Jacobson edges Masters title

The Volvo Masters finally found itself with one champion rather than two when Swede Fredrik Jacobson – or Houdini as he is now known – beat Spain’s Carlos Rodiles at the fourth hole of a play-off at Valderrama.

The Volvo Masters finally found itself with one champion rather than two when Swede Fredrik Jacobson – or Houdini as he is now known – beat Spain’s Carlos Rodiles at the fourth hole of a play-off at Valderrama.

A year after Colin Montgomerie and Bernhard Langer shared the title when darkness halted their sudden-death shoot-out after two holes, it looked as if Rodiles and Jacobson might run out of light as well.

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