(Adds details, quotes) * Westner won the World Cup of Golf in 1996 * He retired through injury in 1998 with 12 professional wins CAPE TOWN, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Two-time European Tour winner and former World Cup of Golf champion Wayne Westner has died in a suspected suicide in South Africa, local police said on Wednesday. Westner, 55, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head and a pistol next to his body at the home of his estranged wife in Pennington, south of Durban. "An inquest was opened after a man allegedly shot himself in front of his wife at Pennington area today," South African Police Services spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane told TMG Digital.
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