Olesen clinches dramatic British Masters victory with beautiful eagle-birdie end

May 9, 2022

Having not gained because the Italian Open in 2018, the 32-year-old regarded set to finish his look ahead to a sixth Tour victory at The Belfry earlier than struggling a dramatic droop on the final spherical.

But simply as Sweden’s Sebastian Soderberg regarded set to triumph after a shocking remaining day rise, Olesen sunk a 30-foot eagle and a 36-foot birdie to grab victory from the jaws of collapse.

“I one way or the other simply saved going. What a end, unimaginable,” Olesen, who claimed €369,214 ($389,000) in prize cash, advised the DP World Tour.

Olesen had led from the entrance after carding a 6-under 66 on Thursday’s opening spherical, with Australia’s Ryan Fox becoming a member of him on the summit.

A 2-under on Friday left the 2018 Ryder Cup winner a shot off German chief Hurly Lengthy heading into day three, when a robust 3-under spherical gave Olesen a three-shot lead over Lengthy and England’s Marcus Armitage heading into the final day.

Nonetheless, a disastrous begin to the ultimate spherical noticed Olesen open with a bogey, with a birdie on the third offering a quick respite earlier than 4 extra bogeys forward of the sixteenth gap.

“It was a fairly robust day, lots of pictures to the left — I used to be actually struggling,” Olesen mentioned.

Soderberg denied regardless of excellent Sunday

In the meantime, Soderberg was having fun with a stellar spherical that rocketed him up the leaderboard and into competition. After getting into Sunday six pictures behind Olesen, the Swede carded a final-round finest 68 to set the clubhouse goal at nine-under.

Having bettered par solely as soon as via the primary 16, Olesen now required two straight birdies simply to power a play-off.

On condition that the Dane had carded eagle-birdie to shut on Saturday, maybe a repeat should not have appeared so miraculous, however after bogeying two of the earlier three holes, it regarded unattainable.

And but, Olesen repeated the feat to clinch a dramatic win, turning to have fun with a packed crowd on the end.

Olesen’s victory comes six months after he was cleared of fees, together with sexual assault, on a flight to London in 2019, in accordance with Reuters.

The win sees him rise 69 locations to ninth within the DP World Tour rankings and be a part of the likes of golf icons Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo in successful the British Masters.

“It is clearly an enormous event, it is all the time been,” Olesen mentioned. “So many nice champions right here so it is a privilege to get your identify there.

“It is all the time an ideal assist you get in Britain. The gang’s been wonderful from the primary day and onwards … a lot assist so I am actually proud of that, it means quite a bit.”