Scott Hend (Aus) Fourth round 67 (-5), Total 273 (-15)
What a putt by Nacho. If I was to go out there and hit that putt you would say you would hole it one in ten times. It was an amazing putt, and in the situation he holed it. All credit to Nacho, it was fantastic.
The spirit we played in today was great too. He’s such a nice guy. We were both egging each other on to play well. That’s the way we want to play golf.
I felt like I played fantastic on the back nine. Nearly holed a lot of putts, just missing. Just had to keep my head on and stay patient, stay in there. Worst case scenario was a play-off. If I hole some putts I win.
I had to get off to a fast start as I was three shots behind. That’s all there was to it. I was fortunate enough to turn I in five-under and on the back-nine I shot even-par. I can’t ask for much more on a Sunday when the golf course is playing quite tricky.
I’m fantastic out of bunkers. We pretty much knew the line of the putt. It was pretty much the same putt I hit in regulation. All I had to do was keep my head on, don’t let it explode, just have a nice stroke through the ball.
I’m a grinder and a fighter. So is my caddie Tony. We both have the same mental attitude. It doesn’t matter how old we are, we work hard at what we do. Just takes a bit of luck to win. Obviously I had a bit of luck on the play-off hole. If you don’t have any luck you won’t win.
I had the luck today, unfortunately for Nacho. His time will come, he’s going to win. He’s a great player, he’s going to win.
I’m leading the Asian Tour Order of Merit at the moment and it gives me a good chance to win it again. It’ll be another fantastic achievement and I would like to do it again.
Nacho Elvira (Esp) Fourth round 70 (-2), Total 273 (-15)
It was a bit of bad luck, I’m glad I made it last a little longer with the play-off. Sometimes it works for you and sometimes it doesn’t.
It was thunder in a bad moment, but the gods did give me one back with that putt. I think I played great all week, solid, consistent, I’m very happy with that. I’m happy that my game has finally showed a little bit of consistency.
I tried to give it all on the play-off hole. I just missed my driver a little bit and gave myself a little chance to make birdie, but I’m happy.
Lifting trophies is the point, that’s what we try to do every week. Hopefully it works out soon.
It was mostly good for me today. I just struggled in the middle of the round. To birdie the last hole of a tournament is always nice. I’m happy with the tournament overall. A top-three finish is always something special especially in a co-sanctioned event with the European Tour.
Maybe I didn’t have enough breakfast today or something. Everything seems OK and then, I don’t know, maybe I need to work on something. Is there something out there that I need to work on with my caddie or with my coach Pete Cowen? We’ll see what I can improve and work on it from there.
I made some good putts at the start. It’s a good result, I’m really happy with it.
This is one of the tournaments which you really want to do well and I’m really happy I did that this week. I love Malaysia, I’ve played a lot of ADT (Asian Development Tour) events here so I feel really comfortable being here in Malaysia. I was playing well the entire week but I felt like I made too many bogeys. So my main goal today was not to drop anymore shots which I managed to do. I couldn’t be happier with how I played. I played well here two years ago and I’ve many good memories of this course. I’m a little bit more experience now and I’m able to manage my emotions better now. It’s nice to make a move on the Order of Merit but it’s a long year and there’s still a lot of golf to play. But at least it’s a start.
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