Luiten bags maiden title
11/20/2011 05:08:01 AM
Dutchman Joost Luiten stormed home to win the Iskandar Johor Open, after his final-round six-under 65 in Malaysia on Sunday.
Luiten clinched the 54-hole event - reduced due to persistent poor weather - with a bogey-free final round at the Horizon Hills Golf and Country Club, which included five birdies on the front nine.
He finished at 15-under overall in the joint-sanctioned Asian Tour and European Tour tournament, one ahead of overnight leader Daniel Chopra, of Sweden.
Chopra could only muster a one-under 70 in his final round to claim outright second, one stroke ahead of Wales' Rhys Davies, England's James Morrison and Ireland's Padraig Harrington.
Frenchman Gregory Bourdy was outright sixth a further shot back on 12-under overall.
Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen struck a four-under 67 to climb into seventh, while Louis Oosthuizen also signed off on a 67 to finish in a five-way tie for eighth.
Fredrik Andersson Hed, Darren Beck, Marcus Fraser and Jose Manuel Lara were all tied with Oosthuizen on 10-under overall to round out the top-10.
It was winner Luiten's seventh top-10 finish in a European Tour tournament this season, and the trophy was his first on the tour since turning professional in 2006.