Hamilton, Haeggman wins a bolt from the blue

GOLF'S capacity for throwing up shock results never ceases to amaze. Who could have forecast Ben Curtis and Shaun Micheel would win last year's US Open and PGA Championships?

Last weekend's tournaments were down the pecking order but yet again the champions of the Honda Classic in Florida and the Qatar Masters came out of the blue.

Journeyman Todd Hamilton triumphed in the Honda Classic on the US Tour. In Europe, Joakim Haeggman, the first Swede to play in the Ryder Cup in 1993 but so much out of the picture subsequently that he was one of Sam Torrance's backroom boys at The Belfry in 2001, captured the Qatar Masters.