Sharma finishes T-27; Lee Westwood wins title

Sharma finishes T-27; Lee Westwood wins title

Johannesburg: Shubhankar Sharma produced a fine round of four-under 68 to finish a highly creditable T-27th at the Nedbank Golf Challenge hosted by Gary Player. Sharma who struggled the first two days with 74-75 shot 71-68 on the weekend to total even par 288 and finish in Top-30.

The finish, especially with the last two rounds, should enthuse and fire up Sharma before the DP World Tour Championships next week. This finish was his second best since the first week of July, when he was T-27th in the Open de France. Since then his only result better than that was T-10 at the CIMB Classic in Malaysia.

Sharma after being even par for the first nine holes on the back stretch of the course, was on a birdie spree on back nine when he had four birdies in five holes between second and sixth holes.

Meanwhile, Lee Westwood produced a stunning closing 64 to win his first Rolex Series title at the Nedbank Golf Challenge. The Englishman entered the final day at Gary Player Country Club three shots behind leader Sergio Garcia but an eagle on the second put him at the top of the leaderboard and set up an enthralling three-way battle between those two and local favourite Louis Oosthuizen.
The trio went blow-for-blow on one of the most entertaining afternoons of the season and it was former World No 1 Westwood who birdied five of his last eight holes to get to 15 under and prevail over his Major Championship winning rivals.

Westwood’s triumph is his third win here after the Sunshine Tour’s Dimension Data Pro-Am in 2000 and this event in 2010 and 2011.

The 45 year old’s last victory came at the 2014 Maybank Malaysian Open and he was fighting back the tears after taking his tally to a remarkable 24 on the European Tour and 43 titles worldwide.

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