Chips go down as Jacobson cashes in

THREE chip-ins – one for birdie, one for bogey and then one for eagle at the penultimate hole – took Sweden’s Fredrik Jacobson to an amazing comeback victory yesterday.

The 28-year-old won the Algarve Portuguese Open at Vale do Lobo on his return from a 10-week injury lay-off that left him so rusty he lost five balls practicing on the eve of the event.

Winner of the Hong Kong Open in December, Jacobson hurt his left wrist at the start of this year and had not played since missing the halfway cut in the Heineken Classic in Australia on January 31.