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Ryan Moore successfully defends CIMB Classic title.



Sunday’s hot and humid final round was a nail-biter with the leading flight providing the oohs and ahhs to the large gallery.
After Moore dropped a shot on 16th, his lead was down to one shot on -16 with Gary Woodland and Kevin Na lurking.
With the humidity taking its toll, Na was the first to crumble on the 17th hole, sending his tee shot into the trees on the right.
His ball was declared lost, on top of an oil palm tree.
Meanwhile, Moore nails his approach for a tap-in birdie, his eighth of the day. He now had a comfortable three-shot lead heading to the 18th.
With a final putt for par, Moore became the first man since Tiger Woods to win back-to-back PGA Tour titles.

Final round anecdotes…

  1. Angelo Que wins hands down for wearing an all-CIMB red apparel. Only Danny Lee outplayed him in the fashion department with red checked pants.
  2. Lee Westwood wasn’t hard to spot. Westy had his favourite neon lemon-coloured Dunlop shirt on.
  3. The tree on the 17th that claimed Kevin Na’s ball was an oil palm tree. I bet you didn’t know that.
  4. Pangkor and Langkawi are beautiful exotic islands in Malaysia. VIP guests did not need helicopters to get to these marquees named after them.
  5. Somehow, scrambled eggs and hash browns were the popular breakfast items. They served it daily at the terrace for volunteers and the media.
  6. There’s talk that some of the media members may get to choose the daily menu next year. Yeah, right.
  7. Danny Chia and Nicholas Fung had a better final round on Sunday to share 65th spot. Coincidentally, they were both playing in the same group.
  8. Déjà vu: Baek Seuk-Hyun made US$13,020.00 by finishing 77th. He finished in the same spot last year, tied with John Rollins on +21.
  9. Holes 14 and 15th should be called “The stadium” stretch for the large number of fans and gallery noise.
  10. KLGCC Superintendent Mohd Nizam Othman is an asset to any golf course for staging two mega events, just two weeks apart. Maybe they should make him menteri besar.

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