European Tour Nedbank Golf Challenge final scoreboard http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2018/tournamentid=2018089/leaderboard/index.html#/results
From tee to green England's veteran Lee Westwood has been as good as anyone on the European Tour throughout his 20 plus year career, in fact as well as anyone anywhere during his stint as world # 1 in 2010. He's also won the Order of Merit, Player of the Year 4 times, starred in 10 Ryder Cups, and has been awarded the OBE.
These days at 45 the Ryder Cup stalwart has been reduced to the coaching ranks along with another former world #1 Luke Donald.
Since Paris he's been playing steadily, this week in Sun City the putts started falling and today after an eagle at his 2nd hole he caught and joined his great pal Sergio Garcia, and Louis Oosthuizen atop the leaderboard for a terrific afternoon on this Gary Player course at the Nedbank Golf Challenge.
It was Westwood who birdied 5 of his last 8 holes for a 64 -15 to pull away from Sergio who shot 70 -12 and Oosthuizen who made a double bogey on 18 for a 69 -11 and 3rd place.
It's his 24th European Tour win..43 world wide and he was moved to tears after his round.
" I'm a bit emotional to tell you the truth. At my age you never know if you will do it again. I'm going through a bit of a thing with my swing and recently have been seeing better results. That 7 iron I hit into 17 was one of the best of my life "
Hugged by his girlfriend/ caddy Helen Storey, Westwood returns to the winners circle for the first time in 3 years and a win in the lucrative Rolex Series worth over $1.2m.
Next week he'll be in the field for the season finale for the Race to Dubai which he won in 2009, with another Ryder Cup hero, Frankie Molinari firmly in the drivers seat.
Bryan Angus
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