� winner
twenty-two-year-old oliver fisher of
england shook off three
back-nine bogeys and rode
a closing three-under-par
69 to the czech open title
and his first european tour
victory. sweden’s mikael
lundberg had a final-round
69 to finish solo second, two
shots back of fisher.
�best break fisher
avoided dropping a shot on
the par- 5 10th despite hitting a telephone pole with
his second shot.
�noteworthy fisher’s
victory was the 10th by an
englishman on the european
tour this season. … fisher,
who entered the event in
danger of losing his card,
missed 20 cuts in his first 21
events this season. … it was
his first win in 147 starts on
the tour. … fisher, the young-
est golfer to play in a walker
cup (chicago gc, 2005),
hit just four fairways in the
last round. … he shared the
54-hole lead with scotland’s
steven o’hara, whose sun-
day 75 dropped him to t- 5.
o’hara had four back-nine
bogeys, including at nos. 16,
17 and 18. … the prosper golf
resort course played at 7,452
yards.
european tour // czech open
struggling fisher interrupts ‘tough’ year with first victory
�key stretch fisher
righted a shaky close with
birdie putts of 30 and 25
feet on the par- 5 16th and
par- 3 17th respectively.
�top five prosper gr, Celadna, Czech Republic
1. Oliver Fisher 71-67-68-69—275 250,000
2. Mikael Lundberg 68-68-72-69—277 166,660
3. Fabrizio Zanotti 71-71-71-66—279 93,900
4. Gary Boyd 71-67-70-72—280 75,000
5. David Drysdale, Lorenzo Gagli, Steven O’Hara and
Steve Webster tied at 281. Each won 49,650.
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� quotable
“golf’s a funny game. hopefully, this is the
start of big things for me.” —oliver fiSher
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