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Fri, 1st Oct 2010 Charley Hoffman was on fire as the PGA Tour finished on the Monday shooting a final round 62 to win by five at the Deutsche Bank Championship, the second event in the FedEx Cup series. The American has won once before, at the 2007 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, but he looked like a seasoned winner as he blazed past overnight leader Jason Day and final round challengers Luke Donald and Geoff Ogilvy. The win saw Hoffman rise 81 places on the Official World Golf Ranking to Nº 51. For the second time in three weeks the Challenge Tour was the scene of amateur victory as home favorite Romain Wattel stunned his professional counterparts with a three shot victory at the Allianz European Strasbourg – Golf de la Wantzenau. He follows in the footsteps of Danish amateur Andreas Harto who won the Rolex Trophy a fortnight earlier. Romain Wattel is now placed Nº 435. Alvaro Velasco took his second Challenge Tour title of the season shooting a final round 69, to win by one at the Kazakhstan Open. The Spaniard had already won on home soil this season at the Fred Olsen Challenge de Espana and this second victory saw him ensure his place on the European Tour in 2011. He is now Nº 229 on the Ranking with a rise of 76 places. Peter Karmis won his maiden Asian Tour title at the Handa Singapore Classic after holding of the challenge of fellow countrymen Jbe Kruger. The South African led every day and completed his wire-to-wire victory with a one-under-par total on the Sunday to win by two strokes. The win sees Karmis jump 474 places up the Ranking to Nº 390. It’s been quite a season so far for Martin Wiegele with two victories to his credit already and the Austrian will be hoping to make it a hat-trick in front of the home support. The 32 year old tasted success on home soil earlier in the year when he won the Karnten Golf Open by Markus Brier Foundation in spectacular fashion at Klagenfurt-Seltenheim Golf Club in June. Martin Wiegele recorded a hole-in-one on the par three eighth hole for a second consecutive year and this time left with the title as well as a car as he secured his second European Challenge Tour victory following the Lexus Open in 2007. He followed that by winning the dual-ranking Saint Omer Open just three weeks later and at World Nº 242, he has usurped Markus Brier as Austria's leading golfer. Martin Wiegele will tee it up alongside US Open Champion Graeme McDowell and Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez Castano for the first two rounds, ensuring a huge following at Diamond Country Club. He might start in the shadow of his more illustrious counterparts but Wiegele has shown on more than one occasion already this season that he can produce the unexpected. |
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Fri, 1st Oct 2010 Miguel Angel Jimenez - (Spain) Omega European Masters Crans-sur-Sierre - Crans Montana - Switzerland - 2nd to 5th September, 2010 Miguel Angel Jimenez’s golf was as impressive as the mountain top views of Crans-sur-Sierre as he stormed to an emphatic three shot win at the Omega European Masters. It was the Spaniard's third victory of the season after wins in Dubai and France, and saw him rubber stamp his qualification for the European Ryder Cup Team after fending off the all Italian challenge of Edoardo Molinari, and young sensation of Matteo Manassero. As a result of this win Jimenez climbed 11 places in the Ranking to Nº 27. |
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Fri, 1st Oct 2010 Martin Kaymer - (Germany) KLM Open Hilversumsche - Hilversum - Netherlands - 9th to 12th September, 2010 Current Race to Dubai leader Martin Kaymer strolled to a commanding three shot victory at the KLM Open at Hilversumsche Golf Club. The German always looked in control during the final round, and the week turned out to be the perfect preparation for his Ryder Cup debut full of confidence. The comfortable victory sees the 25-year-old move up one position to Nº 5 in the World Ranking. |
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Fri, 1st Oct 2010 Jose Manuel Lara - (Spain) Austrian Golf Open Diamond - Atzenbrugg - Austria - 16th to 19th September, 2010 Jose Manuel Lara won his first European Tour title for four years after a final round 64 then beating David Lynn in a play-off at the Austrian Golf Open. Both players had finished 17 under par at Diamond Country Club, but Lynn needed three shots to find the green on the first extra hole and when he two-putted Lara was able to win with a par. Lara moved to Nº 213 with a jump of 156 places. |
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Fri, 1st Oct 2010 John Parry - (England) Vivendi Cup 2010 Golf de Joyenval - Chambourcy - Paris - France - 23rd to 26th September, 2010 John Parry won the Vivendi Cup and became the fourth 2009 Challenge Tour graduate to win on the 2010 European Tour. He follows: Rhys Davies (Trophee Hassan II) and James Morrison (Madeira Islands Open – Portugal) and Edoardo Molinari (The Barclays Scottish Open and Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles). A member of the 2007 Walker Cup team which included Davies and Rory McIlroy, Parry's two-under-par final round of 70 gave him a 2 stroke win over Sweden's Johan Edfors. Parry jumps into the World Top 200 with a 131 place improvement to Nº 176 |
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