All in all, the back nine felt a bit rushed.
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Then you have to be careful on the back nine.
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Somewhere, I lost one of those on the back nine.
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Towards the back nine it started getting a little sparse.
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Here he is, mugging for cameras on the back nine.
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WAGE GROWTH A NEW CYCLE HIGH GOING BACK NINE YEARS.
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" McIlroy added, "The back nine is playing really, really difficult.
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He's as durable as ever but it's possible we're looking at the start of Ovechkin's back nine, which will be better than 99 percent of most players' front nines but a back nine nonetheless.
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"I gave it a shot on the back nine," he said.
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I played great on the back nine, the start was incredible.
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I mean, we only had two birdies on the back nine.
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Matt Kuchar fell back with three bogeys on the back nine.
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In addition, the article misstated Kerr's record on the back nine.
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"I played the back nine today and it's absolutely perfect," he said.
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Starting on the back nine, his lone bogey came on No. 17.
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Spieth had two curling 20-foot birdie putts on the back nine.
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Leishman shot 153 thanks to three consecutive birdies on the back nine.
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He'd shot a final round 65, including 30 on the back nine.
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Long chipped in twice on the back nine to remain in contention.
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Tiger Woods (+8) is starting his back nine on Hole No. 1.
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Spieth missed four birdie chances inside 12 feet on the back nine.
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"Toward the back nine, it started getting a little sparse," Woods said.
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"The back nine, I think I honestly got really tired," Thompson said.
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We didn't know if we'd get a full order, with the back nine.
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At Carnoustie it was Woods who stumbled on the back nine while leading.
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Starting on Muirfield Village's back nine, Spieth one-putted the first seven greens.
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But he had a poor back nine, opening the door for his rivals.
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He made four birdies on the back nine to zoom up the leaderboard.
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Most recently, they released their Front & Back Nine series on Country Club Disco.
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The Japanese player logged six birdies on the back nine before her closing bogey.
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I'd make a significant profit and watch the back nine unencumbered by split emotions.
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Sanders' proposals going back nine times in the Congress, that's exactly what he's proposed.
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Before the blaze, that plan had already been pushed back nine months for completion.
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Johnson played the three par-5 holes on the back nine in four under.
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He three-jacked from 35 feet, his second three-putt on the back nine.
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I mean, I go play a decent back nine and I'm three-under par.
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"The front nine was a lot of fun; back nine wasn't much," he said.
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Fowler led on the back nine until making consecutive bogeys late in the round.
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It has received an order for five more, though not a full back nine.
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Patrick Reed (66) was among five players in contention deep into the back nine.
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He used it three times on the back nine, missing the fairway each time.
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There were three two-shot swings on the back nine, all because of putting.
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Spieth is 6863-under on the back nine and just one stroke behind the leaders.
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But it threatened to unravel on the back nine as Gore began making his charge.
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Paisley (65) caught a hot streak on the back nine as well, carding six birdies.
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As broadcasters love to chant, the Masters famously begins on the back nine on Sunday.
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Nicklaus was five back at the turn, but then he rallied on the back nine.
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Johnson started on Baltusrol's back nine and made par on the 203th and the 220th.
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The front nine I'd play majestic, then on the back nine I'd be gone mentally.
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In his two competitive rounds, Woods played the course's back nine in six over par.
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That led to his third bogey on the back nine, and suddenly he had company.
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He was thankful to negotiate his back nine in even par after some wayward drives.
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Looking back, nine years after our divorce, I wonder, did we ever have a chance?
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Pulled myself together on the back nine, made some good swings, made a few putts.
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Another bogey at the ninth preceded three birdies in five holes on the back nine.
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Meanwhile, Bradley kept making birdies on the back nine just as Reavie did on Saturday.
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Chun carded three birdies on both the front and back nine for a six-under 66.
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I just had to give myself chances and I turned it on on the back nine.
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Landry started on the back nine and posted birdies on four of his first six holes.
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Northern Irishman McIlroy started on the back nine where he collected two of his four birdies.
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After they finished eating, Palmer asked Snedeker if he would like to play the back nine.
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On his back nine, as the rain intensified, Day had to fight the inclination to rush.
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Hadwin, of Canada, finished with a 22004, losing a three-stroke lead on the back nine.
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Woods said he was determined not to let the round slip away on the back nine.
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Oosthuizen, who often plays well at the Masters, charged with a 33 on the back nine.
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Snedeker, who began his round on the back nine, reeled off four consecutive birdies on Nos.
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Small slips on the back nine Sunday provided extra drama, but Woods would not be denied.
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Over the back nine, it only got better with six birdies in the final eight holes.
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He carded a 41 on the back nine for a 78, and finished tied for 22nd.
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There was the rain and wind that blew in on the back nine, which was forecast.
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"Just started riding that wave again on the back nine when Fran started playing great," Fleetwood said.
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He played the back nine in four under to win for the second time in two weeks.
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However, both players failed to replicate their form on the back nine, allowing Fisher to move ahead.
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PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS Steve Stricker pulled away on the back nine at Fallen Oak in Biloxi, Miss.
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The 2015 U.S. Open champion is grinding on the back nine to get below the cut line.
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Playing the back nine first, Chappell shot 28, making eight consecutive birdies after opening with a par.
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Then he bogeyed three of the first seven holes on the back nine to make it interesting.
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Matt Fitzpatrick had four birdies on the back nine for a 69 and was two shots behind.
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McIlroy chased his opening 39 with a bogey-free back-nine 32 for a one-over 71.
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Ji also was hot early, and two birdies early on the back nine gave her a 66.
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Starting on the back nine, the highlight of his round was an eagle at the par-five 17th.
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Ancer, playing the back nine first, sank four birdies in his last six holes to stay bogey free.
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And then the back nine, I got a few close to the holes where those birdies came easier.
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It was again his back nine, not his back side, however, that caused the biggest pains of all.
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"It was so much fun that back nine," said Kuchar, who ended his round with a sixth birdie.
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Seritage meanwhile said this month it will be taking back nine locations from Sears and redeveloping those spaces.
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Ko made double bogey on the closing hole for a 42 on the back nine and a 77.
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After playing the back nine in one over, Woods told LaCava that he had played one good nine.
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Most feared holes on the back nine are coming up but Woods's swing is so smooth right now.
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Smith has played the back nine each day at five under and settled for par on the front.
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We'll step out and try and get a chance to win on Sunday on the back nine again.
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Muñoz, a 21-year-old Colombian, was helped by five birdies on the back nine for a 20153.
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He had ground too hard to make a careless mistake on the shortest hole on the back nine.
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After charging to the lead with three birdies over four holes on his back nine, McCarron bogeyed Nos.
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Yang, the world's 25th-ranked player, opened on the back nine and ripped off four birdies in five holes.
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Hossler, who also shot a 43, overcame a three-shot deficit with four straight birdies on the back nine.
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The front side, my back nine, thought if I felt momentum going, I could have finished under par today.
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She played the first seven holes of the back nine at 23 over before birdieing the par-264 214th.
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Perry had four birdies and an eagle on the front nine — a feat he duplicated on the back nine.
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Until Spieth's back-nine catastrophe it was Greg Norman who had been linked for two decades with Masters misery.
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On the back nine I found my swing a little bit and made a few good birdies coming home.
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Six players were tied for the lead early on the back nine before the long-hitting Swafford took control.
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Spieth, the defending champion, got going on the back nine and shot 68 to wind up six shots behind.
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All told, McIlroy made up four shots on the back nine, moving to within six strokes of the lead.
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Instead of playing the back nine in a Wednesday practice round, as he had intended, he chose to rest.
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Niemann, also starting on the back nine, used an eagle at the 12th and six birdies to catch Scheffler.
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She shot 2195 on the back nine and wound up one shot ahead of I.K. Kim of South Korea.
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The lone exception was the 217 Masters, where Spieth gave up a five-stroke lead on the back nine.
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Leishman also played a bogey-free round and had three straight birdies on the back nine for a 65.
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If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress.
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On Thursday he fared better, opening with a 72 that included a 3-under 33 on the back nine.
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Matsuyama took advantage of a collapse on the back nine by Byeong Hun An, who led after three rounds.
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Three-times major champion Jordan Spieth hit three balls into the water on his outward half — the back nine.
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But then Kerr, who started at No. 10, birdied both par 3s on the back nine and kept going.
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I hit it really well on the back nine, but at nine-under you're kind of doing everything well.
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"Pete, I can't see the ocean on the back nine," she said, as related by The New York Times.
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"Me and Q," Tallon said, "we're on the back nine and we want to finish it off in style."
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"It was tricky for me because on the back nine I really wasn't hitting fairways," said the 19-year-old.
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He also bogeyed four holes in a five-hole stretch on the back nine before a par at the 18th.
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Deadlocked after nine holes, the two friends and rivals produced an enthralling back nine showdown worthy of any Masters champion.
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"That back (nine) got me a lot," said Ariya, who won her first major at the 9003 Women's British Open.
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Piller, who opened with a 63 on Thursday, started on the back nine and had one birdie before the turn.
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Spectators stood three-deep at the 2324th hole to greet Spieth, Day and McIlroy, who started on the back nine.
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He missed the fairway the first three times he used the driver, but started reaching it on the back nine.
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Koepka struggled on the back nine, playing it in one over as the wind picked up and the temperatures fell.
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At No. 18, he told his caddie, Harry Diamond, that he wanted to shoot three under on his back nine.
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"I tried to make sure I was focused enough on that back nine to shoot something under par," he said.
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Though he produced some sparkling shots, he and McIlroy could not hold off Johnson and Fowler on the back nine.
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Johnson said he had not worried too much about losing the four-stroke lead he took to the back nine.
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Ko bogeyed the 12th, but birdied the 15th before her closing bogey, while Piller was two over on her back nine.
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Spieth recovered on the back nine to finish at four-under par, tied for fourth with Rory McIlroy, who shot 103.
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He said about 450 Syrian Peshmerga fighters were involved in the offensive, which aimed to take back nine villages on Monday.
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Australian Norman took a four-shot lead into the rain-delayed Monday finish but lost it all on the back nine.
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He ranks 120th in back-nine scoring average on the PGA Tour, and is tied for 10th over the front nine.
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" As he watched the replay of the back nine with ESPN interviewer Tom Rinaldi, he cracked, "You guys are just mean.
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Matsuyama dropped to 1 under after a pair of bogeys to begin his back nine and then parred the 12th hole.
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"I could see the scores were really low today, so I wanted to go low on the back nine," Henderson said.
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American Jordan Spieth self-destructed on the back nine to gift the Masters to Danny Willett, the Englishman's first major victory.
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Ryu had seven birdies in an eight-hole stretch on the back nine and added two more on the front nine.
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But their fortunes changed on the first of the back nine, Colsaerts dropping a shot while his playing partner made birdie.
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A RALLY IN NAPA A year after being undone by a 40 on the back nine at Silverado in Napa, Calif.
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A year later, Stenson was tied for the lead on the back nine until dropping two shots and tying for third.
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Woods made two double bogeys and three bogeys on the back nine and salvaged a 73 to finish 15 shots behind.
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This time, he had the course to himself with a back nine that was close to perfection, much like his week.
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"And then I made three of them," he said, alluding to consecutive doubles on the back nine and an opening triple.
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On the back nine on Sunday, Stenson responded to a three-putt bogey by slamming his putter against his golf bag.
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Despite three birdies on the back nine, Thompson took a double bogey on the 16th hole on her way to 74.
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She made nine pars on the back nine and closed with a one-under-par 71 for a two-shot victory.
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Three years later, Koepka turned Sunday's back nine into a one-man show that Jones believes could have a long run.
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He drove the ball well until midway through the back nine, when he missed three consecutive tee shots to the right.
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Lewis's nightmare on the back nine culminated with two water balls that led to a 10 on the par-20063 18th.
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Joining them was Tommy Fleetwood, who dropped three shots in two holes on the back nine on his way to a 71.
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Schauffele broke out of a tight five-way battle, after five players had been bunched within one stroke on the back nine.
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The 31-year-old looked to have missed his chance when he began the back nine with two bogeys in three holes.
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Starting on the back nine, he bogeyed the par-five opener after finding a bunker and dropped another shot at the 12th.
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He bogeyed four of the last 13 holes and was ordered by officials to pick up the pace on the back nine.
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The world No. 21 has played the traditionally vulnerable back nine in a combined 279 over through two rounds, with one birdie.
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"It would have been nice to hole a couple of putts on the back nine for sure," the 27-year-old said.
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Ko made three key par saves on the back nine, the first with a 15-foot putt on the par-5 11th.
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Sung-hyun Park insinuated herself into the race by holding at least a share of the lead on the back nine Sunday.
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On Friday, Barron produced four birdies on the front nine and three more on the back nine in a bogey-free round.
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Starting his round on the back nine, he pounded his second shot on the par-5 fourth hole to within 20 feet.
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Triplett opened on the back nine with three birdies and a bogey, then made four birdies on a bogey-free front nine.
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Chun, however, had a strong back nine, including an eagle on the 15th to end the day in a position of strength.
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Sucher, the second-round leader, blew a five-stroke lead with a bogey, double-bogey, double-bogey start to the back nine.
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Even with three bogeys on the back nine that stalled his momentum, his 70 was the ninth consecutive time he broke par.
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Matsuyama, of Japan, matched Kisner's mark as the round wound down, logging seven birdies — four in a row on his back nine.
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"We are working to bring back nine persons for whom Bosnia and Herzegovina had issued arrest warrants," Minister Dragan Mektic told Reuters.
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The Canadian Adam Hadwin ran off five straight birdies to start the back nine at the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla.
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But things stalled from there, as Woods struggled off the tee on the back nine and failed to convert a few putts.
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This year, Curry posted better results, overcoming three bogeys in starting on the back nine with three birdies on his last six holes.
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On a bogey-free back nine, she had a run of four consecutive birdies from No. 12-15, then closed with another birdie.
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He negotiated the front with three birdies and one bogey to turn at two-under, but the back nine was a survival test.
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After shooting 40 on the front, including a double bogey right out of the gate, Spieth went two-under on the back nine.
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Ariya suffered an epic collapse on the back nine, blowing a seven-stroke lead after a triple-bogey at the par-four 10th.
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The leaders kind of stalled out and I was able to make a couple (of birdies) on the back nine and catch them.
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Kim birdied four holes en route to a 32 on the front before recording four birdies and a bogey on the back nine.
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She then had two birdies for a two-under 35 on her back nine, but she still missed the cut by two strokes.
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Jutanugarn had four back-nine birdies and was at 11-under 133, two shots ahead of Yeon Ryu, Marina Alex and Christina Kim.
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Reed said the tips from Woods on that back nine would help him not only this week but in the years to come.
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He later bought back nine of them, including a Degas that had once been in the possession of the Nazi leader Hermann Göring.
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I lose interest on the back nine though and usually end up in the clubhouse drinking jars and yarning with the old timers.
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Rory McIlroy was slowed again, this time with a pair of bogeys to start his back nine, and he finished with a 70.
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On the back nine, though, Scott seemed to lose control of his driver, although he still made three birdies and only one bogey.
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Luckily enough, I was playing well and I had a chance to win, and the back nine was a very special nine holes.
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The 33-year-old South African sank two more birdies on the back nine before dropping his only shot on the penultimate green.
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Theoretically, it makes sense that golfers might want to elegantly monitor the time from their own wrist as they meander the back nine.
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Upon reaching the back nine on Sunday, however, he came dangerously close to earning a spot on the list of golf's most epic collapses.
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Had Mr Koepka's back-nine jitters befallen anyone but a three-time major winner, fans and pundits would surely have called him a choker.
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I had three lip-outs on the back nine, but I hit the putts and the shots that I had to just keep hitting.
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"To be on the back nine at Augusta on a Sunday, to be playing some good golf, it doesn't get much better," he said.
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"Sometimes when you're president you have to make sacrifices, so I skipped the back nine," Alec Baldwin's Trump told Aidy Bryant's Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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"I'm on the back nine of my life now, this is about the front nine — the best parts of the front nine," he said.
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Ko scrambled her way to eight pars and a birdie on the back nine of her second round at Sahalee Country Club outside Seattle.
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A four-hole hot-streak as they turned through the back nine handed the European pair a two-hole advantage they would not relinquish.
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"I'm playing with freedom now and trying to place as high as I possibly can come the back nine holes on Sunday," Wallace said.
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The five birdies he picked up on the back nine, including at the final three holes, helped him stamp his authority on the event.
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Chun shot a third-round 65 to finish 19-under-par, thanks largely to a strong back nine with three birdies and an eagle.
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On the back nine Sunday, McIlroy backed away from a putt on the 11th hole because of a "Tiger" chant that rocked the course.
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They develop those relationships on golf courses and in cigar bars, negotiating on the back nine and firming up the deal over a Cohiba.
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"Just made a couple mistakes there on the back nine, made a couple bogeys, just got a little bit out of position," Johnson said.
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Also at 216 was Dustin Johnson, who made nothing but pars on the back nine and failed to birdie any of the par-5s.
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Jutanugarn took the lead after Smith stumbled with back-to-back bogeys and then surged ahead with three straight birdies on the back nine.
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After a double bogey on the ninth, McIlroy is now at 14-over par heading to the back nine where he shot 42 yesterday.
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And then my whole back nine, I had a chance to birdie all but one of the holes and only made one of them.
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He roared back with four birdies on the back nine, including a clutch putt from 20 feet to force the extra holes with Stone.
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Although this case dates back nine years, there is relevance today, as banks prepare for a deluge of small IPOs in an unfamiliar sector.
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"Got off to a nice start on that front nine, then just didn't hit many good shots on the back nine," Woods told reporters.
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It's not good, but at the same time, I think I can get into a groove and not lose any hair over the back nine.
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So the way I see it, he truly is on that back nine going, 'I got this,' where he made people feel not alone before.
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It was a bit adventurous on the back nine, I scrambled a good bit and did my bit to try and salvage a few holes.
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UPDATE, 10:30am BST, April 221th: With five birdies on the back nine on April 22.2th, Justin Rose surged into a tie for the lead.
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She opened the back nine with a bogey but bounced back with a birdie at the 215th and an eagle at the par-5 14th.
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Rory McIlroy, the defending champion, saved his round with another blistering back-nine performance, but he will begin the final day eight shots behind Willett.
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Lee started her round on the back nine and was nine-under through nine holes, prompting thoughts that she might get under the 60 mark.
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Her back nine included four bogeys, two birdies and an eagle on the par-5 17th hole as she drained a shot from 116 yards.
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She started on the back nine and carded five straight birdies to open her round on her way to making the turn at 6 under.
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The first responders who survived came back, nine months later when the site closed, like my father did — full of rage, chronically exhausted and sick.
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They dashed to the back nine to witness Woods, the game's hobbled giant, on the most promising day of his comeback from four back operations.
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From November to this month, he fell back nine percentage points, the largest drop of any of the top four candidates, who remained tightly bunched.
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He equaled Spieth's one under on the back nine, but the damage was done: Mickelson's 74 left him outside the top 20 at two over.
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It cheered him as he left the ninth green and walked toward that famed golf crucible: the back nine on a Sunday at the Masters.
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Three strokes ahead of Matsuyama at the turn, An made bogeys on the first two holes on the back nine and closed with two more.
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Though his back nine matched the best score on an inward half at an Open, it fell one shot short of the record for either nine.
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Plant scorched the back nine with seven birdies to turn in 28, but slipped back after carding bogeys on the par-four sixth and ninth holes.
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The final group crawled around the back nine in two hours and 47 minutes, but at least they finished, saving the tournament from spilling into Monday.
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They had a second surge on the back nine, capitalizing on the spongy greens to blow out their lead with three consecutive birdies from the 14th.
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Still, Mickelson called his awful back-nine collapse "kind of an anomaly" and vowed to be in the hunt for a 43rd career victory this weekend.
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It was tough on the back nine but those last two or three holes were back to good golf and hopefully I can continue that tomorrow.
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Michigan State will now face a tough test at home against a similarly ailing Duke Blue Devil squad that slid back nine spots since last week.
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Yet McDowell displayed his ability to grind out scores as he recovered from a double bogey on the 11th with four birdies on the back nine.
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Rose, the 523 United States Open champion, played Augusta National Golf Club's back nine in five-under 31 on his way to a five-under 67.
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Mickelson did not hit a fairway on the back nine until the 16th, and at one point, he took as many drops as he had birdies.
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Ahead by seven strokes after 54 holes, Koepka made four consecutive bogeys on the back nine Sunday and let his advantage shrink to a single stroke.
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Woods, on the other hand, could barely have made a worse start, four over par after nine holes, before somewhat steadying the ship on the back nine.
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"There was a lot of grinding there on the back nine but I'm happy to get in with four under," Dunne told the European Tour's official website.
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Mickelson, playing the back nine at Monterey first, punched new excitement into the round with four consecutive birdies to start his incoming nine to go eight-under.
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This time, however, Mr Molinari succumbed to the demons that have undone so many a contender on the back nine on Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club.
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A day after celebrating his 27th birthday, he plunged to four over after playing the more difficult back nine first, but he improved on the inward half.
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Rose certainly was convinced, the Olympic champion going toe-to-toe with Garcia in a back-nine battle that at times played out like a heavyweight fight.
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Truth be told, I think he was mainly annoyed because he'd hit only two hole in ones that day, but I fixed that on the back nine.
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My brother chided me to wake up and make a game of it, and I started playing better on the back nine, rescuing shots when it mattered.
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Kuchar steadied his round with three birdies on his back nine to win the tournament co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and Japan Golf Tour Organization (JGTO).
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He moved to 11 under par overall, one shot clear of Frenchman Victor Perez, who racked up six birdies on the back nine to match Wu's 67.
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Phelps saw much that he liked when Spieth, who started on the course's more difficult back nine, completed his first nine at par despite fighting his putter.
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Poulter made three birdies in his first seven holes before battling the worst weather of the week on his back nine, shooting a one-under-par 210.
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Molinari, who also started on the back nine, erased an early birdie with a bogey at the par-four 14th hole when he missed an 11-footer.
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But he was able to right himself on the back nine, birdying the par 224s, and is hardly out of it, especially with an inclement forecast for Saturday.
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He failed find the fairway on the first four holes on the back nine, however, and drives into the water at the 10th and 13th resulted in bogeys.
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Aided by birdies on 10, 14, 16 and 17 on Royal Troon's dangerous back nine, Mickelson posted a final score of 63, equaling the record low for majors.
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He built a four-shot lead early on the back nine, before Australian Cameron Smith made it interesting, cutting the margin to one shot with two quick birdies.
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Race To Dubai leader Francesco Molinari stumbled home with three bogeys on the back nine to sign for a 73, leaving the Italian eight shots off the lead.
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In his first start since winning the United States Open, Dustin Johnson ran off three birdies on the back nine to win the Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio.
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Finau, starting his round on the back nine at Riviera, birdied each of the first three holes and then No. 5, making the turn at 4 under par.
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In the second round on Friday, Woods started on the back nine — the more difficult side of the course — and played it in a bogey-free one under.
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But shows might air all 13 episodes of their original order without getting the so-called "back nine" pickup, and that serves as a de facto cancellation, too.
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Jason Day made a run with three straight birdies to start the back nine, only to play the final six holes in five over par for a 21.
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Starting on the back nine, back-to-back double bogeys on the 13th and 14th put him in a deep hole and things continued to only get worse.
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An eagle at the par-5 ninth first took her clear, and she added three birdies on the back nine to stretch her lead over Sei Young Kim.
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Murray started on the back nine and was two under after four holes and then made a move with four consecutive birdies starting at the par-four 693th.
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It was Spieth's first 4-hole lead on the PGA Tour since the Masters, where he lost a five-shot lead on the back nine at Augusta National.
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Mickelson played his first nine holes in three under; on his way to his 230, he started on the back nine and made the turn in seven under.
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He made a run with four birdies on the front nine, then played the back nine in four over with a double bogey, four bogeys and two birdies.
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Rose, the 2013 U.S. Open champion, playing with Woods and Jordan Spieth, opened with a par at the 10th with the marquee grouping playing the back nine first.
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When he made the turn, he had played the previous 18 holes in seven under par, spread over two days but the back nine proved a more difficult equation.
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Mr Kuchar did himself plenty of favours on the back nine, drilling birdies on both of its par-fives, including a tricky bender of a putt on the 17th.
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The leading trio were on the back nine when play was suspended with South Korean Lee, seeking his first European Tour win, and Englishman Slattery having completed 13 holes.
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Four-time Asian Tour winner Chapchai Nirat surged to 10-under after sinking five birdies in six holes on his back nine to finish three shots off the pace.
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The lone blemish on her scorecard came with a bogey on the par-218 ninth hole, but she was able to card three more birdies on the back nine.
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"Everything was good, like driver is good and then (my) irons were good," South Korean Lee told reporters after covering her back nine in a sizzling five-under 31.
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The 34-year-old American, however, raced into the turn with birdies at eight and nine then rode that momentum into an error free back nine featuring five birdies.
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Fleetwood, who played the back nine first, did not take advantage of still conditions early, instead making his move after the wind had started to make its presence felt.
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He dropped birdie putts of 17, seven and 10 feet on the back nine to extend his lead on greens that were giving other players something close to conniptions.
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Like Willett, Hend toiled on the back nine, dropping shots at the 13th, 14th and 15th before making amends with his second three at the 18th in consecutive days.
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"We all feel good about our chances, even the guy that's five (shots) back," twice Masters champion Watson told reporters after covering his back nine in three-under 33.
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"I was just in shock," said Koepka, who weathered a back-nine wobble precipitated by wind that gusted to 30 miles per hour to successfully defend his P.G.A. title.
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It was the second straight day that Spieth filled his card with birdies on the easier back nine at Glen Oaks — a 30 on Friday, a 28 on Saturday.
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Stefan, who watched it on TV with his wife and older son at home in San Diego, glued to the couch on the back nine, breathed in the moment.
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On a stage dotted with spindly crosses, a wall looking like craggy rock looming in the back, nine dancers created images of collective prayer that kept dissolving into violence.
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Gooch, conversely, did most of his damage on the back nine, picking up five strokes to match his fellow American on 64, a stroke better than Austrian Sepp Straka.
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McIlroy, who had an opening 66 before a poor finish on Friday left him five behind, collected three birdies on the back nine after missing several early putting opportunities.
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I holed some really good putts on the back nine, and Charley was the better player on the front nine, so we kind of matched each other quite well.
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Former Masters winner Scott, who started on the back nine at the Silverado Resort, mixed an eagle with six birdies and a bogey for a seven-under-par 65.
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He made the turn in 4-under 31 and picked up four shots on the back nine, ending with birdies on the par-5 17th and par-1003 18th.
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He then rolled in two more birdies on the back nine to complete a bogey-free card in windy conditions on the par-73 Plantation Course at Kapalua Resort.
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World number one Day dropped three shots on the back nine as gusting winds whipped across Augusta National and dried out the course, creating havoc for the world's best players.
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Van Rooyen, 29, who finished runner-up in Qatar and Morocco this season, stretched the lead to three strokes on the back nine at Hills Golf & Sports Club in Gothenburg.
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He did birdie both par-242s on the back nine, which was an improvement from yesterday, when he did not make a single birdie on any of the par-5s.
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"I was thinking that if I shot two under on the back nine, I'd still be in good shape," said Spieth, who had birdies on the 13th and 15th holes.
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The 30-year-old picked up five strokes in a blistering outward half of 30 before three back-nine birdies were partially offset by bogeys at the 10th and 18th.
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Mickelson, playing the back nine first, finished strongly after an even-par start for his first 13 holes with a double-bogey at the 18th, his ninth, the low moment.
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Kirk was among the early starters and made her move with a blistering back nine, carding a 29 that featured five birdies and an eagle in an eight-hole span.
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Dodt, twice a winner on the tour, also took advantage of the prevailing breezes on the back nine as he rattled off birdies at the 11th, 12th, 14th and 17th.
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Conservative play on the back nine kept him in front of a chasing pack that failed to supply sufficient pressure on a course where scoring had been difficult all week.
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Joint leader Kuchar, in perhaps the best form of his career at age 41, eagled both par-fives on the back nine and added six birdies, along with two bogeys.
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Patrick Rodgers made four straight birdies on the back nine to take the lead at 11-under par until rain and then darkness also delayed his round after 15 holes.
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Successive birdies on the back nine saw Ritthammer move two shots ahead with five holes remaining but a late wobble allowed MacIntyre to draw level at nine-under-par overall.
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But Woods said he was pleased merely to make a back-nine run and to be able to keep playing at a place where he has won nine tournament titles.
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Starting on the back nine, Pieters dropped three shots on his 10th and 11th holes but recovered with three straight birdies to finish one-shot clear of American David Lipsky.
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He drained putts of 38 and 23 feet on successive holes on the back nine and gave himself the cushion he needed to hold off Gary Woodland and Morgan Hoffmann.
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Four birdies in five holes heading into the back nine put Wiesberger firmly in the driving seat, with Fitzpatrick hitting out of bounds for a double-bogey at the ninth.
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Swinging with metronomic consistency, Kim fired a flawless five-under-par 67, with both of her back-nine birdies, at the 12th and 15th holes, coming courtesy of huge putts.
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The 52-year-old, nicknamed "Long John", birdied three more times on the back nine to equal the course record, showing that his booming drive is still a powerful weapon.
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Opening with a double bogey at the 10th hole and another one on the par-163 17th hole, Woods ended up with a paltry 3-over 38 on the back nine.
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You start off with a bogey, a snap hook three-wood off the 10th tee (but I) made some long putts on the front nine and got hot on back nine.
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Woods just has not taken advantage of the back-nine par-5s, though, mostly because he is nowhere near as sharp off the tee as he looked earlier in the week.
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Grace, the world number 30 and highest ranked player in the field, finished strongly with five birdies on the back nine for a total of 14 under-par for the tournament.
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Playing the back nine first, the 42-year-old American's round stuttered at the par-four third where he took a double bogey after hitting his tee shot out of bounds.
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The back nine at Wentworth is unlikely to go down as U.S. Masters winner Willett's favourite piece of land after he suffered on the inward half for the second successive day.
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The back nine of the tournament would instead become a taut battle among Hatton, Leishman and Sungjae Im, the 21-year-old from South Korea who won last week's Honda Classic.
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He had birdies on both the par 5s on the back nine and, after bogeying 17th, just missed a birdie at 18 to finish the day five strokes off the lead.
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Matsuyama's big run began after a sluggish start to the back nine on a muggy, humid day that left Muirfield Village soft, particularly with a burst of heavy rain late Wednesday.
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He had made a 56-foot birdie putt on the second hole, and he would drain a 29-footer on the 15th for his fourth consecutive birdie on the back nine.
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Jason Dufner, the second-round leader, lost his lead with four straight bogeys on the front nine and hit two balls into the water on the back nine for a 77.
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The 26-year-old Colombian, who began the round a stroke behind the leaders, followed Henderson's lead on the back nine with a double bogey at 13 and birdie on 16.
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If any other player had been treated the way Bale has been by a hyperpartisan Spanish media, he would probably prefer playing for his country, and playing the back nine, too.
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After a slow back-nine start, the 36-year-old three-time PGA Tour winner caught fire when he sank a 14-foot putt on the par-5 18th for eagle.
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Glover cooled off on the back nine, but his 70 moved him into a tie for sixth, at five-under 283, with Brendan Steele (68), Francesco Molinari (71) and Scott (70).
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Leishman began the final round with a five-shot lead and was seven strokes in front of Englishman Rose, who twice cut the margin to two shots on the back nine.
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"Two good yardages, two good shots and two good putts," he said after becoming the sixth player to record two eagles on the back nine in the same round at The Players.
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Leading with nine holes to play at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow on Sunday, he had three consecutive bogeys on the back nine and finished equal fifth behind winner Justin Thomas.
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Now nearly 75 years old and deep in the back nine of his career, Edwards wants to convert this new movement—and consolidate his life's work—into something that will outlast him.
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"I told the guys (his playing partners) that I was going to have a good back nine ... that I was about to do something good and it happened," Dufner told Golf Channel.
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The back nine was much kinder for Armour though as he birdied the 10th and ran off four more from the 13th including a 57-foot putt at the par-four 16th.
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Two weeks after he surrendered a five-stroke lead on the back nine at Augusta National Golf Club to finish the Masters tied for second, Spieth took a vacation in the Bahamas.
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Monty, as he remains best known, has since played hundreds of rounds at Royal Troon, with its charming par-3 eighth hole, the 123-yard Postage Stamp, and its brutish back nine.
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OAKMONT, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A hot start and a back-nine eagle pushed Jason Day 37 spots up the leaderboard and into contention in the third round at the U.S. Open on Saturday.
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It is likely to be set up somewhat shorter this week, however, to create more risk/reward drama at both par-5s on the back nine and the driveable par-4 fifth.
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Morikawa started the day with bogeys at his second and third holes before collecting his first birdie at the seventh and then made six birdies in eight holes on the back nine.
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You have to go back nine years and five tournaments to the first ever World T20, when India beat Pakistan by five runs with three balls to go, for anything like that.
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In a development her doctors considered nothing short of miraculous, Leishman's wife recovered and was on the course Thursday following her husband from outside the ropes for part of his back nine.
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The scene on the back nine on a cool afternoon called to mind Greg Norman's six-stroke collapse in this event in 123, which handed the tournament to the Englishman Nick Faldo.
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Within arm's reach of leader and playing partner Spieth as they began the back nine, McIlroy hooked his tee shot on No. 10 into the trees and scrambled to make a bogey.
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Starting his round on the back nine — with a tee time that maximized his exposure on the two TV networks providing coverage — Woods hit his first six tee shots into the rough.
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But Park birdied five of her first seven holes and added four birdies on the back nine for an eight-under 64 and a two-stroke victory over No. 3 Minjee Lee.
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England's James Morrison briefly shared the lead after four straight birdies on the back nine but slipped into the chasing pack after bogeying the 15th and 16th to finish on four-under.
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Daniel Summerhays, who entered the final round with a three-shot lead, began the back nine with two straight bogeys and finished with a double bogey for a 78, tying for 10th.
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Armour got a little tentative on fast greens on his back nine but made it home safely to post a 10-under-par 134 halfway total at the Country Club of Jackson.
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Starting on the back nine, Johnson sank four birdies but his best form came after the turn when he rattled in a 30-foot eagle putt on the par five fourth hole.
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With his strong finish on the back nine, Fowler ended one dubious streak while extending another — he still has not broken par in the final round while holding the 264-hole lead.
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"I thought I could pump a drive down there at 11 and get to it with an iron and turn the tide around and play a good solid back nine," Woods said.
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Woods posted four birdies and an eagle in a six-hole stretch on the back nine at Austin Country Club to claim the victory while Snedeker was beaten 6&4 by Aaron Wise.
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She is still the biggest box office attraction on the LPGA Tour, at least in the United States, and a gallery of about 100 followed her on her back nine late on Friday.
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Wiesberger let his advantage slip with a double bogey at the fourth but made amends at the 11th with an eagle and the two leaders were neck-and-neck on the back nine.
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Troon also has a bear of a back nine, usually played into the wind, but it is the tiny Postage Stamp that has become the club's signature hole and primary clubhouse talking point.
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Spieth hopes to win for the eighth time on the PGA Tour, first time in his home state of Texas and first time since his back-nine collapse at the Masters last month.
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Lahiri played a bogey-free back nine crowned by a birdie at the last to overcome a loose first nine and post a two-over 73, qualifying for weekend play at Quail Hollow.
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World number 17 Casey edged past overnight leaders Bernd Ritthammer and Robert MacIntyre with three birdies on the back nine to finish 14-under for the tournament at the Green Eagle Golf Course.
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Vegas was in a four-way tie for the lead with Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth at six-under 134 after Spieth rattled off five straight birdies on the back nine.
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That trust is often built on the back nine of the golf course, over lunches, on the sidelines at our kids' ball games, down at the local PTA, or at the Kiwanis Club.
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Two hours later the South Korean came within a whisker of doing just that, falling at the fourth extra hole of a playoff after Ariya overcame a back-nine collapse at Shoal Creek.
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Thomas, who played in the first group off the back nine, took advantage of pristine greens and nonexistent pressure to record a 220, tying his year-old course record, vaulting him into ninth.
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But Englishman Paul Casey, one-shot off the lead at the halfway stage, struggled on the back nine and dropped 10 places after a one-under 71 to stand five shots behind the pacesetters.
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Couples climbed from 16th to start the round all the way to a solo second finish, making four birdies on the front nine and five on the back nine in a bogey-free day.
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While Ko played a great front nine and an average back nine, it was the opposite for Kim, whose four-shot lead starting the day turned into a four-stroke deficit at the turn.
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Ko produced a meticulous back nine to card a closing three-under-par 69 and head a South Korean one-two finish, with Choi Hye-jin (67) in second place three strokes further back.
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Thomas birdied his first four holes, picked up another shot on the eighth before sinking four more birdies on the back nine at Nine Bridges Golf Club to reach a 13-under 131 total.
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On the 20th anniversary of an epic Masters meltdown Augusta National witnessed a far more shocking collapse as Jordan Spieth self-destructed on the back nine to gift the Green Jacket to Danny Willett.
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Reed was delighted with his form from tee to green in the second of the PGA Tour's four playoff events, but was left scratching his head after his putting frailty on the back nine.
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Chalmers rattled off five birdies on his back nine to score 10 points for the day and finish the second round with 24 and a two-point lead over Gary Woodland and Martin Laird.
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No longer exempt, he could have earned an automatic spot by winning the Senior Open last year at Sunningdale, where he had a two-shot lead on the back nine before fading to third.
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Reed did not exactly bust it down, but two birdies in a bogey-free back nine were enough, while Australian Open champion Ancer birdied the 16th and 17th for his best result on tour.
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After losing his lead on the back nine, and finishing Sunday's round tied, Jordan Spieth sank a birdie chip-in from the sand trap on the first playoff hole to win the Travelers Championship.
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"It felt like very different, that front nine and back nine," the Spaniard told reporters after posting a nine-under 133 halfway total in the second of the PGA Tour's four FedExCup playoff events.
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Molinari, of Italy, holed a 50-foot eagle putt to start the back nine, and he never stopped until he turned the final round into a runaway at the TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm.
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He made gains on the fifth and the ninth to turn in 34 and added three more birdies on the back nine to put himself in the driving seat ahead of Sunday's final round.
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"I had to look at something else other than what was going on on that hole," Kerr said, adding that it was "a shame" to see what happened to Lewis on the back nine.
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The case is an absolute mess, replete with a chain of internal emails going back nine years, showing bank employees plotting to fabricate documents so they can evict this woman once and for all.
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"I knew on the back nine I had a two-shot lead (and) ... if I played smart golf ... those guys would have to catch me coming in," an emotional Potter said in a greenside interview.
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In the opening round of her title defense, former world number one Lydia Ko of New Zealand registered two successive bogeys on the back nine to finish with a 73, 10 shots off the lead.
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He did manage to birdie both of the par 221992s on the back nine, something he was unable to do Thursday, but a bogey on 2218 dropped him back to four-over for the week.
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The 28-year-old Park, who missed two months of the season due to injuries, made five birdies in a bogey-free back nine to take a one-shot lead over Lewis in benign conditions.
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The 20133 champion negotiated the back nine in one-over on a day when strong winds and low humidity baked the greens dry and left a couple of them on the verge of being unplayable.
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Jordan Spieth, with two major championships already to his credit at age 24, had just limped off the back nine at Augusta National on Sunday when he was compelled to put his day in perspective.
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After the par-five fifth hole was reduced to a par three due to flooding, Thompson notched four birdies on the back nine for a five-under-par 64 on the Blythfield Country Club course.
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At the Tour Championship, the PGA Tour flipped the nines at East Lake Golf Club so that the old back nine — which featured a long par-3 as the 18th hole — became the front nine.
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Twice a runner-up in Canada, Johnson used a scorching start that included five birdies over his first six holes and a birdie-birdie-eagle rampage on the back nine to get to 14-under.
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After the last of the interruptions, a 1-hour-27-minute delay on Sunday with the leaders on the back nine, the wind picked up and the players returned to what seemed a different course.
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Ariya (173) had a three-shot lead on the back nine but a bogey on 15 proved costly as the Thai was unable to hold off the charging Feng, who finished on 29-under 259.
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" Curry began his round on the back nine, and he said that when his name was announced on the tee, "I could barely feel my hands; I had to try to take a deep breath.
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The Canadian Adam Hadwin made two long birdie putts on the back nine and had a four-under-par 67 to extend his lead to four shots in the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla.
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The 57-year-old American admitted to feeling fatigued after finishing equal 18th at one-over 289, but said the applause that greeted him as he walked up the back nine gave him a lift.
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He played the back nine on the South Course and was finished by 9.30 A.M. Woods did not speak to reporters after his round, but had a quick word with ESPN while he was playing.
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Luton will rely heavily on junior tailback Ryan Nall, the Pac-12's third-leadingreturning rusher, and an experienced defense bringing back nine starters - highlighted by linebackers Manase Hungalu and Bright Ugwoegbu and cornerbackXavier Crawford.
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The notable exception was the 2016 Masters, where Spieth, striving for a wire-to-wire win, took a five-stroke lead into the back nine and lost by three strokes to the Englishman Danny Willett.
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On his back nine, Finau said, he thought of the resilience displayed by his captain, who has returned from four back surgeries to win three individual tournaments, including the Masters, in the past 15 months.
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Other investors in the round include Cota Capital and other earlier backers like Amplify Ventures, The House Fund, Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen, and former Autodesk CEO Carl Bass, whose relationship with Goel dates back nine years.
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Paisley, who started on the back nine, has been in stellar form in the new year having already claimed his maiden European Tour title at the BMW South African Open and two more top-five finishes.
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I know there's a lot of pressure coming down the back nine here, but I think these guys, the way they have setup the golf course today, it's set up for these guys to go low.
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"Actually, my aim in this tournament was to get one of the four qualifying spots to the Open Championship, and it wasn't until the back nine today that I felt the pressure is on," Jazz said.
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The two par-fives on the back nine proved pivotal, with Garcia making a clutch seven-footer to save par at the 13th before Rose missed a six-footer that would have taken him three clear.
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The PGA Championship, which plodded along laboriously for three days, suddenly came to life on the back nine on Sunday, with five tied for the lead at one stage before 24-year-old Thomas emerged triumphant.
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And though Johnson and Kuchar made a late surge on the back nine in the afternoon, cutting a four-hole lead to two by the 15th, Pieters and McIlroy were still able to finish them off.
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Still tied for second, he drowned his tee shot on the 16th hole and finished with a 72, dropping four shots in four holes and falling six shots back after a 41 on the back nine.
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While everyone around him spun out or ran out of road, McIlroy put together four birdies, against one bogey, on the back nine for a final-round two-under 215, good for a one-stroke victory.
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During an 11-year major title drought that was exacerbated by injuries and ignominy, Woods needed to be in contention on the back nine in the final round a couple of times before he broke through.
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AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - Englishman Danny Willett took advantage of a shocking back-nine meltdown by defending champion and runaway leader Jordan Spieth to win his first major title by three shots at the Masters on Sunday.
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McIlroy, the only double winner of the event at Quail Hollow, where he once shot 61, was at home at his happy hunting ground, picking up five back nine birdies on an idyllic spring afternoon in Charlotte.
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Playing the back nine first at the links-style Erin Hills layout, Hadwin was sputtering along at two-over par through eight holes when he suddenly clicked into gear with a birdie at the par-five 18th.
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The world's top-ranked player opened on the back nine Friday with consecutive birdies, then eagled the par-12 214th and birdied three of the next four holes, the only blemish being a bogey at No. 27.
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The birdies dried up after the world number five turned into the wind for the back nine, however, and he missed the green with his approach shot then three-putted for the double bogey at the 15th.
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He barely made the halfway cut but fought into contention with four birdies on his back nine on Saturday, capping off his day by coaxing in a 10-footer at his final hole, the par-four ninth.
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Day had an awful day of wayward driving and squandered a three-shot lead on the back nine with consecutive bogeys, before rising to the occasion and hitting one of the best clutch shots of his life.
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She made a further four birdies on the back nine and tapped in for par from less than three feet to sign for a total of 15-under 273 on the Tanjong Course at Sentosa Golf Club.
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She made birdies on three of the last four holes of the front nine before making the turn at 4-under and scorching the back nine for another six birdies, including four straight to end her day.
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Snedeker finished in the top three in his first three starts of 2016 and has sniffed a chance on the back nine at Augusta in the past, where his ultra-smooth putting stroke is his greatest asset.
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Spieth led last year's U.S. Masters by five shots going into the back nine of the fourth round but found water twice in a quadruple-bogey at the 12th hole and lost the title to Danny Willett.
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Spieth, whose first PGA Tour event was the Nelson as a 16-year-old amateur six years ago, is playing only his second tournament since squandering a five-stroke lead on the back nine at the Masters.
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Starting on the back nine, the three-times European Tour winner made birdies on the 12th and 13th holes and another on the 17th to turn in 32, before adding four more birdies on the front nine.
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Woody Austin made four birdies in a six-hole stretch on the back nine and finished with a four-under-par 68 on to take the first-round lead in the Senior British Open in Carnoustie, Scotland.
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Kuchar had mixed feelings after bogeying the 18th, having lost his back nine momentum with just three holes left when play was suspended for just over two hours due to the threat of lightning in the area.
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He instead prefers to focus on the first three rounds at Bethpage Black, through which he led the Barclays at nine under par, rather than a few easily fixable mis-hits on the back nine on Sunday.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Rising Thai talent Jazz Janewattananond blew a substantial lead on the back nine but still held on to win the Korea Open by a single stroke from local Hwang Inn-choon at Cheonan on Sunday.
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"I was only four back at the time when I made the turn, and so I thought that maybe if I got on the back nine, I shot 22014 — maybe 29 — that would be enough," Woods said.
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AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - The ecstasy of Danny Willett's three-shot victory at the Masters on Sunday will forever be linked to the eye-popping agony of Jordan Spieth's stunning collapse on the back nine at Augusta National.
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"I felt very comfortable today because last year I had a second-place finish here, so I really have more confidence on this golf course," Jang, 23, told reporters after covering her back nine in three-under 33.
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"I felt like I had a lot of chances to win, especially on the back nine and with none of them falling it kind of set me back and also made me nervous," Kim said through a translator.
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But his experience on the back nine at Bellerive was different, in part because of storms that took him off the course in the middle of his second round Friday and brought him back for a 7 a.m.
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Kisner and Brown, one-stroke leaders to start the day, fell apart on the back nine with three bogeys and a double-bogey after making the turn at even par following two bogeys and a pair of birdies.
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Kuchar (68), who battled dizzy spells in the first round, did well to offset a back-nine double-bogey with an eagle at the par-five 13th but still needed some magic to stick around for the weekend.
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Despite making his fourth birdie of the round on the par-five ninth, he was forced to save par on the 10th hole that he felt arrested what could have been a slide downhill on the back nine.
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Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand shot a nine-under-par 733, reeling off eight birdies on the back nine, to surge to a three-stroke lead through the third round at the Yokohama Tire L.P.G.A. Classic in Prattville, Ala.
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Rickie Fowler, the No. 5 seed, rallied from three down on the back nine to square his match on the 15th hole, only for Jason Dufner to win the next two holes in a 2-and-1 victory.
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Paired with rival Rory McIlroy, Spieth barely held off the pack on the back nine, yet will sleep on the lead for the seventh straight round at Augusta, a head-turning feat at any age, much less 22.
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Mickelson broke clear of a congested leaderboard with three consecutive birdies on his back nine on the way to a 16-under total of 199, two ahead of Japan's Hiroshi Iwata, who carded a 69 at Spyglass Hill.
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At one point on the back nine, Spieth was projected to win the FedEx Cup title, but he played the final eight holes even, while behind him Thomas and Schauffele each played the same stretch in two-under.
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Fowler, who played the back nine in 39 strokes after needing 33 on the front, marveled at Woods's ability to post nines of 35 and 33 on a day when his control off the tee had escaped him.
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Sports Briefing Kevin Kisner birdied the first three holes on the back nine to take the lead on Sunday and held on to win the Colonial, despite a charge by Jordan Spieth, the defending champion, in Fort Worth.
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Jones had picked up at least three shots over the back nine in the first three rounds so would have been confident of victory when he turned around at level par with his three-shot overnight lead intact.
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Lorenzo-Vera holed four straight birdies to finish the back nine at Jumeirah Golf Estates, carding a nine-under-par 63 in the opening round as he matched his lowest ever score to par on the European Tour.
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Korda, playing in milder morning conditions, did not get her round going until making a birdie on the par-5 15th hole — she opened on the back nine — and followed that with another on the par-3 17th.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Patrick Reed fought off furious back-nine challenges from Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler to record a one-shot victory at the U.S. Masters on Sunday, trading in his 'Captain America' cap for a Green Jacket.
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In BP's case this has begun to translate into deliveries being pushed back nine months into the future in the latest case, a source said, raising the prospect of patchy supplies to Egypt's energy-intensive industries and power plants.
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African George Coetzee carded four birdies on the back nine to claim the European Tour's Tshwane Open with a tournament total of 18 under par on his home course at the Pretoria Country Club on Sunday.
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Mikko Korhonen of Finland and Spaniard Jorge Campillo were runners-up on 269 with American Peter Uihlein a further stroke back after he carded five birdies on the back nine of his final round to storm up the field.
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As Saturday&aposs round wore on, he was consistently coming up short as the already soft greens got even slower; he had six birdie tries of 242 feet or less over the back nine and didn&apost make one.
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Molinari, who took a two-shot lead into the final round at Augusta National before a pair of double-bogeys on the back nine opened the door for eventual winner Tiger Woods, was nine shots back of leader Lowry.
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Playing the back nine first, Matsuyama jump-started his round with a 30-foot eagle putt at the par-five 18th, where he read the green perfectly and curled a sharply-breaking putt into the middle of the cup.
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The Thai picked up four more shots on his back nine to be at 10-under-par 132 at the halfway stage but he refused to be complacent especially with Matt Kuchar and Justin Rose lurking two shots behind.
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His back nine was highlighted by a hole-in-one on the par-3, 207-yard 723th hole, but he squandered an opportunity to move into second place by himself with a bogey on the par-4 18th hole.
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AUGUSTA, Georgia (Reuters) - On the 20th anniversary of an epic Masters meltdown Augusta National witnessed a far more shocking collapse on Sunday as Jordan Spieth self-destructed on the back nine to gift the Green Jacket to Danny Willett.
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But Hsu missed two short putts on the back nine, one for birdie on 14 that would have given her a two-stroke lead and another on 17 that resulted in a bogey that put Lincicome ahead for good.
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Things went from bad to worse at the par-four ninth when he pulled his drive out-of-bounds for another double and, though there were no more dropped shots on the back nine, the damage had been done.
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American Spieth, seeking a second consecutive victory at Augusta National and a third major title, was five strokes ahead before he imploded with a bogey-bogey start to the back nine followed by a quadruple-bogey 7 at the 12th.
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The American played what he called a "modified" nine holes at the Liberty National Golf Club on Tuesday with Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson but limited his shots to chips and putts on the back nine at Wednesday's pro-am.
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Woodland's would post just one birdie on back nine that was highlighted by two huge par saves, a chip in for par at the 12th and monster 43-foot for another at 14 that kept him from losing ground to Rose.
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The American was unable to maintain his scorching pace over the back-nine, however, eventually signing for a two-under-par 68 that saw him finish three shots behind compatriot Brooks Koepka in fourth place on four-over for the tournament.
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Lowry's lead evaporated with three bogeys on the back nine and he finished with an even-par 71, tied for second on nine-under along with Ian Poulter (67) and Rory Sabbatini (68) at Hilton Head Island's Harbour Town Golf Links.
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Michael Kim and Andrew Putman, who led after the second round, also had their troubles with three consecutive bogeys to start the back nine and a double-bogey at the par-four 15 to shoot 76 and also tie for 15th.
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Davis Love III also threatened the grip of the twentysomethings at the top of the leaderboard with five straight birdies from the second but the 53-year-old stumbled on the back nine and finished tied for eighth after a 67.
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On a day when crowd roars for eagles, birdies, and aces had finally energized the back nine after a week of tough scoring conditions, the gasps when Spieth bathed two shots on the 12th were darned likely heard in Atlanta.
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But on an error-strewn back nine the misfiring 40-year-old looked lost for ideas and control, particularly off the tee, carding two double-bogeys over his final three holes, including one at the 18th to cap a rollercoaster afternoon.
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Lowry and Piercy were the last two players with a chance to pass Johnson, but Piercy played the back nine in one over for a 218, and Lowry bogeyed three of the last five holes en route to a 76.
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"I played quite steady my front nine, which was the back nine, then I just scrambled my way around the front nine," said Noren, a nine-times European Tour winner who lost a playoff at the Farmers Insurance Open last month.
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Oosthuizen, who has not won a tournament in two years, picked up two shots in his first 10 holes and recorded three birdies on the back nine, despite windy conditions, to race ahead before dropping a shot at the 17th.
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"I was striking my irons and everything pretty good but I didn't hit my driver very well especially on the back nine so I think that's where my bogeys kind of came from," Ko admitted after taking a share of 14th.
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World number 141 Hwang had appeared to have the trophy in his grasp when he approached the 18th tee for the first time having rustled up three birdies in difficult scoring conditions on the back nine as his rivals faltered.
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He bogeyed the eighth but parred the ninth for a 30 going out, then played the back nine in 35 for a 65 that won that Open by two strokes over Nicklaus, a 20-year-old amateur at the time.
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Toms, who prevailed last year in Colorado Springs for his first PGA Tour Champions title, opened in the morning wave on the back nine with an up-and-down start, notching two birdies and two bogeys in his first five holes.
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Woods told a friend last year that he yearned for the younger players to feel the heat of playing the back nine of a tournament on Sunday with him holding the lead, a scenario that played out at the Tour Championship.
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He didn't make a birdie until the 236th hole, never had a birdie putt inside 29 feet except for on the par 25s on the back nine, and scrapped for a 215 to go into the weekend seven shots behind.
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Ji overcame a strong wind and temperatures in the 210s on Sunday, making three birdies on the back nine as she pulled away and closed with a one-under-par 5003 for a two-shot victory in the Tournament of Champions.
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On the back nine on Saturday, he missed two putts of four feet, one for a birdie at No. 14 and the other for par at No. 18, and settled for bogey at No. 473 after an errant seven-footer.
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Spieth ran off three straight birdies on the back nine at Glen Oaks Club and finished with two pars for a six-under 64, matching the low score of the tournament and building a three-shot lead over Dustin Johnson.
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The Englishman's initial challenge wilted in the brutal conditions on Saturday when he dropped five shots in four holes to start his back nine but when the USGA watered the Shinnecock Hills course overnight, Fleetwood knew a low score was possible.
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New Zealander Michael Hendry snatched the outright lead on the back nine but Scott rose to the challenge with a birdie on the par-three 14th and an eagle on the par-five 15th to give himself a two-stroke cushion.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An $21 billion hedge fund run by billionaire Michael Platt has yet to give investors all their money back nine months after the fund was shuttered, a spokesman for the fund and three of its investors told Reuters.
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With tension building with each shot, Woodland kept his cool and collected his first birdie of the back nine at the par five 14th to reclaim a two-stroke advantage and turn the U.S. Open into a two horse race.
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He made three birdies in a row on the back nine, getting the first of them with a 30-foot putt on the 13th, and managed to avoid a bogey on the signature par-five final hole despite landing in the water.
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With Jordan Spieth long in the clubhouse following a disappointing even-par 71 that left him one-under for the tournament, Day launched a back-nine blitz that looked like carrying him into the lead after two rounds of his home Open.
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U.S. Masters champion Reed fired four birdies in six holes on the back nine to finish with five-under-67 and set a clubhouse target of 14-under, while England's Willett posted three birdies in a row to join him with a 68.
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American young gun Spieth, a double major winner at age 22, will look to rebound from his stunning back-nine collapse at this year's Masters when he led by five strokes with nine holes to play and the coveted Green Jacket seemingly secure.
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Two bogeys on his back nine left him six shots off the pace in a share of 23rd but the 24-year-old cannot be written off after erasing a four-shot deficit in the final round to retain his title last year.
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Niemann, a former top-ranked amateur who is the youngest player in the field at 22003, started his round on the back nine and birdied five of his first seven holes before adding three birdies and a bogey on the front nine.
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Rose, fresh off his convincing triumph at Colonial, mixed three bogeys with four birdies while Dufner, winless since his fifth PGA Tour victory last year at Muirfield, was undone by a four-hole stretch on his back nine that included three bogeys.
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Cantlay, who won the Memorial Tournament less than three weeks ago, started on the back nine and was tied for the lead before a double-bogey at the par-three eighth where his tee shot found the water in front of the green.
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Schwab sank an eagle on the par-five first hole and had four birdies on the back nine, offset by a bogey on the fifth, to go 12-under overall on a relatively low-scoring day at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal golf course.
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The 20-year-old, competing in her first-ever LPGA major, birdied seven holes to leapfrog overnight leader Ashleigh Buhai, who bogeyed three of the back-nine holes to finish the third round with a par score and drop to second place.
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The overnight leader, who started the day three clear, had been pegged back by the midway point at the Bro Hof Slott Golf Club, but played a superb back nine to record a four-under-par 68 and move to 15 under par.
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Despite having begun the final round two shots behind Dustin Johnson and Kevin Chappell, McIlroy blistered East Lake Golf Club with a six-under-par 214 that included a 30 on the back nine that was highlighted by his approach on the 16th.
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Thomas and Reed were emblematic of those who had success early in the day, opening strong — both shot 218 on the front nine, and Thomas had birdies on his first four holes — before navigating the back nine cautiously to record a good score.
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MALELANE, South Africa (Reuters) - Britain's Scott Jamieson came through a turbulent back nine that included an eagle and a double bogey to card a 343 for a one-shot lead after the third round of the European Tour's Alfred Dunhill Championship on Saturday.
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Making the turn at level par, the 27-year-old American looked poised to make a back nine move into contention but then the wheels fell off with a triple bogey at 13, where his third shots found the creek guarding the green.
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Two-time major champion Chun matched Yin's 65 at the SKY72 Golf and Resort in Incheon, west of Seoul, while LPGA rookie Park, who won this year's U.S. Women's Open, stuttered on the back nine before coming home with a three-under 69.
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Woodland, 35, seeking his first major title, has had only two bogeys this week — and none on the back nine, a streak he extended on Saturday with a chip-in for par at No. 12 and a 43-foot par putt at 14.
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In search of answers and options, some observers seem to have settled on an obvious one — remove Anthony from the starting lineup and marginalize the proud gunslinger and 10-time All-Star who is now on the back nine of his N.B.A. career.
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The 26-year-old struck three birdies and an eagle on the par-five third, offset by a single bogey, to turn in 32 and added two more birdies on the back nine to emerge as the clubhouse leader at The International.
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Jordan Spieth, the 218 Masters champion, who was slumping not long ago, endured a topsy-turvy front nine later on Thursday before roaring through the back nine with five consecutive birdies to finish with a six-under 21960 and a two-stroke lead.
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Rory McIlroy, who can become world number one for the first time since 2015 with a win on Sunday, had a solid start but struggled toward the finish with three bogeys on the back nine for a round of one-over par.
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The world number 14 foundered with a double bogey at the ninth, however, and bounced from bunker to bunker on the back nine only to rattle in another birdie at the last to stay in contention for a third title of the year.
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However, the back-nine that had proved so costly 24 hours earlier was far more inviting on Sunday and he charged into contention with four straight birdies from the 12th but missed three more chances to pick up shots over his closing holes.
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"I was fighting out there trying to get my ball around the golf course and score," said Woods, who bogeyed the first hole at the Farmers Insurance Open and played a stretch of six holes on the back nine in six over.
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Tied at the ninth hole following a bogey, the 20-year-old, who had led most of the day, racked up six birdies on the back nine, including three in succession to close a six-under 64 round at White Sulphur Springs.
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Yuan, who turned professional last year, mixed eight birdies and an eagle on the par-five ninth with three bogeys on the back nine at Royal Pines Resort for a nine-under 743 total midway through the A$1.5 million ($1.03 million) event.
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Lee Westwood, who has played in more World Golf Championships than anyone since they began in 1999, shot 31 on the back nine for a 66 and was three strokes behind, along with the Spanish rookie Jon Rahm, who had a 67.
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Holmes closed with a 1-under 70, and that was enough to overcome Justin Thomas, who took 19 putts on the back nine at Riviera Country Club — three of them from 8 feet when he lost the lead for good — and shot 693.
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Justin Rose began the day one shot back of Woodland but the Englishman crumbled on the back nine with three bogeys for a three-over 183 and a tie for third at seven-under with Xander Schauffele, Chez Reavie and Spain's Jon Rahm.
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Johnson briefly got to nine under with four consecutive birdies on his back nine but he bogeyed the par-four 17th after hitting his second shot into a greenside bunker before posting an eight-under 64, one ahead of compatriot Brendan Steele.
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"I just really want to be able to compete this week, play all four days and give myself a chance on the back nine on Sunday to win this thing," a relaxed and smiling Woods told a news conference on Tuesday from the Albany Club.
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The American overcame a shaky start after bogeying the par-five second, making gains on the fourth, sixth and eighth to turn in two-under, before scorching the back nine with six more birdies to better the 65 set by China's Xiyu Lin in 2013.
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"Sometimes, when you're president, you have to make sacrifices, so I skipped the back nine," Baldwin-as-Trump said, greeting Aidy Bryant's Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, who teed him up with a phone call from San Juan, Puerto Rico's desperate mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (Melissa Villaseñor).
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Spieth, who began the third round with a one-shot advantage, ended it in the same position after a wild afternoon at a windswept Augusta National, carding a one-over 73 that featured two double-bogeys on the back nine, including one at the 18th.
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Englishman Poulter, competing in his sixth PGA Tour event in as many weeks, ran out of gas on the back nine as he carded five bogeys over an eight-hole stretch en route to a four-over 75 that left him three shots back.
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Taylor, who has not had a full PGA Tour card for the past three years, ran off four straight birdies on the back nine Sunday to close with a seven-under-par 2201 to win the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, Calif.
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World number seven Scott also blitzed the back nine for a 153 and a share of fourth place on six-under, with American Spieth a further shot back in a share of ninth after a double bogey at the 15th left him with a 70.
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Kim steadied after her double-bogey at the ninth to shoot a 73, however, playing a bogey-free back nine and finishing in style by sinking a six-foot birdie at the last that left her nipping at the heels of her fellow South Korean.
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At the former, where he was also paired with Mr Molinari on the final day, Mr Woods briefly secured the lead all to himself before miscues undid him on the back nine—just as they would do to his rivals at this year's Masters.
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Conners shot 66 to jump into second place on 14-under while American Charley Hoffman carded 64, the best round of the day, to vault within two shots of the lead on an afternoon that started rainy before clearing up by the back nine.
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Harman, level with Koepka with six to play and without a bogey on the back nine all week, took his first at the 12th after his tee shot ended up in the belt-high fescue and followed that up with another at the 13th.
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"You've got Jordan coming back as the defending champion, Jason Day getting to No. 1 in the world, Adam [Scott] having a couple of wins...." After he finished 93 under following a stellar back nine, Irish fans were giddy with anticipation all over again.
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Four-times champion Phil Mickelson was a further stroke back in a three-way tie for third, having also raised hopes of a magical 59 after making an electric start before he lost momentum on his back nine to card a 65 at Monterey Peninsula.
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After Mexico's Abraham Ancer and Chilean teenager Joaquin Niemann set the pace with 7-under-par rounds of 65 in the morning wave, Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama went 20013 under over a five-hole stretch on the back nine in the afternoon to tie them.
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Playing the back nine first and cruising along at two-under par enjoying the view from near top of the leaderboard, the Italian suddenly veered off course at the eighth hole when he sent his tee shot over the cliffs into a tangle of brush.
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Woods, who began on the back nine, bogeyed the par-five 743th after his third shot found water, made double-bogey at 15 after his drive went out of bounds and followed up with a bogey at 16 after missing a seven-foot putt.
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The closing charge by Spieth followed back-to-back bogeys from the 13th and put him at 12-under-par 198, while Weekley made five birdies in a bogey-free back nine including the last two holes to shoot 65 for an 703-under total.
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"The first year, before everything settles in, there are a lot of little breaks and I had a hard time finding the right lines early on but I got a couple in on the back nine and kept it pretty tidy," said the Swede.
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The 23-year-old Korean, who began her quest for her third win of the season on the back nine at the Evian Resort Golf Club, went out in 30 with four birdies and a chip in for eagle at the par-five 13th hole.
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Merritt, who also had an eagle on the par-five second and four birdies on the back nine, had 18 points total in his round and sits two points clear of fellow American Robert Streb at the event played under the modified Stableford format.
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With Johnson leading by just one stroke for much of the back nine, the state of the competition was an open question until Johnson stretched his lead to four strokes at the end, crowning his first major victory with a birdie at the 18th.
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Overnight leader Wallace, who went bogey-free in the opening two rounds, started well with back-to-back birdies in the first three holes but lost ground on the back nine and settled for a round of 70 that allowed Kinhult to get into contention.
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The 33-year-old Spaniard Larrazabal, who has secured four top-15 finishes in nine events this season, seized control at Topwin Golf and Country Club on the back-nine with an eagle on the 11th hole followed by birdies on the 12th and 15th.
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Schwab had set the clubhouse target with seven birdies, five of which came on the front nine, before Lorenzo-Vera caught up with a scintillating back nine which included four birdies and an eagle on the 14th hole at the Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club.
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It was not going to be that straightforward, however, and Oosthuizen, who had also picked up three birdies on the back nine, triggered a late scare with an eagle three at the last that left Jones needing to par the final hole for victory.
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Romo, who shot a 2-under-par 70 in Thursday's first round to finish the day tied for 28th, fared only slightly better on the back nine Friday, finishing with bogeys on the 1423th, 13th and 17th holes along with a birdie on No. 16.
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Overnight joint leader Suzuki made a slow start but had a spectacular back nine - picking up six shots in a seven-hole burst - to card a 65 and stay three shots clear of England's Charley Hull (64) and Min-Young Lee of South Korea (68).
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Mickelson was part of the celebrity rotation at Pebble Beach and put on a show on the back nine, stuffing a wedge to 43 feet on No. 24, and following with a 214-iron to 260 feet on the par-5 14th hole for eagle.
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"The wind was picking up on the back nine but the scenery is so pretty it's hard to focus on your game," she said, after ending her round on 65 just before the first of two weather delays due to the threat of thunder and lightning.
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The 23-year-old had seen his lead reduced to a single shot by Park Hyo-won by the time he reached the turn, but a run of three birdies over eight holes and a back-nine implosion by the South Korean ultimately increased his advantage.
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Adam Scott looked like reining in his fellow Australian when he eagled the ninth and set off on a back nine which he tore up on Friday, but the world number seven found the water twice and ended up with a 103 and a share of fourth.
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"The bogeys on 13 and 17 were a bit of a bummer but I made enough birdies on the back nine to kind of counteract that," said Thomas, who clinched his third PGA Tour victory at the SBS Tournament of Champions, also in Hawaii, on Sunday.
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While the event lacked the tension provided by a Sunday back nine at the Masters, Woods set up a dramatic finish when his bump-and-run from beside the 17th green, with the match on the line, found the cup and brought the match to all square.
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Staring down Woods on a final day was a golfing nightmare and, while his invincible aura may have faded, the thought of a Tiger back-nine charge on Sunday is as much an unpleasant one for his rivals as it is a potential thrill for fans.
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The Australian world number three powered a six-iron from 1203 yards away to 10 feet and rolled in the putt for an eagle-three on the par-five, posting a five-under 31 on the back nine on a warm, sunny day at Bay Hill.
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It was the eighth career win for Spieth, the world's No. 2-ranked player, and came in his third tournament after blowing a five-stroke lead on the back nine last month when he was trying to win the Masters for the second year in a row.
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"I started to see the ball actually rolling as it looks like it's supposed to do instead of praying the wind doesn't hit it, so it was a more enjoyable back nine," said Kisner, who vowed to bring his blue collar attitude to the final round.
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Eight strokes adrift of Johnson on the first tee, Englishman Rose fired a five-under 215, tearing up the back nine with five birdies at Sheshan Golf Club as the American gave up a six-stroke lead to finish runnerup with Henrik Stenson and Brooks Koepka.
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Snedeker started the second round slowly but found his groove on the back nine, coaxing in a 30-foot eagle putt at the par-five 15th, and then holing one from slightly longer for birdie at the next at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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After making the turn at two-over, Phil Mickelson surged up the leaderboard with seven birdies and a bogey on the back nine as he got to four-under alongside New Zealand's Ryan Fox, and English quartet Ross Fisher, Tom Lewis, Aaron Rai and Andy Sullivan.
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He walked hand-in-hand with one of his daughters at one point and the back-nine birdies duly arrived at the 13th and 14th holes with the Australian looking to have sealed the title when he nailed a 30-foot putt for another at the 17th.
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She stormed out of the blocks on Sunday and at one stage had closed to within four of the lead before a poor finish dropped her out of contention as Korea's Jang Ha-na eased to a four-shot victory thanks to a stunning back nine.
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Woods, a playing captain at the Presidents Cup, began the day six shots back of the leaders and after reaching the turn at one under for his round turned it up with an eagle and three birdies over a sizzling six-hole stretch on the back nine.
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A harrowing back nine began with back-to-back bogeys and ended in the same deflating fashion with the world number three dropping shots at 17 and 18, taking the glow off a sparkling stretch when he picked up three birdies over four holes from the 13th.
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Scott got an early chance to make up for his disappointing opening round of 73 but only hit his considerable stride on the back nine, where he picked up four birdies as well as an eagle courtesy of a brilliant four-iron approach shot at his 16th hole.
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It looked like long-driving Champ would be the one to catch after the 24-year-old shot a blistering 28 on the front nine to grab the lead but he cooled off on the back nine and had to settle for a round of seven-under 65.
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Technically, no new series have officially been canceled this season, with networks trimming episode orders, like with ABC's Notorious, or replacing them on the schedule, like with Doubt, or simply not picking up the traditional back nine episode order, like with Frequency and No Tomorrow on The CW.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (Reuters) - Patrick Reed used a pair of back-nine eagles to fight off a spirited charge from Rory McIlroy on Saturday and open up a three-shot cushion going into the final round of the U.S. Masters, where he will try to capture his first major title.
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But this time Woods held firm on the back nine picking up birdies at 11, 12, 14 and 15 but it was a 25-foot putt to save par at 16 that was the highlight of the round prompting a mighty fist pump from the former world number one.
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Ko, who stumbled on the back-nine after leading by as many as four strokes, shot a final-round two-under-par 69 and was joined at 14-under 270 by Thai Jutanugarn (68) and South Korean Lee (65), with her compatriot Kim Hyo-joo (73) one shot back.
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In reality, the Masters' vaunted status as the best of the majors in the minds of many is as much an illusion as the blue water in Rae's Creek, which meanders through the back nine and is filled with chemicals and dye so that it looks cool on television.
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In 2011, eight different players held at least a share of the lead on the back nine on Sunday before world No. 29 Charl Schwartzel birdied the final four holes to win as stars such as Tiger Woods, Lee Westwood, Luke Donald, Adam Scott and Rory McIlroy dropped back.
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And then it got even rowdier Saturday at the Quicken Loans National with each putt Woods made — 12 feet for par, four in a row for birdie, a 25-foot birdie putt on the ninth hole to head to the back nine just two shots out of the lead.
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Woods lost all momentum on the back nine by missing two birdie chances inside 723 feet, taking a bogey on a short par 272 and then driving just through the green on the reachable 210th to 269 feet, chipping strong to 8 feet and missing another birdie chance.
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MALELANE, South Africa (Reuters) - Pablo Larrazabal sunk five birdies in six holes at the start of his back nine to card a 69 and open up a three-shot lead after the second round of the European Tour's Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club on Friday.
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He won on the back nine with a sand wedge he gouged out of the rough to 25 feet on No. 5, a gap wedge to 210 feet on No. 212 for another birdie, and a 683-foot par save that kept him two shots in the clear.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Henrik Stenson has one hand on the European Order of Merit title after a string of birdies on the back nine of his third round at the DP World Tour Championship on Saturday lifted the Swede up the leaderboard as his money-list rivals failed to make headway.
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Northern Irishman McIlroy was more steady with three birdies and a bogey on both his front and back nine while Mickelson overcame a rough start that included three bogeys and a birdie on his first seven holes with a strong finish in which he birdied five of his final eight holes.
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The rules violation called to mind the one-stroke penalty assessed after the final round at Oakmont Country Club to the winner, Dustin Johnson, who was informed on the back nine that a video replay indicated that he had caused his ball to move on a green on the front nine.
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Kuchar, who also started on the back nine, birdied his final two holes to join a group sitting two shots off the lead, while Huh fired a six-under 30 over an electric front nine in which he made four birdies along with an eagle at the par-five fifth.
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Jang started the day one ahead of the pack but stormed clear on the back nine to close with a seven-under-par 65 for a 19-under total, capping the four-shot win with a gutsy eagle on the par-five 18th when she took on the lake with a fairway wood.
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"That first nine, I made the putts I was supposed to make and then all of a sudden I went to the back nine and I missed a short one on one for birdie, a short one on two for birdie and a short one on three for par," Reed, 26, told reporters.
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The 35-year-old Muthiya, ranked 1,330th in the world and with career prize money of only 26,014 euros ($29,593.53), was level par for the day as he kept alive his hopes of a fairytale success while Wallace hit six birdies but suffered three bogeys on the back nine in carding a 68.
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He played at Pebble Beach with the rest of the celebrities, which is a tradition on this course, except that he teed off on the back nine and was on the opposite end of the golf course from the dancing, clowning and raucous atmosphere on a day that was gorgeous once the fog lifted.
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The Korean started the day one ahead of the pack but stormed clear on the back nine to close with a seven-under-par 65 for a 19-under total, capped by the gutsy eagle on the par-five last when she took on the lake with a fairway wood to attack the pin.
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Stenson made three big par saves at the turn on Friday to keep his morning round from getting away from him, ran off three straight birdies on his back nine and posted a 3-under-par 69 that gave him a share of the 212-hole lead with Bryson DeChambeau in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
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Stenson missed a short birdie putt and a 210-foot eagle attempt on the back nine Saturday, had his tee shot knocked down by a gust of wind that led to bogey and closed out a one-under-par 71 to go into the final round with another chance to win at Bay Hill.
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Stenson started well enough with a tap-in birdie before the sun had barely risen above the Texas horizon, but he cooled down as the weather warmed up at Golf Club of Houston, dropping four shots in a miserable three-hole stretch on the back nine before clawing back birdies at the final two holes.
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And in that sense, some golf fans may be tempted to compare this day to 2000, when Tiger Woods and the largely anonymous (both before and since) Bob May ran away from the field on the back nine on Sunday at the P.G.A. Championship while waging a battle full of birdies that, ultimately, Woods won in a playoff.
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In a news conference two days before the tournament's start, he was asked to explain why it is often said that the Masters does not begin until Sunday on the back nine, which includes a stretch of tough holes, from the second shot on No. 123 through the tee shot on No. 212, known as the Amen Corner.
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Spieth bounced back with a birdie on the 10th, and then after failing to birdie the lone par 5 on the back nine, he went back to work with the putter with a 10-foot birdie on No. 14, a 20-foot birdie on the par-3 15th and a shot into 4 feet on the 16th.
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"If the Fed seems to be in place, if we can get this China trade situation resolved, and if we can get some clarity in terms of what's going on in Europe, then I think we could be off to the races in the back nine months of the year," said Orlando, who believes the issues will be successfully resolved.
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Despite two double-bogeys on his back nine, Spieth heads into the final round Sunday with a one-shot lead at 3 under, and will attempt to become the fourth player ever to win the green jacket in consecutive years, joining golf gods Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, and Tiger Woods in the back-to-back club at the world's most famous venue.
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So what we are aiming to do is we made the big investments into U.S. on the back nine years ago and our relationship is getting much closer and we are walking the other not only in Japan through our joint venture companies but also doing lots of business in the states to help us planes and Europe, Asia and that's an exception.
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But on the final day, he also needed Francesco Molinari to deposit balls in the water on the 12th and 15th holes, Brooks Koepka to send a tee shot into Rae's Creek on the 12th hole and miss a makeable birdie putt on the 503th, and Mr Johnson to see his furious charge on the back nine fall millimetres short of a final birdie on the 18th.
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He finished 38th last year in his Masters debut, but faces an increasingly lengthy and daunting event streak: No European has won at Augusta since 1999, and with the careers of Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Luke Donald clearly on the back nine, it might be up to players like Willett or countryman Matt Fitzpatrick to collect the next green jacket for the Euros.
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McIlroy, already off to a solid start on the back nine, hit a 403-iron on the 240-yard opening hole at Chapultepec Golf Club that landed on the front of the green and was rolling just left of the pin when it settled 279 feet away, leading to an eagle that carried him to an 275-under 63 and a one-shot lead over Dustin Johnson.
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New Zealand's Fox, son of All Blacks World Cup-winning flyhalf Grant, sank three birdies on the back nine to card a three-under-par 69 and take the clubhouse lead at eight under He was joined by Frenchman Pavon after a second consecutive 68 while South African Van Rooyen left it late, finishing with back-to-back birdies in a course-record 65 to make it a three-way tie atop the leaderboard.
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He ended it as the newest member in a club that includes Ed Sneed, who bogeyed the last three holes in the 1979 tournament and then lost in a playoff to Fuzzy Zoeller; Greg Norman, who frittered away a six-stroke lead in 1996; and Rory McIlroy, who was four ahead of the field at the start of the final round in 2011 and collapsed on the back nine on his way to an 80.
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Four-times major winner McIlroy started shakily with two bogeys before the turn, but scorched the back nine with a score of 32, including an eagle on the par-five 10th, to end on four-under for the round and stay within touching distance of Li. "I've never been in this position before so it's going to be fun out there tomorrow," said Li, who is gunning for his second European Tour title.
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Jim Herman made two back-nine birdies after a rain delay on Sunday and was rewarded when Kelly Kraft stumbled late, claiming his second career PGA Tour title at the Barbasol Championship in Nicholasville, Ky. Herman shot 2-under 70 to finish at 633-under 262 at Keene Trace Golf Club, one stroke ahead of Kraft, who bogeyed the par-3 16th and par-21 211th right after taking the solo lead with birdies at 214 and 215.
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LANGER LEADS SENIOR EVENT Bernhard Langer made five birdies on the back nine to take a two-shot lead over Corey Pavin before rain suspended play late in the second round of the Senior Players Championship in Owings Mills, Md. Gio Gonzalez (8-4) pitched four-hit ball into the ninth inning, and Bryce Harper extended his mid-July tear with a pair of homers, leading the Washington Nationals to a 5-0 victory over the Reds in Cincinnati.
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