SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — English golfer Dan Bradbury carded a 5-under 66 in the final round to win the Open de France by one stroke on Sunday.
The 25-year-old Bradbury carded four birdies on the back nine to finish at 16 under for his second European Tour victory. He caught Denmark’s Jeff Winther after he blew up the leaderboard with seven birdies in his flawless round of 64.
With the win, Bradbury earned spots in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the World Tour Championship in Dubai.
“It’s not over yet. The goal this week was to make an arrow so that I don’t have to go to Korea (I need to) keep my card,” Bradbury said. He added: “I think I’ll be looking at flights to Dubai then.”
Winther birdied the final two holes and finished tied for second with Thorbjørn Olesen (68), England’s Sam Bairstow (68) and Germany’s Yannik Paul (66) at Le Golf National on the outskirts of Paris.
Bradbury said he felt it might be his day when he dodged the water on the 15th hole and rolled in a putt from 15 feet out.
“Luckily it stopped, I hit a terrific putt that went in,” he said. “Sometimes you need that. Once I did that it was like ‘something is going to happen to me.’
Swedish golfer Jesper Svensson, one stroke back from Olesen and Bairstow overnight, had a nightmare round of 5-over 76 to drop to 27th.
Svensson had three bogeys and two birdies on the front, and things got worse with two bogeys and a double bogey on the back nine.
Bradbury, who was trailing Svensson all night, won his other European Tour title two years ago at the Joburg Open in South Africa.
England’s Justin Rose, runner-up at July’s British Open, carded a 69 to finish tied for 13th at 10 under.
Lev Grinberg (71), from Ukraine, 16, who played just the fifth time on the European tour, tied for 37th place.
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