Byeong Hun An beat fellow South Korean Tom Kim in a play-off on the Genesis Championship to safe his first win on the European circuit for nearly 10 years.
Birdies had been dropping in from the beginning by the contenders as six gamers held the lead in some capability at Jack Nicklaus Golf Membership on Sunday.
The carousel on the high of leaderboard was in full movement till Kim jumped one shot clear heading down the final when An lipped out for bogey on the penultimate gap.
Each landed their method to eight toes for birdie putts, with An making use of the stress by draining his effort to maneuver again alongside Kim at 17 beneath.
Kim wanted to sink his to say the one-shot victory, however he lipped out and the 2 residence favourites had been compelled right into a play-off.
Each performed dangerous second photographs when replaying the par-five final, however Kim was left in a precarious place which resulted in him taking pictures into the primary stand together with his third and carding a bogey.
An had two putts for the title on residence soil and solely wanted one to seal his first victory on the DP World Tour since lifting the 2015 BMW PGA Championship.
OVERDUE SUCCESS
A mentioned: “It’s been too lengthy since my final win on this tour. Tom and I had a lot assist on the market this week and it though it was a disgrace that somebody needed to lose, I’m glad it’s me right here holding the trophy in entrance of my residence followers.
“Tom and I had an important battle in the present day. I simply received slightly bit fortunate to come back out on high.”
Ricardo Gouveia, who started the week in 154th place on the Race to Dubai Rankings, recorded his first high 20 end of the marketing campaign with an excellent third at 16 beneath to earn his enjoying rights for subsequent season.
Antoine Rozner was one shot additional again, Guido Migliozzi carded the bottom ultimate spherical of the day with a flawless 65 to take a seat at 14 beneath, whereas Francesco Laporta, first spherical chief Ivan Cantero and South African Casey Jarvis had been two extra adrift.
Cantero was one other who began the match beneath the cut-off line at 117th, however saved his head above water by taking the primary spherical lead in Asia. The Spaniard maintained his unbelievable begin by carding 4 consecutive beneath par rounds as he come residence in a tie for sixth and climb into the highest 100 within the Race to Dubai Rankings.
PENGE RETAINS CARD
Marco Penge endured a curler coaster of feelings all through the week, which began when he wanted to birdie the final on Friday to make the cutline. He duly obliged to spice up his probabilities – he started the week within the ominous place of a hundred and fifteenth – earlier than a flawless 67 within the ultimate spherical noticed him end in a tie for twenty second place and safe his card.
These ending simply outdoors the reduce off level of 114th within the Race to Dubai included China’s Ashun Wu, Spaniard Santiago Tarri0, Scotland’s David Legislation and England’s Eddie Pepperell.
Pepperell, a two-time winner on the DP World Tour fired a closing 68 to complete in a tie for thirty fourth, however the 33-year-old seemingly wanted a top-15 end in Korea as a way to safe his card for subsequent season.
SOREN EYES UP SENIOR PRIZES
Søren Kjeldsen closed out his ultimate full season on Europe’s high tier circuit with a spherical 71 to take a seat at seven beneath for the match because the 49-year-old Dane begins the transition to enjoying seniors golf on each the Legends Tour and PGA Tour Champions subsequent yr.
Greater than 1 / 4 of a century on from his debut on the European Tour in 1998, he maintained his enjoying rights for a outstanding 26 consecutive seasons and gained 4 instances.
Earlier this season that he turned simply the fourth participant to make 700 or extra appearances, emulating David Howell, Miguel Angel Jiménez and Sam Torrance. On Sunday, he completed what was his 712th begin, with solely Howell (725) and Angel Jiménez (723) having performed extra.
