MADRID — Marco Penge beat fellow Englishman Daniel Brown in a playoff to win the Spanish Open on Sunday and safe a spot in subsequent 12 months’s Masters and Open Championship.
Penge relinquished a four-shot lead however got here out on prime with a birdie on the primary playoff gap to win his third European tour title this 12 months.
“Dan and Joel [Girrbach] performed nice immediately. They had been holing putts, and I simply could not actually get it within the gap. It felt like I used to be actually up towards it,” Penge mentioned. “However I felt like I managed myself very well, and I truly suppose tee to inexperienced, I really feel like I performed actually stable. It would not matter the putts; I feel I used all of them yesterday, however clearly holing that one there was definitely worth the wait.”
It was the primary time the nationwide event supplied the winner an automated spot for the Masters and The Open.
“It is loopy,” Penge mentioned about enjoying within the Masters. “It is a golf course that I’ve all the time needed to play, as a result of I really feel like my sport units up actually good for it.”
Penge, who shot a 1-over 72 on Sunday, completed tied with Brown at 15 below for the event.
Brown, whose thirty first birthday was on Saturday, began 5 pictures again however made a run after capturing a 4-under 67 within the closing spherical. That was regardless of coping with a proper shoulder ailment that required remedy through the again 9. He compelled a playoff with a birdie on the ultimate gap.
The 27-year-old Penge additionally received on the Danish Golf Championship and the Hainan Basic.
Girrbach (69) was 4 pictures again to start out the day. The Swiss participant completed third at 14 below for the event.
Dwelling favourite Jon Rahm, who was in search of a file fourth Spanish Open title, wasn’t in rivalry initially of the ultimate spherical, however he closed with a 6-under 65 to complete in a tie for ninth.
Shane Lowry, who like Rahm was again in motion after serving to Europe win the Ryder Cup in New York final month, did not make the minimize on the Membership de Campo Villa de Madrid within the Spanish capital.
