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0 of 3 Premium Clicks used this month SUBSCRIBE Print + Online Subscriber Activation | Register x Forgot Password | Need an Account? e-edition | subscribe | newsletter | deals Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » NEWS NOW Grass fire snuffed in northeast Medford ... Man pleads guilty to starting Boles fire in Weed ... County will help gauge proposed casino's impacts ... Grass fire snuffed in northeast Medford ... Man pleads guilty to starting Boles fire in Weed ... County will help gauge proposed casino's impacts ... GOLF ROUNDUP Ko gets record haul by winning LPGA finale Comment By The Associated Press MailTribune.com By The Associated Press Posted Nov. 23, 2014 at 4:55 PM By The Associated Press Posted Nov. 23, 2014 at 4:55 PM » Social News NAPLES, Fla. — New Zealand teenager Lydia Ko ended her rookie year on the LPGA Tour with the biggest payoff in women’s golf. Ko won the $1 million bonus from the inaugural “Race to CME Globe” on Sunday by getting into a three-way playoff. Then, the 17-year-old added an extra $500,000 when she defeated Carlota Ciganda of Spain on the fourth extra hole at Tiburon Golf Club to win the CME Group Tour Championship. Ko made par all five times she played the 18th hole on Sunday, and the last one paid handsomely. “It’s been an awesome week, and a week that I’ll never forget,” Ko said. “When I saw that $1 million in the box, I was like, ‘Wow, I wonder who the winner of that will be?’ It’s amazing. I’ve never seen that much cash in one place before.” Only the tournament earnings counted toward the money list. The $500,000 from her third victory of the year made Ko the first LPGA Tour rookie to surpass $2 million in one season. Ciganda and Julieta Granada of Paraguay certainly helped Ko’s cause. Granada, who closed with a 1-under 71, was the first to exit the playoff when she three-putted from just off the 18th green. Her 5-foot par putt spun in and out of the cup. Ciganda, who shot a 70, had two good chances to win. She missed a 3-foot birdie on the 17th hole in regulation that would have given her the lead. She also missed a 5-foot birdie putt on No. 18 in the third playoff hole for the victory. On the fourth time at No. 18 in the playoff, Ciganda pulled her approach from the fairway and watched it bounce down a slope and into the hazard. “What the ...” Ciganda said, without finishing the sentence as her shot sailed toward trouble. She took a penalty drop and chipped to 3 feet. Ko needed only two putts for the win, and her first putt stopped an inch from going in. No matter. The kid was a winner again, her fifth LPGA Tour title before her 18th birthday. She was an amateur when she won her first two LPGA titles. Ko wasn’t the only big winner in the LPGA Tour finale. Stacy Lewis never had a chance to win the tournament or the $1 million bonus, though she walked away with her own slice of history. Lewis became the first American in 21 years to sweep the three most significant awards on the LPGA Tour — player of the year, the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average and the money title. “The $1 million would have been nice,” Lewis said after a 71 to tie for ninth place. “But those three, that’s what I came here for.” Australian Masters At Melbourne, Australia, Australian lefthander Nick Cullen shot a 3-under 69 Sunday to win the Australian Masters by one stroke over Adam Scott, ending Scott’s attempt for a third consecutive victory in the tournament. Cullen, who had a four-round total of 9-under 279, saved par on the 18th after hitting his bunker shot to a foot. Scott, who trailed by four strokes after three rounds, shot 68 Sunday and finished tied for second with two other Australians. Scott’s 60-foot putt for birdie on the 18th hole curled out and he held the clubhouse lead for about an hour until Cullen finished his round at Metropolitan Golf Club. Second-ranked Scott now heads to Sydney for an Australian Open showdown with world No. 1 Rory McIlroy, the defending champion. World Tour Championship At Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Henrik Stenson successfully defended his DP World Tour Championship title at the European Tour’s season-ending event. The Swede shot a final round 2-under 70 on Sunday to win by two strokes with an overall 16-under 272 on the Earth Course at Jumeirah Golf Estates. Three of Stenson’s teammates on Europe’s victorious Ryder Cup team — top-ranked Rory McIlroy (68), Victor Dubuisson (68) and Justin Rose (69) — shared second on 14-under 274. The victory means Stenson finishes second to McIlroy in the Race to Dubai. Rafa Cabrera-Bello (75) was leading with three holes to play but the Spaniard tumbled down the board with back-to-back double bogeys at Nos. 16 and 17 to finish tied for ninth with an overall 277. 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