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Peter Schmeichel believes Leicesters experience of winning the Championship two years ago could prove crucial in their pursuit of the Premier League title this season. Leicester, who are five points clear of Tottenham with seven games remaining, won promotion to the top flight in 2013/14 after topping the Championship with 102 points from their 46 games.And Schmeichel, who won five titles with Manchester United, believes his son Kasper could be on the brink of claiming his first because of the pressure of that run-in two years ago. I know you cant compare the Championship to the Premier League, but a lot of the Leicester players only two seasons ago were in the same kind of situation having been on the same run, he told Sky Sports News HQ.Having missed out for a few years they got it right two years ago and scored more than 100 goals, so there is experience of finishing the job. Can they do it in the Premier League? Only time will tell.Theyve got a five-point cushion and thats a nice position to be in but there is a very long way to go yet. Peter Schmeichel says the Leicester players are great friends Leicester are a very inexperienced team to be in the position they are in, bigger clubs like Liverpool have been there and failed to get over the line.Its a race between Spurs and Leicester. We will get, I think, a new Premier League champion.Spurs have been fantastic. Theyve played some very entertaining football, theyve got great players, great individuals and they are going to push and push and its looks like they are ready to take the challenge on, even in the longer run as well.The run-in doesnt matter, its just what the team is doing that matters. Leicester and Spurs deserve to be up there because they are good teams so they have to finish the job. Kasper Schmeicehel is unfazed by title run-in, according to his father Peter Asked if Kasper was coping with the pressure, he added: Kasper is coping really well. They are throwing the clichés out like: they are taking one game at a time and they are enjoying their football, but it is the truth.They are really enjoying it, they have a fantastic squad, they are great friends and they do a lot of stuff outside football together.Watch Leicester v Southampton on Super Sunday, 1.30pm, Sky Sports 1 HD Also See: Challengers facing testing times How did your players get on? Leicester fixtures Get a free ￡10 bet Albert Pujols . - The Kansas City Royals are hoping All-Star catcher Salvador Perez will be back in a few days. Red Schoendienst . 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Its nice that it came on a Sunday.Spieth birdied four holes on the front nine — three of them in a row — to lead by three strokes after nine holes, then made light of the challenging, windy conditions by adding four more on the back nine, never threatening to lose his lead.You dont want any kind of crack in the door to be open and I felt like we kept it shut from the front nine on, Spieth said.Spieths score was a record for the revamped Jack Nicklaus-designed layout which was being played as a par 71 for the first time. On Friday, Jamie Lovemark of the United States shot 65.Adam Scott shot 71 and finished fifth, nine strokes behind. Defending champion Rory McIlroy, who shot 76 on Saturday, finished with a 72 and was 2-over, 15 strokes behind Spieth.Three Australians who finished closest to Spieth earned trips to next Julys British Open. The Australian Open is the first qualifying tournament for the 2015 Open Championship and offers three spots to the top finishers not already exempt.Rod Pampling shot 68 to finish second, while former two-time Australian Open champion Greg Chalmers (71) and Brett Rumford (70) were third and fourth, respectively. All three will play at St. Andrews next year.Gusty norrtheasterly breezes played havoc all week with scores, and only eight players finished under par.dddddddddddd.Chalmers and Spieth were tied for the lead at 6-under after four holes, but Spieth birdied the par-5 fifth where Chalmers made bogey for a two-shot swing. The American also birdied the sixth and seventh holes, made a fine par save on the ninth, then did the same on the 10th from about five feet, pumping his fist as he edged closer to the title and the Stonehaven Cup trophy.It was Spieths first win of 2014, and second of his pro career — he won on the John Deere Classic in a playoff on the PGA Tour in 2013. Although he hadnt won this year, he was runner-up in the Masters and had eight top-10 finishes in 24 PGA tournaments.He was reminded that last years Australian Open win by McIlroy was his only victory that year, and the Northern Irishman went on to win two majors and have an outstanding 2014.If I had the follow-up year that Rory had this year, Id be pleased this time next year, Spieth said.McIlroys 76 all but ended the defence of the title he memorably won in 2014 with a birdie on the last hole to deny Scott the Australian Triple Crown.Its been tough all weekend, McIlroy said. I was trying to get something going but with the pin positions and the wind, it was just very hard to get the ball close to the hole. It just wasnt meant to be this year.There were tributes around the golf course Saturday and Sunday for Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who died Thursday after being hit by a ball during a match at the nearby Sydney Cricket Ground.The number 63 was used in many of them, as that was the number of runs Hughes had scored before he was fatally injured. Spieth provided the final reminder — and an unintentional tribute — by finishing with a round of 63. ' ' '