Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Verstappen holds on for win
The 38-year-old three-time tour winner from Aberdeen had a shot advantage at 10-under playing the famous 18th that has seen so much Ryder Cup drama. But he hit a rescue approach into the green into the lake, took double bogey and eventually finished tied third.
Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen, battling for redemption from the court case that derailed his career in the last three years, got redemption in one day.
Having lost his three-shot lead to be two behind playing the last two holes, he finished eagle-birdie to snatch the title from Sweden’s Sebastian Soderberg.
Olesen finished with a one-over 73 for a 10-under total of 278. But Ramsay felt he should have been at least there with him on 10-under.
The Scot had played strongly to be three-under for the day coming up the last. Soderberg’s best of the day 68 had set the target at nine-under, but after a massive birdie on 14 and a birdie four on 17, it seemed Ramsay was set for victory.
He was happy with his drive but in-between clubs for the 220-yard second.
“I did everything right bar one shot and it was the one shot that killed me,” he lamented.
MAX Verstappen survived a late onslaught from Charles Leclerc to win Formula One’s inaugural Miami Grand Prix.
The world champion started third, but raced past Carlos Sainz at the opening bend before taking Leclerc in the other Ferrari on lap nine.
A 10-lap shootout following a safety car period provided a dramatic end, but Verstappen held his nerve. Leclerc took the runner-up spot with Sainz completing the podium.
Sergio Perez took fourth ahead of George Russell. Lewis Hamilton started sixth and finished in the same position after he was usurped by a freshly-shod Russell with nine laps left.
“Strategy has not been kind to me, man,” he said over the radio. Russell has now finished ahead of Hamilton at every race bar one, with the seven-time world champion 68 points behind Leclerc after just five rounds.
The stars of sport and showbiz flocked to Florida for F1’s first race at the Hard Rock Stadium, 15 miles north of Downtown Miami.
NBA great Michael Jordan, Grand Slam champions Serena and Venus Williams, former England captain David Beckham, Hollywood’s Matt Damon and pop star Pharrell Williams led the cast on a celebrity-fuelled and manic pre-race grid.
“It was very hard physically, but I am incredibly happy with winning in Miami,” said Verstappen following his third victory of the campaign.