Scotland’s Euan Walker produced a sensational ultimate spherical to win the Swiss Problem after the match was diminished to 36 holes at Golf Saint Apollinaire.
Following a three-hour climate delay on Thursday and the whole thing of play being washed out on Saturday because of a flooded course, Walker returned to the tee on Sunday to fireside a bogey-free six underneath par ultimate spherical and safe a dominant three stroke win in Folgensbourg.
Walker fired rounds of 69 and 66 to achieve 9 underneath par and end two away from Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan and Englishman Bradley Bawden, who shared second place on six underneath.
The Ayrshire man climbs to twenty first on the Street to Mallorca rankings to maneuver into promotion rivalry with 4 occasions remaining of the season and was delighted to safe a second Problem Tour title after a testing 24 hours.
“It feels superb,” he stated. “Actually, though it’s a 36-hole occasion, it feels essential. You get these emotions, pre-tournament, about whether or not you possibly can compete with everybody else, so to have a stop-start week like this simply amplifies these emotions. I’ve tried my greatest to maintain refocussing and telling myself I can nonetheless do it, and I’m happy that it’s labored.
“It seems like this week I’m again on observe and taking part in near my greatest. I actually performed fantastically. That’s probably the greatest rounds I’ve performed all 12 months.”
Walker started his second spherical from the tenth gap on Friday, and resumed on Sunday on the thirteenth gap, three pictures off the lead. The 29-year-old reduce that to at least one after making birdies on the fifteenth and seventeenth, earlier than he added a 3rd achieve of the day on the first – his tenth – to affix the leaders.
He continued that streak by making three extra birdies in a four-hole stretch from the fourth to surge into the outright lead for the primary time.
Walker now seems to be set to tee it up within the season-ending Rolex Problem Tour Grand Closing in Mallorca for a 3rd successive 12 months and is hoping victory this week can spur him on to commencement.
“I really feel like I’ve been taking part in nicely sufficient all 12 months to make the Rolex Grand Closing however I’ve not had lots to indicate for it,” he stated. “Earlier than this week I used to be proper on the borderline, nonetheless needing a very good efficiency to make it to Mallorca, and I believed the 2 occasions in China is likely to be my final two to do this. I’ve saved taking part in nicely however I’ve been slipping down the rankings, so to have per week like that is completely superb.”
