 | FINAL STANDINGS SA unless stated -15 Tim Clark -9 Gregory Havret (Fra), Charl Schwartzel -8 Graeme Storm (Eng), Nick Dougherty (Eng), Darren Clarke (NI), James Kingston
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Tim Clark cruised to a second South African Open title with a closing round of 66 in Durban on Sunday. The 2002 winner finished on 15 under par, six shots clear of fellow South African Charl Schwartzel and Frenchman Gregory Havret.
England's Nick Dougherty and Graeme Storm shared fourth place alongside Northern Irishman Darren Clarke and South Africa's James Kingston.
Clarke shot a final round of 67 to move up the leaderboard.
Clark started the final round tied for the lead on nine under with fellow South Africans Titch Moore, Tjaart van der Walt and Hendrik Buhrmann but they all fell away.
The Durban-born player played the last 45 holes without making a single bogey, and later donated his US$140,000 cheque to the tsunami relief fund.
"I'm more than happy to offer my support to the fund," he said.
 | My game felt like it was just getting better and better and this was definitely the best I've played this week  |
"As for my golf, today, it was just great. I had a lot of people supporting me out there and I guess they inspired me. "I'm obviously extremely pleased. I felt a lot of pressure over here and a lot of people expected me to play well here.
"To be honest I hadn't played a lot of golf coming into this week.
"My game felt like it was just getting better and better and this was definitely the best I've played this week."
Havret went out in 33 before bogeying both the 10th and 11th holes.
"That was disappointing," he said. "The 10th is a par-five which you look to birdie. I hit my second right of the green and the lie was almost unplayable.
"I couldn't even find the green from there and I couldn't up and down it from there.
"Then at 11 - well - it's a tough par-four and a five is no disgrace but if I'd gone birdie, par at 10 and 11 the game might have been on."