DANE Thomas Björn produced a sizzling final round 7-under 65 to overcome a similar effort by Sergio Garcia to win the 2013 Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City in South Africa.
Björn played the back of the Gary Player County Club in four under par as two eagles stunned his rivals.
He ended the tournament on 20 under to edge out Garcia and overnight leader Jamie Donaldson (70) of Scotland by two strokes.
“This is right up there with the best days of my career,” said Bjorn.
“You never forget your first victory, and then my win against Tiger in Dubai when I went toe-to-toe with him for four days and came out top was special, but winning here in the way that I did against a field of this quality is up there.
“I knew I had to shoot something low and then see what Jamie was doing. It turned out that it was Sergio and every time I saw a leaderboard he was making birdies. I am very proud of the way I played today – it’s a very special day in my career.”
Australia’s lone representative in the 30 man field event was Peter Senior who had a 68 in the second round but will want to forget his other efforts. He will be helped in that regard by the almost A$64,000 he will receive for coming home at the tail end of the field in what has been a long year.
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