France's Havret wins Johnnie Walker Classic

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AFP) — France's Gregory Havret won the Johnnie Walker Classic here on Sunday while Oliver Wilson, Justin Rose and Soren Hansen earned their places in Europe's Ryder Cup team.

Havret made par at 18 for a final round 70 to win by one shot from England's Graeme Storm.

But the Frenchman wasn't the only one celebrating as English pair Wilson and Rose, plus Hansen of Denmark, earned automatic qualifying places in Nick Faldo's team to face the Americans in Kentucky from September 19 to 21.

The race for Ryder Cup places was settled when England's Nick Dougherty failed to win the tournament.

Dougherty made a great bid with five successive birdies around the turn and then another on the 14th, but he had bogeyed three of the first six and...

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