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Contrasting wins for Westwood, Chalmers
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ENGLISHMAN Lee Westwood won his second Thailand Golf Championship with a one-stroke victory over Australian Marcus Fraser and Martin Kaymer of Germany at the Amata Spring Country Club outside Bangkok yesterday.
The 2011 champion was in a three-way lead with Fraser and Kaymer on 8 under with two holes to go but the German bogeyed the 17th while the Australian missed an easy par putt on the 18th, giving Westwood, who was watching in the clubhouse, the victory.
Westwood came back from two straight bogeys at the start of his final round to fire seven birdies for a 67 and an 8-under 280 total.
Overnight leader Fraser, who started with a two-stroke cushion, carded five birdies against two bogeys for a 281 to finish joint-second along with US Open champion Kaymer.
The result assures Fraser of an entry into the British Open as one of the four leading players at the Thailand Golf Championship who had already qualified.
Apart from Fraser, Australian Scott Hend, who finished fifth with a 284, American Jonathan Moore in joint-sixth with a 285 and India's Anirban Lahiri, also joint-sixth, took the remaining three berths.
At Gold Coast, Australia, Greg Chalmers made par on the seventh hole of a playoff while Adam Scott three-putted for bogey to hand the Australian lefthander the Australian PGA Championship.
Chalmers, who shot an 8-under 64 yesterday at Royal Pines after trailing the leaders by seven strokes going into the final round, and Scott and Wade Ormsby, who both shot 71, finished with 72-hole totals of 11-under 277.
Ormsby dropped out of the playoff when he made par on the third playoff hole, while Chalmers and Scott birdied.
Scott missed a 12-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole that would have won it, and did the same on the second extra hole, when Ormsby missed from seven feet.
Chalmers finished his round about an hour before the other two players in the playoff. He won the Australian PGA Championship in 2011, also following a three-way playoff.
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