O'Sullivan pays tribute to his "victim" Ratcliffe
IN: News | European Seniors | Tunisian Seniors Open (2002) | Wrap | by Bruce Young | 20 Oct 2002
Ireland's Denis O'Sullivan captured his fifth European Seniors Tour title with a come-from-behind win to beat John Morgan and second round leader, Australian Noel Ratcliffe, in the Tunisian Open.
This is perhaps the least significant win of those five in terms of prizemoney and event status but it may arguably have been his most satisfying as he produced a brilliant back nine to get up win his first event of the year.
The first person he thanked after his win was one of his victims, third placed Ratcliffe, who has been helping him out with his swing of late. Apparently Ratcliffe had been working on eliminating a loop that had developed in O'Sullivan's backswing and it appears to have worked perhaps at the expense of the Australian, who has not had a good year by his own recent standards. This is Ratcliffe's least successful year on the Seniors Tour in the seven years (he had one year in the US in 1999) he has been playing in Europe.
Australian David Good was sixth and New Zealander Simon Owen 11th.
The European Seniors Tour has just the two events left on this year's schedule they being the Tour Championship in Portugal and the Legends of Golf in Singapore.
Final Round - Australasian Scores
3 -11 Noel Ratcliffe (67-66-72)
T6 -7 David Good (70-69-70)
11 -6 Simon Owen (70-70-70)
