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Romero takes Senior Open by 4 shots

COLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Eduardo Romero slipped to a 3-over-par73 Sunday but still won the U.S. Senior Open in Colorado by four shots.

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The win gave Romero, of Argentina, two major championships and three titles overall on the Champions Tour.

Romero finished at 6-under 274 at the Broadmoor course in Colorado Springs, earning $470,000.

Fred Funk, who led after two rounds, was second, closing with a 74 for a total of 2-under 278. Mark McNulty (68) was third at 279 and Greg Norman (70) was another shot back.

"Man, I'm so happy, so happy," Romero said. "I played great all week, all week long."

Romero won The Tradition, his other major championship, in 2006.


Singh notches 32nd PGA win

AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Vijay Singh closed with a 2-under-par 68 Sunday and won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio by a stroke over Stuart Appleby and Lee Westwood.

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The title was the Fijian's 32nd on the PGA Tour, most by a foreign-born player.

Singh finished the event at the Firestone Country Club in Akron at 20-under 270.

Appleby (68) and Westwood (69) were at 271, followed by Retief Goosen (67) and Phil Mickelson (70) at 272.

Singh parred the final five holes, managing to hold off his pursuers. Appleby birdied 16 and 17 but parred the 18th.

"Except of the second day, when I didn't drive the ball that well, I struck the ball well this week," Singh said. "I putted quite decent, except today. The short ones got kind of shaky there. I managed to get it around though."

Singh won $1.3 million.


Edwards wins auto race at Pocono

LONG POND, Pa., Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Carl Edwards drove his No. 99 Roush Fenway Ford to victory at Sunday's rain-delayed Pennsylvania 500 at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond.

Edwards beat Tony Stewart and pole-winner Jimmie Johnson to the checkered flag for his fourth Sprint Cup win this season.

"I just can't thank my guys enough," Edwards said in a post-race television interview. "Ford Motor Co. makes the best cars out there."

Edwards was happy after he argued with crew chief Bob Osborne for a pit stop for fuel shortly before the 41-minute rain delay.

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He took the lead with 13 laps left and Mark Martin also made a pit stop for fuel. The move cost Martin an 8th-place finish.

Kevin Harvick and David Ragan completed the top-five.

In the Sprint Cup standings, Edwards leads with 2,874 points. Johnson is second with 2,859 and Stewart, with 2,569 points, is in third place.


Honus Wagner card fetches $1.62 million

CHICAGO, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A 1909 baseball card depicting early Hall-of-Famer Honus Wagner was sold for $1.62 million in Chicago, auctioneers said.

The Wagner card was part of one of the earliest series of baseball cards ever issued, coming with cigarettes made by the American Tobacco Co. Doug Allen, chief operating officer of Mastro Auctions of Burr Ridge, Ill., said the buyer was an Arkansas man, the Chicago Tribune reported Sunday.

The Wagner card sale came as part of the National Sport Collectors Convention held at the Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill., with the card bidding taking place at a sports bar and restaurant in downtown Chicago.

Honus Wagner was a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates who dominated the National League in the years between 1900 and 1913, but he demanded the cigarette company withdraw his card for reasons that aren't clear, making his cards very rare, the Tribune reported.

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Wagner was one of the first five players inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

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