Scotland’s Euan Walker produced a sensational remaining spherical to win the Swiss Problem after the event was diminished to 36 holes at Golf Saint Apollinaire.
Following a three-hour climate delay on Thursday and everything of play being washed out on Saturday resulting from a flooded course, Walker returned to the tee on Sunday to fireside a bogey-free six underneath par remaining spherical and safe a dominant three stroke win in Folgensbourg.
Walker fired rounds of 69 and 66 to succeed in 9 underneath par and end two away from Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan and Englishman Bradley Bawden, who shared second place on six underneath.
The Ayrshire man climbs to twenty first on the Highway to Mallorca rankings to maneuver into promotion competition with 4 occasions remaining of the season and was delighted to safe a second Problem Tour title after a testing 24 hours.
“It feels wonderful,” he mentioned. “Actually, despite the fact that it’s a 36-hole occasion, it feels essential. You get these emotions, pre-tournament, about whether or not you may compete with everybody else, so to have a stop-start week like this simply amplifies these emotions. I’ve tried my greatest to maintain refocussing and telling myself I can nonetheless do it, and I’m happy that it’s labored.
“It looks like this week I’m again on observe and taking part in near my greatest. I actually performed fantastically. That’s top-of-the-line rounds I’ve performed all 12 months.”
Walker started his second spherical from the tenth gap on Friday, and resumed on Sunday on the thirteenth gap, three pictures off the lead. The 29-year-old minimize that to at least one after making birdies on the fifteenth and seventeenth, earlier than he added a 3rd acquire of the day on the first – his tenth – to affix the leaders.
He continued that streak by making three extra birdies in a four-hole stretch from the fourth to surge into the outright lead for the primary time.
Walker now seems to be set to tee it up within the season-ending Rolex Problem Tour Grand Last in Mallorca for a 3rd successive 12 months and is hoping victory this week can spur him on to commencement.
“I really feel like I’ve been taking part in nicely sufficient all 12 months to make the Rolex Grand Last however I’ve not had rather a lot to point out for it,” he mentioned. “Earlier than this week I used to be proper on the borderline, nonetheless needing a very good efficiency to make it to Mallorca, and I assumed the 2 occasions in China is likely to be my final two to try this. I’ve stored taking part in nicely however I’ve been slipping down the rankings, so to have every week like that is completely wonderful.”
