Floridian surfer and former world number 4, Damien Hobgood (Fl, USA) has claimed his fifth ASP World Tour event victory by taking out the Prime-rated Telstra Drug Aware Pro ahead of local, Yadin Nicol (WA, AUS), at Margaret River in West Australia today.<br /><br /><br />"I've been coming to Margaret River since I was 13-years-old. It's right up there with home and the North Shore for my favourite places" said Hobgood on the podium.<br /><br /><br />"Thank you to the West Australian government, it's so awesome that you get behind surfing like this, Back home surfing is so small.<br /><br /><br />"It wasn't really much of a final - I'm sure Yadin is bummed, it would have been great to battle it out- I saw that it was getting smaller and just wanted to go out and get some scores under my belt - I stuck to my game plan and it worked."
