The Spanish Pablo Larrazábal won the Korean tournament of the DP World Tour, formerly the European Tour, which was held at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in the city of Incheon, achieving his eighth victory on the circuit. Larrazábal presented a total card of 276 shots, 12 under par, and two ahead of the Danish Marcus Helligkilde.
The Spanish golfer, who had not won a tournament since April 24 of last year, had a final round with 6 ‘birdies’ and a single ‘bogey’ for a final card of 67 strokes that gave him victory with great solvency.
Jorge Campillo, also a Spaniard, signed an extraordinary 65 shots, 7 under par on the last day, which allowed him to climb 23 positions in the standings and finish in third position along with Scott Jamieson from Scotland, Sanghyun Park from Korea and Joost Luiten from the Netherlands, after three blows from Larrazábal. The Paraguayan Fabrizio Zanotti finished in 43rd place with 286 strokes and the Spanish Santiago Tarrio in 70th with 293.
Sergio GarcÃa, from Castellón, lost in the tiebreaker with the American Talor Gooch, in the LIV Golf Singapore that was held at the Sentosa Golf Club, after both finished the third day with 17 shots under par.
On the first occasion in which a LIV tournament had to decide its individual winner with a tiebreaker, GarcÃa was unable to materialize his experience with a victory, while Gooch added his second consecutive victory, after last week in Adelaide (Australia). .
Chileans Mito Pereira and JoaquÃn Niemann finished fifth (-14) and tenth (-10), respectively; the Mexicans Carlos Ortiz were twentieth (-7) and Abraham Ancer finished penultimate with 4; and the Spaniards David Puig (35, -3) and Eugenio López-Chacarra (13, -9). The Colombian Sebastián Muñoz finished the 33rd with -3 shots.
By teams, the victory went to Gooch’s RangeGoats, with a three stroke advantage over Sergio GarcÃa’s Fireballs.
