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Dyson hoovers up prize

England's Simon Dyson fired a superb closing 66 to win the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by three shots at St Andrews on Monday.

One behind Luke Donald overnight, Dyson captured the £485,850 first prize - the biggest of his career - with a 20-under-par total after grabbing birdies on six of the first seven holes in an outward 30.

Second were compatriot Oliver Wilson and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy.

Dyson knew it could be a special day from his second shot - a pitch to three feet that brought him level with Donald, who with a 73 fell all the way back to seven and still has not won for three-and-a-half years.

By the eighth tee, Dyson was already four clear - and although McIlroy did cut it back to two by turning in 32 to the winner's 30 that was as close as it got.

Dyson added another birdie on the 12th and could afford to bogey the Road Hole 17th.

McIlroy ruined his chances of winning by bogeying the 12th, 16th and 17th. But his birdie on the last was huge for the Tour money list battle.

For Wilson it was an eighth runners-up finish - he has yet to win - while for 20-year-old McIlroy it was good enough to take him from third to first on the money list with two months of the race to go.

Dyson now leads Europe's Ryder Cup race and is in the world's top 50 for the first time.

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