Sam Horsfield, Belgian Open Champion

English Sam Horfield surprised his rivals in the final round, especially the New Zealander Ryan Foxwho came out as the leader, and had a fourth card with 68 shots (three under par), and accumulated 271 (-13), was awarded this Sunday by Soudal Opentournament of DP World Tour golf course played at Rinkven club in Antwerp (Belgium)which was his third on the European Tour.

Sam Horsfield, 25 years old. Professional since 2017 and educated at the University of Florida, he did not lift the European Tour trophy (Now DP World Tour) on August 16, 2020, when he won the Celtic Classic. It was a glorious month of August for the Manchester-born man, as it was only fourteen days before he won the Hero Open, which was definitely his first success as a professional.

Now, a year and month later, he is once again savoring the sweetness of success after overcoming the blow of loss in relation to Fox with whom he started on the last day. And that was until the 7th hole when he made the first of four ‘birdies’ achieved this Sunday, where he made a ‘bogey’ on the 11th.

But the Englishman took advantage, in particular, of Fox’s irregular route, which fell into the second half of the route after being famous in the first. Thus, the New Zealander completed the first nine holes with four birdies and two bogeys; but in the last nine he made three ‘bogeys’, especially the offensive ones made in 16 and 18, and one ‘birdie’, which gave him a card of 71 (par of the field), which leaving him in second position shared with The German Yannik Paul, who made 69, left two within two strokes of Horsfield.

To the Spaniards, the best is Nacho Elvira, in the shared ninth place with a total of 277 (66+70+73+68). Adrián Otaegui (71+67+69+71), Ángel Hidalgo (68+73+66+71) and Jorge Campillo (69+67+70+72) each finished with 278

Paraguayan Fabrizio Zanotti, who started the day with chances to win, sank. He left with 76 (+5), leaving him with 281, far from the places of honor.