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NAPLES, Fla. -- Hold this. Hold that. Just one more.On Sunday, at the end of the CME Group Tour Championship that closed the 2016 LPGA season, there was more posing for photos than at a wedding between two people from large families.Photos with trophies, silver and crystal. With jewelry and watches. With a box full of money, which looks to weigh more than youd think.The women smiling with the spoils at Tiburon Golf Club were young and from around the world, which is the way of the LPGA. The average age of winners on tour in 2016 was 23. They hailed from 12 countries -- Americans won only two of 33 tournaments, the fewest ever.Englands Charley Hull made it an even dozen with her two-stroke CME victory over So Yeon Ryu, the quick-talking, fast-playing, brisk-swinging 20-year-old performing as if she had taken many leads into the final round, when this was the first time. One sure couldnt tell from her scorecard, which was as clean as the lobby floor of the nearby Ritz. Hull shot her second consecutive six-under 66 for a 19-under 269 total and her first LPGA title, and she needed it too, with Ryu closing with a 67.It was a great day to be 20. Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand, who turns 21 on Nov. 23, tied for fourth place after a closing 69. That was good enough, though, to hold off Lydia Ko (tied for 10th) to claim Rolex Player of the Year honors and a $1 million bonus for winning the season-long Race to the CME Globe, an awkward but deadly accurate designation given the LPGAs international trend.Its great. Its like my dream come true, said Jutanugarn, who led the tour with five victories in 2016. I never thought my name could be on this trophy, and right now Im really proud of myself.Ko, who is still No. 1 in the Rolex World Rankings, almost walked off with the Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average until South Korean In Gee Chun, all of 22 years old, finished birdie-birdie-birdie to edge the 19-year-old New Zealander. This battle made a photo finish look like a romp as Chun finished with a 69.583 average to Kos 69.596. With the Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year award Chun clinched weeks ago, she is the first since Nancy Lopez in 1978 to win both trophies in the same season.Many of the women golfers who have turned professional very young in the past decade or so have been from Asia, but Hull left the amateur ranks at 16 and started playing on the Ladies European Tour as a 17-year-old in 2013. A Solheim Cupper that year, the youngest ever, she had an LET victory but no wins in 51 LPGA starts before teeing off this week.Starting the final round with a one-stroke lead over Ryu and Brittany Lincicome, Hull birdied three of the first eight holes and went to the back nine still one ahead of Ryu, the 2011 U.S. Womens Open champion who was looking for her first LPGA victory in two years.It feels great to be a winner on the LPGA Tour, Hull said. Its wicked to do it at 20. Its fun. Ariya has had a great year, Lydia, Brooke [Henderson]. It feels good to be one of the young ones that have won.As with Jutanugarn, whose mantra since spring has been about having fun on the course, Hull is a keep-it-simple type of golfer. She could be the first person to win an important tournament with her mind on a dessert.As the pressure [built] on the back nine I got into my swing, Hull said. It kind of helped a little bit having that pressure on me to hit it good. Just kind of stuck to my rhythm. I have this swing, strawberry mousse. My swing goes back to strawberry, and comes down to mousse, a bit faster. My dad used to say it to me when I was 2 years old to get my rhythm. Ive had it in my head since the Olympics. Feels good.Despite her strong play, Hull came to the par-5 17th hole tied with Ryu at 18 under. The outcome turned on Ryus fairway metal second shot, which barely missed carrying a greenside bunker and finished at the base of a four-foot-tall revetted wall. She was forced to play out sideways and failed to get up-and-down for par. Hull chipped to four feet and made birdie to take a two-stroke cushion to the last hole.I didnt really mis-hit the shot, Ryu said of her second shot at 17. Thats the shot I wanted to hit and I did it. Unfortunately, the wind stopped. I feel like God did it. Maybe he wants me to do something else, even training harder or practicing harder. Finally, though, I feel like Im completely ready to win the tournament. I hope I can have this feel until next year as well.Jutanugarn certainly would bottle the ingredients from her 2016 season, including as it did, three straight victories and five overall, including a major title. That such a breakthrough season occurred after a rough 2015, when she missed 10 straight cuts and quit practice rounds because she was afraid where her shots were going, makes it all the more remarkable.Even though I missed those 10 cuts in a row, I appreciate it, because if that thing hadnt happened, Im not going to win all this stuff this year, said Jutanugarn, who called her performance coaches Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott on Sunday morning. I feel this week is very, very special because Ive been really nervous. I kept calling [Nilsson and Marriott], like I cant do this. Even before this round, Im like, What should I do? She is going to Disney World now, to celebrate her birthday -- I feel old, Jutanugarn said -- and spend some of her big bonus. Maybe a little bit on [sister] Mo, but like a lot with my mom.Ko, who won the CME Globe the past two season, is looking forward to a break after a week that included a 62 but also some loose shots, and a season in which she won four times but included a mediocre stretch for the 14-time career winner.I am planning to not touch my clubs or look at them for the next month, said Ko, whose bogey on the 71st hole opened the door for Chun in the Vare competition. Ive looked at them for the last 11 months. I think theyre sick of me, too. I say that, but I dont know what I would do without golf. Thats how much I like it. But a little bit of time off is going to be fun.When Hull wasnt thinking of a sweet to help her timing, she was remembering silly things her mates back home had done to tame the tension. Hull will join them over the holidays.Just going out with my friends and having fun with them over Christmas, Hull said. Couple of pub crawls and stuff like that. Theyre good in England. The drinking age is 18.Or, in other words, close to the winning age on the LPGA, with no graying on the horizon. Vans Old Skool Clearance Sale . -- Josh Sterk scored once and set up two more as the Oshawa Generals edged the visiting Belleville Bulls 3-2 on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action. Vans Shoes Wholesale Store . -- Quarterback Will Finch threw for 252 yards and three touchdowns, and Yannick Harou rushed in two scores as the No. http://www.vanssalestore.com/vans-slip-on-clearance.html . The incident occurred at 19:56 of the second period of the Kings 4-2 road win over Edmonton on Sunday. Nolan punched Oilers forward Jesse Joensuu in the jaw in front of the Kings goal during a scrum. Vans Old Skool Discount . Coach Tom Thibodeau says the former MVP will probably start travelling with the team in the next few weeks. Rose tore the meniscus in his right knee at Portland in November and was ruled out for the remainder of the season by the Bulls. Vans Sk8 Hi Clearance . Most important, perhaps, it went off without a hitch. Organizers poked a little fun at the now-infamous opening ceremony gaffe that saw only four out of five snowflakes open up into rings, leaving the Olympics logo one ring short.I have always enjoyed the way Danny Cipriani has played, and feel he has not had as much Test rugby as I believe he warrants, but I am nonetheless excited to see Alex Lozowski in the England squad. For me it speaks volumes of Englands depth, as well as Eddie Jones willingness to pluck players from outside the traditional big names. With this weekends Championship game on our screens, depth is something that has been particularly on my mind all week.Recent talk of scrapping the promotion play-offs in the Championship has me concerned about what will happen to the game on our shores. I know business is business, but rugby is still a sport and therefore has to remain competitive at all levels in order to maintain its appeal. We must keep the promotion-relegation system if we are to retain our integrity. As the wage gap keeps increasing, towards arguably north of £8 million-a-year, we are in danger of pricing our game out of the reach of those not currently involved at the upper levels. Watch NOW TV All the excitement of Sky Sports at your fingertips for ￡6.99. No contract In the Championship game on Sunday you will have your first view of promotion favourites London Irish. When they were relegated at the end of last season, the Exiles had a large parachute payment to help them cope with the drop, while the rest of the division is funded by the RFU on a figure of around £500,000. You can already see the huge disparity between the leagues, and the void is something that should concern the RFU as well as the PRL.You need a highly competitive league beneath the Premiership, and the Championship needs something to play for right until the end of the season, which the play-off system offers. Without the play-offs you potentially have a team securing promotion into the Premiership by Easter. Bristol beat Doncaster 28-13 at Castle Park in the first leg of last seasons final London Irish are currently unbeaten, and with the squad they have, should stretch out to a healthy lead over the next few months. I would add that Yorkshire Carnegiie are also unbeaten, and might have something to say about London Irish stretching out to an unassailable lead! For the sake of a competitive league, I certainly hope they do.ddddddddddddIf one team does end up climbing the summit early, but there are still play-off places available at the end of the season, then teams who cant finish top of the league still have something to play for right up to May, which makes for a healthy league.In some leagues where there is no promotion and relegation, the end of the season sees a higher number of dead rubbers. London Scottish vs London Irish October 30, 2016, 2:45pm Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass Below the Championship, according to recent reports the RFU are looking to place restriction on National 1 teams, to stop clubs from paying out more than £150,000 in total salary. That number then reduces to £100,000 in National 2 and £50,000 in National 3. How is that fair, and further than that, how is that even policed?That will stop competition for promotion into the Premiership, which stifles progression and achievement in the wider game. My mantra is that if youre good enough to secure promotion then you are good enough, no one team deserves it more than the others.The vast funding for TV deals and club-and-country packages need to be distributed as evenly as possible, not just top-heavy.We have a great game, there is some fantastic talent operating in the Championship, dont ruin what is a progressive league by under-funding it. The rich should not get richer in this great game of ours, we dont want a cartel or a mini-FIFA to dictate its future.You can watch Premier League football, plus Englands tour of Bangladesh and the Mexican Grand Prix on Sky Sports. Upgrade now and enjoy six months at half price! Also See: Premiership home Premiership table Fixtures and results Rugby Union on Sky ' ' '