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What's in the bag: Farmers Insurance Open winner Leishman
Marc Leishman surged for a final-round, 7-under 65 to win the Farmers Insurance Open for his fifth PGA Tour victory. Here's a look inside his bag:
DRIVER: Callaway Mavrik (9 degrees), with Fujikura Speeder 757 shaft
FAIRWAY WOODS: Callaway Epic Flash Sub Zero (16.5 degrees), Rogue Sub Zero (18 degrees), with Fujikura Speeder Tour Spec X shaft
IRONS: Callaway X-Forged UT (3), Apex Pro 19 (4-6), Apex MB (7-PW), with Nippon N.S. Pro Modus 3 shafts
WEDGES: Callaway JAWS MD5 (52, 60 degrees), with Nippon N.S. Pro Modus 3 shafts
PUTTER: Odyssey Versa #6
BALL: Callaway Chrome Soft X
See how the purse was paid out at the Farmers Insurance Open
Marc Leishman earned his fifth PGA Tour victory at the Farmers Insurance Open. Here's a look at how the purse was paid out for those who made the cut at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, California.
Finish |
Player |
Earnings ($) |
---|---|---|
1 |
Marc Leishman |
1,350,000.00 |
2 |
Jon Rahm |
817,500.00 |
T3 |
Rory McIlroy |
442,500.00 |
T3 |
Brandt Snedeker |
442,500.00 |
5 |
Tom Hoge |
307,500.00 |
T6 |
Tony Finau |
253,125.00 |
T6 |
Patrick Reed |
253,125.00 |
T6 |
Bubba Watson |
253,125.00 |
T9 |
Harry Higgs |
181,875.00 |
T9 |
Charley Hoffman |
181,875.00 |
T9 |
Max Homa |
181,875.00 |
T9 |
Beau Hossler |
181,875.00 |
T9 |
Patrick Rodgers |
181,875.00 |
T9 |
Tiger Woods |
181,875.00 |
15 |
Maverick McNealy |
136,875.00 |
T16 |
Keegan Bradley |
114,375.00 |
T16 |
Cameron Champ |
114,375.00 |
T16 |
Jason Day |
114,375.00 |
T16 |
J.B. Holmes |
114,375.00 |
T16 |
Sung Kang |
114,375.00 |
T21 |
Zac Blair |
69,041.67 |
T21 |
Will Gordon |
69,041.67 |
T21 |
Russell Knox |
69,041.67 |
T21 |
Jason Kokrak |
69,041.67 |
T21 |
Collin Morikawa |
69,041.67 |
T21 |
Matthew Wolff |
69,041.67 |
T21 |
Sebastian Cappelen |
69,041.66 |
T21 |
Tyler McCumber |
69,041.66 |
T21 |
Ryan Palmer |
69,041.66 |
T30 |
Mark Anderson |
45,937.50 |
T30 |
Matthew NeSmith |
45,937.50 |
T30 |
J.J. Spaun |
45,937.50 |
T30 |
Kevin Tway |
45,937.50 |
T30 |
Jhonattan Vegas |
45,937.50 |
T30 |
Jimmy Walker |
45,937.50 |
T36 |
Cameron Davis |
32,666.67 |
T36 |
Jason Dufner |
32,666.67 |
T36 |
Sungjae Im |
32,666.67 |
T36 |
Cameron Percy |
32,666.67 |
T36 |
Robby Shelton |
32,666.67 |
T36 |
Zack Sucher |
32,666.67 |
T36 |
Talor Gooch |
32,666.66 |
T36 |
Luke List |
32,666.66 |
T36 |
Jamie Lovemark |
32,666.66 |
T45 |
Joseph Bramlett |
22,950.00 |
T45 |
John Huh |
22,950.00 |
T45 |
Hideki Matsuyama |
22,950.00 |
T45 |
Kevin Streelman |
22,950.00 |
T49 |
Ryan Brehm |
18,700.00 |
T49 |
Sam Burns |
18,700.00 |
T49 |
Lucas Glover |
18,700.00 |
T49 |
Joaquin Niemann |
18,700.00 |
T49 |
Scott Stallings |
18,700.00 |
T49 |
Cameron Tringale |
18,700.00 |
T55 |
Stewart Cink |
17,025.00 |
T55 |
Joel Dahmen |
17,025.00 |
T55 |
Martin Laird |
17,025.00 |
T55 |
Grayson Murray |
17,025.00 |
T55 |
Pat Perez |
17,025.00 |
T55 |
Jordan Spieth |
17,025.00 |
T55 |
Ben Taylor |
17,025.00 |
T55 |
Brandon Wu |
17,025.00 |
T55 |
Xinjun Zhang |
17,025.00 |
T64 |
Aaron Baddeley |
16,050.00 |
T64 |
Denny McCarthy |
16,050.00 |
T64 |
Doc Redman |
16,050.00 |
T64 |
Cameron Smith |
16,050.00 |
T68 |
Byeong Hun An |
15,600.00 |
T68 |
Billy Horschel |
15,600.00 |
70 |
Rhein Gibson |
15,375.00 |
T71 |
Harris English |
15,150.00 |
T71 |
Chase Seiffert |
15,150.00 |
T73 |
Chris Baker |
14,625.00 |
T73 |
Dylan Frittelli |
14,625.00 |
T73 |
Bill Haas |
14,625.00 |
T73 |
Matt Jones |
14,625.00 |
T73 |
Richy Werenski |
14,625.00 |
78 |
Trey Mullinax |
14,175.00 |
79 |
Dominic Bozzelli |
14,025.00 |
Players reflect on Bryant's shocking death: 'Kobe was Superman'
SAN DIEGO – As Bubba Watson was walking to the 10th tee Sunday at the Farmers Insurance Open he heard someone in the crowd whisper, “Can you believe it?”
On the next hole he heard a fan say something about Kobe Bryant. “I looked at my caddie and was like what is going on?” Watson said.
Watson was one of the few players who learned during the final round of Bryant’s passing in a helicopter accident early Sunday. Most, like Tiger Woods, were told the news after they’d finished the final round.
“I didn't understand why they were yelling, ‘Do it for Mamba’ on the back nine. People yell things all the time, so I was just, you know, plodding along, doing my own thing,” Woods said. “When [caddie Joe LaCava] told me [Bryant had died], it's unbelievable, the reality that he's no longer here.”
Although Bryant wasn’t an avid golfer, players had an appreciation for what he accomplished in his career as well as his fierce competitiveness.
“His dedication, his drive, the fact that he would make his teammates wait on the bus for two hours while he set an example and worked hard and mastered his craft, and that's what he did, he was a pure master of what he did,” said Rory McIlroy, who wore a pair of tribute Nike shoes during the 2016 Masters to honor Bryant’s last NBA game. “That's just so sad.”
The news hit Tony Finau particularly hard.
“My mom passed away in a tragic car accident in 2011. It's crazy that some of those feelings that I had at that time are back,” Finau said. “That's how much Kobe meant to me at a different magnitude. The love of a mother is one that I think you can't replace, but to have some of those feelings come back when I heard the news makes me quite sad and I'll be mourning.”
Max Homa, a life-long Laker fan who is one of 13 Tour players who list Bryant as their favorite athlete, was also stunned by the news and told a story of being inspired by a letter that Bryant kept in his locker.
“It was a story about someone with a pick axe who is hitting a boulder, he takes 100 blows and it doesn’t even crack and on the 101st blow it splits apart. The wise man knows it wasn’t the 101st blow that broke it, but instead the 100 [blows] that came before it,” Homa said. “That meant a lot to me to be able to take things day by day and shot by shot and know that all those things will add up at some point to success. Kobe was Superman.”
In addition to Homa, other players who listed Bryant as their favorite athlete were: Dominic Bozzelli, Bud Cauley, Roberto Diaz, Tony Finau, Emiliano Grillo, Brandon Hagy, Mark Hubbard, Sung Kang, Michael Kim, Luke List, Kyle Stanley and Justin Thomas.
Leishman hopes win sends 'a little bit of joy' back home on Australia Day
SAN DIEGO – Marc Leishman’s one-stroke victory at the Farmers Insurance Open was a welcome turnaround following a few tough months professional, but that’s not why the Australian was emotional Sunday at Torrey Pines.
Leishman’s fifth career PGA Tour victory came on Australia Day, the country's national holiday. It also came during a difficult time back home, as Australia continues to battle wildfires.
“Pretty amazing, particularly all the problems that have been happening back in Australia with the fires and people losing their lives, firefighters. Just devastating really,” said Leishman, who closed with a 65 to edge Jon Rahm by a shot. “If this can bring them a little bit of joy, that's a big win for me personally and then for them as well.”
Leishman, who teamed with fellow Australian Cameron Smith in Hawaii to raise funds for those misplaced by the wildfires, was a member of the International Presidents Cup team that lost to the U.S. last month. He hadn’t had a top-10 finish on Tour since September.
“It's really satisfying,” Leishman said. “I think karma's a thing, but you can never bank on it. I think if you do good things for long enough, not all the time but most of the time you'll get paid off for it. Whether it's winning a golf tournament or just being a nice person.”
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says no first-team players will be involved in their FA Cup fourth-round replay with third-tier Shrewsbury Town next month because it clashes with the inaugural Premier League winter break.
Klopp's much-changed side were forced to a replay by Shrewsbury on Sunday as they let slip a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 in a pulsating tie at New Meadow. He has never taken Liverpool into the fifth round of the FA Cup since arriving in October 2015, but now appears ready to sacrifice the chance of ending that poor record.
Shrewsbury's players and fans celebrated wildly at the prospect of a trip to Anfield, but Klopp was not amused.
The new Premier League winter break means all clubs will have a blank weekend. Liverpool, who lead the table by a massive 16 points, would have had no league game between facing Southampton on Feb. 1 and Norwich City on Feb. 15. Now they will host Shrewsbury in the week beginning Feb. 3.
"In April 2019, we got a letter from the Premier League where they asked us to respect the winter break, not to organise friendlies and not to organise competitive games in respect of it," Klopp told reporters. "I have said to the boys already, two weeks ago, that we will have a winter break, so it means we will not be there -- it will be the kids who play that game because they cannot deal with us like nobody cares about it.
"I know it is not very popular, but that's the way I see it. The Premier League asked us to respect the winter break and that's what we'll do. If then the FA do not respect it then we cannot change. But we will not be there."
Klopp also confirmed that Liverpool's under-23s coach Neil Critchley would manage the team in that game. Critchley took charge of the Carabao Cup quarterfinal tie against Aston Villa this season when Liverpool's first-team squad were in Qatar winning the FIFA Club World Cup. Villa won 5-0.
Klopp, who believes cup replays should be scrapped, will almost certainly be as good as his word.
"It's about players' welfare and they need a rest -- mental rest, physical rest," he said. "That's what the winter break is about and then another competition tells us it's not that important. We had to make these decisions before because the boys have family and the international players like Jordan Henderson, Virgil van Dijk, Gini Wijnaldum, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mo Salah, Sadio Mane, all these guys they never have time off."
Paris Saint-Germain forward Neymar flashed the number "24" with his fingers following his second goal in a Ligue 1 match Sunday, honoring his friend Kobe Bryant, the NBA player who died in a helicopter crash earlier in the day.
Neymar scored a double to help PSG extend their Ligue 1 lead to 10 points with a 2-0 win at Lille. But it was his gesture in honor of Bryant that was the lasting memory of the match. He then put his hands together in prayer, pointing to the sky and walked toward a camera.
After the match, Neymar told Canal+: "I saw the messages [about Bryant] on social media at half-time. It's a big sadness for the world of sport and for all of us, not just basketball fans. I knew him and I did this celebration for him. I hope he will rest in peace."
Other clubs, including FC Barcelona, reacted to Bryant's death on social media, calling him an "exemplary sportsman."
Shocked by the death of @KobeBryant, an exemplary athlete both on and off the basketball court. Our most heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones. Rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/wGhF4xouVL
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) January 26, 2020
Neymar's former Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi wrote on Instagram: "I have no words. All my love for Kobe's family and friends. It was a pleasure to meet you and share good times together. We lost a genius like no other."
Neymar is the first player to score 47 goals in his first 50 games in the French elite since Gunnar Andersson netted 47 for Marseille between 1950 and 1952.
Captain Thiago Silva was replaced at half-time with a possible thigh injury as coach Thomas Tuchel already has to deal with the absence of fellow centre back Marquinhos, who is out for three weeks with a thigh problem.
Second-placed Marseille were held to a goalless stalemate at home by Angers on Saturday.
Lille dropped down to seventh on 31 points.
FA Cup win does little to alleviate growing negativity at United
BIRKENHEAD, England -- Even on a good day for Manchester United, the storm clouds are never far away.
For the first time since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in May 2013, the team hit six goals in a game by coasting to an FA Cup fourth-round victory at Tranmere Rovers, but there was only acrimony in the air as the United supporters once again vented their fury at the club's owners, the Glazer family, and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.
Anti-Glazer chants -- "Love United, Hate Glazers" and "We Want Glazers Out" -- have been aired sporadically ever since the Florida-based owners bought United in 2005, but those directed at Woodward -- "He's gonna die, Ed Woodward's gonna die" -- have taken the fury and anger to a whole new level.
"We're just going to try and get the results right and keep working, move the club forward," United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said after the game, when asked about the chanting. "Supporters are always happier when you're winning games and when you're successful, so we'll just keep on working to get results."
Neither the Glazers nor Woodward were at Prenton Park to witness Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's players avoid a potential embarrassment against third-tier Tranmere by claiming an emphatic victory that secured a place in Monday's fifth-round draw.
United had six different goal scorers, with two (Harry Maguire and Diogo Dalot) registering their first goals for the club. Phil Jones, meanwhile, added his name to the scoresheet for the first time since March 2014 when he headed Andreas Pereira's corner into the Tranmere net on 41 minutes.
But while this was a day of positives on the pitch -- United were ruthlessly professional against their lowly opponents -- it was one that also emphasised the growing discord in and around the club.
Beating Tranmere 6-0 may have offered a respite from the club's recent form slump in the Premier League, where United have crashed to successive 2-0 defeats against Liverpool and Burnley, but nobody in the away end at Prenton Park (known locally as the Cowshed) was fooled into believing that a win against a team in the League One relegation zone offered a cure for all the club's ills.
The fans who turned on Woodward and the Glazers during the recent home win against Norwich and the midweek defeat against Burnley at Old Trafford have not gone away. The Burnley result, when fans left in droves before the final whistle, was a tipping point for many, who blame the owners and Woodward for United's post-Ferguson demise.
There are many reasons why. By borrowing against the club to complete their leveraged takeover of United, the Glazers plunged the club into over £350 million of debt and in excess of £800m has been spent on interest fees and dividends in the intervening 15 years.
Those numbers are the root cause of the ill feeling toward the Glazers, with fans seeing the money going out of the club as proof of the Americans' desire merely to use United as a cash cow rather than a football club with the ambition to dominate domestically and in Europe.
Meanwhile, Woodward, who advised the Glazers on their takeover while working as an investment banker, has now become a lightning rod for the fans hostility, because he runs the club for the owners and United have, quite simply, been in a tailspin ever since he was promoted to that position in the summer of 2013.
United have spent almost £800m on new players on Woodward's watch, but poor investment and the lack of a clear strategy has seen the club sack three managers since 2014. At the same time, United's two bitter rivals, Manchester City and Liverpool, have become the powerhouses of English football, so it has become the perfect storm for Woodward and the Glazers.
The lack of incoming transfers in January, despite United announcing turnover of £630m in the last financial year, has lit the fuse of supporter anger and that will not melt away on the back of a comfortable win at Tranmere.
Back in 2010, when the so-called Green and Gold campaign against the Glazers reached its peak, the owners rode out the storm and there is no suggestion that there will be a different outcome 10 years on.
Insulated from the antipathy by being based in Tampa, Florida, the Glazers do not communicate with the United fan base or the media, so their intentions remain shrouded in mystery. Woodward is a more accessible target, with the director present at most games, but he is ultimately only answerable to the Glazers.
Words from the Glazers and/or Woodward are unlikely to make any difference to a group of supporters who have entrenched opinions of the men who run the club.
The only way the mood will change is if results improve on the pitch and, if United fail to overturn a 3-1 first-leg deficit against City in Wednesday's Carabao Cup semifinal second leg, the air of crisis will return.
Which is why winning at Tranmere offers nothing more than paper over the cracks.
FA Cup review: Liverpool at fault for replay, Man United get it right!
Nick Miller looks back on all the weekend's FA Cup matches (stream live in the U.S. on ESPN+). Here are the top takeaways from this past weekend's action.
Jump to: Liverpool have only themselves to blame | Man United get it right | Pep should lay off City fans | Hammers in big trouble | Lo Celso a keeper | Norwich renewed? | 'Mounting' issue at Chelsea
Hats off to Shrewsbury
We'll get to Liverpool in a minute, but before that, it's important to give some unqualified praise to Shrewsbury for a superb comeback in their 2-2 draw Sunday. Most of us watching reasonably thought the game was over when Donald Love scored that own goal seconds after half-time, and the Shrewsbury players would have been forgiven for thinking similarly.
In these situations, it's customary to praise the smaller team's pluck and spirit, of which Shrewsbury showed plenty, but it's also worth praising the skill of Josh Laurent, the solidity of the veteran Dave Edwards after he replaced captain Oliver Norburn and the shrewd way manager Sam Ricketts used the man who got both goals, Jason Cummings.
Cummings is a frequently infuriating but undoubtedly dangerous forward, but after injury problems have dogged him this season, it would have been folly to try him from the start. Using him for a burst of half-an-hour was the perfect strategy, and it worked beautifully. For that, they get a replay at Anfield, which, according to Ricketts, "could change this club's future."
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Liverpool could have made all their complaints moot
Jurgen Klopp is right about one thing: The scheduling of the FA Cup replays for the middle of the supposed "winter break," when Premier League clubs have been urged to actually have a break and not use the time to arrange other games, is entirely absurd, and you can't blame him for promising to play the kids in their replay with Shrewsbury.
You could argue that it's disrespectful to the competition or opposition, especially as he won't be managing the team, but Liverpool have already played 38 games this season (which has included five trips abroad, one of which was to Qatar) and are guaranteed to play at least another 18 -- probably more. You can't really blame him for sacking this one off.
But of course, he and his team could have made all of this moot by not throwing away a 2-0 lead against the 16th-best team in League One. After the own goal in the first minute of the second half, Liverpool almost seemed to lose interest in the game, thinking it was in the bag and that there was no way they could make a mess of it. But make a mess they did, allowing Shrewsbury to get back into the game and not putting it out of sight.
Sure, this was a second-string team, but it featured five full internationals from the start, and another three came off the bench, including a defender who played in the last World Cup final and another who scored the clincher in the last Champions League final.
This is perhaps where the Liverpool "aura" can become a problem. After this astounding season, players allow themselves to feel bulletproof and think victories will take care of themselves. It hasn't happened much this season, but they must ensure that it doesn't happen again.
They should've had more than enough to win, but they didn't, and now here we are. Ultimately, Liverpool have only themselves to blame for having to face another replay.
Man United 'absolutely took the game' after Maguire's goal
Shaka Hislop praises Man United's players for taking control against Tranmere when the opportunity arose.
Manchester United did something right!
It feels like damning with faint praise, but while other top-flight teams laboured against League One opposition, Manchester United took care of a similar task with the utmost efficiency. Against a Tranmere side that had just beaten Premier League opposition, on an abysmal pitch and with their general propensity for calamity, you could easily see United making a mess of this one, but they didn't. It was small victories by big margins for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in this lopsided 6-0 win.
Guardiola needs to stop criticising his own fans
"Today was not full. I don't know why," Pep Guardiola said of the attendance at Manchester City's 4-0 win over Fulham. "Hopefully our fans can come [to the Carabao Cup semifinal against Manchester United on Wednesday], more people than today. Hopefully they can support us more and make an intelligent game to reach the final."
It gets quite difficult to defend those in football against accusations that they have no idea how the real world works when one of them says something such as this. It's January, people are still paying for Christmas, City have already played four home games this month, and they have another midweek. They'll have more FA Cup games to come and probably the Carabao Cup final, and the Champions League returns in a few weeks. It should be pretty obvious why plenty of people decided not to pay to attend a game that was on free-to-air TV in England against second-tier opposition at 1 p.m. on a Sunday.
Man City's win vs. Fulham shows Guardiola's 'in it to win it'
Shaka Hislop says Pep Guardiola showed he's trying to win the FA Cup after thumping Fulham 4-0.
But Guardiola has form for this sort of thing. He complained about the apparently disappointing number of fans City took to last season's FA Cup semifinal against Brighton, either not caring or entirely unaware that it was one of 14 trips to Wembley that City have made since Sheikh Mansour's takeover (16, actually, if you throw in the games for which the national stadium was Tottenham's temporary home) and that getting down to London for these occasions is an extremely expensive business.
It's as if Guardiola thinks City are entitled to the support of an unquestioning public, that he has constructed this beautiful superteam and the people of Manchester are ungrateful serfs for choosing not to spend their money to watch every single game.
It's hard to escape the conclusion that he has no concept a) of how expensive following football is and b) that people are under no obligation to spend their money on watching City, particularly when the manager seems so contemptuous of them.
West Ham have big problems
On paper, the team top of the Championship beating the team fourth-bottom of the Premier League barely even qualifies as an upset, but that shouldn't be used as mitigation by David Moyes or West Ham.
West Brom haven't actually won a league game since the middle of December, their two best attacking players were absent with Grady Diangana injured (and on loan from West Ham) and Matheus Pereira suspended, manager Slaven Bilic made six other changes from their previous league game, and they played the last 20 minutes with 10 men.
Despite all that, not only did West Ham contrive to lose the game, but they also had only three shots on target and gave away enough chances that the margin of victory should have been bigger.
It's safe to say that the new manager bounce has worn off at the London Stadium. In fact, it lasted two games, and their best result in the other four was a 1-1 draw with Everton. It has been widely noted that after making two substitutions at half-time against Leicester last time out, Moyes made three at the break in this game. If you're being generous, you could say it shows a decisive manager prepared to admit his mistakes, but more realistically, it just shows a manager making mistakes.
It's Liverpool next for the Hammers -- on Wednesday. They're currently separated from the relegation zone on goal difference, and one wouldn't be surprised if they achieved the almost impressively incompetent feat of slipping down a place despite nobody else playing.
Lo Celso shows why Spurs are buying him
It's hardly a surprise that Tottenham are taking up their option to sign Giovani Lo Celso on a permanent deal, particularly with the Christian Eriksen saga dragging slowly to a conclusion. His run to set up Son Heung-min's goal against Southampton was almost worth paying the fee on its own, and the best bit wasn't even him beating four men then playing the forward in.
If you watch the run, you'll see that just before he passes to Son, he could have played Erik Lamela in. But the Argentinean had drifted slightly offside -- not by much but enough. Lo Celso could easily have missed that and played the pass anyway, but he spotted it and delayed accordingly. It was a small moment but one that suggests Spurs have their Eriksen replacement already in-house.
What more could this mean for Norwich?
Survival does look like a long shot for Norwich, but might their win over Burnley help with that? They have won only one away game in the Premier League this season, but this victory is their third in the past five games. Could this be ... momentum of some description?
Is Frank Lampard overplaying Mount?
Mason Mount is only 21 years old. Before this season, he had never played a minute for Chelsea's first team, but this season, the only outfielder to play more than him is Cesar Azpilicueta. Mount has appeared in every Premier League game and every Champions League game. For someone so young and who will inevitably need a degree of protection, a cup game such as Chelsea's trip to Hull would seem like the ideal place to give him a breather, but instead he started and played 68 minutes.
On the one hand, it's good that Frank Lampard trusts youngsters such as Mount, but on the other, it seems like he's only creating problems for himself and the player by overplaying him.
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Marizanne Kapp four-for sets up series win for South Africa
South Africa women 117 for 2 (Lee 38, Luus 37*, du Preez 35*) beat New Zealand women 115 all out (Bates 38, Kapp 4-29, Khaka 2-21) by eight wickets
Marizanne Kapp's four-for first restricted New Zealand women to a below-par total of 115, and then Lizelle Lee, Sune Luus and Mignon du Preez combined to chase down the target within 24 overs in the second ODI as South Africa sealed the three-match series in Auckland.
Opting to bat first, New Zealand were jolted by fast bowler Kapp's early strikes, as they lost their openers inside the first five overs for just 12 runs. Suzie Bates, at No. 3, fought with a 60-ball 38 to lead a recovery but received little or no support from the other end as the New Zealand procession continued.
Sophie Devine and Katie Perkins fell short of their creases, departing for 9 and 0 respectively, following which a brief 47-run resistance between Bates and Katey Martin followed. After the partnership was broken by Dane van Niekerk, Ayabonga Khaka hurt the hosts further with a double-strike in the 24th over to remove Bates and Amelia Kerr. Kapp returned to dismiss Leigh Kasperek and Jess Kerr to finish with four wickets and leave New Zealand at 108 for 9. The last-wicket pair could add only seven more runs to the total as Masabata Klaas had Hayley Jensen caught behind.
In reply, Devine dismissed opener Laura Wolvaardt for a duck but Lee continued her fine form with a 43-ball 38, with Luus at the other end, as South Africa cruised towards the target. Du Preez joined Luus after Lee's dismissal as the pair put up an unbroken 60-run stand and secured an easy win for the visitors.