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Ian Poulter makes major breakthrough with WGC-Accenture World Match Play victory

By Mark Reason Published: 7:50PM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Ian Poulter - Ian Poulter Major ambition: Ian Poulter valid that he is not all mouth and trousers Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Five years ago the immature Englishman was the super brat of golf, a John McEnroe but the talent, all mouth and trousers, golf"s adorned used car salesman.

Now, after violence Paul Casey 4 & 2 in the last of the Accenture World Match Play in Tucson, Arizona, he has turn the initial Englishman to win a World Golf Championship and my, has he deserved it.

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Turn the time at the back of to 2006. Reprimanded by the European Tour, Poulter had only imposed a excellent of �5,000 on himself after he had abused a organise in Ireland. The following year he was fined again for outstanding up a tee marker. He was headlined as the bad child of golf.

Sure, Poulter could be desirable at times. He has a wink that you do not regularly see at the back of the passed fish-eyes of a little golfers. He additionally had loads of bottle. But Poulter seemed similar to a lummox but the bent to do his eternal ambition.

How wrong can you be? Now a father of three, Poulter has grown given his move to America. It has been a prolonged walk, spasmodic spoiled, from partner pro at Chesfield Downs Golf Club to the world"s No 5. But he is right away a man of piece who British kids can take their lead from.

The 34 year-old shows what you can grasp with tough work and self-belief. A integrate of years ago Poulter said: "I unequivocally apply oneself each golfer, but I know I haven"t played to my full intensity and when that happens, it will be only me and Tiger."

There was a lot of sniggering from his associate pros, but they are not shouting now. Casey pronounced after losing to Poulter in Sunday"s final: "If Ian believes that, and he does, afterwards there"s no reason because he couldn"t get to that spot.

"For me it"s not about talent, it"s about work ethic and idea and all the rest of it, all the alternative attributes that go in to being a good golfer. I I think he showed currently he"s flattering good."

It is not as well fantastic to think that where Padraig Harrington has gone, Poulter competence follow. Harrington was not the majority gifted of youth golfers not in the joining of Casey or Justin Rose or Sergio Garcia but he has valid what a absolute multiple a clever mind and tough work can be.

Harrington has additionally valid that complicated vital champions are mostly tangible by their short game. Over the past week in Arizona Poulter put on a short diversion hospital that his mucker Sir Nick Faldo would have admired.

Asked where he would rate his short diversion Poulter said: "My short diversion this week has been as good as it"s ever been. The last twelve months it"s been up there with the most appropriate of them."

When asked what the win meant Poulter said, with a rip in his eye: "Five or 6 years of tough work, entrance over to shift my residency, to eventually win over here only equates to it equates to everything.

"Today I felt that I could broach whatever I indispensable to deliver. I"ve never felt some-more gentle on a golf course. There"s been a lot of good bent in England for such a prolonged time and it"s so good to see guys essentially deliver.

"An Englishman hasn"t won a vital for a prolonged time. It"s about time the guys that have put themselves in on all sides 4, 5 and 6 in the universe should step up to the image and broach on that."

Since Oct 4 opposite Englishmen have won the Dunhill Links, the Volvo World Matchplay, the Dubai World Championship and the Accenture Matchplay, not to discuss 3 alternative not as big tournaments on the European Tour.

Poulter has won twice in that time and might nonetheless climb higher in the rankings. A couple of years ago Poulter incited up at the Open with the Claret Jug stencilled on the side of his trousers and Seve Ballesteros laughed that it was the closest Poulter would ever come. No one is derisive now. Ian Poulter has turn a man value seeking up to.

English golfers on a feat roll

Oct 3 Simon Dyson wins Dunhill LinksOct eleven Ross McGowan wins Madrid MastersOct eighteen Lee Westwood wins Portugal MastersNov 1 Ian Poulter wins Singapore Open; Ross Fisher wins Volvo World MatchplayNov twenty-two Lee Westwood wins Dubai World ChampionshipFeb twenty-two Ian Poulter wins Accenture Matchplay

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