Dyson cleans-up with St Andrews victory; GOLF.SIMON DYSON Simon Dyson (born 21 December 1977 in York, England) is an English golfer. In 1999 Dyson was runner-up in the English Amateur Championship and won the Finnish Amateur title. finally leapt into the big time on the European Tour - and did it with the round of his life. After two wins in Holland and one in Indonesia since he turned professional a decade ago, the 31-year-old's superb closing 66 swept him to victory in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship (previously simply called the Dunhill Links Championship), is one of the richest golf tournaments on the European Tour. It is played over three links courses in Scotland, with the final round being played on the Old Course at the "Home at St Andrews. Full of jealousy when his great friend Nick Dougherty Nick Dougherty (born in Bootle, Merseyside on 24 May 1982) is an English golfer. He is a protégé of Nick Faldo and had an exceptional amateur career with numerous tournament wins including the 1999 World Boys Championship and three in Faldo Junior Series events. took the same title two years ago, Dyson collected the pounds 485,850 first prize by three strokes from Rory McIlroy Rory McIlroy (born May 4, 1989) is a professional golfer from Holywood, Northern Ireland, where he attended Sullivan Upper School. His home golf club is Holywood Golf Club. Amateur career McIlroy was a member of Europe's winning 2004 Junior Ryder Cup team. and Oliver Wilson. It takes the York golfer, who magically birdied six of the first seven holes, top of Europe's Ryder Cup points table, into the top 10 on this season's money list and into the world's top 50 for the first time. He began the week 92nd. In August his second Dutch win came with a course-record closing 63 but, after taking charge with his blistering start and then carefully avoiding disaster, Dyson revised his opinion about the best round of his career. "There's no way this can't be it," he said. "This is like our fifth major, a massive tournament at the home of golf, and I've shot 66 to win it. "I'm absolutely buzzing. Darren Clarke has just said to me, 'Take your time and enjoy it - it does not get any better than winning at St Andrews'. "My parents always come up (to the tournament) but couldn't make it this year. They're never coming back!" For Wilson, it was an eighth runners-up finish on the circuit with not one victory to his name as yet but he could not feel disappointed about this one as he shot 65 after starting the day 14th. McIlroy, only one behind Luke Donald overnight, had dearly wanted to win playing alongside his father on his 50th birthday in the celebrity pro-am but he managed "only" a 69. That was still good enough to take the 20-year-old above injured pair Martin Kaymer and Paul Casey into top spot on the 'Race to Dubai' standings. Dyson added: "I'm the happiest that I've ever been, and what more do you want?" CAPTION(S): HAPPY DAYS: Simon Dyson celebrates at St Andrews |
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