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Pieters wins Dutch Open after Czech success

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Thomas Pieters of Belgium putts on 16th green during the Abu Dhabi Golf championship January 17, 2015. …

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Belgian Thomas Pieters won the Dutch Open on Sunday after England's Lee Slattery bogeyed the final hole with a playoff looming.

Slattery had been chasing back-to-back European Tour victories after winning last week's Russian Open after a seven-under-par 63 in the third round left him sharing the overnight lead with Spain's Rafa Cabrera-Bello.

Instead it was Pieters who took a back-to-back Tour win, following up his Czech masters victory last month, when Slattery missed a four foot putt for par.