October 14, 2013 – England’s David Lynn, TaylorMade-adidas Golf tour staff professional, came from six shots back to snatch victory at the Portugal Masters with an inspired final round 63 at Oceânico Victoria Golf Course.

A week after being laid low by a virus at the Seve Trophy by Golf+, where he was swiftly dispatched 6 and 4 by Miguel Angel Jiménez in the Sunday singles as Continental Europe beat Great Britain & Ireland, Lynn had completely contrasting emotions in the Algarve as his 18 under par total saw him finish a shot clear of Justin Walters.

Lynn’s second European Tour title sees him climb back into the Official World Golf Ranking’s top 50 a week before his 40th birthday. The former US PGA Championship runner-up, whose only previous win in almost 400 events came in the KLM Open in 2004, charged into contention with five birdies in a front nine of 30 and, after a bogey at the tenth, picked up further shots at the 11th, 14th, 15th and 17th to set a clubhouse target that was never matched.

“Today was just a case of I’ve got to go out there and make as many birdies as I can. I must admit I was thinking of Scott Jamieson’s 60 (in the third round). If I could do something like that, who knows? The wind was up quite a bit today so eight under is a really good score,” said David Lynn.

“I really caught fire on the front nine, I was making everything I looked at, although I hit it to one foot at the first which got me off to a really good start. After that I made a couple of great putts for par to keep the momentum going and then I was making the birdie putts.”

Lynn – who began the week 52nd in the Official World Golf Ranking – held a two shot lead playing the last but admitted his heart was in his mouth as his approach looked set to find the water short of the green. It ended up clearing the hazard by a matter of feet and two putts later he had completed what proved to be the winning round.

What’s in David’s golf bag?

The win marks the second European Tour title for Lynn, who played the new SLDR Driver, Lethal golf ball and wore adizero Tour footwear. The SLDR was the No.1 driver model (*), with 24 in play. Lynn increased his launch angle by over 1 degree and maintained the spin rate at just under 2400rpm’s – increasing his driving distance by 6 yards with the SLDR (Lynn played the SLDR 10.5 degrees set on 11.5).

(*) As reported by Sports Marketing Surveys, Inc.

• Driver: TaylorMade SLDR (Graffaloy Blue-White, S shaft)
• Fairway Wood: TaylorMade RBZ Stage 2 Tour 3 (14.5º, Aldila Tour 7.5 X shaft)
• Hybrid: TaylorMade Burner Rescue 18º (Aldila NV X shaft)
• Irons: TaylorMade R9 TP (3-9)
• Wedges: TaylorMade R9 TP
 (48º); TaylorMade TP xFT (54º and 60º)
• Putter: TaylorMade Ghost TM-110 center shaft
• Ball: TaylorMade Lethal
• Footwear: adidas Golf adizero Tour
• Shirt: Galvin Green

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