They both made birdies with great approach shots on the 1st playoff.
On the 2nd Poulter left himself 30 odd feet from the hole while Karlsson stuck his approach 3 feet away, then something weird happened. Poulter was assessed a 1 shot penalty when he dropped his ball on his marker and moved it. His 2 putt for bogey six may have been irrelevant since Karlsson made his birdie 3, but it was a sad ending for Ian looked like he was going to win back to back.
So Karlsson wins first first prize of €910,348 and here are a few other facts about his win..courtesy europeantour..com
ROBERT KARLSSON
• His 11th European Tour International Schedule victory in his 464th European Tour event.
• Extends his record as the most prolific Swedish winner, with 11 victories. Now leads Niclas Fasth, Anders Forsbrand, Per-Ulrik Johansson and Henrik Stenson by five. They all have six European Tour wins.
• Finishes sixth on the The Race to Dubai with €1,968,759. He was the only player to jump into the top 15 and therefore earn a slice of the Bonus Pool
• Moves over €13 million in European Tour Official Career Earnings.
• Gains a place in the 2011 WGC – Bridgestone Invitational.
• Gains a place in the 2011 WGC – HSBC Champions.
Defending champion Westwood T3 with Alvaro Quiros. Both had a shot at the playoff but Alvaro missed a long eagle putt on18 and Westwood hit his 2nd into water and made par when a birdie 4 was needed.
Westwood retains his world #1 status going into 2011..
Kaymer and McDowell finished T13, which earned the 25 year old Kaymer a bonus of €1,092,418 and remember this about Kaymer, he might have won this last year until he broke 3 toes riding a go cart in DallasHe came back after missing 6 weeks to finish 3rd behind Westwood and Rory McIlroy.
This most fabulous year for him started with a victory at the Abu Dhabi Championship.Then he won the US PGA Championship after a play-off with Bubba Watson, then added the KLM Open and Alfred Dunhill Links Championship on his next two starts !!!
The Dunhill came the week after he had made his winning Ryder Cup debut so as I wrote at the time, he could actually claim four wins in a row.
Now he sets out in pursuit of the great Bernhard Langer to become the greatest German golfer.
MARTIN KAYMER (europeantour.com)
• Becomes the second German to finish The European Tour season as Number One, following Bernhard Langer (1981 and 1984).
• Aged 25 years and 335 days is the youngest player to be crowned Number One since Ronan Rafferty in 1989, who was 25 years and 289 days.
• Has improved his ranking in every one of his four years; 41st in 2007, eighth in 2008; third in 2009 and first in 2010.
• Follows Seve Ballesteros (1976, 77, 78, 86, 88, 91), Bernhard Langer (1981, 84) and Robert Karlsson (2008) as Continental Europeans’ to win the Harry Vardon Trophy
Final Leaderboard
↑+4 1 KARLSSON, Robert -14 18 -5 65 75 67 67 274
1 5 11 ↓-1 2 POULTER, Ian -14 18 -2 69 66 69 70 274
1 15 54 ↑+4 T3 QUIROS, Alvaro -13 18 -5 72 67 69 67 275
1 3 1 ↑+2 T3 WESTWOOD, Lee -13 18 -4 69 67 71 68 275
1 12 10 ↑+4 5 MCILROY, Rory -12 18 -5 71 72 66 67 276
1 11 7 ↑+1 T6 CASEY, Paul -11 18 -3 70 67 71 69 277
1 4 15 ↓-4 T6 MOLINARI, Francesco -11 18 -1 71 67 68 71 277
1 39 85 ↓-6 8 JAIDEE, Thongchai -9 18 +1 68 69 69 73 279
1 40 69 ↑+17 T9 NOH, Seung-yul -8 18 -5 66 73 74 67 280
1 13 8 ↑+2 T9 DONALD, Luke -8 18 -2 74 67 69 70 280
1 58 132 ↑+2 T11 DERKSEN, Robert-Jan -7 18 -2 71 70 70 70 281
1 22 75 ↑+2 T11 HANSEN, Anders -7 18 -2 74 70 67 70 281
1 2 9 ↑+17 T13 MCDOWELL, Graeme -6 18 -4 72 73 69 68 282
1 60 158 ↑+7 T13 AIKEN, Thomas -6 18 -2 70 72 70 70 282
1 16 41 ↑+7 T13 HANSON, Peter -6 18 -2 76 69 67 70 282
1 38 40 - T13 YANG, Y. E. -6 18 -1 71 69 71 71 282
1 37 112 - T13 LAWRIE, Peter -6 18 -1 76 67 68 71 282
1 1 3 ↓-2 T13 KAYMER, Martin -6 18 Par 67 70 73 72 282
1 10 23 ↓-4 T13 OOSTHUIZEN, Louis -6 18 +1 73 66 70 73 282
1 14 29 ↓-11 T13 FISHER, Ross -6 18 +4 71 64 71 76 282
Final Race to Dubai standings
KAYMER Martin GER 22 €4,461,011
2 MCDOWELL Graeme NIR 24 €3,896,996
3 WESTWOOD Lee ENG 14 €3,222,423
4 POULTER Ian ENG 15 €3,027,008
5 MOLINARI Francesco ITA 27 €2,799,692
6 KARLSSON Robert SWE 21 €2,296,486
7 ELS Ernie RSA 15 €2,261,607
8 SCHWARTZEL Charl RSA 24 €2,207,965
9 JIMÉNEZ Miguel Angel ESP 29 €2,179,418
10 OOSTHUIZEN Louis RSA 23 €2,070,763
11 MOLINARI Edoardo ITA 28 €2,009,337
12 CASEY Paul ENG 14 €1,888,850
13 MCILROY Rory NIR 16 €1,821,050
14 QUIROS Alvaro ESP 25 €1,750,255
15 DONALD Luke ENG 13 €1,678,072
Next week the LPGA wraps up their season, Tiger hosts his Invitational at a Thousand Oaks in California, then it's the final stage of Q School at the Orange County National in Florida where we have several Canucks in contention and I will have all that and more here..
Believe it or not the 2011 European Tour kicks off in a fortnight in South Africa !! It will have to go some to top 2011..
Bryan Angus bryanangus4@gmail.com
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