Golf World Monday - December 10, 2012

12. 10.2012

� winner charl schwartzel
(top right), who had not won
since the 2011 masters, ran
off with the thailand golf
championship when his
final-round 65 (his third 65
of the week) transformed
his five-shot, 54-hole lead
into an 11-shot margin of
victory, third largest on
the asian tour. schwartzel
made only one bogey all
week and trumped a field
that included 2012 masters
champ bubba watson and
wyndham championship
winner sergio garcia.
holes at augusta national
to claim the green jacket
last year. … prior to this
week, schwartzel had two
top- 10 finishes on the pga
tour and five on the europe-
an tour in 2012. ... the larg-
est margin of victory for an
asian tour event is 13 shots
(ernie els, 2005 bmw
asian open), followed
by a 12-shot win (bradley
Hughes, 1996 australian
players). … watson finished
t- 2 after a final-round 65;
garcia shot 70 to finish solo
fourth.... defending champ
lee westwood finished
t- 11; his ryder cup team-
mate nicolas colsaerts
placed t- 15. ... Hunter
mahan finished t- 22.

asian tour // thailand golf championship
schwartzel simply superb in bangkok

� top five amata spring cc, Bangkok

1. Charl Schwartzel 65-65-68-65—263 2. Titiphun Chuayprakong 66-67-71-70—274

Bubba Watson 68-70-71-65—274 4. Sergio Garcia 69-69-68-70—276 5. Park Hyun-Bin 68-74-67-68—277

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$158,500

84,750

49,300

41,000

� noteworthy the wire-to-wire win is schwartzel’s first victory since he birdied the last four

� quotable

“it’s been awhile, and i have been knocking on the door for quite some time. winning is not as easy as everyone thinks it is.” —charl schwartzel