Lawrie earns €140,000 for joint second

A POOR putt for par on the final hole robbed Peter Lawrie of finishing second on his own at the close of the Volvo China Open in Chenghu.

Lawrie birdied three of his closing six holes to finish joint runner-up on 20-under par with Dane Soren Kjeldsen (66), New Zealand’s Danny Lee (65) and Spain’s Pablo Martin (63).

However while the result is Lawrie’s best in eight months, the Dubliner left his birdie putt right in the jaws at the last that would have handed him second on his own behind Belguim’s Nicolas Colsaerts who won by four shots. Lawrie played the final two rounds in the company of Colsaerts and was full of praise for him.