Boyd overcomes conditions to win LGM Open

The seven-handicap just pipped the only other player to shot an under-par round, Alex Du Feu, to the title on count-back with both having returned nett 63s on a day when the glorious summer briefly abated.

Instead, heavy rain and strong winds met the big field on their arrival at the west coast, causing a few entrants to withdraw before they started and others to walk in as they struggled against the elements.

But the majority battled through and, for Boyd, it proved worthwhile.

‘Tough,’ he said with a chuckle as he summed up what it was like out on the course.

‘But I had a good back nine – I just hung in there.

‘I had great playing partners as well who kept me going, which was good, so, yeah, I’m very pleased,’ added the winner, who was accompanied in the penultimate group out by Tom Bruley and Daniel Wynne.

Boyd played the front nine in five-over-par 37 gross, parring all of the par threes as well as the par-four ninth while his solitary double bogey of the round came at the seventh.

After the turn was where he won the event though, carding just one bogey on the tough 11th and the rest were all pars.

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