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QoCden ‘K&y National Honor Society General Meeting Tuesday, April 11th 8:30 p.m. Koldus 111 SPORTS Page If) THE BATTALION Monday, Singh holds off Duval Pumpfest mpwS Student Counseling mmJHetp£in VcrLuMte&ry Needed/ ALL MAJORS WELCOME! ■^INTERVIEWING NOW"® to begin service in the Summer or Fall Semester. Summer Training will be May 22-27, 2000. Fall Training will be August 21-26, 2000. For more information call Susan Vavra at 845-4427 x133 or visit our web site at www.scs.tamu.edu/volunteer/ STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICE A department in the Division of Student Affairs AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — No one ever came farther to get a green jaeket than Vi- jay Singh. The final leg was an uphill climb to the 18th green Sunday at Augusta National, where Singh completed his troublesome journey around the world to claim the most prestigious prize in golf. The Fiji native won the Masters by meeting every challenge from the biggest stars in the game, closing with a 3-under 69 for a three-stroke victory over Ernie Els. Singh rolled in an 18-foot birdie putt on the last hole, kissed the ball as he removed it from the cup and embraced his family. His 9-year-old son, Qass, taped a message to his bag that said, “Poppa, Trust Your Swing.” 1 le did, following those directions bet ter than anyone else. Singh ignored an early charge by Tiger Woods, and watched David Duval self-destruct. He has now won two of the last six ma jor championships, which validates him as one of the game’s top players. Once a teaching pro in the jungle of Borneo, the 37-year-old Singh played tours on five continents and was banned from two of them, one for a cheating alle gation that he has long denied but has haunted him throughout his career. Singh, who won the PGA Champi onship at Sahalee in 1998, played with such composure in the face of so many challengers. And that might be enough to finally shift the attention to a game that weathered a w icked weekend at Augusta. He finished at 278 and earned $828,000 for his eighth career victory. Els, a two-time U.S. Open champion, couldn't get a birdie putt to fall on the last three holes and was at 281. The biggest threat came from Duval, in contention on the back nine Sunday at Augusta for the third straight year. His dreams died with a risky shot that wound up in Rae’s Creek, a bogey on the par-5 13th. A bogey on the final hole gave Du val a 70. and he finished in a tie for third with Loren Roberts. “I don’t think anyone should be sur prised that Vijay Singh won this golf tournament,” Duval said. “He’s a won derful player.” Singh set the tone for his victory Sun day morning. With frost melting into dew. THE Summer & Fall ’00 Staff Application If you can write, edit, design pages, draw, use a camera... Texas A&M's award-winning student newspaper is looking for you. 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Staff News Reporter Science & Technology Reporter _ Feature Writer Entertainment Writer Sports Writer Columnist Web Designer Radio Reporter _ Photographer Graphic Artist Cartoonist Page Designer Copy Editor he returned to the course to complete his third round and made two critical par putts that enabled him to maintain his three- stroke cushion over Duval. That paid dividends on the back nine Sunday, when Singh managed to escape danger twice without losing his lead. Clinging to a two-stroke lead over Du val, Singh hit his approach into the pond left of the 11th green. After taking his penalty drop, he hit a delicate chip up to 4 feet and dropped only one shot. Then on the par-3 12th, he hit over the green into the most daunting bunker at Au gusta. Faced with a shot that sloped down the green toward more trouble, he blasted out to 2 feet — the same shot Olazabal pulled off to win last year. Duval, who lives near Singh in Ponte Vedra Beach. Fla., was still poised to win his first major championship until he made a mistake that will live with him until his next chance. 1 le selected a dangerous route to the par-5 13th green, then bowed his head as the ball plunked into the water. Ditto for Els, the 30-year-old South African who got word Saturday that his buddy had won a $2 million lottery and thought it might be a good omen. Wtxxls, who opened w ith a 75 and w as nine strokes back after two days, got the deficit down to three strokes early and seemed poised to pounce. Singh was in the fairway, waiting for the group ahead to tee off on No. 4, w hen he glanced up at the large white leader- board in time to see another birdie posted for Woods. Singh proceeded to hit long and three-putt from 50 feet off the fringe. Woods went out in 33.1 le was 4 under for the tournament and slowly gaining mo mentum for the kind of back-nine charge that have become so famous at Augusta. But Singh’s biggest threat was Duval. He made a couple of 8-foot putts early to close a three-stroke deficit to one, then re ally began to apply the pressure with birdie putts from 12 feet on No. 6, a good pitch to 2 feet on the par-5 eighth, and a sliding 6-footer on No. 9. What did that get him? Nothing. Singh matched every birdie and an swered every great approach by Duval w ith one of his own — and took that slim lead to the back nine. Woods ran out of chances. SALUE TURNER7heB‘ Justin Wheeler, a sophomore at Texas Tech University, climbs: Student Recreation Center rock climbing wall Saturday as one: 63 competitors at Aggie Pumpfest. The competition may have? the state record for the most people climbing on an indoorfac at one time. i Sports in Brief Nutt to coach at Southwest JONESBORO, (AP) Ark. — Dennis Nutt, the assistant basket ball coach at Arkansas State, will become Southwest Texas State’s head coach, Little Rock’s KATV-TV said Sunday night. 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