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TROON, Scotland -- Henrik Stenson is the champion golfer of the year, thanks to a final round for the ages.He kept hitting the best shots of his life, one after another, and he needed each one to stay ahead of Phil Mickelson in a British Open duel that ranked among the best in major championship history.Stenson made 10 birdies, including a 50-foot putt across the 15th green that had him pumping his fist in a rare show of emotion Sunday.The final stroke in this masterpiece was a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole that curled into the cup on the final turn. It gave him an 8-under 63, tying Johnny Miller at Oakmont for the greatest closing round by a major champion, and Stenson didnt even realize it until he sat down to sign his card.Records didnt matter. This was about winning his first major -- the first by a Swedish man.Thr 46-year-old Mickelson was a runner-up for the 11th time in a major, but never like this. He cant look back at a mistake because he really didnt make any. He opened with a 63, closed with a career-best 65, shot the second-best score in Open history and was 11 shots better than everyone in the field.Except one.He got beat by arguably the best final round in 156 years of major championships.Miller also made 10 birdies in his final round of the 1973 U.S. Open, and then waited to see if anyone could catch him. Stenson started the final round with a one-shot lead over Mickelson, and knew it would be a two-man race from the opening hole when Mickelson nearly holed out from the fairway.The 40-year-old Stenson answered great shot with one of his own, finally pulling away with birdies on the 14th and 15th holes, and then a third in a row after Mickelson drilled a 3-wood onto the green at the par-5 16th and came within a fraction of an inch of making an eagle.The last birdie was for the record book.Stenson finished at 264, breaking by one shot the 72-hole scoring record in the majors that David Toms set in the 2001 PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club. His 20-under par matched Jason Days record for lowest under par at last years PGA Championship.MARATHON CLASSICSYLVANIA, Ohio -- Lydia Ko outlasted Ariya Jutanugarn and Mirim Lee to win the Marathon Classic for her fourth LPGA Tour victory of the season.The top-ranked Ko made a 10-foot birdie putt on the fourth extra hole after Jutanugarn and Lee ran into trouble. Also the 2014 winner, Ko closed with a 2-under 69 at Highland Meadows to match Jutanugarn and Lee at 14-under 270.The 19-year-old New Zealander has 14 LPGA Tour titles, also winning consecutive events in South California -- the second the major ANA Inspiration -- and later in Arkansas. Shes 4-1 in playoffs, with the loss coming to Brooke Henderson this year in the KPMG Womens PGA.Ko missed a 5-foot birdie putt on the third extra hole, sending the trio back to the 18th tee for the final time. Jutanugarn had chances on the first two playoff holes, missing birdie putts of 14 and 8 feet.Lee shot a 65, bogeying the 18th after making birdies on Nos. 13, 15, 16 and 17.Jutanugarn had a 68, reaching 14 under with an eagle on 17. The long-hitting Thai player won three straight events in May.BARBASOL CHAMPIONSHIPOPELIKA, Ala. -- Aaron Baddeley made a 24-foot putt on the fourth hole of a playoff with Si Woo Kim to win the Barbasol Championship at Grand National.Baddeley broke into a celebratory run off the green, tossed his club in the air and flung his cap back onto the green after his fourth PGA Tour victory. The Australian secured a two-year exemption and a spot in the PGA Championship, but not the Masters.Both players parred the first three holes of the playoff, two on 18 and the third on 17. Kim parred 18 again after Baddeley had already clinched his first win since the 2011 Northern Trust Open.Baddeley finished with a 5-under 66 to match Kim at 18-under 266. Kim shot a 63, closing with a bogey.Kim, a 21-year-old South Korean, sent his approach down a slope into the rough between two grandstands on the fourth playoff hole. He chipped to 5 feet but Baddeley closed it out before Woo finished.The weather turned steamy after a light drizzle on the final regulation holes.Former Auburn University player Michael Johnson finished a stroke back after a 65 in his first professional tournament, a few miles from campus. He just missed a potential birdie putt on his final hole that would have landed him in the playoff.LINCOLN LAND CHARITY CHAMPIONSHIPSPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Martin Flores won the Lincoln Land Charity Championship for his first Web.com Tour title to wrap up a PGA Tour card.The 34-year-old former Oklahoma player closed with a 4-under 67 for a two-stroke victory over four players. He finished at 22-under 262 at Panther Creek and earned $99,000 to jump from 11th to fourth on the money list with $249,431. The top 25 at end of the regular season will earn PGA Tour cards.Flores had his fifth top-four finish of the year. He tied for third in the Panama Claro Championship and Louisiana Open and was fourth in the Brazil Champions and El Bosque Mexico Championship.Third-round leader Wesley Bryant had a 70 tie for second. The money leader with $332,392, hes trying to win for the third time this season to earn an immediate PGA Tour promotion.Jonathan Randolph (63), JT Poston (64) and Casey Wittenberg (67) also finished at 20 under.DANIELLE DOWNEY CREDIT UNION CLASSICROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Clariss Guce won the Danielle Downey Credit Union Classic for her first Symetra Tour title, making a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-3 closing hole for a 5-under 67 and a one-stroke victory over Ally McDonald and Sophia Popov.Guce, from the Philippines, finished at 11-under 277 at Brook-Lea and earned $30,000 to jump from 84th to 12th on the money list with $34,859. 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The flanker, who has played 65 times for France, is expected to be out for up to four months. Leighton Vander Esch Womens Jersey . He was followed closely by David Clarkson, donning red, seconds later. Clarksons actions one night earlier, leaping off the bench in defence of Kessel during a pre-season game against the Buffalo Sabres, will cost him the first 10 games of the regular season.Matt Fitzpatrick produced one of the putts of the season on his way to moving into contention during the third round of the DP World Tour Championship. The Ryder Cup star posted a six-under 66 during an impressive display in Dubai, where he temporarily took the lead with a moment of magic at the par-five seventh.Reaching the hole off the back of successive gains, Fitzpatrick found the green in two but left himself nearly 80 feet from the flag. Fitzpatrick is looking for a first win since the Nordea Masters Fitzpatrick then judged his eagle attempt perfectly, seeing his effort smash the back of the cup before dropping in to temporarily give him a share of the lead.The Englishman ended the day one off the pace in a tie for second alongside Tyrrell Hatton and Nicolas Colsaerts, and remains confident of victory heading into the final round. Matt Fitzpatrick reflects on his six-under 66 at the DP World Tour Championship It would be great to get a third win, particularly an event of this stature, Fitzpatrick said.dddddddddddd Its my last round of the year and I want to finish strongly.Click on the video above to see Fitzpatricks monster eagle! 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