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Golfer donates £150,000 winnings to Houston flood victims

Golfer donates £150,000 winnings to Houston flood victims ##Golf ##Houston #000 #americangolfer #floodvictims

American golfer Stacy Lewis donated her £150,000 prize money to the flood victims in Houston after winning the Portland Classic.

Stacy Lewis began the final day with a three-shot lead but won by one shot from South Korea’s Chun In-gee.

The American carded a 69 in her last round in Oregon to finish on 20-under, while In-gee shot a 66.

Stacy Lewis said, “We’re going to be able to help people…

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Reader post: Big congratulations to Stacy Lewis on winning the Cambia Portland Classic!! Not only did she donate all of her winnings to Hurricane Harvey, her sponsor @kpmg matched the donation!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼. #madrespect #harveyrelief #lpga #portlandclassic #womenwithdrive repost @lpga_tour via @womenwithdrive

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Stacy Lewis donates entire winner's check to Hurricane Harvey relief after ending 3-year winless drought

Stacy Lewis delivers a long-awaited win — and a huge victory check — to the people of Houston after holding off In Gee Chun in Portland.

Stacy Lewis will donate the entire winner’s share of $195,000 to Hurricane Harvey relief in her adopted home state of Texas after the two-time major champion held off a hard-charging In Gee Chun on Sunday at the LPGA’s Cambia Portland Classic.

For Lewis, who had not prevailed on the LPGA Tour since the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship in June 2014, the victory meant far more than an end to her long winless skid. After pledging on Wednesday to donate her earnings from the event to relief efforts in Texas, the 32-year-old former world No. 1 was on a mission to help those at home suffering from the enormously destructive impact of the storm.

“We’re going to be able to help people rebuild houses and get their homes back, and that’s more important than any win,” a drained but smiling Lewis said after finishing with a 3-under 69, a 20-under for the week, and hugging her husband Gerrod Chadwell, who had flown in from Houston, where he coaches the University of Houston’s women’s golf team, to surprise her after Sunday’s tension-filled finale.

With so many players and others from the golf world affected by the hurricane and making their own sizable donations, KPMG, one of Lewis’ sponsors, announced during Sunday’s final round that the company would match her donation.

"We're going to be able to help people rebuild their houses-that's more important than any win"- @Stacy_Lewis #HarveyRelief #PortlandClassic http://pic.twitter.com/cpU3qf28rP

— LPGA (@LPGA) September 3, 2017

Lewis grew up in The Woodlands, outside Houston, and lives nearby with Chadwell, so it was especially difficult for her to be away from home when the hurricane hit with calamitous impact.

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— Stacy Lewis (@Stacy_Lewis) August 31, 2017

Saturday night, after backing up a second-round 64 with a 65, Lewis said a victory on Sunday for the folks back home would be “up there” with winning a major — and she should know, having captured the 2011 Kraft Nabisco Championship and the 2013 Women’s British Open.

"It would be probably one of my most special wins, just to be able to do this for the people in Texas and to do it too when everybody is watching," Lewis told reporters. "I kind of put all the eyeballs on me and put some pressure on myself, so it's nice to kind of see myself performing, too."

Though the win was all about helping others, Lewis also heaved a sigh of relief for getting “the monkey off my back” and knowing she could “hit the shots when I need to and hit the putts when I need to.”

.@Stacy_Lewis made it interesting down the stretch, but was ablet to hold on to a 1-shot lead to win @PortlandClassic Highlights: http://pic.twitter.com/bQNvtZD0hc

— LPGA (@LPGA) September 3, 2017

It certainly wasn’t an easy win, what with Chun breathing down her neck down the stretch. Lewis began Sunday’s finale three shots up on Moriya Jutanugarn and four on Chun, but the tournament went down to the wire as the runner-up fired a final-round 66.

Lewis owned a four-shot cushion at the turn, but a Chun birdie on 12 sliced her lead to two and another birdie at 16 made it a razor-thin, one-shot edge.

It appeared that Lewis would lose her advantage when she hit her approach to the par-4 17th over the green while Chun found the putting surface. But a huge par putt from Lewis sent the tourney to the 18th, where Chun missed the green and Lewis hit it from a fairway bunker and made a two-putt par to save her emotional victory.

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Preparation underway for @ryannotoole this week at the #PortlandClassic 👌🏽 http://ift.tt/2x215zp

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Cheers to Marina Alex for her AMAZING five birdies 🐦 🐦 🐦 🐦 🐦 for the final five holes, what a finish! Well earned winner of the Portland Classic Championship!

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First 5k this morning with @lovekilaa. We knocked that thang out like the bosses we are. #portlandclassic #fitness #instagood #health #5k (at Columbia Edgewater Country Club)

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So excited for the #LPGA #PortlandClassic this week that we've done a golf-selfie ( #golfie ) in honor.

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RT @GolfChannel: Starting Sunday at the @PortlandClassic down by six and still walking away with the trophy? That's being Up to the @Prudential Challenge! https://t.co/bo7iwpJmnb (via Twitter http://twitter.com/TheGolfShopCo/status/1036814106525921280) https://ift.tt/2LTVz5X

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RT @LPGA: Marina Alex birdies 12 to take back her 2-shot lead at 19-under. #PortlandClassic (via Twitter http://twitter.com/TheGolfShopCo/status/1036783151861915649) https://ift.tt/2Ng2c78

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RT @LPGA: Georgia Hall makes birdie on 11 to move to 17-under. She's now just 1 back of leader Marina Alex at the #PortlandClassic Watch live coverage @GolfChannel (via Twitter http://twitter.com/TheGolfShopCo/status/1036781389474082816) https://ift.tt/2LWSXUZ

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RT @GolfChannel: It's Ladies' Night! Watch our final round coverage of the @PortlandClassic right now on TV and streaming 📲 https://t.co/8zR1lWDvEk https://t.co/o1QCLD2bFT (via Twitter http://twitter.com/TheGolfShopCo/status/1036773360494149632) https://ift.tt/2NcXIhO