Englishman Tyrrell Hatton made a birdie on the last hole and won with 264 (65 68 61 70, -24) shots the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, a DP World Tour event played with a pro-am formula (one pro and one amateur) on the three Scottish courses of the Old Course of St.
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Andrews, the Carnoustie Golf Links in Carnoustie and the Kingsbarns Golf Links in Kingsbarns, all par 72.
Tyrrell Hatton, results
The winner, a member of LIV Golf, beat by one shot the Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts, second with 265 (-23), who was one of the vice-captains of Team Europe in the Ryder Cup in Rome, where Hatton was one of the continental protagonists.
In third place with 267 (-21) the other Englishman Tommy Fleetwood and in fourth with 269 (-19) the Spaniard David Puig, the South African Robin Williams and the Dane Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, just stepped onto the major circuit having won three tournaments on the Challenge Tour.
In seventh with 270 (-18) the Frenchman Tom Vaillant, the Chinese Haotong Li and the Spaniard Jon Rahm, one of the most anticipated protagonists together with the Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy and the Scot Robert MacIntyre, 25th with 274 (-14).
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Of the Italians, two went to the prize: Francesco Laporta, 43rd with 267 (66 68 72 70, -12), and Lorenzo Scalise, 54th with 277 (69 69 67 72, -11), while Guido Migliozzi and Filippo Celli, 72nd with 208 (-8), and Renato Paratore, 111th with 211 (-5), went out at the cut after three rounds.
Tyrrell Hatton, 32, from High Wycombe, signed his seventh title on the DP World Tour, winning for the third time in this tournament, for a list that also includes a victory on LIV Golf, one on the PGA Tour, one on the PGA EuroPro Tour and one on the Jamega EuroPro Tour.
After having expressed himself with a great 61 (-11, one eagle, nine birdies) in the third round on the Old Course, where the fourth was played (previously the competitors had alternated on the three courses), Hatton went with ease up to the 12th hole, making four birdies, but with a sudden blackout (double bogey and bogey at the 13th and 14th) he favored the recovery of Colsaerts who caught him at the 15th with the fourth and final birdie of the day (70, -2, four birdies, two bogeys).
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Then he could do nothing against the third flag shot of his opponent for the winning birdie. Worthy of note is the albatross obtained by the Belgian in the third round where he hit with the second shot on the 15th hole (par 5, 565 yards) of the Kingsbarns Golf Links.
In the team competition, the Danish Thorbjorn Olesen and Dermont Desmond prevailed with 240 (60 63 58 59, -48) shots. Hatton was rewarded with a check for 850,000 dollars on a prize pool of 5,000,000 dollars.
