DIGEST:SUNSHINE TOUR: Defending champion Louis Oosthuizen gave a new meaning to the term runaway winner when he captured the Telkom PGA at Country Club Johannesburg yesterday by 14 shots with a fabulous 28-under-par 260 aggregate.
This is the biggest 72-hole winning margin in the history of the Sunshine Tour, which came into existence in 1967.
Oosthuizen, who closed with a seven-under 65 on the immaculately groomed Woodmead course, was flirting with another record as he came down the stretch.
The biggest victory in relation to par in the history of the Sunshine Tour was Mark McNulty's 29-under 259 in the Royal Swazi Sun Pro-Am at Royal Swazi Sun (a much easier course than Woodmead) in 1987, a 72-hole score equalled by David Frost en route to a 21-under-par victory in the 1994 Lexington PGA at Wanderers although that was on a par-70 layout.
Hennie Otto, with a last round 70, finished second on 274 with Jake Roos a shot further back on 275 after a final round 70.
ASIAN TOUR: New Zealander Mark Brown emerged as the comfortable winner at the 2008 SAIL Open after firing a steady three-under-par 69 in the final roundfor a winning aggregate of 14-under-par 274.
As a reward of his success, Brown earned the top prize of $63,400 and gained full exemption till the end of the 2010 season on the Asian Tour.
Tied for second place were Indian star Jyoti Randhawa who shot a 71, big-hitting Australian Scott Hend who finished even-par and Korea's Noh Seung-yul who ended his campaign with a 69 for a 278 total.
Malaysia's Danny Chia alongside local talent Gaganjeet Bhullar fired matching 72s and ended their run in a tie for fifth spot.
LPGA TOUR: US young-gun Paul Creamer rallied from being two strokes down with three holes to play on Saturday to win the Fields Classic in Hawaii
The 21-year-old American birdied four of the last five holes to close with a sizzling 6-under 66 for a 54-hole total of just 200 and beat Jeong Jang, leader of the first two rounds, by a shot as she claimed her fifth LPGA Tour title and her second in her last four starts.
Michelle Wie made the cut after opening with an impressive 69, but threw it all away on the final day of this three-round event with a six-over 78 that left her tied for last in the 74-strong field, all of 20 strokes behind Creamer.
PORTUGUESE AMATEUR: Local Pedro Figueiredo shot a final round of 73 for a four-round total of 282 to win the Portuguese Amateur Championship at the Estela GC in Oporto yesterday.
Figueiredo had two shot top spare over Edoard Dubois of Francem who closed with a 66 for 284. England's Dale Whitnell edged out team-mate Gary Wolstenholme for third place on 285.
Pat Murray was best of teh Irish in 13th place on 292 after a final round of 72, while Paul Cutler shot 74 for 296.
