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ht Courgette as a tried horse but she couldnt overcome her problems.She Will Reign is the first of her three foals to race and Ho
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland -- Alex Noren of Sweden sank a 20-foot birdie putt on the first extra hole to beat Scott Hend of Australia in a playoff for the European Masters title on Sunday.Noren fired a 5-under round of 65 to be tied at 17 under with Hend, the overnight leader who carded a 66 on the Swiss Alps course.Playing the par-four 18th hole again in the playoff, Hend left his third shot from the fringe of the green well short before Norens no-doubter putt earned a 450,000 euros ($502,000) winners prize.It was a really fun day, said Noren, who won his sixth European Tour title on the same Swiss Alps course where his first came in 2009.In third place, Andrew Beef Johnston of England went 5 under on the inward nine holes to card a 65, trailing Noren and Hend by three.Lee Westwood was the best of Europes Ryder Cup players, firing a 7-under 63 to place fourth, five strokes back.Danny Willett, the 2016 Masters champion defending his title here, shot a 64 to finish tied for 12th place at 9 under.Noren, who is poised to rise from his No. 39 world ranking, also won in July at the Scottish Open and believes he can handle pressure better since his now six-month-old daughter was born.I have a baby girl now and that takes up a lot of my focus, said the 34-year-old Swede, whose family joined him in Switzerland this week. Its only golf. Its not my whole life anymore.Noren needed only 30 shots for the outward nine, then dropped his first stroke at the par-4 10th. Hend began a stretch of three birdies in four holes from the 12th to cut the Swedes lead to one shot.A three-putt by Noren at the 17th gave Hend a chance, which the Australian almost wasted on the 18th by pulling his tee shot left into the trees. Hend saved par to force the playoff as rain started to fall for the first time all week.On a standout day for Europes Ryder Cup players, Westwoods round edged 64s for fellow Englishmen Willett and Matt Fitzpatrick, the runner-up here last year who finished at 10 under.Westwood holed his own long putt on the 18th for a seventh birdie in a round with no dropped shots. Still, a first-round 72 on Thursday left the 1999 European Masters winner too far back to challenge.On the first day I was a bit rusty, Westwood acknowledged. I havent played much golf for four weeks before coming here.Westwood and Willett plan to play one more tournament before the Ryder Cup starts Sept. 30 at Hazeltine, Minnesota. Both will take one week off, then return at the Italian Open, played Sept. 15-18 at Monza.Im looking forward to another week off for practice and then to Italy, Willett said, after a round had begun with bogey-5s at the first two holes.Utah Jazz Shirts .C. -- When North Carolina freshman Ryan Switzer reported to training camp in August he was a little miffed to learn he was third on the depth chart at punt returner. Custom Utah Jazz Jerseys . -- Linebacker Myles Jack ran for four touchdowns, defensive end Cassius Marsh caught a scoring pass, and No. https://www.cheapjazzonline.com/ .Y. - Detroit goaltender Jonas Gustavsson has earned NHL first star of the week honours after winning in his first three appearances of the season. Jazz Jerseys 2021 . 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Liverpool and Southampton sent Chelsea down to fourth place as the west London club was held to 2-2 at home.Such was the style and dominance of She Will Reigns debut win, dreams of the bargain filly lining up in the worlds richest two-year-old race were born.Darby Racing syndicated Yankee Rose, a $10,000 filly who has won more than $2 million after her three-year-old spring, and now have the $20,000 She Will Reign competing in Saturdays $500,000 Inglis Nursery at Randwick.Trained by Gary Portelli, She Will Reigns 8-1/4 length debut win at Kembla Grange last Saturday was enough to put next years $3.5 million Golden Slipper on the radar.She jumped to the front and never looked back, running 56.04 seconds - 0.01s outside of the track record - and covering the last 600m in 32s.Yankee Rose has won two Group One races and finished third in the Cox Plate behind Winx and Hartnell, but a Kembla maiden has been enough to scale new levels of hype for She Will Reign.She reached fever-pitch Yankee, but this filly has just done it at her first start and its just overwhelming, Darbys racing manager Mark Holland said.Holland said he had been around racing all his life and had never seen a horse jump the gates as quick as She Will Reign on debut.She left the gates like someone lit a fire under her tail, Holland said.Portelli had given some indication of the fillys talent, sayying her trackwork sectional times matched it with Group horses.ddddddddddddHe said if Ive ever saddled up a stakes horse, this is one, Holland said.Holland broke in She Will Reigns dam Courgette for trainer Gerald Ryan but her talent was never realised because of soundness issues.Darby racing founder Scott Darby bought Courgette as a tried horse but she couldnt overcome her problems.She Will Reign is the first of her three foals to race and Holland said buying her was a no-brainer.Like Yankee Rose, they syndicated her to a diverse group.Weve got all walks of life owning our horses, he said.This group has already had to have a vote from a couple of different parties that have been interested in buying the filly.To a man, theyve already said no.The hype from her debut is unprecedented even with Darbys success with Yankee Rose who attracted a bid of $2.7 million after she won the Group One ATC Sires Produce earlier in the year.Yankee Roses owners rebuffed the offer with a touch of The Castle: tell em theyre dreaming.And the group which races She Will Reign has the same attitude, Holland said.Were in for the ride of a lifetime. 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