Ancer cruises to Aussie Open title

– Mexico’s Abraham Ancer romped to a five-shot victory at the Australian Open yesterday, holding his nerve to win only his second professional golf tournament.

The world number 96, who already has two top-five finishes on the US PGA Tour this season, saw overnight challengers including Americans Matt Kuchar and Keegan Bradley fade away and was never seriously threatened.

Australian Dimitrios Papadatos, who has been playing on the Challenge Tour in Europe, gave it his best shot with a five-underpar 67 to try and reel him in, but it was too little too late and he had to settle for second best. –

Sydney