Alastair Forsyth finishes joint 12th in South Africa

ARGENTINIAN OVERHAULS

McLARDY TO WIN

JOHANNESBURG OPEN

Argentina's Ariel Canete regained the lead over the last three holes from South African Andrew McLardy - whose parents come from Helensburgh - to win the Johannesburg Open by two shots at Royal Jonannesburg & Kensington Golf Club today.

Four of the top four finishers are South Africans.

The leaders did not complete their third rounds until this morning follow an early end to play on Saturday because of an electrical storm over the course.

Canete led by one shot at 15-under-par 199 from McLardy at the start of the fourth and final round.

McLardy then improved to 17 under par overall to take a one-shot lead over Canete but the latter finished strongly to post a four-under-par 67 for a final total of 19 under par 266. The Argentinian birdied three of the last four holes.

In contrast, McLardy parred the last three holes and shot a 68 for 268 to fill second place.

Paisley's Alastair Forsyth, pictured above, joint fifth at the end of the third round after covering the inward half in 31 shots for a 69, fell away in the afternoon. With no birdie over the last five holes (in fact he bogeyed the 16th), the Scot could only match the par of 71, which meant, in such a low-scoring tournament as this, he went backwards over the closing holes, finishing joint 12th on 275.

Euan Little from Porpatrick, the only other Scot to survive the halfway cut, just made the top 20 with a closing round of 69 for 277 and a share of 19th place.

FINAL TOTALS

Par 285: 3 x 71 + 1 x 72

Players from South Africa unless stated.
266 Ariel Canete (Arg) 66 68 65 67.
268 Andrew McLardy 63 72 65 68.
269 Hennie Otto 65 67 70 67.
272 Alex Haindl 68 68 66 70, Mark Murless 64 71 69 68.
273 Adilson Da Silva (Bra) 71 65 69 68, Edward Rush (Eng) 70 67 67 69.
274 James Kingston 66 66 72 70, Doug McGuigan (Eng) 68 67 71 68, Terry Pilkadaris (Aus) 67 66 74 67, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 64 71 69 70.
275 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 69 67 69 70, Ulrich Van Den Berg 68 69 70 68, Sven Struver (Ger) 65 71 68 71, Alastair Forsyth (Sco) 67 68 69 71, Keith Horne 67 71 69 68.
276 Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 68 72 71 65, Richard Sterne 69 66 71 70.
277 Charl Schwartzel 69 68 69 71, Dion Fourie 71 68 70 68, Tom Whitehouse 67 73 69 68, Louis Oosthuizen 65 69 74 69, Euan Little (Sco) 69 71 68 69.
278 Matthew Zions (Aus) 67 68 71 72, David Park (Wal) 65 71 69 73.
279 Lee S James (Eng) 69 71 67 72, Kalle Brink (Swe) 69 68 72 70, Maarten Lafeber (Net) 72 66 68 73.
280 Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 69 66 72 73, Jan Are Larsen (Nor) 70 66 74 70, Oliver Wilson (Eng) 69 68 73 70, Benn Barham (Eng) 68 70 69 73, Justin Walters 68 69 74 69.
281 Richard Bland 68 72 72 69, Brett Liddle 69 68 70 74, Garth Mulroy 69 69 71 72, Shaun Norris 69 69 72 71, Jaco Van Zyl 67 68 71 75, Michiel Bothma 71 68 71 71, Antti Ahokas (Fin) 73 66 71 71, Ryan Tipping 70 69 69 73.
282 Brandon Pieters 65 71 73 73, Raphael Eyraud (Fra) 70 67 72 73, Andrew Curlewis (Rsa) 70 70 71 71, Trevor Fisher, jun 67 72 73 70, Desmond Terblanche (Rsa) 73 67 70 72
283 Jakobus Roos 67 65 75 76, Stuart Cage 67 72 74 70, David Dixon (Eng) 66 71 73 73, Robert Wiederkehr (Swi) 69 70 74 70, Bobby Lincoln 67 71 70 75, Darren Fichardt 68 72 69 74, Marc Cayeux (Zim) 65 73 75 70, Stuart Little (Eng) 74 65 72 72
284 Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 66 69 75 74, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 66 72 71 75, Jamie Little (Eng) 66 74 72 72, Gareth Davies 66 71 70 77, Paul Nilbrink (Swe) 71 68 73 72, Julio Zapata (Arg) 70 69 71 74, Peter Kaensche (Nor) 69 71 73 71, Christiaan Basson 74 66 73 71, Ross Wellington 69 71 71 73, Marcus Higley (Eng) 71 69 72 72, Warren Abery 64 73 73 74, Andrew Marshall (Eng) 69 69 69 77
285 Jaco Ahlers 72 68 72 73, Michael Lamb (Zim) 68 71 71 75, David Higgins (Eng) 69 69 72 75
287 Paul Dwyer (Eng) 68 71 72 76, Gustavo Rojas (Arg) 70 70 73 74, Vaughn Groenewald 65 74 74 74
288 Dean Lambert 68 66 76 78, Hendrik Buhrmann 72 68 73 75, Grant Muller 68 72 75 73, Robert Dinwiddie (Eng) 69 69 76 74, Sion Bebb (Wal) 69 71 76 72, Chris Davison 68 71 74 75
289 Tyrone Van Aswegen 68 72 77 72.
290 Magnus Persson (Swe) 68 67 79 76, Chris Gane (Eng) 65 72 75 78, Simon Nash (Aus) 72 68 72 78.
291 Omar Sandys 70 69 75 77.