Paul Broadhurst won the European Senior Tour’s Paris Legends Championship after shooting rounds of 65, 70 and 69 at Le Golf National, venue for the next year’s Ryder Cup.
Broadhurst, who was a member of Europe’s 1991 Ryder Cup team, won by two strokes after a final day battle with John Daly, to record his four victory on the over-50s circuit,.
Daly held the lead briefly on the back nine, when making a birdie at the 10th hole, but the American dropped a shot at the 13th, and Broadhurst made three birdies over the final seven holes to seal his second title of the season, after winning the Scottish Senior Open in August.
“It’s pretty special to win twice on the same course,” said Broadhurst, who won the French Open back in 1995 over the L’Albatros Course. “It was a tough day out there today, I had to earn that. It wasn’t easy going. It was the first day we had any sort of wind and that gave us a different challenge.
“John took the lead with a good birdie at ten, and I thought that was me done. I got away with a tee shot on 13, and hit it really close for birdie. He had a bad lie, hit it into the water and made bogey – that was the turning point. I played really well from then on. I hit it close on 14, holed a great putt for par on 15 to keep me ahead, and a great second shot on 17 to three feet for birdie. That was it then. I held it together and finished the job. To win wire-to-wire here, and in Scotland, is special.”
Phil Golding, winner of French Open at Le Golf National in 2003, finished third on nine under par, one stroke ahead of Roger Chapman.