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Pony-Tail a Winning Fashion Statement
Tue Feb 3,12:02 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Pony-tails appear to be a guarantee of success for
sportsmen at the moment with flame-haired Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez
leading the way.
Jimenez, who won the Johnnie Walker Classic in Bangkok on Sunday hours
after pony-tailed tennis player Roger Federer stormed to victory at the
Australian Open in Melbourne, believes fashion individuality is important
in the sporting arena.
"Two years ago, I decided to let my hair grow and I try to be a little
different on the tour," the 40-year-old Jimenez told reporters at the
Alpine Golf and Sports Club course after clinching his eighth European
Tour title.
"It's a kind of fashion statement in a place (a sport) where everyone
has the same haircut and the same everything.
"I did have a skin problem in the past and originally I grew my hair
long to cover my ears after surgery."
Jimenez, who held off the last-day challenge of Denmark's Thomas Bjorn
with a closing round of four-under-par 68 in Bangkok, became the second
successive pony-tailed winner on the 2004 European Tour.
Germany's Marcel Siem, with his blond locks drawn back, claimed his
maiden professional title at the Dunhill Championship in Johannesburg
one week earlier.
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