Levet learned lesson from Woods

- while Masters TV commentator

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
It was not only a bad back that Thomas Levet returned from The Masters with last month - it was also an important lesson in how to win.
Levet had been at Augusta not to play, but to commentate for French television and in his first tournament since then the 40-year-old former Ryder Cup golfer captured the Spanish Open in Girona.
Although Woods finished "only" sixth, Levet - who blamed his back injury on sitting down all day commentating - told PA Sport: "Tiger showed that you don't need to play extra well to win or be in contention. Even the guy who wins makes mistakes and for me the lesson is it makes me less nervous when I am playing badly."
He added: "It opens your eyes on the game and makes you more conscious of what you need to do to win.
"Sometimes we try too hard, but you don't have to play perfectly and when you commentate you see that.
"Everybody is going to make mistakes and I was so calm out there (in the closing stages of the Spanish Open)."
It was Levet's fifth European Tour victory - 45 fewer than Ballesteros' record, but the most by any Frenchman - and it came by two strokes from Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti and by four from Irish defending champion Peter Lawrie and Dane Thomas Bjorn.
Zanotti, who last November came through the Tour qualifying school on the same PGA Catalunya course, shot a best-of-the-day 65, but Levet settled the issue with birdies at the 15th and 17th for a 68.