Lawrie finished with a 15-under total of 201 to win his seventh European Tour event and his second in Qatar.

The victory is Lawrie’s second in a year — he also won the Andalucian Open — after a nine-year drought. Now in the top 45, he could contend for a spot at the 2012 Ryder Cup.

“I played lovely all week. But today I think tee to green, apart from my tee shot on 10th, I can’t play much better than that,” said Lawrie, who also won the tournament in 1999. “I actually felt I left three or four putts out there and got it around to 7 under on a golf course where the greens were pretty firm.”

The 1999 British Open champion came into the final round with a one-shot lead over Nicolas Colsaerts. Lawrie started slowly with only a birdie on his first eight holes but, just as several players including Sergia Garcia (68), were challenging for the lead, Lawrie sank a 20-yard chip for eagle on the 9th hole to go up by two.

He never looked back, even as Day (65) and Garcia continued sinking birdies. He ran off four birdies himself on a flawless back nine that included clutch birdie putts on 11 and 14. And when Hanson chipped in for eagle on 16 to draw within three, Lawrie responded with chip in for birdie on 17 to go up by four. He played it safe on No. 18 and closed out with a short par putt for the win.

Early on, it looked like Garcia might overtake Lawrie for the win. The Spaniard opened with six birdies on his first 11 holes, including one on 10 that tied him for the lead with Lawrie. But then Garcia’s putter went cold on the back nine, starting when he missed a two-footer for par on 13.

Clearly flustered, Garcia then missed a 10-footer for birdie at the next hole. He took himself out of contention when he bogeyed the next hole and finished tied for fifth.

Day also started strong, with four birdies on his first four holes to move up the leaderboard. The 23-year-old Australian bogeyed 9 but bounced back with four straight birdies to close within two shots of the lead. But then he missed birdie putts on 15 and 17 to fall out of contention.

Hanson, who came into the final round two shots back, quietly made a move when he ran off two birdies to finish the front nine. He stumbled with a bogey on 13 only to recover with a birdie on 14 and then a chip in for eagle on 16.

First round leader John Daly (67) also remained in the hunt all day, sinking a 12-foot birdie to go 8 under and then sank a 25-footer from the fringe on 17 for another of his four birdies on the back nine. But his great putting was undone by two bogeys on the front nine.

Daly ended fourth at 9-under 207, with Garcia, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (65), Ricardo Gonzalez (70) and Soren Hansen (66) a further shot back in a tie for fifth. Fourth-ranked Martin Kaymer (69), Colsaerts (72) and Victor Dubuisson (69) were a shot behind in a tie for ninth.


In Yangon, Australia’s Kieran Pratt won his first Asian Tour title at the Zaykabar Myanmar Open on Sunday with a birdie on the second playoff hole after the regulation four rounds ended in a three-way tie.

The 23-year-old was five shots adrift of the lead after Saturday’s third round but carded a fine four-under-par final round 68, including an eagle three on the 18th, to battle back into contention in the $300,000 event.

After 72 holes at the Royal Mingalardon Golf and Country Club, Pratt was all square on 15-under-par 273 with Adam Blyth of Australia and Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand.

Kiradech, who hit a final round par 72, bowed out on the first playoff hole when he narrowly missing a 35-foot putt as Pratt and Blyth both birdied.

Pratt triumphed with another birdie on the same hole as Blyth could only make par after finding water with his tee shot.

“Fantastic. It feels great to win the first event of the year. Obviously you want to get off to a fast start but to win is obviously better,” Pratt said, according to an Asian Tour press release.

Pratt, playing only his second year on the Tour, said he sensed an opportunity to challenge the leaders as he came up the back nine.

“I felt like I was a long way from the lead but walking up the 14, 15 and 16 holes, I kind of felt like the leaders were going nowhere. I told myself if I could get a couple of birdies on the way back, I could force a play-off and then I eagled the 18th hole,” he said.

Blyth — still searching for his maiden Tour win — overcame an eight-shot deficit with a sensational round of 65 to make the playoff.

There was heartbreak for overnight leader Scott Hend of Australia, who held a comfortable two-shot lead after the eighth hole but found water twice on the ninth to card a quadruple bogey and finish tied fourth.