Horsey Triumphs
As Dredge Withers
MUNICH, GERMANY | England’s David Horsey
benefited from a dramatic collapse by Welsh-
man Bradley Dredge on Sunday to win the BMW
International Open title.
Horsey claimed his maiden tour victory
with a closing 5-under-par 67 for an 18-under
270 total, a shot better than countryman Ross
Fisher. Dredge, three shots ahead of the field
overnight and the leader for the first three
rounds, had to settle for a share of third place,
two strokes behind Horsey, after slumping to a
closing 74.
Horsey, who began the day five strokes be-
hind Dredge, meanwhile kept his cool, produc-
ing a faultless final round with five birdies.
As the 25-year-old Englishman, second in
the Italian Open earlier in the season, rounded
off his day with a six-foot birdie putt, Dredge
was running up a double-bogey on the 16th.
Last year’s World Matchplay champion
Fisher grabbed the runner-up spot with a 12-
foot eagle putt on the last.
“Never in my wildest dreams last night did
I think I could win from five shots back,” the
winner, €409,000 richer, told reporters. “That
was until I looked up at the big screen on 18
and saw Bradley in the reeds, then it came
home to me.”
A crestfallen Dredge said: “The 16th killed me.
I decided to try to play out of the hazard and it
didn’t come off. I’m really annoyed with myself.”
Meanwhile The Associated Press reported
that Nick Faldo, unsuccessful two years ago as
Europe’s captain, feels he is being snubbed by Colin Montgomerie, this year’s Euro- pean captain. Faldo told the AP attempts to communicate with Montgomerie have fallen on deaf ears. “I didn’t want just o make my views known to him through the media,” said Faldo,
who missed the cut in
Munich. “So I wrote to Monty three weeks ago
suggesting we meet up for a chat, but I have
not had a reply. I don’t think I need say any
more than that. It says it all.”
Montgomerie and Faldo have had an unde-
clared feud for years now over slights imagined
or real. Montgomerie’s response to Faldo’s lat-
est charge was to say, “I think Nick missed out
here so I don’t know what he is doing.”
In the meantime Montgomerie said he had
a blood transfusion in Germany in an effort to
quicken the recovery from a calf injury. The
damaged muscle has been receiving injections
from a young cow. “Apparently, the protein in it
is a great healer,” Montgomerie said. “So now
I am not shouting ‘Fore,’ on the golf course
anymore, I am shouting ‘Moo.’ “ RESULTS
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