Cabrera-Bello shoots 60 to win Austian Open
September 20, 2009
OBERWALTERSDORF, Austria (AP)—Rafael Cabrera-Bello of Spain shot acourse-record 11-under 60 on Sunday to win his first European Tour title by onestroke over Benn Barham at the Austrian Open.
Cabrera-Bello was in seventh place overnight, trailing leader Barham byeight strokes. He overtook the Englishman with 11 birdies to finish at 20-under264.
Cabrera-Bello missed an eagle putt on No. 18 that would have given him aEuropean Tour record 59 that would have matched the best score ever on the PGATour.
“It’s just amazing. I played the best golf of my life and I can’t believeit,” said Cabrera-Bello, who had never been under 64 on the European Tour. “Iwas so far back I wasn’t thinking about winning. I just tried to play one shotat a time.”
Barham bogeyed the par-4 third in a 2-under 69. Soren Hansen of Denmark wastwo strokes back, placing third for the second straight week.
The 25-year-old Cabrera-Bello lost his place on the European Tour in 2007,but returned from the Challenge Tour this season.
It was his fifth top-10 finish this year and he will rise from 74th to 46thin The Race to Dubai standings.
Cabrera-Bello drew even with Barham after the Englishman failed to make abirdie on the first 10 holes.
Barham, who had led the competition from the opening day, dropped two behindbefore sinking a 12-footer on the 16th. But a drive into the rough at the 18thwas the decisive stroke.
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