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Keegan Bradley holds off Charl Schwartzel to win Grand Slam of Golf
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KEEGAN Bradley held off the fast-closing Charl Schwartzel to win the Grand Slam of Golf by one stroke in Bermuda today and a prize of 600,000.
Bradley, who won the PGA Championship,  golf clubs for sale settled for a par round of 71 in a windy final round at the Port Royal Golf Course to complete 36 holes on four-under 138,  while Masters champion Schwartzel, who began the day seven adrift, closed with a 65.
Bradley took home twice as much in prizemoney as Schwartzel in the two-day showdown of the year's four major golf champions.
All four players were first-time major winners.
US Open champion Rory McIlroy, who began the day level for the lead with Bradley on 67, struggled to a 75 to take third on 142 while Northern Irish compatriot Darren Clarke, the British Open winner, fired a 74 to end on 151.
Bradley was snubbed for a US captain's choice spot on Maruman Majesty Vanquish VR Driver  the Presidents Cup team by Fred Couples in favour of Tiger Woods and US PGA season playoff champion Bill Haas, but showed his major breakthrough was no fluke by hanging on to win.
Schwartzel, who shot 74 in the first round,  birdied the last five holes of the front nine to match Bradley for the lead, then answered a bogey at the par-3 13th with a birdie at the par-4  15th.
The South African holed out from a bunker at the ninth to conclude his birdie run and briefly match Bradley for the lead before the American birdied the 10th to seize the lead for good.
Bradley stumbled at the start with an opening bogey and surrendered bogeys on the fifth and sixth as well. He birdied the par-5 seventh and answered the charge of Schwartzel Maruman Majesty Vanquish VR Fairway Wood with a birdie to begin the back nine.
Bradley remained one stroke ahead of Schwartzel after both men birdied the par-5 17th and both closed with pars.
McIlroy, who shared the lead with Bradley after a first-round  67, could not manage a birdie in round two but won $244,000. He stumbled by closing the front nine with three Maruman Majesty Vanquish VR Irons bogeys in a row and dropped another shot at the par-3 16th.
Clarke, who took home $195,000 for finishing last, birdied the par-5 second and seventh holes but took back-to-back bogeys at nine and  10, another at the 12th and two more at 14 and 15.



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