BIRDIE AT THE LAST WINS GLENMARIE MASTERS FOR DANNY
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Shah
Alam, Selangor, Malaysia: Danny Chia reinforced his reputation
as Malaysia’s top golfer when he birdied the last hole to win the PGM
Northport Glenmarie Masters by one shot over Nicholas Fung today.
Holding
a three-shot lead heading into the final day, Chia posted a
one-under-par 71 to complete a sensational wire-to-wire victory and
became the first Malaysian to win an Asian Development Tour (ADT) event
this season.
Highly
rated Fung battled to a 69 courtesy of three straight birdies from hole
two but had to settle for second at the RM200,000 (approximately
US$65,000) ADT event staged at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club.
James
Bowen of the United States extended his lead on the ADT Order of Merit
with a third place result while Malaysian M. Sasidaran and Lindsay
Renolds of Canada shared fourth.
After
turning in 35, Chia had to endure a nervous closing seven holes when he
had a double bogey on 12 which was later erased with two birdies. He
was tied with Fung when he bogeyed 17 but calmly held his nerve to sink
the winning birdie putt from six-feet.
“It
was a fantastic feeling (making birdie on last)! Of all my wins, this
is probably the hardest I had to fight for. Nicholas was really giving
me a run,” said the 40-year-old, who totalled eight-under-par 280 and
won US$11,375.
"This
win means a lot to me because it shows that what I’ve been working on
has paid off. It also shows that Malaysians can contend and win in an
international event. The feeling is really great and every department of
my game has improved,” said Chia.
“This
year has been good to me so far and my confidence is high. The only
thing I need to control is my expectations. It happened to me before
when I had such high expectations and achieved nothing. Now, I just want
to concentrate on playing well and let the outcome take care of
itself,” he added.
Fung,
who struggled with a back injury earlier in the week, was in position
to edge Chia after a hot start but his title hopes faded when the
birdies dried up.
“I
had a bad first round because of my back injury. But I slowly recovered
and so did my scores. Danny played well so I didn’t really feel that I
could win. He was hitting the ball really good and close to the pin. He
deserves to win,” said Fung.
Leading final round scores
280 - Danny CHIA (MAS) 67 68 74 71
281 - Nicholas FUNG (MAS) 73 69 70 69
285 - James BOWEN (USA) 68 71 76 70
287
- Lindsay RENOLDS (CAN) 73 73 70 71, M. Sasidaran (MAS) 74 71 70 72288 -
Jakraphan PREMSIRIGORN (THA) 73 68 74 73, Mohamad Azman BASHARUDIN
(MAS) 71 70 71 76
289 - Grant JACKSON (ENG) 70 71 77 71, George GANDRANATA (INA) 71 73 74 71
290 - Mitsuhiko HASHIZUME (JPN) 71 74 72 73, PARK Il-hwan (KOR) 71 71 73 75, Pavit TANGKAMOLPRASERT (THA) 70 72 73 75
291 - Mars PUCAY (PHI) 71 75 75 70, Mhark FERNANDO (PHI) 76 71 73 71
292
- Akhmal TARMIZEE (MAS) 72 73 75 72, George THACKER (ENG) 71 74 75 72,
PARK Jin-Woo (KOR) 76 71 77 68, Anis HASSAN (MAS) 78 70 71 73, Takashi
YOKOYAMA (JPN) 76 69 73 74, Ratchapol JANTAVARA (THA) 73 74 71 74
293
- Carl SANTOS-OCAMPO (PHI) 76 73 71 73, KOH Deng Shan (SIN) 72 75 75
71, Kazumi TAKAHASHI (JPN) 73 74 73 73, S. Siva Chandhran (MAS) 73 71 74
75, Michael BIBAT (PHI) 70 73 73 77
294
- S. Murthy (MAS) 70 73 77 74, Wolmer MURILLO (VEN) 75 74 73 72,
Pasavee LERTVILAI (THA) 76 73 70 75, Sukree OTHMAN (MAS) 74 73 72 75,
Shaun MALONE (ENG) 75 69 71 79
Ends.
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