Hong Kong, November 12: India's Arjun Atwal won his second title in the space of eight days on Sunday when he triumphed in the $ 300,000 Star Alliance Open.The Indian golfer fired a two-over-par 72 to finish on 12-under-par 268, while Yeh closed with a 74. Atwal, who also won the Indian Open last season and now has three Davidoff Tour titles to his credit, earned $ 48,450 for first place, while Yeh won $ 33,390.Germany's Alex Cejka was the only player to break par on the final day with a 68 and ended tied for third, four behind Yeh, with South Africans Hendrik Buhrmann and Justin Hobday, and Sweden's Stephen Lindskog.The turning point in Atwal and Yeh's battle was the par-five 15th, where Atwal, who was one behind, birdied and Yeh bogied.Yeh hit two drivers to the left of the green on 15 but duffed a chip short and then failed to get up and down. Atwal then increased his lead by birdieing the next hole, before Yeh put the title out of his reach with a bogey on the penultimate hole.``It was the toughest round of my life. I knew it was going to be tough today. Coming from Taiwan, Yeh, is such a great wind player, I knew he would be hard to beat,'' said Atwal, 27.He added: ``I wasn't thinking about winning, I was just thinking about playing well, which is what I did last week when I was playing so well. I'll do the same next week as well in the Johnnie Walker Classic.''Yeh was consoled by the fact that he regained the Davidoff Tour Order of Merit lead from England's Simon Dyson, who was not playing this week.``I'll take that (regaining the Merit list lead). It wasn't my day,'' said Yeh, who won the season-opening Malaysian Open. Scotland's Sam Torrance won the battle of the two star players after finishing a stroke ahead of Spain's Seve Ballesteros.They both carded 73 each, with Torrance finishing two-over for the tournament.The Scot, who will captain next year's European Ryder Cup team, finished off his round brilliantly by birdieing three out of the last four holes, including 17 and 18.``They set the course up very hard. They were teeing us up from right off the back,'' said Torrance. ``It was tough to keep your composure, it was so exposed out there but I really love the course. We don't play anything like it in Europe.''Ballesteros on the other hand had a terrible finish with a triple-bogey eight on the last.After a perfect tee shot, the Spaniard was then unsettled by his playing partner (Rafael Ponce) who had to play a provisional ball.Ballesteros backed off his second shot to compose himself but when he hit his four-iron it went way right into the bushes. He found his ball but had to take a drop.Apart from his disappointing finish the 43 year old took some hope from the week.He said: ``I played pretty good, a little bit better, apart from three or four holes.''Leading Scorers: 268- Arjun Atwal (Ind) (65, 63, 68, 72); 270- Yeh Wei-Tze (Twn) (65, 65, 66, 74); 274- Justin Hobday (Rsa) (70, 64, 66, 74), Hendrik Buhrmann (Rsa) (71, 66, 65, 72), Alex Cejka (Ger) (71, 67, 68, 68), Stephen Lindskog (Swe) (65, 73, 66, 70); 275- Scott Hend (Aus) (67, 66, 71, 71); 276- Lin Chien-Bing (Twn) (68, 67, 68, 73); 277- Hsieh Yu-Shu (Twn) (70, 69, 65, 73); 278- Cameron Percy (Aus) (71, 66, 66, 75) and Soren Hansen (Den) (71, 67, 68, 72); 279- Prayad Marksaeng (Tha) (70, 67, 65, 77); 280- Marc Farry (Fra) (70, 64, 69, 77); 281- Adrian Percey (Aus) (72, 68, 65, 76).
