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Havret captures third Euro title
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 01 - 09 - 2008

Frenchman Gregory Havret led from start to finish to capture the Johnnie Walker Championship on Sunday and win his third European Tour title.
Havret's closing three-under-par 70 for a 278 14-under total put him a stroke better than Briton Graeme Storm, who shot a 68.
The event was also the final one to count for Europe's Ryder Cup team but Havret, who was not in contention for a place, had set himself, instead, the goal of winning a Scottish double.
Havret's most prestigious victory had come in last year's Scottish Open at Loch Lomond and the La Rochelle player was keen to enter the winner's enclosure again. "It's great to win leading all four rounds," Havret told reporters. "And it's good to do that, playing all four rounds under par."
Playing on the Centenary course that will host the 2014 Ryder Cup, Havret, who had a five-week break after finishing 19th in the British Open, stayed in charge of his destiny with an eagle at the ninth hole.
However, he nearly let outright victory slip at the closing hole.
After adding two back-nine birdies he looked home and dry but, with Storm waiting in the clubhouse for a sudden-death shootout, bunkered himself at the 18th and needed to hole a 10 foot putt for par to avoid extra holes.
"It was just like Loch Lomond at the end. I had to get up and down from the trap to win there, but this winning putt was longer," he said.
Storm came through the field to finish two strokes ahead of Swede Peter Hanson (69), winner of the Scandinavian Masters two weeks ago, and former Ryder Cup Briton David Howell (71).
Clark caught by Villegas
In Massachusetts, overnight pacesetter Tim Clark of South Africa surrendered the outright lead to Colombian Camilo Villegas midway through Sunday's third round at the Deutsche Bank Championship.
A stroke in front at the start of a glorious late summer's day at the TPC Boston, Clark mixed two birdies with a lone bogey to reach the turn in one-under 35.
That left him at 15 under and level with Villegas, who was seven under for the round with one hole to play.
First-round leader Mike Weir, playing with Clark in the final pairing, was alone in third place at 14 under with nine holes remaining.
Clark, bidding for his maiden PGA Tour title, was initially caught by Weir when the Canadian left-hander rolled in a 20-footer to birdie the par-five second.
However, the South African regained the lead by sinking a 12-foot birdie putt at the fourth and then picked up another shot at the seventh after hitting his wedge approach to six feet.
Two ahead of the chasing pack, Clark surprisingly bogeyed the par-three eighth, where he missed a three-footer, before Villegas joined him at 15 under.
The muscular South American struck a superb approach to three feet at the par-four 17th and tapped in the putt for a share of the lead.
American Ben Crane made the biggest move among the early starters, firing a sparkling eight-under-par 63 for a 13-under total of 200.
A double winner on the PGA Tour, Crane birdied five of the last six holes for a sizzling back nine of five-under 30. - Reuters __


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