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 have 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 below.
Kim wanted to sink his to say the one-shot victory, however he lipped out and the 2 house favourites have been pressured right into a play-off.
Each performed dangerous second pictures when replaying the par-five final, however Kim was left in a precarious place which resulted in him taking pictures into the principle stand together with his third and carding a bogey.
An had two putts for the title on house 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 help 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 house followers.
“Tom and I had an incredible battle immediately. I simply bought a bit 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 a superb third at 16 below to earn his enjoying rights for subsequent season.
Antoine Rozner was one shot additional again, Guido Migliozzi carded the bottom last spherical of the day with a flawless 65 to sit down at 14 below, whereas Francesco Laporta, first spherical chief Ivan Cantero and South African Casey Jarvis have been two extra adrift.
Cantero was one other who began the event under the cut-off line at 117th, however stored his head above water by taking the primary spherical lead in Asia. The Spaniard maintained his implausible begin by carding 4 consecutive below par rounds as he come house 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 possibilities – he started the week within the ominous place of one hundred and fifteenth – earlier than a flawless 67 within the last spherical noticed him end in a tie for twenty second place and safe his card.
These ending simply exterior the lower off level of 114th within the Race to Dubai included China’s Ashun Wu, Spaniard Santiago Tarri0, Scotland’s David Regulation 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 probably wanted a top-15 end in Korea with the intention to safe his card for subsequent season.
SOREN EYES UP SENIOR PRIZES
Søren Kjeldsen closed out his last full season on Europe’s high tier circuit with a spherical 71 to sit down at seven below for the event 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 occasions.
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.
