UCLA’s Joh wins another U.S. title

UCLA star Tiffany Joh won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links title for the second time in three years, rallying to win four of the last six holes Saturday at Erin, Wis., for a 2 and 1 victory over USC recruit Jennifer Song.

Joh, from San Diego, the 2006 winner at Walking Stick in Pueblo, Colo., is the fifth two-time winner in the 32-year history of the USGA event. Kelly Fuiks (1977-78), Lori Castillo (1979-80), Pearl Sinn (1988-89) and Jo Jo Robertson (1995, 1997) also won the tournament twice.

Song, of South Korea, won the first hole, led almost the entire match and was 2-up after a birdie on the 10th hole.

But Joh won the 12th, 14th, 15th and 16th to go 2-up. A 15-foot birdie putt on the par-four 15th hole gave Joh her first lead of the match at 1-up.

She went 2-up when Song’s four-foot putt for par grazed the left side of the cup on the 16th. They halved the par-four 17th to give Joh the win.

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Stewart Cink birdied the final two holes to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Travelers Championship at Cromwell, Conn.

Cink shot a five-under-par 65 to reach 15-under 195, the best 54-hole score of his career. Heath Slocum (64) was in second place.

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Suzann Pettersen shot a bogey-free five-under 67 to open a three-stroke lead over Morgan Pressel, Eun-Hee Ji and Inbee Park after the third round of the Wegmans LPGA at Rochester, N.Y.

Pettersen, a five-time tour winner in 2007, is at 14-under 202. Pressel, who held a one-stroke lead over Pettersen after the second round, shot a 71. Ji shot a 64 and Park a 69.

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Loren Roberts birdied the 18th hole to finish with a six-under 66 and take a one-stroke lead heading into the final round of the Bank of America Championship at Concord, Mass. He is at 10-under 134.

Mark McNulty (70), Jeff Sluman (67) and first-round leader Tom Kite (72) are tied for second at nine-under 135.