Bradbury bags French Open title – Golf News

Dan Bradbury gained the French Open after taking pictures a closing spherical 66 at Le Golf Nationwide in Paris

The 25-year-old Yorkshireman carded a closing five-under-par spherical on the 2018 Ryder Cup venue to win by one shot from the quartet of Sam Bairstow, Yannik Paul, Thorbjørn Olesen and Jeff Winther.

After a birdie on the first gap, Bradbury stayed affected person as he parred the following eight after which made his second achieve of the day on the tenth.

At one stage he was a part of an 11-way tie for first place however pulled clear as he reeled off three consecutive birdies from the 14th gap.

Winther signed for the clubhouse lead at 15 below and was joined on that quantity by Paul as Bradbury performed the formidable closing four-hole stretch at Le Golf Nationwide in two below par.

He held his nerve on the 18th as he two-putted for a 16-under-par whole and Olesen and Bairstow may solely par the final to affix the group in second place.

Bradbury began the week in 98th spot on the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai rankings, combating to safe his enjoying rights for subsequent season, and he left Le Golf Nationwide having earned his place on the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai subsequent month.

He mentioned: “Once I teed it up at Wentworth for the PGA, I used to be a hundredth within the rankings with just a few occasions arising and plenty of factors obtainable, I knew I used to be removed from secure. Fortunately I had a good week in Madrid and performed okay on the Dunhill, so I had constructed a bit of little bit of momentum, and I took that into this week and performed 4 strong rounds.”

“I all the time take a look at leaderboards, so I knew that it was fairly bunched up coming down the stretch. It was extra a case of simply staying in it, and seeing what occurs coming in, and fortunately I used to be in a position to maintain it collectively.”

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