Posted: 15 Mar 2010 04:03 AM PDT

BEIJING (AP)—The World Cup of Golf is moving to a new home in southern China and will return in 2011 as a biennial event to accommodate the sport's inclusion in the Olympic Games.

The 28-team competition will shift from the Mission Hills Shenzhen complex near Hong Kong to the Mission Hills Resort on Hainan, China's island province in the South China Sea, the Asian Tour said in a news release Monday.

Total prize money will rise from $5,500,000 to $7,500,000, making it one of the sport's richest events. Each member of the winning two-man team will take home $1,200,000.

Golf will return to the Olympics in 2016.

The new Mission Hills Resort on Hainan is China's largest golf development, boasting 22 courses.

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World Cup of Golf finds new home in China (CBS Sports)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 09:31 AM PDT

BEIJING -- The World Cup of Golf is moving to a new home in southern China and will return in 2011 as a biennial event to accommodate the sport's inclusion in the Olympic Games.

Total prize money will rise from $5,500,000 to $7,500,000, making it one of the sport's richest events. Each member of the winning two-man team will take home $1,200,000.

Golf will return to the Olympics in 2016.

The new Mission Hills Resort on Hainan is China's largest golf development, boasting 22 courses.

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Golf Capsules (AP via Yahoo! Sports)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:03 PM PDT

DORAL, Fla. (AP)—Ernie Els showed his South African protege what it takes to win a World Golf Championship. Just as important was that he showed himself how to win again, too.

Ending the longest drought of his 20-year career, Els played the final 23 holes on the Blue Monster without a bogey and closed with a 6-under 66 on Sunday to win the CA Championship by four shots over 25-year-old Charl Schwartzel.

Els finished at 18-under 270. It was Els' 61st victory worldwide, and 17th on the PGA Tour, and moved him to No. 8 in the world ranking. The victory was worth $1.4 million, and moved him past Colin Montgomerie and atop the PGA European Tour career money list with about $33.6 million.

It was far closer than the margin suggested.

Schwartzel, in his first time on a world stage, refused to let Els get away from him. Els was clinging to a one-shot lead as he stood over a 25-foot par putt on the 14th hole, and the Big Easy was relieved to see it fall on the final turn.

Schwartzel, a houseguest of Els the last two weeks, caught a bad break on the 15th when his ball plugged in a front bunker, and he knocked that into a back bunker on his way to a bogey. He missed short putts on the next two holes and closed with a 70.

The 40-year-old Els last won two years ago at the Honda Classic, which he won while warming up on the range for a possible playoff. He became only the fifth player with multiple victories in the World Golf Championships, joining Tiger Woods, Darren Clarke, Geoff Ogilvy and Phil Mickelson.

Padraig Harrington fell out of the with three straight bogeys on the back nine, closing with a 72 to tie for third at 11-under 277 along with Matt Kuchar (68) and Martin Kaymer of Germany, who had a 69 and moved up to No. 7 in the world. Defending champion Phil Mickelson, who was never in the mix, shot a 68 and tied for 14th.

Women's Australian Open

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Taiwan's Yani Tseng won the Women's Australian Open on Sunday, birdieing seven of the last 12 holes for a bogey-free 7-under 66 and a three-stroke victory over 2009 winner Laura Davies.

The sixth-ranked Tseng, the 2008 LPGA Championship winner, had a 9-under 283 total on the Commonwealth Golf Club course. She opened with rounds of 74, 71 and 72 to begin the day four strokes behind third-round leader Karrie Webb.

Davies, the 46-year-old English star who won the New Zealand Women's Open on Feb. 28 for her 73rd worldwide title, shot a 71.

Webb, the four-time winner who won her seventh Australian Ladies Masters title last week, had a 74 to finish third at 5 under. Alexis Thompson, the 15-year-old U.S. amateur star, closed with a 74 to tie for 16th at 3 over.

Puerto Rico Open

RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico (AP)—Chad Collins birdied the par-5 fifth hole for a share of the Puerto Rico Open lead with Kevin Streelman just before third-round play was suspended because of darkness in the rain-delayed PGA Tour event.

Collins and Streelman, who birdied the par-4 seventh hole as darkness descended over Trump International Golf Club-Puerto Rico, were 12 under.

Derek Lamely, 7 under for 13 holes in the round, was a stroke back at 11 under with Steve Wheatcroft and Kris Blanks. Wheatcroft played six holes in the third round, and Blanks completed seven.

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Golf: UNT ties for third in tourney (Dallas Morning News)

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 06:13 AM PDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The North Texas men's golf team went toe-to-toe with some of the top teams in the nation at the Seminole Intercollegiate and came out tied for third place, just shots behind two of the top teams in the country.

The Mean Green, powered by two freshman, shot a final round of 293 and finished tied with 34th ranked Arkansas and just seven shots behind ninth ranked South Carolina and eight shots from the tournament winner 11th ranked Florida State.

UNT finished ahead of Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, North Carolina, and 43rd ranked Baylor in one of the toughest tests of the season for the Mean Green.

UNT had three players finish in the top 11 led by freshman Rodolfo Cazaubon and Carlos Ortiz. Cazaubon shot a final round of 1-over par 72 and was just two shots behind the eventual champion with a three-round score of 214 as he posted three birdies in his final round.

Ortiz had one of the steadiest rounds of the day with two birdies, and 15 pars and only one bogey in his final round to shoot a 1-under par 70. Ortiz finished tied for seventh place with a three-round score of 215.

Senior Dustin Thompson was close behind after a final round of 74 as he finished in 11th place with a score of 216.

Peter Fallon and Ben Hargis shot a 78 and 77 respectively and both had scores of 231.

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