Red hot win for Chilean

Jamie Spence told Golf Night why Felipe Aguilar's win at the Indonesian Open is "huge" for the Chilean player.

Jamie Spence told Golf Night why Felipe Aguilar's win at the Indonesian Open is "huge" for the Chilean player. Aguilar's birdie at the final hole saw him snatch victory away from Indian star Jeev-Milkha Singh and claim the winner's cheque of just over £100,000. But Spence said the most important aspect of Aguilar's first European Tour victory is that he will now be able to pick and choose which events he wants to play at over the next two-and-a-half seasons and that will help him when he has to travel to Europe from Chile "It's huge, he can play in anything he likes for the rest of this year on the European Tour, Spence said. "Then he gets two further years as well so he can plan his career out for the next two-and-a-half years. "He said he's got his family back in Chile and I'm sure his wife, like most wives, will be encouraging him to get out of the house more! "He's going to have to do it in stints and pick out sections of three or four weeks when he wants to come over from Chile to play. "He must have thought today when he three-putted 15 for a birdie that was his chance gone. He was a couple of shots behind the old warhorse Jeev Singh, but he stuck in there. "He said he feels better when he's chasing somebody. It's not easy being in front because you feel everybody's looking at you and all you see is your name on the top of the leaderboard and people eating into it. It's difficult."

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Singh picked up two eagles and a birdie in the first 11 holes on Sunday to storm to the top of the leaderboard and he held a two-stroke advantage standing on the 16th tee. But a bogey there and another dropped shot at the closing hole opened the door for Aguilar to pinch the victory and the collapse led to more questions about Singh's unorthodox swing. However, Spence feels the Indian star would not benefit from coaching to try and change his style. He continued: "I wouldn't think the coaching was there when he started playing golf in India and he's just gone with it. "He's got to the stage with his golf swing now where he's just got to go with it because it does work for him very well most of the time. "But it let him down a couple of times today. I think on 16 he hit his little three-wood which is normally arrow-straight and then on 18 he remembered that shot and shoved it right. They were two bad mistakes. "But you can't touch the swing now. You've just got to let him play because you'd never see him again if you tried to make him swing properly."