Cool Lara seals play-off victory in Austria

SPAIN’S Jose Manuel Lara won his second European Tour title and saved his tour card after getting the better of England’s David Lynn in a play-off at the Austrian Open.

Lara had missed nine successive cuts before finishing fourth at last week’s KLM Open, and the confidence he gleaned from that performance carried him to an emotional triumph in Atzenbrugg yesterday.

The 33-year-old from Valencia surged up the leaderboard from eighth place overnight after recording 10 birdies and two bogeys in his eight-under-par round of 64.