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McIlroy pockets US$15 million after winning Tour Championship and FedEx Cup

Rory McIlroy won the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup in style in Atlanta on Sunday, collecting the biggest first prize in the sport, US$15 million.

Aug 25, 2019; Atlanta, GA, USA; Rory McIlroy celebrates with the FedEx Cup after winning the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hagy-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 25, 2019; Atlanta, GA, USA; Rory McIlroy celebrates with the FedEx Cup after winning the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Adam Hagy-USA TODAY Sports

Northern Irishman McIlroy emphatically outduelled Americans Brooks Koepka and Xander Schauffele with a four-under-par 66 in the final round at East Lake. He finished at 18 under par, four shots ahead of Schauffele to claim the season-long FedEx Cup points competition for the second time on the PGA Tour, after his 2016 win.

* Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic left the hospital where he is being treated for leukaemia on Sunday to take charge of his team for their opening Serie A match away to Verona.

* Atalanta continued where they left off last season with a thrilling win in their opening Serie A match on Sunday, coming from two goals down to win 3-2 at SPAL.

* World number one Ko Jin-young picked up her fourth win of the year when she blew away the field for a five-stroke victory at the CP Women's Open in Ontario on Sunday. The Korean capped a flawless performance with eight birdies in an eight-under-par 64 that gave her rivals no chance at Magna Golf Club.

* South African Erik van Rooyen holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the final green to pip England's Matthew Fitzpatrick and win his maiden European Tour title at the Scandinavian Invitation on Sunday. Van Rooyen, 29, who finished runner-up in Qatar and Morocco this season, stretched the lead to three strokes on the back nine at Hills Golf & Sports Club in Gothenburg.

* Udinese handed AC Milan's new coach Marco Giampaolo a losing start when a Rodrigo Becao header gave them a shock 1-0 win in Serie A on Sunday. Becao, making his debut after joining from Bahia in his native Brazil, rose above the Milan defence at the near post to head in from a corner in the 72nd minute on a sweltering afternoon in Udine.

* There will be no shortage of big-name players in action when the US Open begins on Monday but the talk around New York for days has centred around the marquee matchup between Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova.

* Canadian world number 22 Milos Raonic has pulled out of the US Open with a glute injury, tournament organisers said on Sunday. Raonic, whose 2019 season has been hit by injuries, has not competed since he retired from a second round match in Montreal during a US Open tune-up in early August.

* Nairo Quintana produced a deadly late attack to claim victory on stage two of the Vuelta a Espana on Sunday as the Movistar rider laid down an early marker for his fellow general classification contenders. Quintana, one of the pre-race favourites in an underwhelming line-up, moved into second place overall, two seconds behind new race leader, Ireland's Nicolas Roche, of Sunweb, who finished runner-up on the day, five seconds behind the Colombian.

* AS Monaco had a player sent off for the third time in as many matches this season as they squandered a two-goal halftime lead to draw 2-2 at home to Nimes on Sunday, a result that left them still without a win in Ligue 1. The 2017 champions at least picked up their first point of the season but were left languishing one off the bottom of the table after yet another frustrating match.

* Goals from Timo Werner and Yussuf Poulsen in either half gave RB Leipzig a 2-1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday and maintained their perfect start to the season. Germany international Werner, who had also scored in their league opener last week, signed a contract extension until 2023 before the game on Sunday and then fired in at the far post.

* Pusarla Sindhu won India's first-ever title at the world badminton championships when she comfortably beat Japan's Nozomi Okuhara 21-7 21-7 to win the women's singles in Basel on Sunday. Kento Momota, of Japan, retained the men's title by outclassing 22-year-old Dane Anders Antonsen, who had stunned Olympic champion Chen Long in the quarter-finals, 21-9 21-3 in another one-sided match.

* Suzuki's Alex Rins passed MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez at the final corner to win a thrilling British Grand Prix on Sunday. After trying a move around the outside of Woodcote corner on the penultimate lap, Rins then lunged through on the inside to edge Marquez to the chequered flag by 0.013 seconds.

* Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scored a second-half brace, including a sublime solo goal, as titleholders Paris St Germain thumped brave Toulouse 4-0 in their Ligue 1 match on Sunday.

* Chinese Taipei's table tennis rising star Lin Yun-Ju won his first senior ITTF World Tour title by defeating two German veterans in the semi and final in Olomouc on Sunday at Czech Open. The talented 18-year-old outplayed the 38-year-old German legend Timo Boll in the semi 4-3 (12-10, 9-11, 11-2, 11-6, 5-11, 6-11, 11-8) and then the 31-year-old Dimitrij Ovtcherov 4-1 (11-9, 11-5, 5-11, 11-5, 11-9) to win his champion at this level.

* The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) unveiled the official design of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic medals on Sunday, exactly one year before the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The designs feature traditional Japanese fan motif and incorporate braille lettering, depicting the Paralympic Games as the source of a fresh new wind refreshing the world as well as a shared experience connecting diverse hearts and minds.

Reuters, Xinhua