Golf: Long slips to 14th in Cox's Classic

New Zealand golfer Michael Long finished 14th in the Cox's Classic Nationwide Tour event in the United States after starting the final round just one shot off the lead.

Long fired a final-round 70 to finish seven shots adrift of winner Johnson Wagner (US) on the Champions Run course in Omaha, Nebraska.

Long birdied the first to go into a tie for the lead. Birdies on eight and 10 kept him in contention, but a double-bogey on the par-four 13th then a bogey on the 16th saw him slide off the pace.