England’s Dan Bradbury emerged from a highly-congested leaderboard to assert his second DP World Tour title within the FedEx Open de France.
A complete of 11 gamers have been tied for the lead within the closing phases at Le Golf Nationwide, however it was Bradbury who made the decisive transfer with a hat-trick of birdies from the 14th.
The 25-year-old from Wakefield, who received the Joburg Open in November 2022 in simply his third begin, held his nerve to par the daunting 18th for a closing 66, setting a clubhouse goal of 16 below par.
England’s Sam Bairstow and Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen, who missed good birdie possibilities on the sixteenth and seventeenth, have been each unable to birdie the final to pressure a play-off, with Germany’s Yannik Paul and Denmark’s Jeff Winther having already completed on 15 below.
Bradbury, who started the day two pictures behind Sweden’s Jesper Svensson, admitted he rode his luck on the fifteenth gap, the place his drive stopped inches from the water.
“Obviously got lucky off the tee but I feel like I’ve had a few bad breaks this week so quite nice to get a good one there,” Bradbury instructed Sky Sports activities.
“After which simply pushed it [the second shot], straight up pushed it and by chance it stayed on [the green]. Hit a horrendous putt that went in and generally you simply want that.
“Once I’d done that, I was like ‘It doesn’t feel like my day, but there’s definitely something going for me’.”
Bradbury started the week ranked 98th within the Race to Dubai however will climb to twenty fifth, making him eligible for the season-ending play-off occasions in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
“The goal this week was to make the cut so I don’t have to go to Korea and try to keep my card, to be honest with you, so to hear that sounds pretty good,” he added.
“I guess I’ll be looking at flights to Dubai then.”
Winther had been the primary participant to complete 15 below following an outstanding closing 64, the 36-year-old in the end left to rue lacking from inside 5 toes for birdie on the par-five ninth.
“It felt easy,” Winther mentioned. “I was trying to put the golf a little aside, make fun a little bit with my caddie, and he was making fun of me. Makes it a lot easier, doesn’t it?
“The objective was fairways and greens and hope my putter is working. It was working pretty immediately. Only one [missed] putt on 9, however I am unable to actually complain about that, I misinterpret it utterly.
“Otherwise played really solid. Got away with the screw-ups I made. I made a crazy birdie on five. It should have been a bogey or a double but turned out to be a birdie.
“Very, very happy over the weekend to be bogey-free so cannot complain.”
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