After pulling his drive into the trees on the 15th, Lundberg hit a tree with his recovery attempt and had to hack out down the fairway with his third shot, but then pitched to seven feet and holed for a vital par. He then drilled a magnificent 25 foot putt for birdie on the 16th and from five feet for another birdie on the 17th to give himself the privilege of playing the last with a two-shot lead.
A par promptly followed to give the Swede his second career title on The European Tour."This is my absolute favourite place, everything is great here," said Lundberg, who lost his card yet again in 2006 but returned to the tour via the Challenge Tour last year.
"On 15 I hit a terrible drive in the trees but managed to save par somehow and I holed two great putts on 16 and 17. The save on 15 turned everything around."
Lundberg first had a dalliance with Yes! Putters in 2005, according to Phil Kenyon – Yes! Golf tour rep and director of instruction at the Harold Swash Putting School in Southport.
“Mikael is known as a real gentleman on the Tour with a great sense of humour but he’s got determination too,” says Kenyon. “It was the launch earlier this year of The Donna hybrid putter that rekindled Mikael’s interest in C-Groove technology. He and I spent some very useful hours on the SAM system just prior to The French Open at the end of June, and he was shaping up well then.
“We’re really pleased for him, as well as for Teta Sports in Moscow who just recently became the distributor for Yes! Golf in The Russian Federation. Could this all mean we’re a little closer to seeing our first Russian European Tour hopeful?”
