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Former star Iowa State golfer Celia Barquin Arozamena, 22, has been found murdered at an Ames golf course, and a man has been charged with first-degree murder.

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AUSTIN, Texas – Three-time World Golf Championships–Dell Technologies Match Play champion Tiger Woods faces an uphill battle to advance to the weekend after a loss to Brandt Snedeker on Thursday. Snedeker took down Woods 2 and 1 in their group match, meaning Woods must beat Patrick Cantlay on Friday and have reigning PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year Aaron Wise turnaround his poor form to take down Snedeker. Should Wise beat Snedeker and Woods prevail over Cantlay, the 80-time PGA TOUR winner would advance. Should Snedeker tie against Wise and Woods win, then a sudden death playoff would come between Woods and Snedeker. RELATED: Day 2 match recaps | Scores | Why every match matters Head-to-head results are not used to break group ties, giving Woods a small hope although Wise has only led for one hole in his two losses thus far to Woods and Cantlay. Snedeker automatically advances if he wins. “It was difficult conditions out there today. The wind was pumping and if you went around there with no bogeys, you probably would win your fair share of holes,â€� Woods said. “We both made a couple of mistakes out there, but he made a few less mistakes than I did. “All I can do is hopefully get a point tomorrow and see if that’s good enough.â€� Woods never found his way to the lead in Thursday’s match and was left to rue a couple of critical errors. He failed to make birdie on the par-5 sixth from just outside 5 feet. Then Woods three-putted the par-3 seventh for a bogey to hand Snedeker a 2-up lead. He rebounded to win the 10th hole with a birdie but failed to make inroads over the next four holes, missing birdie putts from 12, 15 and 11 feet that would have won holes. But it was his tee shot on the drivable par-4 13th that sent Woods’ challenge backwards. The shot found the water when he was attempting to lay up. A double bogey gave Snedeker the cushion he needed, and although Woods birdied the 14th, he was unable to birdie the par-5 16th, nor make a 23-footer on the 17th to stay alive. “I’m probably the most hated man in Texas right now… I bet you my kids were probably rooting for him late in the round,â€� Snedeker joked. “In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really mean that much. I’ve got to go out and win tomorrow. As great as today was and as much fun as I’ve had, I’ve got to kind of reset my goals for tomorrow and make sure I’m doing the same thing I did this morning, which is tough to do. “You want to look ahead and say, hey, I beat Tiger. (But) I’m not anywhere yet. I’ve got to go play great tomorrow and use this momentum today from a lot of good stuff late in the round and kind of take that out tomorrow.â€�

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Stewart Cink shot a steady, stress-free 70 to cap off a dominant, record-breaking week and win his third RBC Heritage title on Sunday. RELATED: Leaderboard | Winner’s Bag: Stewart Cink, RBC Heritage The 47-year-old Cink finished at 19-under 265 at Harbour Town, four better than Emiliano Grillo and Harold Varner III. Grillo shot a 68 while Varner, who had the highest finish of his career, fired a 66. Cink hugged his son and caddie, Reagan, after his closing par on the 18th green. He, wife Lisa and their other son, Connor, all had their arms around each other to celebrate. “I don’t even know if I have the words,” Stewart Cink said. He won for the second time this season — only he and Bryson DeChambeau have done that — and continued his resurgence on the PGA TOUR at a time when many pros his age are looking ahead to the PGA TOUR Champions. Not Cink, who broke a 12-year winless streak at the Safeway Open in September and added five more top-20 finishes, including a tie for 12th last week at the Masters. He won $1.278 million, nearly as much as the $1.404 million for his two previous victories at Harbour Town combined. Cink is also just the fourth player to win twice in the same PGA TOUR season after turning 47. Sam Snead, Julius Boros and Kenny Perry, who accomplished it twice, are the others. Cink put on show for the ages — shattering the lowest 36-hole score at Harbour Town of 13-under 129 shared by Jack Nicklaus and Phil Mickelson. Cink also broke the 54-hole scoring mark of 16-under 197 that Justin Leonard had in his 2002 win. Cink carried a five-shot lead into the final round and dared all chasers to come get him. Nobody made a run at Cink, who led by at least three shots throughout. PGA Championship winner Collin Morikawa, paired with Cink, opened with a birdie. But bogeys on the second and fourth holes took Morikawa out of the mix. Maverick McNealy has five birdies on the front nine to climb to 14-under, four back of Cink, in the middle of the round. Consecutive bogeys on the 11th and 12th ended McNealy’s surge. Grillo and Varner came the closest at 15-under and were just three back until Cink’s final birdie at the par-3 17th, which made it all but certain he would add another plaid winner’s jacket to the ones he won here in 2000 and 2004. Cink had made 17 birdies and two eagles the first three rounds. He had only two birdies Sunday, but that was more than enough to claim his eighth career PGA TOUR victory. McNealy (67), Canada’s Corey Conners (68) and England’s Matt Fitzpatrick (68) tied for fourth at 13-under. Morikawa slipped to seventh after a 72, tied with Chris Kirk (67) at 12-under. Top-ranked Dustin Johnson closed with his best round of the tournament at 66 to finish tied for 13th at 10-under. Johnson was the November Masters champ, yet missed the cut there last week and was never in contention at Harbour Town. “I just feel like I made way too many mistakes,” he said. “Around here, you make mistakes, they penalize you pretty big.”

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