Manila, Philippines (SportsNetwork.com) – Wen-Chong Liang birdied the first playoff hole on Sunday to beat Prom Meesawat and win the Resorts World Manila Masters.<\/p>\n
Liang closed with a 3-under 69, while Meesawat fired a 7-under 65 to catch Liang at 16-under-par 272 and force a playoff. On the first extra hole, Liang 2-putted for birdie to claim his third Asian Tour title.<\/p>\n
After the win, Liang donated half of his winnings to the relief effort in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.<\/p>\n
Liang started with birdies at three and four, but tripped to a bogey on the fifth and a double-bogey at the par-4 ninth to make the turn at 12-under.<\/p>\n
At the 11th, Liang converted a birdie to move to minus-13. After birdies at 13 and 15, Liang birdied the par-5 18th for the third time this week to force the playoff.<\/p>\n
Meesawat did his scoring in two bursts. He ran off four birdies in a 5-hole span from the fourth at Manila Southwoods Golf and Country Club to soar to minus-13.<\/p>\n
After three pars in a row, Meesawat birdied three of four holes from the 12th to jump to 16-under. He parred the last three to end there.<\/p>\n
Richard T. Lee (64) and Carlos Pigem (65) shared third place at minus-15, while Steve Lewton (67) and Sutijet Kooratanapisan (68) were one stroke back at 14-under-par 274.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Manila, Philippines (SportsNetwork.com) – Wen-Chong Liang birdied the first playoff hole on Sunday to beat Prom Meesawat and win the Resorts World Manila Masters. Liang closed with a 3-under 69, while Meesawat fired a 7-under 65 to catch Liang at 16-under-par 272 and force a playoff. On the first extra hole, Liang 2-putted for birdie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}