Top-seeded Graeme McDowell won the Volvo World Match Play Championship, after fighting back for the Thai Thongchai Jaidee defeated in the final Sunday. McDowell made amends for his short defeat at the hands of Nicolas Colsaerts in the final of last year, as it has wound up a victory 2 & 1 in the lay-out of spectacular cliffs of Thrace in Bulgaria. Having overcome Branden Grace in his semi-final earlier in the day, McDowell showed patience and nerves as it has redesigned an early deficit against Jaidee to secure his second title of the season - the first came to Harbour Town last month.
In final position, McDowell had not trailed in any of his matches all week, but, after Jaidee made a fine back and forth to halve the first hole, what has changed, from the second when his opponent rolled home a 30-footer for birdie move 1up. The former paratrooper, then extended his lead at the par-five fourth hole as another neat piece of interference got his second birdie. He should have made more progress in the next but missed a putt short birdie after McDowell had courageously chosen to abandon certain plants before making a vertical coupling-clutch of hers to save what would prove a valuable by.
This escape seems to galvanize McDowell that reduces by half the head with his first birdie of the round at the seventh and the Ulsterman then made a series of Rhodesia putts at the turn to stay only to drift. He was back on terms after the 12th hole when Jaidee was unable to extricate himself from an awkward place and carded his first bogey of the day. All square with five to play, this is the Thailand who blinked first as he pulled his left average reader on 14 and having been obliged to hack out on the side of thick undergrowth, fell behind for the first time that he could not save an equal footing.
McDowell turned the screw with a wedge sublime five feet four-by-15 and, when Jaidee missed his 15-footer for birdie, he sank the putt that ensued to move 2up with three to play. After that they have reduced by half the 16th by five, the end came at the short 17th hole where another was enough for McDowell sealed the victory and the cheque for the winner of €800 000. Happy winner then told Sky Sports: "it's very special. It is a very prestigious event, I can't tell you how excited I am to win it. »