Swede Feeds Need eventually

Golf - After 200 years in the golfing wilderness, Swedish niblick-wielder Peter Hedblom has finally shaken off his hoodoo by winning a golf tournament. The 37 year old Swede has not won on the European Tour since the Moroccan Open in 1996 and that hardly counts, does it. His four under par 68 at the Saujana Golf & Country Club yesterday saw him hold off a late charge from France's Jean-Francois Lucquin, to win the Maybank Malaysian Open. "When you haven't won for a long time you question whether you're really going to win again," sobbed Hedblom as he spoke to his really good looking golfer sister Marlene on the phone. "You wake up in the middle of the night, night after night pounding your pillow and shouting 'Why? Why? Why?', before going downstairs, snapping all your golf clubs in half and stuffing your face with ice cream. Then you pass out on your sofa, wake up with sick all over your shirt, pull your socks up and go again. It's just a matter of grinding it out. I tried to play my own game and not watch the leaderboard and then pray that Lucquin would bottle it at the last. When his par putt slipped past the hole on 18 I knew that was it, I felt like screaming "F%~#ing yes, you f%~#ing little f%~#ing beauty!!"

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