The American Billy Horschel This Sunday he achieved victory for the second time in his career in the BMW PGA Championship, a DP World Tour golf tournament played from Thursday at the Wentworth Club in Virginia Water (United Kingdom), by defeating the South African in the tiebreaker. Thriston Lawrence and Northern Irish Rory McIlroywhich again fell short of the title for the second week in a row.
Billy Horschel, 37 years old and already a winner at Wentworth in 2021, signs for his eleventh title as a professional and his fourth on the DP World Tour after the 2021 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and his two BMW victories PGA Championship.
Horschel, Lawrence and McIlroy finished the four rounds tied at 268 strokes (20 under par). The former scored two consecutive birdies over the last two holes to chase down Lawrence, while the world number three did so thanks to an eagle at 17.
In a three-way playoff, Lawrence was the first to leave the match when he bogeyed the first extra hole for the pair of Horschel and McIlroy, breaking a tie for second in favor of the American thanks to an eagle.
As was the case last week at the Irish Open at the hands of the Dane Rasmus Hojgaard, McIlroy again failed to win.
The Donostiarra Adrian Otaegui He is the best of the Spaniards with -11 overall thanks to a final round of 66 (-6). After him they finished Cáceres Jorge Campillo with -6, the Barcelonan Adri Arnaus and the man from Madrid Alexander the King with -4, Marbella Angel Hidalgo with -3, Gran Canario Rafa Cabreba-Bello including -2 and the Cantabrian Nacho Elvira with the pair
Source: La Verdad
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