PAUL LAWRIE'S GLOSS FINISH - WINS QATAR MASTERS BY FOUR

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Paul Lawrie won the Qatar Masters today with consummate ease. Starting the third and final round one shot ahead he increased that to a winning margin of four shots with a brillainty seven-under-par 65 for a 15-under-par total of 201.
The Aberdonian, who won this event in 1999 and then went on to win the Open at Carnoustie that summer, had earlier rounds of 69 and 67.
There will be those who say that the loss of a round due to bad weather helped Lawrie but the way the 43-year-old is playing, he most likely would have gone even lower again had there been a fourth round.
Australian Jason Day and Sweden's Peter Hanson were joint runners-up on 205.
Paul clinched his victory which boosts his chances of makining the Ryder Cup team for Medinah in the autumn with a bogey-free round today.
He birdied the long first and then had an eagle 3 at the long ninth to be out in three-under 33.
Birdies studded his inward half at the 11th, 14th, 16th and short 17th.
Great stuff!
We'll have a full report with quotes from the Man Himself later.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72). Prizemoney in Euros.
201 Paul Lawrie (Scotland) 69 67 65 (310,020
205 Jason Day (Australia) 68 72 65, Peter Hanson (Sweden) 69 69 67 (164,688 each)
207 John Daly (US) 67 73 67 (94,808).
208 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (France) 71 72 65, Seren Hansen 71 71 66, Sergio Garcia (Spain) 72 68 68, Ricardo Gonzalez (Argentina) 71 67 70 (62,763 each).
209 Martin Kaymer (Germany) 71 70 68, Victor Dubuisson (France) 72 68 69, Nicolas Colsaerts (Belgium) 69 68 72 (38,429 each).
SELECTED TOTALS
210 Scott Jamieson (Scotland) 73 69 68, Jose Maria Olazabal (Spain) 71 70  69, Lee Westwood (England) 71 70 69 (T12) (27,542 each).
213 Marc Warren (Scotland) 72 68 73 (T35) (12,135).
214 David Drysdale (Scotland) 73 72 69 (T47) (7,600).

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