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NORTON, Mass. -- Paul Casey finished with a birdie and an eagle over the last three holes Sunday for a 5-under 66 and a three-shot lead going into the Labor Day finish at the Deutsche Bank Championship.Casey hit 7-iron into 5 feet for birdie on the par-3 16th, and then he drilled a 3-iron into the swirling wind on the par-5 18th that worked out perfectly. It landed just left of the green, caught a ridge and rolled to 30 inches for the eagle.Casey was at 15-under 198 as the 39-year-old Englisman goes for his first PGA Tour in seven years.Brian Harman had a 68 and was three shots behind. PGA champion Jimmy Walker recovered from a rough start for a 70 and was four shots behind along with Smylie Kaufman (68) and Kevin Chappell (71), who had the lead until he was derailed by a double bogey on the 12th hole.Casey endured plenty of trauma on and off the course since winning the Houston Open in 2009, particularly a shoulder injury, and now has a cushion going into the a final round that could be the biggest battle of the week at the TPC Boston.Remnants of Hermine are expected Monday, so the starting times have been moved forward to give the PGA Tour the best chance to finish. The forecast is for gusts that approach 40 mph at times, and spots of heavy showers.LPGA MANULIFE CLASSICCAMBRIDGE, Ontario -- Caroline Masson broke out of a star-filled pack to win the LPGA Manulife Classic for her first tour title.The 27-year-old German player rebounded from an opening double bogey to make nine birdies in a 5-under 67. She beat third-round leader Mi Hyang Lee, Minjee Lee and Solheim Cup teammate Karine Icher by a stroke, finishing at 16-under 272 at Whistle Bear.Masson joined Anna Nordqvist and Brittany Lang as the only players over 23 years old to win in the first 24 events this season -- and also joined Nordqvist as the only European winners. She was showered in beer in celebration on the 18th green.Mi Hyang Lee had a 71, Minjee Lee shot 68, and Icher 66.Mi Hyang Lee parred the final two holes to miss a chance for a playoff.Ariya Jutanugarn tied for fifth at 14 under in her bid to win three straight events for the second time this season. The second-ranked Jutanugarn made two late bogeys in a 70.Top-ranked Lydia Ko and 2015 winner Suzann Pettersen also were 14 under. Ko had a 68, and Pettersen finished with a 66. Canadian star Brooke Henderson tied for 39th at 7 under after a 71.SHAW CHARITY CLASSICCALGARY, Alberta -- Paraguays Carlos Franco rallied to win the Shaw Charity Classic at chilly Canyon Meadows for his first PGA Tour Champions victory.Three strokes behind defending champion Jeff Maggert entering the round, the 51-year-old Franco shot his second straight 7-under 63 to beat Bernhard Langer and Michael Allen by two strokes.Franco birdied the par-5 18th to finish at 18-under 192. He had three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the front nine, birdied four of the first five on the back nine and made his lone bogey on the par-3 16th. The four-time PGA Tour winner won in his 25th start on the 50-and-over tour.Langer shot 64. The 59-year-old German star won the Boeing Classic last week for his fourth victory of the year and 29th overall on tour. Allen closed 64-63 after opening with a 67.Maggert shot 74 to tie for sixth at 10 under. He opened with consecutive 63s.Tom Watson shot 67 on his 67th birthday to tie for 26th. He had a 65 on Friday.EUROPEAN MASTERSCRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland -- Swedens Alex Noren won the European Masters, beating Australias Scott Hend with a 20-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff.Noren, also the 2009 winner on the Swiss Alps course, closed witgh a 5-under 65 to match Hend (66) at 17-under 263.Englands Andrew Beef Johnston was third at 14 under after a 65. Englands Lee Westwood was the best of Europes Ryder Cup players, shooting a 63 to finish fourth -- five strokes back.SIOUX FALLS GREATLIFE CHALLENGESIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Nelly Korda won the Sioux Falls GreatLIFE Challenge for her first Symetra Tour title, putting her in range of joing sister Jessica Korda on the LPGA Tour.The 18-year-old Korda, the daughter of former tennis champion Petr Korda, closed with a 5-under 66 for a three-stroke victory at Willow Run. 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Although the region had an optimistic start in 2011s season 1 -- significantly, where no South Korean or Chinese teams competed -- since then its been a long list of close misses, unlucky bracket draws, and teams underperforming at the crucial stages of the campaign.This year, there will be no excuses if NA cant bring a team to the semifinals for the first time since that first Worlds. Team SoloMid, the reigning champion of the region, enters with the best form ever of any North American club coming into the granddaddy of all League competitions. The NA League of Legends Championship Series is also sending Cloud9 and Counter Logic Gaming, who was the first NA team to make a major Riot Games tournament final earlier this year in Shanghai, China at the Mid-Season Invitational.Back in 2015, these three teams had a bewildering combined record of 0-10 in the second week of the group stages. North America left Worlds with a chip the size of a boulder on its shoulder while the rest of the world scoffed. In 2016, NA has a chance to set things right.Heres a chronicle of the near-misses NA has experienced at Worlds.Season 1 (2011)Team SoloMid: 3rd Epik Gamer: 4th Counter Logic Gaming: 5thSure, these results look good on paper. Wow, three NA teams in the top five? What a powerhouse! But the real picture of this initial Worlds is a bare-bones tournament in the games infancy before the top Asian talent took hold in the game. And North America, with three out of the eight teams in the tournament, didnt even make the final.The only real takeaway from 2011 is proof of TSMs Yiliang Doublelift Pengs longevity throughout the years. Out of the 15 players for the North American teams at the inaugural World Championship, only Doublelift has stood the test of time to make it back this year. The only other player from the inaugural 15 still in the NA LCS is Dignitas Alex Xpecial Chu.Season 2 (2012)Team SoloMid: 5th-8th CLG Prime: 9th-10th Dignitas: 11th-12thThis Worlds was where North Americas reputation changed from being a respected contender who could mix it up with the best in the world to an afterthought on the international stage. North America only managed a single victory throughout the entire 12-team tournament.While NA has had lukewarm and even embarrassing turns at the World Championships -- 0-10 in 2015 wasnt pretty -- this was easily the worst performance for NA at the annual event. This was still a time where TSM was seen as a threat to make deep runs on the international stage, and the lackluster results from all three teams sent the region to the back of the line.Season 3 (2013)Cloud9: 5th-8th Team SoloMid: 11th-12th Team Vulcun: 11th-12th2013 was a slight upgrade over 2012. The big story from the newly-founded NA LCS was the all-American juggernaut rookie organization of Cloud9. The club ripped through the domestic league in the summer split after qualifying from the minor leagues, and the boys in blue and white seemed primed to bring some respect back to a regioon that fell on its face the previous Worlds.ddddddddddddC9 was directly seeded into the quarterfinals where it met Europes Fnatic. Although the third game of the best-of-three series was a blowout for the Europeans, Cloud9 still performed admirably compared to NA performances from the previous year.For the other two NA teams, there isnt much to say. TSM was in the process of closing the door on an old era, and it would be founder and mid laner Andy Reginald Dinhs last games as starter before handing the future of the team to a wunderkind from Denmark by the name of S?ren Bjergsen Bjerg.Vulcun, the third wheel, put up a scrappy performance that outshined TSMs. Unfortunately, Vulcun never came close to making Worlds again and eventually disbanded.Season 4 (2014)Team SoloMid: 5th-8th Cloud9: 5th-8th place LMQ: 12th-13th placeLMQ, a team with five Chinese starters, held its own in the group stages although it did not advance; Team SoloMid and Cloud9 cleared the group stages with flying colors. In the bracket, the two remaining NA teams had the honor of facing the two best teams of the tournament, Samsung White and Samsung Blue, in the first round. While both fell to the South Korean twin teams, TSM exited the tournament as one of only two squads to take a win from the eventual champions Samsung White, and C9s explosive macro play against a team with more firepower is still remembered to this day.All in all, this was a pretty great tournament for North America.And that in itself shows how little North Americans have had to celebrate at the World Championship the past four years.Season 5 (2015)Cloud9: 9th-11th Counter Logic Gaming: 12th-13th Team SoloMid: 14th-16thThe first week of last years World Championship was the best of times for North America. C9 shocked the world by winning all three of its week one matches in a difficult group, CLG were in a good position in its group, and TSM even picked up a victory in the perceived Group of Death. The quick turret pushing strategies of the NA teams were working, and the other teams were slow to adjust to it.The second week of last years World Championship was the worst of times for North America. Opponents adapted to CLGs tactics. TSM was swallowed whole by Origen, KT Rolster, and a half-dead LGD Gaming. C9, who was 3-0 in week one, lost four matches in week two to send North America out of the tournament without reaching the bracket stage.It was the first time ever that North America wasnt represented in the bracket stage of a World Championship. The darkest moment in the history of NA as a region. Before the World Championship even came to an end in Germany, Bjergsen was the last remaining starter on his team and Doublelift had been ousted from CLG.As cliche as this is going to sound -- stop reading now if you hate corny overused lines -- theres a proverb that might be true for North America coming into the 2016 World Championship on home soil:Its always darkest before the dawn. ' ' '