1:50pm Thursday 1st July 2010
CHIGWELL golfer Oliver Fisher recorded his best result on the European Tour for two months with an 11th-place finish at the BMW International Open in Germany last week.
The 22-year-old scaled the leaderboard on the final two days with a pair of excellent rounds after an even par second round looked to have cost him a strong showing and a bumper prize packet.
Fisher began well, carding an opening round four-under par 68 at the Munich course.
However, in conditions conducive to low scoring, the local pro stumbled to a 72 on day two.
He rallied quickly, posting a steady 69 to move him in to contention before stringing together a series of birdies for a final round six-under par 66 and a share of 11th place.
The West Essex golfer finished the tournament five shots adrift of eventual winner David Horsey and four behind his namesake, Ross Fisher.
Fisher had looked as if he had turned the corner and begun to live up to his enormous billing as one of the game’s brightest prospects back in March, when he put together a superb run of five consecutive top ten finishes on the Tour.
A disappointing two months followed, but the young golfer will hope this latest impressive result, which lifts him up to 40th in the Race to Dubai rankings, will stand him in good stead for forthcoming events.
Meanwhile, in the same event, Epping’s Simon Khan finished two shots further back from Fisher in a tie for 21st with an 11-under par total. Khan was also in the field for last week’s second major of the year, the US Open, but the 38-year-old failed to make the cut at Pebble Beach, in a tournament that was won by Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell.
Epping resident Khan is enjoying some of the best form of his career, having recently claimed one of the most coveted prizes in golf last month when he won the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
The victory propelled him up to a career-high Race to Dubai ranking of seventh.
He has since dropped to tenth in the standings but remains in contention for a place at the prestigious end-of-season event in Dubai, which sees the top 60 players slug it out for the title at the European Tour’s flagship event.
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