Updated MAY 12, 2014 3:24a ET <\/p>\n
SANTO DA SERRA, Madeira Islands <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Daniel Brooks made par on the first playoff hole Sunday to win the fog-shortened Madeira Islands Open, which was overshadowed by the death of a caddie earlier in the day. <\/p>\n
Scott Henry, who had birdied the last three holes to force a playoff, three-putted for bogey on the first extra hole to finish second. <\/p>\n
However, some European Tour members said the tournament should have been stopped after Ian MacGregor, the 52-year-old Zimbabwe-born caddy to Scotland's Alastair Forsyth, collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack on the ninth fairway -- Forsyth's final hole. <\/p>\n
The event, which had already been shortened to 36 holes because of a series of fog delays, was halted again after the delay but restarted following a minute's silence. <\/p>\n
\"Can't believe they are going to keep playing in Madeira,\" Pablo Larrazabal, who was not in the tournament, wrote on Twitter. \"Life is more important than golf.\" <\/p>\n
France's Jean-Baptiste Gonnet, who missed the first-round cut, also wrote: \"There is no respect anymore. How you can even walk on the 9th fairway.\" <\/p>\n
However, European Tour officials said they had consulted with players and caddies before deciding to play on. Forsyth said it was the right decision. <\/p>\n
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