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      <title>Jimenez becomes oldest Euro Tour winner</title>
      <description>Miguel Angel Jimenez became the oldest European Tour winner on Sunday by shooting a 5-under 65 to capture his third Hong Kong Open title.

At 48 years and 318 days, the Spaniard surpassed the previous record set by Ireland's Des Smyth, who was 48 years and 34 days when he won the 2001 Maderia Islands Open.

''Winning now, and becoming the oldest winner on the tour at 48, my goodness. Twenty-four years I've been on the tour, I've been around a long time,'' Jimenez said. ''But I still love it and that is fantastic, to love what you're doing, and enjoy yourself, keep fit, keep working myself a little bit and stretching a lot. And that's the main thing to do to keep the body to compete with the new guns.''

Jimenez earned his 19th tour victory by making four straight birdies from the seventh hole in his third straight bogey-free round to finish with a 15-under total of 265 on the suburban Fanling course. He was one shot ahead of Fredrik Andersson Hed of Sweden, </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Teams share Legends lead</title>
      <description>David Frost and Michael Allen birdied nine of the first 13 holes and combined for a 9-under 63 on Saturday for a share of the second-round lead with Tom Purtzer and Brad Bryant in the Legends of Golf.

The teams were at 19-under 125 in the better event. Bryant and Allen had 65 at The Club at Savannah Harbor.

The leaders in the 54-hole Champions Tour event were one shot ahead of four teams: Gil Morgan and Tom Kite (61); Bobby Clampett and Andy North (62); Jay Haas and Fred Couples (63); and Jeff Sluman and Brad Faxon (64).

Six other teams were at 17 under heading into the final round.

''We had a good time out there,'' Allen said about their bogey-free round. ''We were fighting. It was fun.''

Allen, coming off a victory last week at TPC Tampa Bay, currently tops the senior circuit's money list and leads Bernhard Langer by 157 points in the Schwab Cup race.

Frost had the hot hand early, rolling in four birdie putts on the first seven holes. When he cooled off, Allen took </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
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