Colbey Northcutt is the older sister of ONE Championship welterweight contender “Super” Sage Northcutt. A Karate World Champion, she kicked off her amateur mixed martial arts career in 2013, and then turned professional in 2017. She is set to face Indonesia’s Putri Padmi in a women’s flyweight contest.

Also, undefeated American bantamweight contender Troy Worthen, a representative of Evolve MMA in Singapore, returns to action against China’s “Rock Man” Chen Lei.

Worthen made a successful ONE Championship debut in his most recent outing last July, knocking out Chen Rui in the second round. Chen Lei, on the other hand, took home a unanimous decision win over Anthony Engelen in his most recent contest last June.

In a ONE Super Series Muay Thai contest, two-time European Kickboxing Champion Brown Pinas of the Netherlands will square off with Roar Combat League World Champion Liam Nolan of the United Kingdom.

Finally, in another Muay Thai contest, WMC Muay Thai Open Champion Yuta Watanabe of Japan will take on Vietnamese striking superstar Nguyen Tran Duy Nhat.

ONE: EDGE OF GREATNESS

Friday, 22 November

Singapore Indoor Stadium

Main Event

ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai World Championship

Nong-O Gaiyanghadao (C) vs Saemapetch Fairtex

Muay Thai: 65.8kg

Co-Main Event

Amir Khan vs Ev Ting

Mixed Martial Arts: 77.1kg

Maira Mazar vs Tiffany Teo

Mixed Martial Arts: 56.7kg

Alex Silva vs Peng Xue Wen

Mixed Martial Arts: 56.7kg

Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke vs Muhammad Imran

Mixed Martial Arts: 56.7kg

Troy Worthen vs Chen Lei

Mixed Martial Arts: 65.8kg

Rahul Raju vs Ahmed Mujtaba

Mixed Martial Arts: 77.1kg

Colbey Northcutt vs Putri Padmi

Mixed Martial Arts: 61.2kg

Petchmorakot Petchyindee Academy  vs Charlie Peters

Muay Thai: 70.3kg

Brown Pinas vs Liam Nolan

Muay Thai: 70.3kg

Yuta Watanabe vs Nguyen Tran Duy Nhat

Muay Thai: 61.2kg

***Bout card and order subject to change.

Helping make it a triumphant day for Thailand was the World No 4 mixed doubles team of Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai, who toppled error-prone Wang Chi-Lin and Cheng Chi Ya of Taiwan 21-11 21-8.

Sitthikom, 24, controlled the pace to take the second set from Shi, the former No 2 and 2018 World Championship runner-up, who played exceptionally well in the opener but appeared to struggle with his movement in the third, allowing the Thai No 2 to fully take charge.

Ranked 22nd in the world, Sitthikom won the biggest title of his career in the Super 300 event to emerge as the first Thai man to capture a singles gold medal on the World Tour this season.

“I’m happy and a bit shocked that I beat him to win my first Super 300 event. The hard work finally paid off,” said Sitthikom who will represent the Kingdom in the SEA Games latet this month.

Sunday’s win also brought his second World Tour title after his maiden victory at the 100 level in Akita, Japan, last year.

“This win is a good boost for me. Now I already have my next goal which is to win a Super 500 event,” Sitthikon said.

It was Dechapol and Sapsiree’s third crown together following wins in Singapore and Seoul, both earlier this year.

“We lived up to our standard, whereas our opponents were making a lot of mistakes,” said Sapsiree, who has now set her sights on winning her first Super 500 event.

“Winning this title was a good warm-up and a good boost. Now we will focus more on winning a Super 500 title.”

Thailand also had players in the finals of the women’s doubles, but Jongkolphan Kititharakul and Rawinda Prajongjai went down to top-seeded Du Yue and Li Yin Hui of China 21-16 10-21 21-12.

Schauffele, who would have been the first player to retain the WGC-HSBC Champions title had he won, started the day two shots back but surmounted a fightback with a final round six-under-par 66 which brought him level with McIlroy.

The American conjured a moment of brilliance by sinking a six-foot birdie putt on the last to force the play-off with McIlroy, who missed a 25-footer that would have seen him snatch the outright win in regulation play.

In the first play-off hole, Mcilroy’s birdie was enough to secure his fourth title of the year after the American, who was battling flu all week, was unable to reach the green in two after hitting his drive into the left rough.

McIlroy, on the other hand, hit a wonderful drive and found the green in two to set himself up for a birdie which Schauffele could not match.

.This third WGC win was so hard. I felt after shooting 10-under par for the first two days, thinking going bogey-free over the weekend, I thought that would probably be enough to get the job done. I played 73 holes this week with Xander, and I have to give credit to him. He’s battled the flu all week and he’s played unbelievably well considering how he’s been feeling,” said McIlroy

“18 has been good to me over the week. I had an eagle Friday, a great birdie yesterday, and got lucky in regulation not to go in the water and it was a relief to hit those two shots in the playoff. He was battling a flu all week, wasn’t feeling his best, and so the calibre of golf he played this week, it takes some doing. I don’t want to take anything away from him. He birdied the last to get into the playoff, and then I produced two of the best shots of the day when I needed it, which was really cool,” he added.

Victory at the Sheshan International Golf Club was McIlroy’s third World Golf Championships (WGC) title, and first since the Dell Technologies Match Play in 2015.

Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond ended his week with a commendable tied-14th finish after rounds of 70,69,69 and 70 in what was his first WGC event in Shanghai.

Korda started the day with a three-stroke advantage over Minjee Lee and a four-shot lead over Caroline Masson, and she ended the day with a perfect 5-hybrid to set up a birdie on the first playoff hole to take home her third LPGA title.

Korda was unable to build on her lead on the front nine with two birdies and two bogeys, and instead watched Lee and Masson chisel away at it. Lee stumbled out of the gates with a bogey, before settling in and going birdie-par-eagle-par-birdie on Nos. 4-8 to tie Korda’s lead at the turn.

After finding the water with her second shot on the par-4 9th, Korda made a long putt to save bogey and to keep her title defense alive. Korda birdied holes 10 and 12 to build back a three-shot lead, but that’s when things got interesting. Korda had three short par putts turn into three three-putt bogeys on 14, 15, and 17 to lose the lead for the first time all day to Masson with one hole to play.

Masson made par on the par-5 18th hole in regulation while Korda and Lee birdied to force a three-way playoff. Korda was the only one to find the fairway in the playoff and hit a perfect second shot to set up an eagle chance. She left the eagle putt short, but a birdie would be enough for her to win her third career LPGA title and second straight title in Chinese Taipei.

“I kept telling myself, from the heart, from the heart, from the heart, because I was very nervous because it was my first playoff,” Korda said. “The wind kind of brought it back in. I made a couple 3-putts on the back. It just gets away from you so fast, and Caroline made a couple putts and she was one ahead of me on 17. I was like, geez, I have to make a birdie here. Jason [McDede] gave me a little pep talk going from 17 to 18, win or get into a playoff, so he was definitely great today.”

Masson battled all day with just one bogey on the card to fight her way into her first career playoff, and said she can learn a lot from the experience.

“I think if you told me at the beginning of the day to be in a playoff, I would have taken it,” Masson said. “Not a bad spot to be in obviously. I did have a couple chances to get maybe two ahead on 17 and make birdie on 18, and didn’t use them, but I think overall, I just hung with them all day. Super proud of the way we played and battled. Nelly just hit a great drive, second shot into 18. It probably sets up a little bit better for her being a par 5 than for me. She is a little bit longer off the tee, but great experience.”

Jessica Korda, a five-time LPGA winner, was able to witness her younger sister hoist a trophy for the first time and was the first to give her a congratulatory hug on the 18th green.

“Seeing her walk off 18 in regulation, I saw she had fire in her eyes — I just felt really good about it and I was just praying that it was going to work out,” Jessica Korda said. “At the end of the day, a playoff, it’s totally out of your hands. She piped it down the fairway and hit such a good shot in. I did give her a little bit of crap for leaving it short, as you should. But yeah, so awesome to be here.”

MASSON FINDS SHE STILL HAS FIGHT

It’s been three years since Caroline Masson has tasted an LPGA victory. On Sunday at the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA, Masson started the round four shots behind Nelly Korda. As Masson walked to the final hole of regulation, she found herself alone on top of the leaderboard with a one-stroke advantage over playing partners Korda and Minjee Lee.

With pars on the 72nd hole and on the first playoff hole, Masson fell short of her second career LPGA title but took away a lot of positives from a season-best runner-up result with one event remaining on her 2019 schedule.

“Going back to Florida, I’ve lived there for a few years now,” Masson said of her plans for the next few weeks leading up to the CME Group Tour Championship. “Going to practice hard the next two weeks and be ready. I couldn’t get these really good finishes for whatever reason, so it’s nice to see one week where it almost all came together, and proved to myself that I can contend with the girls still. Not that old, but sometimes you feel like, man, hopefully you can still hang with them. I think that was nice for me to be able to do that.”

PLAYER NOTES

Rolex Rankings No. 8 Nelly Korda (66-67-65-72)

• Korda hit 9 of 14 fairways and 16 of 18 greens, with 34 putts
• With her second win of the year, Nelly Korda is the first American with multiple wins in the 2019 season
• Korda is the third player this season to successfully defend a 2018 title, joining Brooke Henderson at the LOTTE Championship and Danielle Kang at the Buick LPGA Shanghai
• She is the seventh player to have multiple wins this season, joining Hannah Green (2), Brooke Henderson (2), Mi Jung Hur (2), Jin Young Ko (4), Sei Young Kim (2) and Sung Hyun Park (2)
• Became a Rolex First-Time Winner at the 2018 Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA, which was played at the Ta Shee Golf and Country Club
• Korda and her older sister Jessica (five wins) are one of three sets of sisters in LPGA history to both win titles, joining Annika Sorenstam (72 wins) and Charlotta Sorenstam (one win), and Ariya Jutanugarn (10 wins) and Moriya Jutanugarn (one win)

RACE TO CME GLOBE

With her win, Korda earns 500 points and is projected to move from ninth to fourth in the Race to CME Globe with 2,547 points.

MONEY

With her win, Korda earns $330,000; she has earned $1,395,909 this season and $2,893,023 for her career.

KORDA’S 2019 IN A NUTSHELL ON THE LPGA

19 events played, 18 cuts made, $1,395,909, two victories, nine additional top-10 finishes

KORDA’S PREVIOUS TAIWAN SWINGING SKIRTS LPGA RESULTS

2018 – WIN; 2017 – T17

CME GROUP CARES CHALLENGE – SCORE 1 FOR ST. JUDE

The CME Group Cares Challenge is a season-long charitable giving program that turns aces into donations. CME Group will donate $20,000 for each hole-in-one made on the LPGA Tour in 2019, with a minimum guaranteed donation of $500,000 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

There have been 31 aces made this season and a total of $620,000 donated thus far to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This more than covers the average cost of $425,000 needed to treat a pediatric cancer patient.

LEADERS TOP 10 COMPETITION

The LEADERS Top 10 competition awards a $100,000 bonus to the LPGA player with the most top-10 finishes through the completion of the TOTO Japan Classic. In the event of a tie in total top-10 finishes, the award will go to the player with the most official wins, followed by most second-place finishes, third-place finishes, etc., until the tie is broken.

With her tie for ninth at the BMW Ladies Championship, Jin Young Ko clinched the LEADERS Top 10 Competition with 12 top-10 finishes. Brooke Henderson collected her 12th top-10 finish of the season on Sunday at the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA, but with Henderson sitting out the TOTO Japan Classic next week Jin Young Ko wins the tie-break scenario. Nelly Korda and Hyo Joo Kim are now tied for third with 11 top-10s.

 AON RISK REWARD CHALLENGE UPDATED SCENARIOS

The season-long Aon Risk Reward Challenge highlight’s the world’s best professional golfers as they tackle the most strategically challenging holes across both the LPGA Tour and PGA TOUR schedules. Players will take their best two scores from each Aon Risk Reward Challenge hole, with the winners having the best average score to par at the end of the regular season. The player from each Tour on top of the Aon leaderboard at the end of the regular season will receive a $1 million prize.

Heading into the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA, only three players have a chance to catch Carlota Ciganda who leads the standings at -0.841 and is not playing the final two qualifying events. Ariya Jutanugarn who is in second at -0.800, In-Kyung Kim who is in third at -0.750 and Hyo Joo Kim who is seventh at -0.706, all three are in the field at the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA and the TOTO Japan Classic.

The designated Aon Risk Reward Challenge hole at the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA is the par-4 8th. This hole has multiple teeing areas and presents a wonderful risk-reward opportunity for the player, depending on yardage for the day. It will be set up from the forward tee at just 255 yards for at least two of the four rounds. Two long bunkers guard the left side of the fairway, close to the landing area, while another bunker (short and right of the green) lies in wait for a poorly struck second shot.

Here’s how the three players in contention fared this week:

For more information about the Aon Risk Reward Challenge, visit www.lpga.com/statistics/aon-risk-reward-challenge.

RACE TO THE CME GLOBE NEARING THE FINISH LINE

Heading into the 30th week of the 2019 Race to the GME Globe, four-time winner Jin Young Ko leads the standings with 4,148 points. Two-time 2019 winner Brooke Henderson is second with 2,772 points, followed by Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year Jeongeun Lee6 with 2,652 points.

The 2019 season brings a fresh face to the Race to the CME Globe. LPGA Members will accumulate points at each official LPGA Tour event leading up to the CME Group Tour Championship. The top 60 points earners and ties will then earn a spot in the CME Group Tour Championship, with the entire field competing for the $5 million purse and the $1.5 million winner’s check, the largest single prize in the history of women’s golf.

With a T23 finish at the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA, Anna Nordqvist is projected to squeak inside the top 60 in the Race to the CME Globe standings, going from 63rd to 59th. With a T8 finish, In-Kyung Kim inched closer to the 60th spot and is projected to move from 71st to 65th. A T11 finish moves Charley Hull closer to safety as she’s projected to move from 56th to 49th. Nordqvist, Kim and Hull are also in the field at the TOTO Japan Classic.

Players must finish in the top 40 and ties at the TOTO Japan Classic to earn Race to the CME Globe points

Korda made four birdies coming in on Saturday at the Miramar Golf Country Club to take the lead over 2018 Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA runner-up Minjee Lee and European Solheim Cup star Caroline Masson at -15 and -14, respectively.

“I think I’ve gone over 36 holes without a bogey, which is something that I always strive to do,” Korda said after her third-round 65. “I don’t remember the last time I did that. I don’t think I’ve ever actually done that. But I’m just playing really solid golf, and there’s still so much golf to be played.”

Korda has held led/co-led through 54-holes in both of her two career LPGA wins, but she said she’s not sleeping on any lead comfortably with those close behind her.

“With the two girls I’m going to be playing with tomorrow, Minjee [Lee] and Caroline [Masson], they are going to for sure shoot some low scores,” Korda said. “So it’s going to take a low one to stay consistent to win tomorrow, so hopefully I can get that finish. But it would be great to win again here in Taiwan. Still have 18 holes, so I’m not going to get ahead of myself.”

Lee might be the steadiest player in the field in Chinese Taipei, with her last bogey coming 47 holes ago on the seventh hole of her first round as she looks for her second win of the 2019 LPGA Tour season.

Masson, on the other hand, has hit 48 of 54 greens in regulation this week and said she’s hoping the tougher weather being forecasted comes to fruition on Sunday.

“I feel like if I can just keep up my long game and just do that tomorrow, I heard maybe a little rain, a little wind; so the tougher the conditions, I think more of an advantage you have when your long game is good. I just have to keep doing that,” Masson said after her third-round 66.

54-hole leader Mi Jung Hur had an up and down day hitting eight of 14 fairways with 30 putts en route to a third-round 71 to fall into solo fourth at 13-under par. Major champion In-Kyung Kim rounds out the top five players at -12.

LEE LIKES HER POSITION

Aussie Minjee Lee enters the final-round of the Taiwan Swinging Skirts LPGA trailing Nelly Korda by three strokes. It’s a bit of déjà vu for Lee, who had a taste of trying to chase down a Nelly Korda lead at this event in 2018. Lee entered the final round in 2018 four shots behind Korda before closing with a 66 to finish as the runner-up just two strokes shy of Korda who closed with a 68.

Memories from 2018 in Chinese Taipei aside, Lee is comfortable coming from behind as two of her five LPGA wins have come when she’s been chasing the leader.

“I think it’s probably an easier position to be in just because you can — I guess you have a little bit more motivation — I don’t know but obviously maybe Nelly will have motivation to win,” Lee said. “I think it’s just a little bit easier to be in the mind-set of chasing than trying to like lead. So yeah, I mean, I’ve been in both positions before, so it’s nothing new to me. I’ll just take it as it comes.”

As for Lee’s final-round strategy this year, she said it will depend on the weather conditions and the pin placements.

“I think pick your battles out there,” Lee said. “Obviously if there’s water or hazard or wind, you’re going to play more conservatively than like too aggressively. I think the LPGA does a good job of like kind of balancing out the weather and the pin positions, so hopefully they will put pins in spots that are fair but tricky at the same time. So yeah, hopefully it will be a fun day.”

KORDA’S CADDIE CONNECTION

Nelly Korda’s caddie Jason McDede has been on her bag since the beginning of the 2018 LPGA season, and he’s been by her side for both of her wins on Tour. Sunday might have a different feeling for the duo, as Jason is engaged to be married to Korda’s playing partner Caroline Masson. Caroline and Jason are due to be married in 2020, but Sunday will be the first time they’ve gone head-to-head vying for an LPGA title.

Korda joked about the unique situation: “I’m going to tell him that at the end of the day, I’m signing his paycheck — no, I’m kidding. We are all good friends. It’s going to be fun.”

Masson said they always knew this could happen and is looking forward to the experience.

“It’s a little bit strange maybe but at the same time, it’s where we both want to be. It’s what we work hard for and what we kind of support each other to be able to do. You know, it’s just about embracing it. I know obviously he’s Nelly’s caddie and he’s rooting for her and he’s also rooting a little bit for me, so I think that’s fun.

“Yeah, I think we are just going to go out there. Solheim was even worse; we played against each other, so we’re kind of used to it now. I think we’ll be okay.”

WITH A WIN…

With her third career LPGA win and second of the 2019 season, Nelly Korda would become the first American with multiple wins in 2019

Korda would become the third player this season to successfully defend a 2018 title, joining Brooke Henderson at the LOTTE Championship and Danielle Kang at the BMW Ladies Championship

Nelly Korda or Minjee Lee would become the seventh player to have multiple wins this season, joining Hannah Green (2), Brooke Henderson (2), Mi Jung Hur (2), Jin Young Ko (4), Sei Young Kim (2) and Sung Hyun Park (2)

Caroline Masson would earn her second career LPGA title, and Germany would be the 10th country to have a winner in 2019

Masson would become the first player from Germany with more than one LPGA win; Sandra Gal and Tina Fischer each have one LPGA win

Like his second round, the Asian Tour Order of Merit leader posted a 69 again for a three-day total of eight-under-par 208 to take the outright 13th place, seven shots behind world number two Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, who moved to the top with his third consecutive round of 67.

“It was a pretty easy three-under. I missed a lot of putts but I’m happy with the way I’m swinging it so hopefully I continue to hit it like this tomorrow and make more putts. I just didn’t take advantage of it, but still a pretty good round and a pretty good score,” said Jazz, who at t the age of 23 years 6 months and 27 days,  becomes the youngest ever player to achieve four wins on Tour.

“I’m going to try to finish as high as I can and you know, try to grind it out. My goal is to end the year inside the top-50, so this is going to be a good opportunity to put myself closer to that goal. I hit a lot of greens and had a lot of chances,” added the Thai No 1.

McIlroy, who is chasing his third World Golf Championships (WGC) title, heads into the final round with a one-shot advantage over South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen after the 2010 Open champion signed for a 65 at the Sheshan International Golf Club.

“I want to go out there and be committed, play aggressively, and shoot a good number. I took a lot from the win in Canada earlier this year. I went out tied for the lead, and I just said from the start, I’m going to keep my foot down and I’m going to go for everything. It was a good lesson that when you do have something right there, in front of you, a tournament to win or something to achieve, you just have to grab it with both hands, and that’s what I’ll do tomorrow,” said McIlroy.

Oosthuizen has never won a WGC event where the closest he came to doing so was at the 2016 WGC-Dell Match Play when he lost in the final.

Overnight leader Matthew Fitzpatrick of England and defending champion Xander Schauffele of the United States were a further shot back in a share of third place.

Im signed for a 70 to share sixth place with American Jason Kokrak at the year’s final WGC event.

The incident occurred at Turn 10 on Lap 1, with the race Red Flagged immediately thereafter. The 20-year-old Indonesian first received medical attention by the side of the track before being transferred to Kuala Lumpur Hospital by helicopter.

Despite the best efforts of circuit medical staff and those at the hospital, Munandar sadly succumbed to his injuries shortly thereafter.

Munandar was a standout rider in the 2019 IATC season, taking two wins, two second places and two third-place finishes in a season that had seen him poised to fight for the Championship this weekend.

The FIM, FIM Asia, Dorna Sports, and all those in the Idemitsu Asia Talent Cup pass on their deepest condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of Munandar.

The Thai opened with a 70 in his maiden World Golf Championships event but held his own in the company of several of the world’s best players by signing for a two-day total of five-under-par 139.

Jazz is among a group of nine players which includes Major winners Bubba Watson of the United States and England’s Justin Rose who will head into the weekend tied for 11th.

“The course played a bit tougher than yesterday. I left a couple out there, but all in all, still a pretty good round. I’ve put myself in a good position to move up the leaderboard for sure. It’s a good start to a really good week. I love it (maiden WGC event),” said the Thai No 1 who broke into top-100 on the OWGR after winning his third Asian Tour title in Singapore in January and marked his career-best ranking when he rose to 52nd position following his fourth victory in Korea in June.

“It’s my first time and I really enjoy it. I’m looking forward to play more in the future. Even though there’s no cut, you want to finish high up the leaderboard. You’re playing against the best players and you just want to prove to yourself that you can match up to them too. I’m just trying to get my game to the next level and work on the stuff I’m not really that good. For now, putting is a big key to improve my game, so that’s what I’ve been working on,” added Jazz or Atiwit.

Fitzpatrick will take a one-shot lead over world number two Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland after he signed for a 67 at the Sheshan International Golf Club.

“On the back-nine I struggled with the driver a little coming in. But I putted fantastic, as good as I’ve putted all year. I think the way this golf course is, if you’re on the wrong side, it makes a difficult up-and-down. The rough is tough. The greens are firm. They are slopey as well. So, it was definitely more difficult today. It’s so important to hit the fairways here, because you miss them, you’ve either got a terrible lie and hacking it out or you’ve got a good lie and getting a flyer. It’s a big key to hitting fairways around here and if you can keep doing it, you’ll give yourself more chances,” the Briton said.

The 25-year-old is looking to extend an impressive record of having won in every season since he graduated from the European Tour Qualifying School in 2014 and is also chasing his first victory in a World Golf Championships event.

Li Haotong, who became the first ever Chinese to hold the opening round lead, slipped to a share of sixth place after a 72.