adminBangkok. — Spaniard Sergio Garcia carded a final-round 68 to cruise to a four-stroke win at the Thailand Golf Championship yesterday for his first title of the year.
Garcia (33) combined six birdies with two bogeys during the final round at the Amata Spring Country Club for a four-day total of 22-under-par 266 in the US$1 million Asian Tour event.
World number three Swede Henrik Stenson also shot a 68 with five birdies and a bogey to finish second but never managed to put Garcia under serious pressure. “It was great, an amazing week . . . obviously being the last week of the year and for having Katharina (Boehm) caddie for me,” said Garcia, who had his girlfriend caddying for him.
Stenson, the first man to win the US Tour’s lucrative FedEx Cup series and the European money list double in 2013, had halved Garcia’’s overnight lead to two on the turn but the Spaniard put paid to his hopes by sinking three consecutive birdies from the 10th. — Reuters.
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