26-year-old Colombian Camilo Villegas won the BMW Championship at Bellerive with a final round of two-under-par 68. He finished on a 15-under-par total of 265, two strokes ahead of American Dudley Hart, with Anthony Kim and Jim Furyk another shot back in a tie for third. Villegas moves to second behind Vijay Singh in the FedEx Cup Points list and breaks into the World Top 20 for the first time with a 16 position leap to World Number 18.
26-year-old Colombian Camilo Villegas won the BMW Championship at Bellerive with a final round of two-under-par 68. He finished on a 15-under-par total of 265, two strokes ahead of American Dudley Hart, with Anthony Kim and Jim Furyk another shot back in a tie for third. Villegas moves to second behind Vijay Singh in the FedEx Cup Points list and breaks into the World Top 20 for the first time with a 16 position leap to World Number 18.
Jean-François Lucquin won the Omega European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre following a play-off with Rory McIlroy. The Frenchman shot a bogey free 67 to wipe out the 19 year old from Northern Ireland’s four shot overnight lead and completed the win with a birdie at the second play-off hole. Lucquin climbs to World Number 241 a jump of 219 positions while McIlroy improves his World Ranking by 61 spots to 111th.
This week's other winners were Toyokazu Fujishima at the Fujisankei Classic on the Japan Golf Tour, Brendon Todd at the Utah Championship on the Nationwide Tour, Mark F Haastrup at the The Dubliner Challenge on the Challenge Tour and Tom Stankowski at the Canadian Tour Championship.