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has won during his record-breaking
career. A year after undergoing his
fourth back surgery and seeing his
world ranking drop to a career-low
1,199th, Woods won last month's
season-ending Tour Championship
in Atlanta to end a five-year victory
drought. It was the 80th career PGA
Tour victory for the Orange County
native – his first since the Bridge-
stone Invitational in August 2013 –
and vaulted him to 13th in the Offi-
cial World Rankings heading into the
Ryder Cup in late September . . . Two
Orange County natives – Hunter
Mahan (Orange) and Cameron
Tringale (Mission Viejo) secured
their 2019 PGA Tour cards through
the Web.Com Tour Finals . . . . With
two events left in the PGA Tour
Champions' regular season, Paul
Goydos of Coto de Caza was in the
top 20 on the season-long Schwab
Cup points list. The top 72 players on
the points list qualify for the first of
three Schwab Cup playoffs events . . .
The second playoff event, for the top
54 players on the Schwab Cup points
list, will again be contested at Sher-
wood Country Club (Oct. 26-28) in
Thousand Oaks, this year renamed
the Invesco QQQ Championship. Top
36 players advance to the season-
ending Schwab Cup Championship
in Phoenix . . . Before beginning her
senior year at UCLA, Lilia Vu (Foun-
tain Valley) helped lead Team USA to
the Espirito Santo Trophy for the first
time in 20 years at the Women's
World Amateur Team Champi-
onships in Dublin, Ireland. The team
of Vu, Alabama's Kristen Gillman
and Wake Forest's Jennifer Kupcho
recorded a four-round total of 29-
under par to post a 10-stroke victory
over Team Japan in the biennial
event. It was the first U.S. victory in
the event since 1998. . . Monarch
Beach Golf Links in Dana Point is
conducting Fall Junior Golfer Clinics
on Saturday afternoons through No-
vember. Cost is $45 per player, with
special clinics for beginning juniors
(from 2-3:30 p.m.) and for intermedi-
ate juniors (from 4-5:30 p.m.) Reser-
vations are mandatory and space is
limited. Email Brandon Delgado:
bdelgado@monarchbeachgolf.com
