26 January 2004	Monday	03 Zilhaj 1424

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 25: Germany's Marcel Siem won the Dunhill Championship in a three-way playoff on Sunday to clinch his maiden title on the European Tour. The 23-year-old Siem holed a 10-foot birdie putt at the third extra hole to edge out French duo Raphael Jacquelin and Gregory Havret at Houghton Golf Club.

The trio took the tournament into a playoff after they completed the regulation 72 holes in 22-under-par 266. Jacquelin and Havret carded final rounds of 67 while Siem fired a six-under-par 66.

Denmark's Soren Hansen, who had led by a stroke overnight, surrendered his advantage by making just one birdie in his first 15 holes, his closing 69 leaving him in fourth at 21-under 267.

Leading final round scores (South African unless stated):

266 Raphael Jacquelin (France) 66 65 68 67, Marcel Siem (Germany) 65 67 68 66, Gregory Havret (France) 66 69 64 67, (Siem won playoff at third extra hole)

267 Soren Hansen (Denmark) 66 67 65 69,

270 Maarten Lafeber (Netherlands) 68 69 68 65

272 James Kingston 72 67 71 62, Anders Hansen (Denmark) 65 70 71 66, Jarrod Moseley (Australia) 71 66 68 67, Lee Westwood (Britain) 68 70 66 68, Trevor Immelman 70 69 64 69, Craig Lile 72 64 66 70

273 Robert Coles (Britain) 72 67 68 66, Alan Mclean (Britain) 65 68 69 71 274 Marc Cayeux, (Zimbabwe) 68 68 70 68, Keith Horne 73 67 63 71

LEAD SHARED

LA QUINTA (California): Kirk Triplett birdied two of the final three holes for a nine-under-par 63 to climb into a tie for the fourth round lead with Phil Mickelson at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic on Saturday.

Triplett's score was his lowest since winning the Reno-Tahoe Open last August and it put him level with overnight leader Mickelson (67) at 26-under-par 262 in the 90-hole event being played over four courses. Kenny Perry (64) is third at 25-under 264, while 50-year-old Jay Haas (67), last year's runner-up, is at 24-under 264.

Leading scores (US unless stated):

262 Phil Mickelson 68 63 64 67, Kirk Triplett 66 65 68 63

263 Kenny Perry 64 66 69 64 264 Jay Haas 65 68 64 67

265 Ben Crane 68 64 65 68, Skip Kendall 63 68 68 66, Danny Ellis 71 63 67 64

266 Jesper Parnevik (Sweden) 67 68 66 65, Loren Roberts 67 67 66 66

267 Paul Azinger 67 65 66 69

268 Richard Johnson (Sweden) 66 70 64 68, Jonathan Kaye 67 70 66 65, Todd Fischer 68 67 63 70

269 Steve Flesch 72 66 63 68, Harrison Frazar 73 67 66 63, J.L. Lewis 68 68 69 64, Joe Ogilvie 66 67 68 68, Dean Wilson 67 65 69 68, Robert Gamez 71 69 60 69, Zach Johnson 66 67 70 66.-Reuters