Good morning, it's 5am here in Toronto and across the world in South Korea, Lee Westwood has just won is second tournament in a row, last week in Singapore, this week the Ballantines in Seoul. Remember they had to finish up round 3 and have just completed round 4..
Winning breeds confidence no matter where in the world you do it, and Lee's year had been sputtering along, Luke Donald of the top 4 was playing more like the #1, but with these 2 wins he is now in top gear.
The next 3 weeks on the European tour are in Spain.
Here is the report from the course..
europeantour.com Lee Westwood lived up to his billing as he marked his coronation as World Number One with a stunning final round to take the Ballentine’s Championship in South Korea.
The Englishman, who climbed to the top of the Official World Golf Ranking with victory in Singapore last week, spoke before this tournament of wanting to deliver a performance befitting his new status.
He certainly did so today, defying the pressure of expectation to shoot a superb 67 and make a decisive charge up the leaderboard late on an elongated day at the Blackstone GC Course.
It propelled him to his 21st European Tour title, but his first since 2009, and lifted him to €653,508 in The Race to Dubai.
He finished on 12 under, one shot clear of joint overnight leader Miguel Angel Jiménez, who ultimately paid the price for carding two bogeys in the first four holes of the outward nine in the last round.
A birdie on the last for Jiménez - as he had done earlier in the day during the completion of the rain interrupted third round - would have taken the tournament into a playoff, but he missed the decisive putt from 15 feet.
"It feels great,” said Westwood. “I must admit it was nerve-racking sitting there watching people play. You never wish ill on anyone but I'm delighted to win."I've won two weeks in a row before but it's still very special. It's tough to come down off a win and get yourself refocused, but the more experience you get the easier it is to do it."
1 WESTWOOD, Lee -12 18 -5 72 68 69 67 276
2 JIMÉNEZ, Miguel Angel -11 18 -1 70 67 69 71 277
3 PARK, Sang-hyun -10 18 -3 67 72 70 69 278
4 JOHNSON, Dustin -9 18 -3 70 69 71 69 279
T5 HONG, Soon-sang -8 18 -3 69 72 70 69 280
T5 NOREN, Alexander -8 18 +2 70 69 67 74 280
T7 KRUGER, Jbe* -7 18 -3 73 70 69 69 281
T7 MORRISON, James -7 18 -1 69 69 72 71 281
T7 RUMFORD, Brett -7 18 +2 71 63 73 74 281
T10 MO, Joong-kyung -6 18 -3 71 70 72 69 282
T10 KIM, Kyung-tae -6 18 -2 69 71 72 70 282
T10 KIM, Dae-hyun -6 18 -1 71 69 71 71 282
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