Sunday, August 17, 2008

Peter Hanson gives Sweden a home
winner in SAS Masters in Stockholm


Peter Hanson defied cold, wet and windy conditions to give Sweden their first home winner of the SAS Masters for 10 years in Stockholm today.
The 30-year-old, whose only previous European Tour victory in 174 starts came in Spain three years ago, hung on in a nervous finish to lift the £209,056 first prize by one from compatriot Pelle Edberg and England's Nick Dougherty.
For Dougherty it meant a runner-up finish in the event for the second year running, but there was real drama attached to his performance this time.
The 26-year-old Ryder Cup hopeful tweaked his back somehow during the night and in trying to warm up in the gym it got only worse.
"What a day. If my chiropractor had been here he might have told me to pull out, so I'm glad he wasn't," said Dougherty. "After all I've been through I was going to finish no matter what."
He earned just short of £104,000 and although he stays 14th in the cup race he is now in much closer touch with just two events to go.
Hanson, meanwhile, moves up from 24th to 17th and will play in this week's KLM Open in Holland rather than taking a break because he still has an outside chance to make the team.
"It feels great, of course," he said. "It's been a long wait for me.
"I started pretty well, but then struggled on the back nine."
Gary Orr finished fourth on 273 - his highest European Tour finish for some time - and earned 67,946 Euros.
Craig Lee finished joint 20th and picked up a cheque for 17,866 Euros.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4 x 70)
271 Peter Hanson (Swe) 66 66 68 71
272 Nick Dougherty 66 66 70 70, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 69 67 66 70
273 Gary Orr 67 68 67 71, Sam Walker 72 68 64 69, Paul Broadhurst 67 68 70 68
274 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 69 65 68 72
275 Daniel Chopra (Swe) 71 64 67 73, Jamie Donaldson 68 68 71 68, Paul McGinley 69 70 67 69, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 73 68 65 69, Bradley Dredge 71 69 66 69, Oliver Fisher 69 69 68 69
276 Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 72 68 68 68, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 69 70 68 69, David Lynn 70 69 68 69, Ross McGowan 70 70 65 71
277 Chris Wood 70 67 68 72, Damien McGrane 71 69 68 69
278 Christian Cevaer (Fra) 72 67 69 70, Craig Lee 72 65 73 68, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 70 70 69 69, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 70 68 70 70, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 69 70 66 73, Graeme Storm 70 66 71 71
279 Robert Dinwiddie 69 69 68 73, Peter Baker 67 68 73 71, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 74 67 65 73, Carlos Rodiles (Spa) 71 70 69 69
280 Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 68 66 70 76, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 69 70 71 70, Anthony Wall 72 69 70 69, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 68 70 69 73, Alexander Noren (Swe) 72 68 71 69, Marc Warren 68 71 69 72, Markus Brier (Aut) 70 70 70 70, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 70 70 68 72, Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 69 69 70 72
281 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 69 69 70 73, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe) 74 66 70 71, Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 67 71 72 71, Andreas Hogberg (Swe) 70 67 68 76, Henrik Bjornstad (Nor) 70 68 72 71, Lee S James 72 68 67 74, Barry Lane 71 69 69 72
282 Peter Whiteford 70 69 71 72, Anders Hansen (Den) 72 69 72 69, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 67 74 72 69, Paul Waring 72 69 69 72, Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 68 70 72 72, Gary Murphy 72 67 69 74, Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 68 69 71 74, Thomas Levet (Fra) 73 68 67 74
283 Martin Wiegele (Aut) 71 66 71 75, Miles Tunnicliff 72 69 72 70, Johan Edfors (Swe) 74 66 71 72
284 Carl Suneson (Spa) 70 71 71 72, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 71 66 72 75, Phillip Archer 71 69 71 73, Manuel Quiros (Spa) 71 66 73 74
285 Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 71 70 71 73, Phillip Price 71 69 69 76, Matthew Millar (Aus) 71 67 71 76, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 69 71 69 76, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 74 67 67 77
286 Anton Haig (Rsa) 69 72 72 73, David Palm (Swe) 79 62 73 72, Robert Rock 72 69 78 67
287 Pedro Linhart (Spa) 66 74 72 75, Simon Wakefield 71 68 73 75
288 Johan Bjerhag (Swe) 72 68 73 75
289 Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 68 72 75 74

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