SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — English golfer Dan Bradbury carded a 5-under 66 within the last spherical to win the Open de France by one stroke on Sunday.
The 25-year-old Bradbury stepped it up with 4 birdies on the again 9 to complete at 16 underneath total for his second European tour profession win. He held off Denmark’s Jeff Winther after he shot up the leaderboard with seven birdies in his faultless spherical of 64.
With the win, Bradbury earned spots on the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the World Tour Championship in Dubai.
“It hasn’t sunk in in any respect. The objective this week was to make the reduce so I did not need to go to Korea (needing to) maintain my card,” Bradbury mentioned. He added: “I suppose I will be taking a look at flights to Dubai then.”
Winther may solely par the final two holes and completed tied for second with countryman Thorbjørn Olesen (68), England’s Sam Bairstow (68) and Germany’s Yannik Paul (66) at Le Golf Nationwide on the outskirts of Paris.
Bradbury mentioned he felt it might be his day when he simply prevented touchdown within the water on the fifteenth gap after which rolled in a putt from 15 ft out.
“Fortunately it stayed on, and I hit a horrendous putt that went in,” he mentioned. “Generally you simply want that. As soon as I might finished that it felt like ‘there’s undoubtedly one thing going for me.'”
Swedish golfer Jesper Svensson, who held a one-stroke in a single day lead from Olesen and Bairstow, had a nightmare spherical of 5-over 76 to tumble right down to a share of twenty seventh.
Svensson had three bogeys and two birdies on the entrance 9, and issues received worse with two bogeys and a double bogey on the again 9.
Bradbury, who was two strokes behind Svensson in a single day, received his different European Tour title two years in the past on the Joburg Open in South Africa.
England’s Justin Rose, who tied for second at July’s British Open, posted 69 to complete tied for thirteenth at 10 underneath.
Lev Grinberg (71), the 16-year-old Ukrainian enjoying for simply the fifth time on the European tour, tied for thirty seventh.
