though he had to leave home for college. Oklahoma didn’t have a scholarship to offer – Streb always wanted to be a Sooner. And he didn’t think he was good enough for Oklahoma State except to try to walk on.

Instead, he went to Kansas State. He met his wife, Maggie, who is expecting their first child (a girl) in February. He got his degree in marketing in case golf didn’t work out. And then he hit the minor leagues with great resolve.

Streb got to the PGA Tour after three years, and then narrowly lost his card. He failed to get it back for last season, though he took advantage of his limited starts by finishing second in New Orleans. Later in the season, he figured he was headed to the third round of the FedEx Cup playoffs until Jason Day made a birdie on the last hole at the TPC Boston that bumped Streb out of the top 70.

He has been motivated to get better every step of the way.

“I guess it kind of keeps you hungry,” he said. “You’re obviously not going to achieve all your goals right from the get go. Well, at least I didn’t.”

Shirley d’Entremont was elected as the 61^st President of the Nova Scotia Golf Association (NSGA) at the Annual Fall Meeting held on October 26^th at the Glen Arbour Golf Club.

Mrs. d’Entrenmont will serve as the NSGA President until the end of the 2015 season. She is the first member from West Pubnico Golf Club to serve as president of the NSGA and the third female president to assume the office since amalgamation in 2006.

Prior to her appointment, she served as Women’s President at West Pubnico in 2010 and the NSGA Membership Director along with 1^st and 2^nd Vice President. Shirley is currently active with the Yarmouth Hospital Foundation. Mrs. d’Entremont resides in Lower Pubnico with her husband Carl.

Also elected to the NSGA Board of Directors this past weekend are the following:

Sara Wilson, Membership Director 
Sara Wilson is a member of the PGA of Canada and is the owner of Metro Ladies Golf, which is a women’s membership club designed to bring more women into the game. She organizes games, lessons, corporate outings and special networking events for women around the HRM. With over 20 years of experience in the golf industry and former Teaching Professional at Ashburn, Sara brings a wealth on knowledge to the NSGA. Sara lives in Windsor Junction with her husband, Sean and three children.

David Acker, Handicap Director
David Acker is member at the Ken-Wo Golf Club and is the Vice President of CIBC Wood Gundy. Mr. Acker has served on various boards in the Valley including Landmark East, Kentville Development Corporation and the Valley Regional Hospital Board. David also served as a board member of the Ken-Wo Golf Club and Alpine Ski Nova Scotia. David lives in Kentville with his wife Nancy and his two children who are attending university.

The following members will comprise the 2014-2015 NSGA Board of Directors:

• President – Shirley d’Entremont, West Pubnico
• Vice President – Ernie Muise, Clare
• 2nd Vice President – Garry Beattie, Ashburn
• Past President – John Horton, Ken-Wo
• Secretary/Treasurer – Jen Thompson, Brightwood
• Course Rating Director – John Horton
• Tournament Director – Bill MacMillan, Hartlen Point
• Rules Director – Linda Bennett, NSPP
• Player Development Director – Rob Collins, Clare
• Membership Director – Sara Wilson, NSPPC
• Historian – Alan Dunlop, NSPP
• Handicap Director – David Acker, Ken-Wo
• Junior Director – Stephen Patterson, NSPPC

HAINAN ISLAND, China – South Africa’s Lee-Anne Pace had a four-stroke lead Sunday in the Blue Bay LPGA when final-round play was suspended because of darkness.

Pace had five holes left when the round was stopped at 6:15 p.m. Rain delayed play for nearly four hours with the leaders halfway through the round, leading to a Monday finish in the tournament cut from 72 to 54 holes after play was washed out Friday.

Tied with American Jessica Korda at 11 under entering the round, the 33-year-old Pace made three front-nine birdies before the delay and holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-4 12th.

Pace is seeking her first LPGA Tour title and second victory in eight days after winning a playoff last Sunday in the Ladies European Tour’s South African Women’s Open. She’s also in position for her third victory in China after winning the LET’s Sanya Ladies Open in 2010 and 2013.

Michelle Wie was second, also with five holes left in her second start since withdrawing from the Evian Championship in September after reinjuring her right hand.

Korda and Germany’s Caroline Masson were tied for third at 10 under. Korda had five holes left, and Masson four. New Zealand’s Lydia Ko was 9 under after a 68. American Danielle Lang also was 9 under with four holes remaining.

China’s Shanshan Feng was in the group at 8 under with five holes left.

The tournament is the fourth stop on the six-event Asian Swing. The LPGA Taiwan Championship is next week, followed by the Mizuno Classic in Japan.

MELBOURNE, Australia – Antonio Murdaca of Australia earned a place in the field for next year’s Masters at Augusta after winning the Asia-Pacific Amateur Golf Championship by seven shots Sunday on Royal Melbourne’s composite course.

The 19-year-old Murdaca led by eight strokes overnight and shot a 1-under 71 Sunday to finish at 13-under 275, becoming the first Australian to win the title.

Japan’s Horikawa Mikumu had a 69 to break out of a tie with Australian Todd Sinnott and take second place.

“I was worried in the practice rounds whether my game would fit the course here,” Mikumu said. “But as I played through the weak I got a bit more adjusted to the course and I was able to figure out a little bit how to challenge the course.”

Murdaca and Mikumu will also be exempt until the final stage of qualifying for the 2015 British Open at St. Andrews.

“It’s a dream come true. I can’t wait,” Murdaca said. “I was standing on that second shot today sort of thinking `wow, imagine if I get to the Masters. Imagine how many people there are going to be’.”

Murdaca’s lead was cut to five shots when he shot 36 on the front nine, but he came home strongly with birdies on the 10th and 14th holes.

Sinnott finished with 71 to take third place ahead of 16-year-old Australian amateur champion Ryan Ruffels in fourth. China’s Dou Zecheng and Guan Tianlang, who won the 2012 tournament aged 14, and Taiwan’s Pan Cheng-tsung shared fifth at 2-under 286.

Murdaca dominated the later stages of the tournament. He trailed Sinnott by two shots after his opening round, led by one shot after the second – as the only player in the 116-strong field to break 70 in both of the first two rounds – then took charge of the tournament with his equal low score of 67 of Saturday.

Murdaca had 21 birdies and an eagle in his four rounds over the 6,453-meter (7,059-yard) Royal Melbourne layout.

“I had a little bit of a sleepless night I guess,” Murdaca said. “I woke up nice and early. I didn’t want to miss my alarm this morning. That could have been a disaster.”

Murdaca said he tried not to think about winning on Sunday and try and concentrate on playing as he had throughout the week.

“I think after I hit that second shot into 18, I got some goose bumps,” he said. “It is pretty special considering the reward you get at the end. I’ve been working hard all year, hunting for a win and I finally got one and I think I found the right event to win.”

PERTH, Australia – Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark made a series of spectacular saves in defense of a shrinking lead to shoot a 1-under 71 Sunday and win the Perth International golf tournament by three shots.

Olesen started the final round with a three-shot lead which dropped to one after 12 holes in the face of a concerted charge by Frenchman Victor Dubuisson, who matched the day’s best round of 66 to finish outright second.

Olesen made good his win with a vital birdie on the par-5 15th to claim his second European Tour title with a 17-under total of 271.

His two birdies, one bogey and 15 pars didn’t entirely reflect a checkered final round on Perth’s 6,521-meter (7,131-yard) Lake Karrinyup Golf and Country Club course.

Dubuisson started in eighth place, six shots off the lead, moved up the leaderboard with two birdies on his outward nine, then a sequence of four birdies between the 11th and 15th holes. His card was unblemished, with six birdies in total, but he couldn’t close further on Olesen who kept his nerve in trying positions.

“I missed a few short putts in the middle of the round. I think the lead got down to one shot and I was just thinking about getting my round back to under par, keeping loose and seeing if I could make a few birdies coming in,” Olesen said.

“It was a tough day but it was worth it. That walk down 18 was beautiful.”

Dubuisson finished at 14-under and England’s Mark Foster was outright third at 13-under.

Olesen’s win was his seventh as a professional and his second on the European Tour after the 2012 Sicilian Open.

Former U.S. Masters champion Charl Schwartzel of South Africa shot a 72 to finish in a tie for 15th, while Jason Duffner, in his first tournament after almost three months off with a neck injury, finished at 6-under in a share of 23rd.

Olesen showed his scrambling ability as early as the par-5 seventh hole when he hooked his drive into trees but played out and got up and down for a birdie. He put his drive in a deep fairway bunker on the par-5 11th hole, was forced to lay up, but again made a birdie.

The Dane bogeyed the 10th hole, then faced the biggest crisis of his round when he hit his tee shot over the back of the green at the par-3 12th and made bogey. At the same time, Dubuisson birdied the 13th to move into outright second place, one shot behind.

Olesen steadied himself with a birdie on the 13th, restoring a 2-shot advantage. He ventured into trees again off the 14th, but saved par and then gave himself the confidence of a three-shot margin when he birdied the 15th.

“I actually made a great two putt on six for bogey, which was very important, then the birdie on seven,” he said. “My driving and a couple of three woods also were off line.

“It made it quite tricky for me but I holed some great putts coming in, really important putts and it was just a great feeling to see them rolling in the hole.”

SAN ANTONIO – Marco Dawson birdied four of the first six holes Saturday and shot a 5-under 67 to take a one-stroke lead in the Champions Tour’s AT&T Championship, and Bernhard Langer moved closer to wrapping up the Charles Schwab Cup before the season-ending event next week.

Dawson also birdied two of the last four holes to reach 12-under 132 on TPC San Antonio’s AT&T Canyons Course. He won his only title in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event in 2002 in the Web.com Tour’s LaSalle Bank Open.

“I’m not going to lose any sleep, believe me,” Dawson said. “I used to be a perfectionist, but my attitude now is to play like I’m in the pro-am. Have fun. It’s not life or death out there.”

Woody Austin was second after a 65, and Wes Short Jr. was 10 under after a 67.

Langer, a five-time winner this season, was tied for eighth at 7 under after a 66. He has a 771-point lead over second-place Colin Montgomerie in the Schwab Cup and can take the title with a three-way tie for seventh or better.

“It would be nice to settle things while I’m here,” Langer said.

Montgomerie was tied for 49th at even par after a 76. He had a double bogey on No. 18.

The top 30 on the money list after the tournament will advance to the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship next week in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Austin eagled the par-5 15th, hitting a 3-wood approach to 25 feet.

“I was 240 yards to the front of the green and 260 to the hole, and I hit a dead straight shot in there,” said Austin, who won his fourth PGA Tour title last year in the Sanderson Farms event in Mississippi. “It was the shot I was trying to hit. My putt was a double-breaker. I was just trying to get it close. I would have been happy with that, I admit.”

Canada’s Rod Spittle is tied for 18th at 4-under 140 (73-67).

Canadian Golf Hall of Fame honoured member Stephen Ames had a share of 58th at 1-over 145 (72-73).

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – Will MacKenzie figured a good shot had turned out badly.

His 8-iron on the par-3 sixth hole Saturday in the McGladrey Classic headed for the flag, and he could hear it strike the pin. If the four people around the green were clapping, he couldn’t hear them. MacKenzie simply walked back to his bag and handed his club to the caddie.

“I figured it had ricocheted off,” MacKenzie said.

Except that he couldn’t find the ball anywhere on or around the green. The mystery was solved when one of the four men indicated it was in the hole.

“Most anti-climactic hole-in-one I ever had,” he said.

That shot, along with a 45-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at Sea Island, carried golf’s free spirit to a 5-under 65 and a share of the lead with Andrew Svoboda going into the final round. Svoboda rallied from a careless double bogey by making three birdies on the last six holes for a 66.

They were at 12-under 198.

As aces go, this was a strange one for MacKenzie.

“It was just the most boring hole-in-one ever,” he said.

Russell Henley, the 36-hole leader, was one shot behind after another solid day, except for one shot. He pulled his approach into the water on the par-5 15th hole and made bogey on the easiest hole on the Seaside course. Henley had a 68.

Stewart Cink, winless since beating Tom Watson in a playoff at Turnberry five years ago, made eight birdies in his round of 63. Defending champion Chris Kirk is progressively getting better with rounds of 68-67-66. They were part of a large group at 201, just three shots behind.

Nine players were within four shots of the lead.

Four players had at least a share of the lead at one point. Henley fell back with his bogey on the 15th. Fabian Gomez of Argentina was tied for the lead until he stumbled at the finish. He three-putted from 30 feet on the 16th and from 40 feet on the 17th, and then failed to get up-and-down from short of the 18th. He shot 68 and was in the group three shots out of the lead.

Henley and Kirk are playing for the first time since the Tour Championship on Sept. 14. Neither was sure what to expect this week, and even though Henley didn’t finish as strong as he would like, he was happy with where he was.

So was Kirk, who had five birdies and an eagle to counter his mistakes.

Kirk holed out with a sand wedge from 115 yards on the eighth hole, only to bogey the next two holes. He finished strong and still had a chance to defend his title.

“I’ve managed to put three pretty solid rounds together, and hopefully I can give them a little bit of a run tomorrow,” Kirk said.

MacKenzie also had his moments. He didn’t take the lead until a birdie on the 16th hole, only to lose focus on the next hole. He hit 5-iron, which was way too much club for the par-3 17th, and he was lucky to at least have a shot out of the wire grass. He chopped that over the green, got the next shot down to 7 feet and holed that for a bogey.

And to cap it off, he made a long birdie across the 18th green to catch Svoboda, who had to save par with a tough chip from the right side of the green.

“I was a little jumpy,” MacKenzie said. “So it was huge to make that bomb.”

Even so, it was the ace that left him shaking his head. MacKenzie said he now has three aces on the PGA Tour, though nothing stranger than his hole-in-one Saturday – mainly because he had no idea where the ball wound up.

“Finally, there was this random guy over there, like one of the four guys clapping earlier,” he said. “They were like, `Yeah, it went in. Didn’t you hear us clap?’ I was like, `Thanks, man. You guys are low-key here.’ They’re used to seeing great shots. They’re used to your Matt Kuchars and the guys, studs. I made a hole-in-one. It means nothing other than it was a 1 on the scorecard.”

But it put him into the last group Sunday with a chance to win a PGA Tour event for the first time since MacKenzie won the Viking Classic six years ago.

The 54-hole cut was at 1-under 209, and it eliminated 17 players.  Canadians Adam Hadwin (73) and Nick Taylor (75) failed to advance to the final round because more more than 78 golfers advanced past the 36 hole cut.

Among those making it to Sunday was tournament host Davis Love III, who shot 70.