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Thomas Bjorn emerged victorious from a five-man, five-hole playoff at the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, claiming his 12th career European Tour title.
After completing a final-round 69 for an 11-under total, Bjorn outlasted Mark Foster, George Coetzee, Pablo Larrazabal and Bernd Wiesberger in sudden death. Wiesberger and Larrazabal fell out with bogeys on the first two holes, with Foster’s bogey knocking him out on the third. Bjorn and Coetzee matched pars on the fourth hole, with Bjorn’s fifth-hole birdie ending the playoff.
England’s Foster had a golden opportunity to win it in regulation, but bogeyed the last to slip into a tie. Another pair, Scotland’s Stephen Gallagher and Joel Sjoholm, missed the playoff by a stroke.
The win pushed Bjorn, 40, past the €1 million mark for the seventh time in his career, but the first since 2006. It was also the Dane’s second win of 2011; he took the Commercialbank Qatar Masters in June.
Winning was a bit of a surprise to Bjorn himself. In his last two outings, the PGA Championship and WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Bjorn placed 76th and 68th. “I didn’t really see that (win) coming after my two weeks in America,” he said. “But I played nicely this week. I played fantastic on Thursday and I played great today.”
This week the Tour heads to the Omega European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre in Switzerland.
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