Lewis, storm aid get big win
Sponsor says it will match her donation for hurricane relief.
Stacy Lewis came through for her hurricane-ravaged hometown — and ended a long winless streak.
The Houston-area player won the Cambia Portland (Ore.) Classic on Sunday, with her $195,000 in winnings going to the relief efforts. Her sponsor, KMPG, also pledged to match the donation.
The 32-year-old Lewis, from The Woodlands, won her 12th LPGA Tour title and her first since June 2014, ending a stretch that included 12 runner-up finishes. She closed with a 3-under 69 to hold off In Gee Chun by a stroke at tree-lined Columbia Edgewater.
Lewis embraced and kissed husband Gerrod Chadwell, the University of Houston women’s golf coach, on the 18th green. She didn’t know he had made the trip to Oregon until he appeared on the green — after hiding out in the Golf Channel tower during the round
Lewis parred the final 11 holes. She got up-and-down from off the green on the par-4 17th and reached the green on the par-4 18th from a fairway bunker to set up her winning two-putt.
Chun also parred the final two holes in a 66.
Lewis finished at 20-under 268. She opened with rounds of 70, 64 and 65 to take a three-stroke lead into the final round.
Brittany Altomare (69) and Moriya Jutanugarn (72) tied for third at 14 under.
PGA: PGA champion Justin Thomas ran off eight birdies on a long, wet TPC Boston for a tournament-best 63, giving him a share of the lead with Marc Leishman going into a Labor Day finish in the Dell Technologies filled with the game’s best players.
The FedEx Cup playoff event in Boston has a history of delivering big moments, and this was set up for another.
Leishman, who won at Bay Hill this year, also played bogey-free for a 65 to join Thomas at 12-under 201.
Eight players were separated by three shots going into the final round, a list that included Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson, Paul Casey and Jon Rahm. Still in the mix was Phil Mickelson, four shots behind.
“There is a heightened something to these playoff events that bring out certain champions for the most part,” Spieth said after finishing with two straight birdies to nudge closer to the lead, just two shots behind. “It’s going to be a throw-down tomorrow.”
Thomas had his third round this season at 63 or better to turn a five-shot deficit into a share of the lead and a chance to win for the fifth time this year.
He birdied six of the first 10 holes, the longest at about 12 feet. He played down the 13th fairway on the redesigned 12th hole for the third time this week and holed a 50-foot birdie, and then added a pair of 25-foot birdie putts.
Champions: Scott McCarron won the Shaw Charity Classic in Calgary, Alberta, for his fourth tour title of the season. McCarron closed with a 3-under 67 to beat Miguel Angel Jimenez by a stroke at Canyon Meadows.
Europe: South African Haydn Porteous shot a 3-under 69 win the Czech Masters in Vysoky Ujezd by two strokes for his second tour title.