Monday, March 31, 2008
GOLFPUNK Against The World

What were you doing when you were 19? Not competing at the business end of big boys tour events we’re guessing.

GOLFPUNK diarist Oli Fisher came within a whisker of winning his first European Tour event yesterday when Thomas Levet overhauled him at the first hole of a sudden-death play-off at the Aloha Golf Club

Fisher played beautifully for four days and had rounds of 70, 68, 67 and 67 for a 16-under-par total of 272. Levet said: “I was very lucky with my long putt on 17, but my experience helped and I was very calm.”


As is his wont, Levet had time to heap praise on the vanquished, even going so far as to compare our Oli to the game's greats. “I feel so sorry for Oliver because that was tough on him,” he said. “He's a great player, powerful and concise.

“I would say he's the next Nick Faldo. His game is unbelievable and in two or three years, he could be at the level of Tiger Woods, he's that good.”

This was Fisher's best finish in less than two years on tour and earned him £88,000. It moved him to 32nd on the Order of Merit virtually guaranting his playing rights for 2009.



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