Okay now you can name a Belgian who plays golf professionally ! Nicolas Colsaerts, the longest driver of the ball on the European Tour, and a guy who speaks 7 languages, has cruised to his first tour win at the Volvo China Open. He becomes just the second Belgian golfer to win on The European Tour, following Phillipe Touissant at the 1974 Benson and Hedges International Open.
europeantour.com: Nicolas Colsaerts coasted to his first European Tour victory as he ran out a four shot winner at the Volvo China Open.
More than ten years after turning professional on his 18th birthday, having become the second youngest European Tour Qualifying School graduate, the big-hitting Belgian finally realised his potential with a closing six under par round of 66.
That left him 24 under for the week, four clear of Spain’s Pablo Martin, New Zealander Danny Lee, Ireland’s Peter Lawrie and Dane Søren Kjeldsen.
Much of the last decade has been a struggle at the top level for Colsaerts, but he established himself last season by finishing 67th on The Race to Dubai and topping the driving distances.
And his comprehensive victory at Luxehills International Country Club makes him only the second Belgian to win on The European Tour – the other was Phillipe Touissant in 1974.
“I’m enjoying every second of it,” he said. “I’m dizzy - my head is going all over the place. I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time and I think I did it in the best of manners so I’m really delighted. “A lot of people were expecting big things of me and for me to win tournaments a long time before.
“I lost my card, I got on Tour pretty young and I didn’t know how to handle myself. The lowest point was 2008 and I had to get my life back together. “I was doing basically ever wrong thing you could possibly thing of. One day I woke up though - I went to Australia for four months and it changed me forever.
“It’s been a hell of a journey looking back, from when I was 18 and got on Tour. I didn’t really have any idea of the level and how high you had to raise your game to play on Tour. I never lost faith of getting to where I am and I’m glad I did it this way.”
1 COLSAERTS, Nicolas -24 18 -6 65 67 66 66 264
T2 MARTIN, Pablo -20 18 -9 70 68 67 63 268
T2 LEE, Danny -20 18 -7 66 68 69 65 268
T2 KJELDSEN, Søren -20 18 -6 65 71 66 66 268
T2 LAWRIE, Peter -20 18 -4 68 64 68 68 268
6 NILSSON, Christian -19 18 -8 70 65 70 64 269
T7 WILLETT, Danny -18 18 -7 70 66 69 65 270
T7 HAVRET, Grégory -18 18 -2 66 66 68 70 270
T7 DONALDSON, Jamie -18 18 -3 70 61 70 69 270
T10 LARRAZÁBAL, Pablo -17 18 -8 70 67 70 64 271
T10 FINCH, Richard -17 18 -8 69 67 71 64 271
T10 MAYBIN, Gareth -17 18 -5 65 67 72 67 271
T10 SINGH, Jeev Milkha -17 18 -4 66 66 71 68 271
T10 TOWNSEND, Aaron -17 18 -3 68 66 68 69 271
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