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Levet made the running at the start of extra time by holing a long curling putt at the 16th to be the only

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Levet made the running at the start of extra time by holing a long, curling putt at the 16th to be the only man to get under par in the play-off.Later, Levet said: "I have no regrets. I played well." Els became the man who stopped the Tiger's Grand Slam in its tracks "I think the weather did that yesterday," Els said. "I guess prevailing last night after the storm [to take the 54-hole lead] gave me the opportunity to be sitting here right now I had a lot of patience yesterday and today. So once again a Frenchman came to the 18th needing to keep his head to win the Open and once again he came up short.

They call it d? vu where Thomas Levet comes from, but it would be unfair to write him off as just another Jean Van de Velde. When Levet came to the 18th during the four-man play-off yesterday he was not to know that a par four would suffice. Ernie Els and Stuart Appleby were still on the 17th and for all he knew he needed a birdie to win; the Open, he believed, was his to win.The 33-year-old Parisian reached into his bag for driver and dispatched his ball into the deep rough. From there he found a bunker short of the green and his recovery only sneaked on to the green.

He charged his first putt, but then bravely holed the 10-footer back that ultimately took him into a sudden-death play-off with Els.Again it was the 18th and again he reached for his driver and again he found trouble off the tee, this time in a fairway bunker. He came out well but was still left with an eight-iron which he put to within 20 feet. His putt scraped by the hole before he bravely holed a six-footer to put the pressure on Els. The South African responded.Levet's reaction had echoes of Van de Velde's "c'est la vie" appraisal "I played well," he said "I don't regret anything.

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