Law’s lasthole eagle winner
MELBOURNE: Briton David Law produced a sparkling eagle on the 18th hole to snatch a onestroke victory at the Vic Open in Barwon Heads, Australia, and claim his maiden European Tour title yesterday.
The 27yearold Scot’s sixunder 66 at 13th Beach Golf Links left him with an 18under total of 270, one ahead of local duo Wade Ormsby and Brad Kennedy.
Law, who began the day three shots off overnight leader Ormsby, struck a brilliant approach to within 3m of the pin on the parfive 18th and coolly rolled in the eagle putt to put pressure on the leader, Ormsby.
Playing the hole behind, Ormsby crumbled with a doublebogey on the parthree 17th to give Law the clubhouse lead and then missed a long eagle putt on the last that would have forced a playoff.
‘‘We stood on the tee and we said we need to make eagle,’’ Law said at the trophy presentation after claiming a $A1.5 million ($NZ1.58 million) winner’s cheque.
‘‘We had to go for it, so I sort of took a bit of a hybrid and lucky it went to eight10 feet.’’
‘‘At the time I was just trying to get into solo second.
‘‘It’s an amazing event. We’ve loved it all week.’’
Kennedy made a strong start, with six birdies before the turn, but had two bogeys on the back nine and had to settle for a share of second.
South African Justin Harding finished fourth, a stroke further back, on 16under. — Reuters