Britain-Ireland team makes it 5 in a row
Posted on: Sunday, 27 September 2009, 11:50 CDT
Britain-Ireland won the European Tour's Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros for the fifth straight time Sunday, topping Continental Europe by five points.
The Britain-Ireland team needed just two points in the final round to clinch the trophy in Paris and got them in the first two matches, a 3 and 2 win by Graeme McDowell over Robert Karlsson and Rory McIlroy's 1-up decision over Henrik Stenson.
The event, which was played at the Saint- Nom-la-Breteche Golf Club, was formerly known as the Seve Trophy, named for for longtime golf star Seve Ballesteros.
Other winners in the final round were Robert Rock for Britain-Ireland and Anders Hansen, Soren Hansen, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Soren Kjeldsen and Francesco Molinari of Continental Europe. Two other matches were halved.
Source: United Press International
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