WESSEX Golf Centre’s Michael Watson continued his fine form by winning the Cumberwell Park PGA West Region Players Championship Pro-Am for the second successive year.
Last year he shot seven-under-par 64. This time he carded 67 to claim his fifth Pro-Am win in a season that started slowly by his high standards. The shot of the day was a hole in one at the 205-yard 13th.
Watson, 42, has been playing outstanding golf since winning the Microsoft Services Masters at Bowood last month for his first order of merit success for 14 years.
He edged out clubhouse leaders Joe Ferguson (Celtic Manor) and David Haines (Brean) with an outstanding back nine of six-under-par 30.
He struggled on the way out and made bogeys at the fifth and another at the seventh when he three-putted.
But he burst into action with three consecutive birdies from the 10th and made the vital winning birdie at the closing hole.
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