New Zealand’s Ryan Fox staged an excellent comeback to win the BMW PGA Championship as rising star Ludvig Aberg was introduced right down to earth at Wentworth.
Fox started the ultimate spherical three pictures behind chief Aberg and regarded out of competition after working up a triple-bogey seven on the third, however lined his final 13 holes in eight beneath par for a closing 67.
An 18-under-par complete gave Fox a one-shot victory over enjoying associate Aaron Rai and England’s Tyrrell Hatton, Rai agonisingly lacking an extended eagle putt on the 18th which may have given him the title or no less than compelled a play-off.
Jon Rahm, who had been runner-up on every of his two earlier appearances at Wentworth, carded an erratic 68 to say fourth place on 16 beneath as seven members of Europe’s Ryder Cup aspect packed the highest 10, with Rory McIlroy surging by means of the sphere with a 65.
Aberg, who had been in search of back-to-back victories in simply his tenth occasion as an expert, held a two-shot lead after 54 holes however slumped to a closing 76 which included two double bogeys within the house of three holes.
Hatton had began the day 5 off the lead however birdied the second and third, nearly made a hole-in-one on the fifth when his tee shot clattered into the pin after which holed out from a bunker on the sixth.
After dropping a shot on the eighth, additional birdies on the tenth and eleventh gave Hatton a four-shot lead earlier than Fox started his cost with 4 birdies in 5 holes from the tenth to get inside one.
Hatton then drove out of bounds on the fifteenth and was dealing with a seven-foot putt for bogey earlier than play was suspended as a result of menace of lightning, a putt he duly made after an 82-minute delay.
Fox was lucky {that a} wayward drive on the identical gap didn’t run deep into the bushes however took full benefit, hitting an outstanding second shot from the pine straw to 10 toes and changing the birdie putt to steer outright.
Hatton birdied the final to arrange the prospect of a play-off however, after Rai’s eagle try agonisingly caught the sting of the opening and stayed out, Fox calmly holed from six toes to seal a fourth DP World Tour title.
