MELBOURNE –
Ryggs Johnston’s putter proved a deadly weapon because the American rookie received the lads’s tourney of the 1.7 million Australian greenback ($1.11 million) Australian Open by three strokes for the most important win of his profession at a moist and wild Kingston Heath on Sunday.
South Korea’s former world No. 1 Shin Jiyai received the ladies’s trophy within the twin gender occasion by two strokes, overcoming late nerves and a cost from defending champion Ashleigh Buhai to assert the title 11 years after her first.
Whereas Shin made certain of her win by storming to a seven-stroke lead halfway via, Johnston wielded magic on the again 9 greens to see off an unlikely problem from unheralded Western Australian Curtis Luck.
