Louis Oosthuizen fired a final round 66 to win the Volvo Golf Champions in Durban, South Africa. It was his sixth official win on the European Tour and it will move him to No. 4 on the Official World Golf Rankings.
Oosthuizen with four birdies on the front nine at Durban Country Club turned in 32. A bogey at No. 16 was offset by birdies at Nos. 10, 11 and 14 for a back nine 34. The six-under par 66 left him at 16-under par for the week and gave him the one-shot win over 29-year-old Scott Jamieson from Scotland.
Jamieson had started the final round with a five-shot lead but struggled with an even-par 72 on Sunday. Jamieson won the Nelson Mandela Championship last month at Royal Durban Country Club, but could not pull off the rare double win in Durban.
Jamieson attended Augusta State on a golf scholarship and progressed through the minor tours of European golf. In 2011, his first full season as a member of the European Tour, he made 16 cuts and finished No. 59 on tour. In 2012 he improved to 18 made cuts and finished No. 53 on the Race to Dubai.
His win last month at the Nelson Mandela Championship, the first event of the 2013 European Tour season, was his first European Tour win. He also posted a third place finish at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in December. This runner-up will keep him atop the 2013 Race to Dubai ahead of Oosthuizen who will move into second place.
Oosthuizen who won the 2010 Open Championship at St. Andrews has been one of the best golfers world-wide over the past three years. His six wins have all come since March, 2010. Although he was T-9 at the 2011 U.S. Open and runner-up to Bubba Watson at the 2012 Masters, he has yet to win in the United States.
Last year European Tour rookie Branden Grace from South Africa started off the year with two wins in South Africa and went on to win two more titles in 2012.
Jamieson appears to be another of the young European Tour contingent that is set to turn in a monster year.