{"id":344687,"date":"2011-03-27T17:17:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/27\/lawrie-finally-a-winner-again\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:17:13","slug":"lawrie-finally-a-winner-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/27\/lawrie-finally-a-winner-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrie finally a winner again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Open champion bags first trophy in nine years<\/h3>\n

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Lawrie: Sticky start<\/p>\n

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-12 P Lawrie
-11 J Edfors (Swe)
-10 F Aguilar (Chl)
-9 R Jacquelin (Fra)
-9 J Huldahl (Den)
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Paul Lawrie claimed his first victory on the European Tour since 2002 when he lifted the Open de Andalucia by two strokes.\n<\/p>\n

The Scot, who won the Open Championship in 1999, overcame a dreadful start to his final round to take the initiative on the back nine.<\/p>\n

And with his main rivals failing to get their act together, the way was clear for Lawrie to return to the winners’ enclosure with a level-par final round.<\/p>\n

It seemed an unlikely outcome a few hours earlier after the 42-year-old bogeyed three of the first five holes while his playing partner in the final group, Mark Foster, started birdie-birdie to move two ahead.<\/p>\n

But Englishman Foster, himself without a win for eight years, threw the tournament wide open again with a hat-trick of bogeys from the fifth.<\/p>\n

And with Kenneth Ferrie, who started one behind overnight leader Lawrie, recording four bogeys in seven holes, the door was open for those further down the leaderboard to make a move.<\/p>\n

Hat-trick<\/h4>\n

Chile’s Felipe Aguilar was one, finding himself in a share of the lead with his third birdie of the day at the 14th, but he gave it back at the next and eventually had to settle for third.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Lawrie was going on a tear after reaching the turn in 37, making three successive birdies from the 10th before missing another attempt from less than three feet at the next.<\/p>\n

However, he made amends at the next despite driving close to a tree stump, and it proved to be enough down the stretch.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s Johan Edfors briefly got it to 12-under after bogeying the first two holes but he dropped his fourth shot of the day at the 15th and parred-in for a 68.<\/p>\n

That meant Lawrie had a cushion standing on the 18th tee and although he found a bunker with his approach, he splashed out to four feet and took the two putts he had in hand to clinch the win. <\/p>\n

“It’s been a long time – 2002 seems a hell of a time ago,” he said. “I’ve had a few second places in there, but all of a sudden we’re there again.<\/p>\n

“It was going pear-shaped a little bit, but you’ve just got to keep going – that’s all you can do.<\/p>\n

“I played lovely and the putter behaved better. I got on a nice run at the right time.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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