KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Nick Watney took a few peeks at the leaderboard, and heard the echo of raucous cheering at regular intervals in the distance as Tiger Woods was commencing his last-round charge. Watney, starting two groups behind Woods, knew it was going to take a very special kind of round Sunday to win the $6.1 million CIMB Classic. Hole-by-hole, birdie after birdie, the 31-year-old American could feel the momentum gathering pace. At the 13th hole, when he moved into a tie for first spot, he started to believe he could win the tournament in Malaysia. After the 14th hole, he started honing in on a rare round of 59. With 11 birdies in 17 holes, including six on the back nine, he went to the par-4 18th needing a birdie for a 59, but decided he was playing only for the win. He made a bogey at the last, still good enough for a course record round of 10-under 61 and a 22-under-par total 262 to hold off defending champion Bo Van Pelt and Robert Garrigus by one shot to claim the $1.3 million first prize. "I saw Tiger got off to a good start, so I wasnt really thinking about winning when I teed off," said Watney, who started the day four shots off the pace and in a share of seventh place. "But the round sort of built momentum and things just kept getting better and better. Im thrilled to have come away with the win." After five birdies on the first seven holes, Woods finished with a 63 to tie for fourth at 19 under with Chris Kirk and Zimbabwes Brendon de Jonge. And by the time Woods finished -- the 14-time major winner opened with three birdies and had eight in all, including at the 16th and 17th to put pressure on the leaders -- all the attention was on Watney. "I really wanted to finish strong ... but winning the tournament was more important than a 59 for me," said Watney, who drove into the left rough, failed to reach the green with his approach and left his long birdie pitch just short of the putting surface. Watney won the FedEx Cup opener at Bethpage Black in August for his fifth official PGA Tour title. Sundays victory wont add to his PGA Tour record -- the Malaysian tournament which is co-sanctioned with the Asian Tour wont become a full-fledged PGA Tour event until next year when the tour begins its new season in October after the FedEx Cup. But the experience of winning his first title in Asia will help. Van Pelt and Garrigus each carded 66 after starting the round tied for the lead. Needing a birdie on 18 to force a playoff, Van Pelt saved par after hitting into a greenside bunker. On Saturday, needing a closing birdie for a 59, he made a double bogey for a 62. The players were allowed to lift, clean and place their balls in the fairways for the last three rounds because the course was soaked by overnight tropical storms. The heat, humidity and rain on the par-71 course combined to make it a unique win for Watney and his support team. He needed his wife, Amber, to carry his bag for the last hole of the first round when caddy Chad Reynolds needed treatment for heatstroke Thursday. Watney used a local caddie Friday and Reynolds came back for the weekend. Amber, the daughter of seasoned tour caddy Rusty Uresti, will get credit for one hole on the bag at short notice. Watney said he didnt even think about winning until he walked to the 13th tee with a share of the lead on the last day. He opened with two birdies, adding more at the sixth, eighth and ninth to turn in 30. He birdied three straight from the 11th to take the outright lead at 20 under from Van Pelt. Watney stretched the margin with another three consecutive birdies from the 15th, including a 25-foot putt from the edge of the green at the 16th. He settled for a birdie on the par-5 17th after missing an eagle putt, then ran into trouble on 18 when he found the rough off the tee and appeared to mis-hit his second shot. "So the 59 went out the window right there," he said. "I was more concerned with just winning the tournament." Five players have shot 59 in official PGA Tour events. Al Geiberger did it in the 1977 Memphis Classic, Chip Beck in the 1991 Las Vegas Invitational, David Duval in the 1999 Bob Hope Invitational, Paul Goydos in the 2010 John Deere Classic and Stuart Appleby in the 2010 Greenbrier Classic. Japans Ryo Ishikawa has the lowest round on a major tour, shooting a 12-under 58 to win the 2010 Crowns on the Japan Tour. Woods knew hed need something in the low 60s to have any chance of winning in his first trip back to The Mines since he won the individual and team titles at the 1999 World Cup. "I needed to get to 20-plus," said Woods, who signalled his intentions with a massive drive on the 358-yard first hole. "That was the goal score at the end of the day. Looks like Nick went ahead and put it to us." The crowd following Woods and 2010 champion Ben Crane was the biggest yet at the tournament and the loud trampling of long grass around the tee box as spectators clamoured for a glimpse and the regular noise sometimes disturbed the 14-major champion to the point where he had to stop after addressing the ball -- twice before his approach at the 9th and again on the 10th tee -- and reset himself. Woods lamented some wasted opportunities in his third round that put him just about out of contention. "I had to shoot 9-under today to have any kind of chance -- yesterdays last nine holes, thats what put me in a spot where I couldnt win the championship." Swedens Carl Petterson had 10 birdies -- narrowly missing an eagle putt on the 17th -- and a bogey in a round of 62 to finish seventh at 18 under. Scott Piercy also had a 62 to tie for 10th. Woods will face top-ranked Rory McIlroy, who finished second Sunday in the BMW Masters in Shanghai, in a one-on-one match in China on Monday. "Well both probably be a little bit tired," Woods said. "But were going to try and put on a good show, shoot a low round and have a little bit of fun." [url=http://www.canadiensofficialteamshop.com/travis-moen-red-jersey.html]http:/... . Chris Carter also belted a two-run homer while Jemile Weeks went 3-for-5 with two runs scored for the Athletics, who improved to 18-3 in July. Bartolo Colon (7-8) gave up seven hits and a walk with five strikeouts over 5 2/3 innings. 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As part of the Kraft Celebration Tour, Creston will host a special edition of SPORTSCENTRE featuring anchors Darren Dutchyshen and Kate Beirness when they kick start the tour with a live broadcast from the British Columbia community on Friday, Aug. [url=http://www.canadiensofficialteamshop.com/howie-morenz-red-jersey.html]http:... . According to a report on the website TMZ.com, Rousey will automatically be named the UFCs 135-pound womens champion and Sara McMann, Cris Cyborg and Miesha Tate are the fighters who are named as possible opponents for her first defence.SAN FRANCISCO -- The expectations came back before Tiger Woods did. For the longest time, there was a sense of inevitability about Woods when he was in front going into the weekend at a major championship. Eight times he had the outright lead after 36 holes, and eight times he went on to win, a streak that Y.E. Yang finally ended in 2009 at the PGA Championship. The circumstances were slightly different Saturday at the U.S. Open. This was the first time Woods has shared the lead at a major going into the third round, and the other leaders have some experience. Jim Furyk won the U.S. Open nine years ago at Olympia Fields, where he had a chance to set the 72-hole scoring record until meaningless bogeys on the last two holes. David Toms is 11 years removed from his lone major at the PGA Championship, though not quickly forgotten is the resolve he showed. With the gallery one-sided in its support of Phil Mickelson, Toms laid up on the 18th hole at Atlanta Athletic Club and made a 12-foot par to win. The other difference? This is 2012. Woods removed his cap on the putting green Thursday, revealing an increasingly receding hair line. That was always going to be a losing battle, though it was a subtle reminder that Woods is not the 24-year-old who completed the career Grand Slam at St. Andrews, nor was this the 30-year-old who won consecutive majors. He is 36. He has gone through four operations on his left knee. He has gone through public scrutiny of a very private life. In some respects, this week could be the start of a new era for Woods, who will always be compared against his old era. This business of the "new Tiger" looking like the "old Tiger" needs to stop, for no other reason than the new Tiger is older. For all this talk about whether Woods is really back, he has won two times this year on the PGA Tour, and thats as many as anyone else. Woods won five times in 2003 and it used to be called a slump because it didnt include a major championship. So now Woods is among the leaders going into the third round at The Olympic Club, and the expectations are that he will win the U.S. Open for a record-tying fourth time, and finally get to his 15th major in his delayed pursuit of Jack Nicklaus. Woods mother is at Olympic this week, and she rarely goes anywhere but the Masters and Honda Classic, her new home. Maybe shes onto something. Then again, its hard to imagine Woods not expecting the same thing. If a 70 in the U.S. Open at Olympic is equivalent to a 66 at a regular PGA Tour event, then this would be a stretch of golf that should get soome attention.dddddddddddd He closed with a 67 to win at Memorial, then joined Furyk and Toms as the only players who have not gone over par this week. "Its one thing to have a game plan, but you also have to execute the game plan," Woods said. "And I think thats one of the reasons why I was so excited about how I hit the ball at Memorial, because thats what I needed to play here. I hit the ball so well there and the different trajectories, that was big for me. And to come here and then be able to shape it like this -- because I have to, I have to shape it here -- Ive done a pretty good job of that for the first two days." Perhaps it helps that he has two players whose game he admires joining him as the only golfers who remain under par. Woods thinks so much of the Furyks toughness that he finally got his wish to have Furyk as a partner in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. A few years ago, Woods was presented one of those age-old hypothetical questions: If his life depended on someone making a 15-foot putt, and he couldnt pick himself or Nicklaus, which player would he choose? Among the names he eventually mentioned was Toms. The lesser-known players have proved far more dangerous over the years. Bob May took him to a playoff at Valhalla in the 2000 PGA Championship. Woods had to hole one of the biggest putts of his life at Torrey Pines just to get into a U.S. Open playoff with Rocco Mediate in 2008, and he still had to go 19 holes to beat him. Rich Beem didnt blink when he beat Woods in the PGA Championship at Hazeltine. Yang remains the only player to win a major when Woods had the lead going into final round. His former caddie, Steve Williams, once said that what looked like the easiest of Sundays felt like one of the hardest. He was talking about the Buick Open in 2009. Woods went into the final round with a one-shot lead over a group of players that made it look like a Nationwide Tour leaderboard. Only two of the seven guys behind him had won on tour, and none was ranked among the top 100. The tournament, in the eyes of everyone except the players, was over. Woods is not at that stage yet, though Saturday could go a long way toward raising the expectations even higher. Woods is known for closing on Sunday, but he traditionally has set himself up for the win on Saturday. In his 14 major wins, his scoring average in the third round is 68.3 and he has never had a round over par. He has had the lowest score of the third round five times (despite being among the last to tee off in the afternoon), and he has not had a round over par. ' ' '