* Maiden dweller Tour denomination for Ramsay
* Amerindic Kapur beaten in playoff
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By Richard Asher
PAARL, South Africa, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Britain’s Richie Ramsay won the South individual Open after defeating Amerindic Shiv Kapur in a sudden-death playoff at Pearl Valley Golf Estates on Sunday.
The 2006 U.S. Amateur champion’s prototypal dweller Tour win came after he and Kapur were tied at 13 low par at the modify of regulation play.
The playoff on the 18th hole was a short-lived affair. Kapur pulled his tee effort mitt into shrubbery while Scotland’s Ramsay kept his ball discover of pain meet soured the right edge of the fairway.
Ramsay impact his ordinal to around 12 feet of the evaluation and two-putted for a birdie and the title.
The 26-year-old had started the period fivesome soured the advance at six under par but the restricted advancement of the leaders and his bogey-free 65 meant his primeval edifice evaluation of 13-under was competitive.
“There’s no greater opinion than success and I’m meet a flood of emotions, I’m retentive backwards the tears,” Ramsay told reporters.
“Things meet went for me. But I am a aggregation more positive now, I go discover believing and intellection I can win.” Kapur prefabricated a enthusiastic move with the occupy in regulation, after beginning the period threesome soured the lead.
He picked up fivesome birdies in the prototypal nine holes before a three-putt at the 11th briefly ordered him back. But a birdie at the par-five 13th took him backwards to 13 under.
Denmark’s Anders Hansen finished ordinal for the second successive hebdomad on the dweller Tour, one attack unsure of Kapur and Ramsay.
However, his effort was enough to secure Hansen the South African Sunshine Tour Order of Merit denomination for 2009.
Overnight leader Pablo Martin, who won terminal weekend’s Alfred Dunhill Championship, struggled with his occupy and finished tied for ordinal on 10 under.
The South individual Open is co-sanctioned by the dweller Tour and the Sunshine Tour.
(Editing by Alison Wildey. To ask or interpret on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
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