Feng bags Japan Classic title

JAPAN — Shanshan Feng won back-to-back tournaments for the first time in her career after the world No. 8 survived a late scare to secure a one-stroke victory over South Korea’s Jang Ha-na at the co-sanctioned Japan Classic Sunday. China’s Feng completed her third and final round with a two-under 70 at the Taiheiyo Club’s tree-lined Minori Course to claim her sixth LPGA Tour title, one week after winning the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. “I haven’t won at the LPGA for two years and I just won back-to-back that means Shanshan is back,” Feng told reporters. Feng continued her bogey-free golf from the previous day by mixing four birdies with 13 pars over 17 holes but it was not all plain sailing for the 27-year-old as she three-putted for double-bogey on the par-four 18th to finish on 13-under 203. Jang, who beat Feng by a stroke to win in Taiwan last month, shot her third straight four-under-par 68 but the Korean was always too far back to mount a serious challenge in the final event on the American-based circuit’s Asian swing. Defending champion Ahn Sun-ju tied for third at 10-under alongside Japan’s Kotone Hori and fellow South Koreans Ryu So-yeon and Kang Soo-yun. Glover wrests 1-shot lead Former US Open champion Lucas Glover, boosted by a 50-foot birdie, carded six-under-par 65 to surge into the third-round lead at the Shriners Hospitals For Children Open in Las Vegas Saturday. Glover took a while to adjust to the slow pace of the greens at TPC Summerlin, but there was no stopping him once he rolled in a monster putt at the eighth hole. He followed up with an eagle at the next en route to a 15-under 198 total, one stroke better than Brooks Koepka (70) and halfway leader Rod Pampling (71), with Geoff Oglivy and Russell Henley two behind. Olesen 7 shots clear Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen moved closer to the one million euro ($1.1 mn) first prize as he opened up a seven-shot lead after the Turkish Airlines Open third round Saturday. Olesen, who dropped a shot at the last, signed for a three-under-par 68 to move to 18-under on the Regnum Carya course. Four players — American David Lipsky (66), Austrian Bernd Wiesberger (66), China’s Li Hatong (68), Italy’s Matteo Manassero (68) and England’s David Horsey (68) — share second at a distant 11-under par. — Agencies