Golf: Woosnam's treble win

IAN WOOSNAM, who has not won a tournament for eight months, had his mental and physical stamina severely tested in a marathon final round when he won the Monte Carlo Open for the third successive year on Saturday.

Low cloud on the 3,000-foot high Mont Agel course meant that his closing 64 took more than six hours to complete. He finished with a 15-under-par 261, Johan Rystrom and Mark McNulty were two shots behind.

'I putted really well,' said the former world No 1, whose hat- trick was the first in Europe since Australia's Peter Thomson won the Open in 1954-56.' Now I've got the confidence to start attacking in preparation for the Open.'