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Qatar Fitness Services Size, Share & Trends, Analysis Report By, Region And Segment Forecasts Till- 2027

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High Obese and Obesity Rate: Qatar is among the top-ranked obese countries with a high obesity rate among its population. More than 70% of the population in Qatar is either overweight or obese and nearly half of all men (~48.0%) are obese. This has positively affected the market.

Growth of Female Membership: The rise in number of new service offerings by fitness clubs is targeting the desired weight & inch loss and body toning & firming thereby encouraging female population to join the clubs.

Corporate Tie-ups with Fitness Centres: Several companies have started to offer full or partial payment of health club/gym membership to encourage employees to stay healthy. Also, a number of corporate houses has made tie-ups with fitness centers for providing fitness services to the employees at discounted prices.

Boost in Personal Trainer Requirement: Higher demand has been observed among people for private training session and yoga session at their homes from certified professional trainers working as freelancers.

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The report titled “Qatar Fitness Services Market Outlook to 2025F (Second Editiion) – Driven by increasing health concerns resulting in addition of number of health clubs and gyms in the country” by Ken Research suggested that the fitness market is further expected to grow in the near future owing to growing health conscious population, increasing disposable income, rising awareness regarding obesity and to overcome health issues such as diabetes and cancer has been the major key factors which drives the demand for fitness services centers in Qatar. The market is expected to register a positive five year CAGR of 14.9% in terms of revenue during the forecast period 2020-2025F.

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Trump defends cautious walk down ramp, which raised questions about his health

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Trump defends cautious walk down ramp, which raised questions about his health

In a tweet, Trump insisted the slope was “very long & steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery,” though it had not rained beforehand and others were seen walking normally down the decline.

During the same event, the awkward way Trump sipped water from a glass also raised questions. Trump appeared to have difficulty lifting his right arm to his mouth, so he used his left hand to push the bottom of the glass higher.

Trump did not address the water glass episode on Twitter, defending instead the way he cautiously took to the ramp alongside West Point superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams. He said that slipping down the ramp would have been disastrous.

“The last thing I was going to do is ‘fall’ for the Fake News to have fun with. Final ten feet I ran down to level ground. Momentum!” he wrote.

Trump has previously been seen walking extremely carefully down stairs and slopes, including during his first days in office when he gripped then-British Prime Minister Theresa May’s hand as he was descending a gentle decline on the White House colonnade.

Trump, who turned 74 on Sunday, did not appear physically out of sorts to people he encountered at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club over the weekend, according to some who later spoke with Appradab. Those people said he seemed normal and healthy.

Still, the video footage of the incidents at West Point generated further questions about the physical well-being of the oldest first-term president in history. And it throws into sharp relief the election-year issues surrounding candidates who are well into their seventies.

Earlier this month, the White House released the results of Trump’s annual physical, which showed he weighs 244 pounds, stands 6 feet 3 inches, has a blood pressure of 121/79 mmHG and a resting heart rate 63 beats per minute. His height and weight figures put him into the obese category alongside 42.4% of Americans, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The results came after Trump revealed he’d taken a round of a controversial drug to prevent coronavirus and questions about the circumstances of his physical exam last year.

Trump made an unannounced visit to Walter Reed on Saturday, November 16, 2019, for a little more than two hours to undertake exams for part of the physical, a trip that was notably secretive. Medical staff at Walter Reed did not get a staff-wide notice about a presidential visit and Trump traveled via motorcade rather than Marine One.

In the memo about Trump’s physical released earlier this month, the White House physician said Trump underwent additional tests at the White House after the initial visit to Walter Reed.

The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said at the time the results indicate Trump is “healthy.” A memo from the President’s physician, Dr. Sean Conley, simply said “there were no findings of significance or changes to report.”

The memo of results from the President’s physician provided few other details about his physical condition, and did not specify whether Trump underwent any mental acuity tests, which he insisted upon taking during his first full year in office after questions were raised about the state of his mind.

As he wages election battle against former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump and his campaign have inserted mental health and physical stamina into the political conversation, repeatedly questioning Biden’s ardor. Trump made similar aspersions against his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton.

Some of Trump’s critics circulated video of Biden jogging and walking spryly — including up the same ramp at West Point — on Sunday after Trump drew attention to the issue with his tweet.

After Trump’s first presidential physical, Appradab’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported that Trump has a common form of heart disease. Trump’s doctor at the time recommended an increase in the dose of his cholesterol-lowering medication and certain lifestyle changes. Without those changes, the President has a moderate risk of having a heart attack in the next three to five years, according to the Mayo Clinic.

In early 2019, sources close to Trump said he had stuck with some minor changes to improve his diet but had not stuck with an exercise regimen.

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New on Sports Illustrated: Dustin Johnson Wins Travelers Championship to Extend Career-Long Season Streak

Dustin Johnson closed with a 3-under 67 for a one-stroke victory over Kevin Streelman at fan-free TPC River Highlands, his first win since March 2019.

CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Dustin Johnson won the Travelers Championship on Sunday to end a long drought and extend his career-long season victory streak to 13.

Johnson closed with a 3-under 67 for a one-stroke victory over Kevin Streelman at fan-free TPC River Highlands. Johnson last won in Mexico City in March 2019.

“I’m definitely proud of myself for continuing the streak and I want to keep it going,” Johnson said. “It was a long time between wins, though, and, so, hopefully it won’t be that long for the next one.”

Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus each won in 17 consecutive years. Johnson failed to win in 2014, but is given credit for winning in the 2013-14 season from his victory in the fall of 2013 in Shanghai. The tour changed to a wraparound season in 2013.

MORE: Full Travelers Championship Leaderboard

Johnson tapped in for par on the par-4 18th, raised his ball to acknowledge the smattering of applause from course workers, officials and reporters, the only in-person witnesses allowed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

He finished at 19-under 261 for his 21st PGA Tour title.

Streelman also shot 67.

Streelman, who made seven straight birdies to win at TPC River Highlands in 2014, had a 37-foot birdie try on 18 that ended up just short and right.

He was two strokes behind Johnson on the 17th fairway when the weather horn blew for an hour-long storm delay.

Johnson came out of the delay and hit his tee shot on 16 into a greenside bunker. His second shot went well past the hole and made bogey to cut his lead to a stroke.

“I've had a few missed cuts, so to come back and finish a solo second is nice, but to to be that close and perform and be right there, I'm just a little disappointed right now,” Streelman said.

Johnson was at 19 under when his tee shot on the par-4 15th went left and came inches from going into the signature lake that surrounds the finishing holes. His first pitch didn’t make it to the green, and he hit the second to 4 feet to save par.

“It was lucky, but a still had to made a good up-and-down to make par,” he said.

Mackenzie Hughes, who shot a first-round 60, had a 67 to tie for third with 23-year-old Will Gordon at 17 under. Hughes made 48-foot birdie putt on 17, which he started well left of the hole and watched as turned right to the flag. He finished the round with a much straighter 43-foot birdie putt on 18.

Gordon, who has no status on either the PGA Tour or the Korn Ferry Tour, had seven birdies in a 64. His third-place finish was just enough to earn him a special temporary card and unlimited exemptions for the rest of the season.

His lone bogey came on 17, and briefly dropped him to fourth place.

“I knew the higher the better, so I was watching the leaderboard coming in,” he said.

Johnson started the day two strokes behind Brendon Todd, and took the lead after three straight birdies put him at 20 under after 10 holes.

Todd shot a 75 to tie for 11th at 13 under. He made a 7 on the par-4 12th.

Bryson DeChambeau shot a 68 to tie for sixth at 15 under.

Top-ranked Rory McIlroy tied for 11th at 13 under after a 67.

“There’s been some really good stuff in there, but then just some really stupid mistakes,” he said.

Phil Mickelson, playing his first tournament since turning 50, followed up his opening rounds of 64 and 63 with two 71s to finish at 11 under.

“I’m looking at this week as progress,” he said. “Certainly the goal is to win golf tournaments, but keep in mind I’ve missed a bunch of cuts. I haven’t played to the level I’ve wanted to, and this week I came in and had a lot of great finds. I hit a lot of good shots, hit a lot of good tee shots. My misses were much better.”

There were seven COVID-19-related withdrawals from the Connecticut event, with two positive tests among players. Cameron Champ withdrew Tuesday and Denny McCarthy had a positive test on Friday.

The PGA Tour is making some tweaks to its coronavirus policies as a result of this week's issues. Players, caddies and anyone else considered “inside the bubble” will have to test negative before being allowed on the grounds of the Detroit Golf Club for the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

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The Sun Shines on Shane Lowry at the British Open

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — With foul weather forecast for Sunday at Royal Portrush, the day to make birdies in the sunshine was Saturday at the British Open.

The leaders took the hint in the third round, generating more roars than respectful silence as they navigated the green and undulating course in relatively calm and benign conditions.

No man got more support than Shane Lowry, a stocky and bearded Irishman whose father, Brendan, was a prominent Gaelic football player.

The son is quite a golfer, and at age 32 after a brilliant round of 63 on Saturday, Lowry now has the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to win the first Open championship on the island of Ireland since 1951.

“There’s no point in shying away from it,” he said after heading into the third round with a share of the lead. “I’m in a great position, but, my God, have we got a long way to go.”

Not quite so far anymore. He is now at 16 under par with a four-stroke lead over the Englishman Tommy Fleetwood. But Lowry still must navigate one more round under a major spotlight even if the heavy rain in the forecast may make it difficult to see anyone clearly at Portrush with the claret jug at stake.

Lowry has yet to win a major championship, but he has been in this position before. In the 2016 United States Open at Oakmont Country Club, he also had a four-stroke lead heading into the final round, only to shoot a six-over-par 76 on Sunday.

He finished tied for second behind the winner, Dustin Johnson, which would have been cause for celebration under different circumstances.

This time, Lowry will have the crowd behind him as the only man from Ireland or Northern Ireland in contention. But he has some serious challengers: Fleetwood, one of the stars of Europe’s Ryder Cup victory over the United States last year, is at 12 under. J. B. Holmes is at 10 under.

Brooks Koepka, ranked No. 1 in the world, is at nine under after finishing his round of 67 on Saturday with consecutive birdies. Koepka has been the most consistent player in the majors this year: He tied for second at the Masters, won the P.G.A. Championship and finished second again at the U.S. Open.

But he is a long way — seven strokes — behind Lowry, as is the former U.S. Open champion Justin Rose.

Holmes and Lowry started the third round tied for the lead at eight under par. With their similar builds, peaked caps and full beards, it was sometimes difficult to tell them apart.

The writer Rick Reilly joked that they were “the same guy separated by an accent.”

But their golfing fortunes diverged on the back nine as Lowry continued to find greens and hole clutch putts. He finished with eight birdies and not a single bogey, setting a course record on the newly reconfigured Royal Portrush links.

He came within about an inch of shooting 62. His 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th stopped on the left edge of the cup. But his walk up to the 18th hole on Saturday was still a moment to savor.

After Lowry hit his approach shot onto the 18th green, he made the long walk with the gallery serenading him. He doffed his cap, looking left and right at the packed grandstands.

This is the first Open championship to be held at Royal Portrush since 1951; the biggest golf event to be held on the island of Ireland since the Ryder Cup in 2006.

But Saturday could well have been the calm before the storm, with rain and high winds of 30 to 40 miles per hour expected on Sunday afternoon.

“You’ve just got to take what you get,” said Rickie Fowler, the American who is at eight under par along with the English veteran Lee Westwood. “That’s links golf. That’s the Open. There’s nothing you can do about it. Go throw the waterproofs on and have fun.”

Open organizers moved up the tee times on Sunday to avoid the worst of the weather, but the pressure will be there for Lowry no matter what.

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The Sun Shines on Shane Lowry at the British Open

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — With foul weather forecast for Sunday at Royal Portrush, the day to make birdies in the sunshine was Saturday at the British Open.

The leaders took the hint in the third round, generating more roars than respectful silence as they navigated the green and undulating course in relatively calm and benign conditions.

No man got more support than Shane Lowry, a stocky and bearded Irishman whose father, Brendan, was a prominent Gaelic football player.

The son is quite a golfer, and at age 32 after a brilliant round of 63 on Saturday, Lowry now has the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to win the first Open championship on the island of Ireland since 1951.

“There’s no point in shying away from it,” he said after heading into the third round with a share of the lead. “I’m in a great position, but, my God, have we got a long way to go.”

Not quite so far anymore. He is now at 16 under par with a four-stroke lead over the Englishman Tommy Fleetwood. But Lowry still must navigate one more round under a major spotlight even if the heavy rain in the forecast may make it difficult to see anyone clearly at Portrush with the claret jug at stake.

Lowry has yet to win a major championship, but he has been in this position before. In the 2016 United States Open at Oakmont Country Club, he also had a four-stroke lead heading into the final round, only to shoot a six-over-par 76 on Sunday.

He finished tied for second behind the winner, Dustin Johnson, which would have been cause for celebration under different circumstances.

This time, Lowry will have the crowd behind him as the only man from Ireland or Northern Ireland in contention. But he has some serious challengers: Fleetwood, one of the stars of Europe’s Ryder Cup victory over the United States last year, is at 12 under. J. B. Holmes is at 10 under.

Brooks Koepka, ranked No. 1 in the world, is at nine under after finishing his round of 67 on Saturday with consecutive birdies. Koepka has been the most consistent player in the majors this year: He tied for second at the Masters, won the P.G.A. Championship and finished second again at the U.S. Open.

But he is a long way — seven strokes — behind Lowry, as is the former U.S. Open champion Justin Rose.

Holmes and Lowry started the third round tied for the lead at eight under par. With their similar builds, peaked caps and full beards, it was sometimes difficult to tell them apart.

The writer Rick Reilly joked that they were “the same guy separated by an accent.”

But their golfing fortunes diverged on the back nine as Lowry continued to find greens and hole clutch putts. He finished with eight birdies and not a single bogey, setting a course record on the newly reconfigured Royal Portrush links.

He came within about an inch of shooting 62. His 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th stopped on the left edge of the cup. But his walk up to the 18th hole on Saturday was still a moment to savor.

After Lowry hit his approach shot onto the 18th green, he made the long walk with the gallery serenading him. He doffed his cap, looking left and right at the packed grandstands.

This is the first Open championship to be held at Royal Portrush since 1951; the biggest golf event to be held on the island of Ireland since the Ryder Cup in 2006.

But Saturday could well have been the calm before the storm, with rain and high winds of 30 to 40 miles per hour expected on Sunday afternoon.

“You’ve just got to take what you get,” said Rickie Fowler, the American who is at eight under par along with the English veteran Lee Westwood. “That’s links golf. That’s the Open. There’s nothing you can do about it. Go throw the waterproofs on and have fun.”

Open organizers moved up the tee times on Sunday to avoid the worst of the weather, but the pressure will be there for Lowry no matter what.

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The Sun Shines on Shane Lowry at the British Open

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — With foul weather forecast for Sunday at Royal Portrush, the day to make birdies in the sunshine was Saturday at the British Open.

The leaders took the hint in the third round, generating more roars than respectful silence as they navigated the green and undulating course in relatively calm and benign conditions.

No man got more support than Shane Lowry, a stocky and bearded Irishman whose father, Brendan, was a prominent Gaelic football player.

The son is quite a golfer, and at age 32 after a brilliant round of 63 on Saturday, Lowry now has the opportunity of a lifetime: a chance to win the first Open championship on the island of Ireland since 1951.

“There’s no point in shying away from it,” he said after heading into the third round with a share of the lead. “I’m in a great position, but, my God, have we got a long way to go.”

Not quite so far anymore. He is now at 16 under par with a four-stroke lead over the Englishman Tommy Fleetwood. But Lowry still must navigate one more round under a major spotlight even if the heavy rain in the forecast may make it difficult to see anyone clearly at Portrush with the claret jug at stake.

Lowry has yet to win a major championship, but he has been in this position before. In the 2016 United States Open at Oakmont Country Club, he also had a four-stroke lead heading into the final round, only to shoot a six-over-par 76 on Sunday.

He finished tied for second behind the winner, Dustin Johnson, which would have been cause for celebration under different circumstances.

This time, Lowry will have the crowd behind him as the only man from Ireland or Northern Ireland in contention. But he has some serious challengers: Fleetwood, one of the stars of Europe’s Ryder Cup victory over the United States last year, is at 12 under. J. B. Holmes is at 10 under.

Brooks Koepka, ranked No. 1 in the world, is at nine under after finishing his round of 67 on Saturday with consecutive birdies. Koepka has been the most consistent player in the majors this year: He tied for second at the Masters, won the P.G.A. Championship and finished second again at the U.S. Open.

But he is a long way — seven strokes — behind Lowry, as is the former U.S. Open champion Justin Rose.

Holmes and Lowry started the third round tied for the lead at eight under par. With their similar builds, peaked caps and full beards, it was sometimes difficult to tell them apart.

The writer Rick Reilly joked that they were “the same guy separated by an accent.”

But their golfing fortunes diverged on the back nine as Lowry continued to find greens and hole clutch putts. He finished with eight birdies and not a single bogey, setting a course record on the newly reconfigured Royal Portrush links.

He came within about an inch of shooting 62. His 25-foot birdie putt on the 18th stopped on the left edge of the cup. But his walk up to the 18th hole on Saturday was still a moment to savor.

After Lowry hit his approach shot onto the 18th green, he made the long walk with the gallery serenading him. He doffed his cap, looking left and right at the packed grandstands.

This is the first Open championship to be held at Royal Portrush since 1951; the biggest golf event to be held on the island of Ireland since the Ryder Cup in 2006.

But Saturday could well have been the calm before the storm, with rain and high winds of 30 to 40 miles per hour expected on Sunday afternoon.

“You’ve just got to take what you get,” said Rickie Fowler, the American who is at eight under par along with the English veteran Lee Westwood. “That’s links golf. That’s the Open. There’s nothing you can do about it. Go throw the waterproofs on and have fun.”

Open organizers moved up the tee times on Sunday to avoid the worst of the weather, but the pressure will be there for Lowry no matter what.

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The jaw-dropping moment Rory McIlroy nearly hits a hole-in-one… on a par-FOUR

The jaw McIlroy almost made a hole- in-one on the first hole at Chapultepec Golf Club

It is noteworthy that the hole is a par-four – but McIlroy still almost shot his tee [irony-ball-uplifttegrounds]

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Published: 10:45 GMT, 22 February 2019 | Updated: 10:46 GMT, 22 February 2019

Rory McIlroy made a remarkable declaration of intent on grabbing the first round lead on the World Championship Golf in Mexico by being centimeters away from a hole

McIlroy is a shot away from Dustin Johnson at Chapultepec Golf Club, near Mexico City, but it could have been two had his stunning chance at the 1st hole landed a mere a few inches to the right.

But McIlroy did not even have to hit his driver to reach the green at once and his ball could fly 305 yards with only a 2-iron.

It then rolled just beyond the edge of the hole, with McIlroy coming so close to an albatross

Although he missed a super-rare albatross, McIlroy stroked his putt for a beautiful eagle. The 29-year-old from Northern Ireland made another seven birdies, plus a bogey, in an 8-under-line round of 63 when he tried to catch his first win of the year.

Despite the 1st hole playing short – partly because of the high altitude, which helps to fly a golf ball further through the air than closer to sea level – it was not a complete push-over – the Tiger Woods discovered during a painful start to his round

Woods, who has 14 big championships for McIlroy's four-addicted to his opening shot wild shot, leading to a double-bastard six. That amounted to a whole four shots more than McIlroy got the same gap, and he follows the leader with eight after an even opening round of 71.

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Adam Long Wins Desert Classic

Even Adam Long wasn’t certain where he stood after hitting his approach into the Desert Classic’s final hole.

Winning wasn’t at the top of his mind when he teed off in Sunday’s final group with Phil Mickelson and Adam Hadwin. A top-10 finish, and a spot in next week’s event, would have been nice.

Long was an afterthought in a final group that included a World Golf Hall of Famer and a Canadian playing in front of countrymen who flock to the California desert in the winter.

Long was just a 31-year-old rookie making his sixth PGA TOUR start. And then he was the champion. He won in a way that most players can only dream of: by making a 15-footer for birdie on the last hole.

Long arrived at the final hole tied with Hadwin and Mickelson. After hitting his drive into the right rough, Long hit his 175-yard onto the green. That’s when he asked his caddie to confirm that he shared the lead.

“I wasn’t 100 percent sure. I didn’t care. I had nothing to lose,” Long said.

The stage was set for him after Hadwin’s bunker shot stopped inches from the hole and Mickelson barely missed a long birdie try. Mickelon’s miss helped Long see the line for his career-changing putt. His 65th stroke of the day found the bottom of the hole.

Long, who was 20 over par in his previous five PGA TOUR starts, shot 26-under 262 on the Desert Classic’s three-course rotation. He shot 63 in the first and third rounds, then fired a 65 that was Sunday’s second-lowest score on PGA West’s tricky Stadium Course. Long, who started the final round three shots behind Mickelson, chipped in twice on the back nine. He didn’t make a bogey.

“I just kept plugging away and it was kind of the Phil and Adam Hadwin show for most of the way,” Long said. “Everyone was chanting Phil’s name most of the way and there are a lot of Canadians down here. I was just in the background.”

Not when it was time for the trophy ceremony. He was the last player left on the 18th green. Before the win, he was an alternate for next week’s Farmers Insurance Open. Now THE PLAYERS Championship, Sentry Tournament of Champions, Masters and PGA Championship are among the events he can add to his schedule.

Long leapt to 12th in the FedExCup standings. He started the week ranked 205th, ahead of just 13 players. The win was worth 500 points.

He began this week with just four FedExCup points after missing the cut in four of five starts this season. His best finish was T63 at the Safeway Open.

“He hit shot after shot and putted great, had a couple chip-ins and did what you had to do to win,” said Mickelson, who owns as many major titles (5) as TOUR starts Long had made before this week.

Hadwin was still three shots ahead after Long’s chip-in on the 12th hole. Hadwin played the final six holes in 1 over, though, while Long birdied half of the remaining holes. He holed a 5-footer for birdie on 14 before holing another chip on the next hole.

Then he birdied the last hole, an incredible finish for a player who admitted that just receiving the text with his final-round tee time gave him nerves.

Long didn’t look intimidated, though, when he birdied Sunday’s first two holes.

“Birdieing those first two really calmed a bit, like, ‘All right, I got this, I can compete, I can play, I belong,” Long said.

He’d spent nine years as a professional waiting for this moment. His only TOUR start before this season came at the 2011 U.S. Open. That was the same year that he won his only previous professional title, the Woodcreek Classic on the now-defunct Hooters Tour.

He estimates that the winner’s check was $25,000. He played his first Web.com Tour season the following year but finished 127th on the money list. He didn’t get back on that tour until 2015. He never doubted that he could make it, though.

“I wasn’t doing great, but I never really doubted it,” he said. ”I still wanted to play and I still loved it and I still wanted to see how good I could get.”

He became a PGA TOUR winner on Sunday. And it was worth the wait.

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HONOLULU — Ocean views along the golf course seem to suit Canadian Adam Svensson.

A year after his victory in the Bahamas that paved his way to the PGA Tour, Svensson capped off a rookie round to remember Thursday with a 10-foot birdie putt on his final hole for a 9-under 61 and a one-shot lead in the Sony Open.

“It was all a blur,” Svensson said. “I don’t even remember which holes I birdied.”

Throw in an eagle, too, a 6-iron on the par-5 ninth that he caught thin and was hopeful would clear the bunker. It did better than that, rolling out to 5 feet. But it was the back nine, as the wind began to calm along the shores just west of Waikiki Beach, where the 25-year-old from Surrey, B.C., made his move.

It started with a 50-foot birdie putt on the 11th hole. He hit it to 2 feet on the 12th, holed an 18-foot birdie on No. 13 and finished his run with a 10-foot birdie on the 14th. A tough up-and-down from right of the green on the par-5 18th gave Svensson the lowest round of professional career.

He did shoot a 61 while at Barry University, where he won the Jack Nicklaus Award in 2014 as the Division II player of the year.

His only significant victory as a pro was the second event last year on the Web.com Tour at the Bahamas Great Abaco Classic, and he held his position in the top 25 on the money list the rest of the year to reach the PGA Tour.

Andrew Putnam shot a 62 in the morning and looked tough to beat until Svensson came along.

It was the first time Putnam had played Waialae all week because of a bee sting, and it apparently didn’t bother him. He made birdie on half of his holes, none of them tap-ins, and took only 23 putts for the lowest score of his PGA Tour career.

Putnam had a four-shot lead among the early starters. By the end of the day, Matt Kuchar had a 63, and 75 players from the 144-man field were under par.

That did not include Jordan Spieth, who made his 2019 debut with a little rust, and it showed. He had to wait until his 16th hole, the par-3 seventh, for his first birdie of the year. And that was all he made in a round of 73 that left him needing a low round just to make it to the weekend.

He still managed to keep it entertaining, especially with the new rules.

Spieth, like most players, doesn’t understand the visually awkward change of dropping from knee-height instead of shoulder-height. Six holes into his round, his tee shot came up inches short of a sprinkler head. He called for a ruling and was given relief because of the potential of injury or damaging the club. Then, he did what he has done his entire golfing life — he held the ball at the level of his shoulder.

Slugger White, the tour’s vice-president of competition, stopped him. Had he dropped and played the shot, it would have been a penalty. If not, he could have dropped again from the proper height.

“I’m like, ’Wouldn’t it just be a re-drop anyway?’ What’s the big deal?”’ Spieth said. “It’s unusual.”

He caught himself from dropping shoulder-height behind the 18th green. He also tapped in for par on the opening hole with the flagstick still in the cup, another change that is getting plenty of attention early in the year. And he tapped down a spike mark in the line of a 4-foot putt.

“All in all, I got a test of most of the new rules today,” he said.

Justin Thomas, who set the PGA Tour’s 72-hole record at the Sony Open two years ago, opened with a 67 by playing the last five holes in even par — a birdie, three straight bogeys and holing a bunker shot for eagle.

Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., shot a 2-under 68 and Roger Sloan of Merritt, B.C., is 1-under. Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., David Hearn of Brantford, Ont., and Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., are even. Ben Silverman of Thornhill, Ont., (71) and Abbotsford’s Adam Hadwin (72) are both well back of Svensson’s lead.

Putnam, among 23 players who were on Maui last week at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, made it all look so easy. This is his third year playing the Sony Open, so the course is not new to him. But it’s unusual for him not to at least get in a practice round.

He was poolside Tuesday when the bee stung him in the foot.

“I couldn’t walk, so I had to withdraw out of the pro-am,” he said. “I was just sitting around all yesterday and couldn’t even hit a shot. Yeah, kind of bizarre how it all worked out.”

He shot his 62 despite a bogey on the 15th hole when his pitch came up 12 feet short and he missed the putt.

Putnam didn’t miss many in the opening round. Statistically, he made just over 174 feet of putts, from a 5-footer on the closing hole (his shortest birdie putt) to his longest birdie on the 14th at just under 30 feet.

“The hole was very large and the ball was going in,” he said. “It was fun.”

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NORTON, Mass. — Golf’s latest search for a breakout star has come to the quirky little laboratory of Bryson DeChambeau.

The 24-year-old physics major known as the “Mad Scientist” won his second straight event in the FedEx Cup playoffs on Monday, shooting a 4-under-par 67 at TPC Boston to win the Dell Technologies Championship by two strokes over Justin Rose.

It was the third win of the year for DeChambeau, who also won the playoff opener at Ridgewood and is guaranteed the No. 1 seed for the Tour Championship regardless of what happens in the third round. And he solidified his claim to be one of Jim Furyk’s captain’s picks for the American Ryder Cup team, where he would join the likes of Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth, back-to-back U.S. Open winner Brooks Koepka and others who have staked a claim to follow Tiger Woods as golf’s next big thing.

“People can put that title on me, but I’m not going to. Never will,” DeChambeau said after finishing at 16-under 268 to claim his second straight US$1.62-million first prize.

“I’m just a player out here trying to do my absolute best. And I’ll say that every single time,” he said. “It is cool to have people say that to you. And it is an honour, it really is. At this moment going forward, though, I’m just going to keep going about my business and doing what I can do.”

DeChambeau is the first person to win the first two tournaments in the FedEx Cup since 2008, when a different points system allowed Vijay Singh to effectively wrap up the title before the final playoff event. DeChambeau still has work to do; he leads Johnson by almost 2,400 points, but the new system keeps the $10 million bonus in flux until the finale at East Lake Sept. 20-23.

Still, the back-to-back wins probably eliminate any doubt about the Ryder Cup team.

DeChambeau attended the last Ryder Cup, outside of Minneapolis — as a spectator.

“I wanted to experience it,” he explained. “I wanted to be a part of that atmosphere and get comfortable with that. So hopefully if I do make it this year that all things considered I’d be more comfortable when I got there. That was really the reason why I went there.”

A physics major at Southern Methodist, DeChambeau brings an unconventional but scientific approach to his game, peppering his comments with references to biomechanics and error tolerance and filling his bag with clubs that are all the same length (34 inches, or roughly the length of a 7-iron) so he would only have to master one swing.

The decision had its doubters, from potential college coaches who turned him aside to his father. (Now the elder DeChambeau uses one-length clubs, too.)

“I’ve had quite a bit of resistance,” DeChambeau said. “There’s only been a few people that have really helped keep pushing me in the right direction, saying ‘Hey, Bryson, you’re doing the right thing, Keep doing it. Just keep figuring things out.”‘

He seems to have done that.

After starting the year at No. 99 in the world, DeChambeau moved to No. 7 with the win Monday, one spot past Rory McIlroy.

“He’s facing the biggest and best fields,” said Rose, who birdied three of his last four holes for a 68 and second place. “There’s a lot of conjecture about how he goes about it. But when he delivers as he is now, it just proves it.”

Opening the day one stroke behind leader Abraham Ancer, DeChambeau took control with three straight birdies to finish the front nine. Australian Cameron Smith closed the gap with a pair of late birdies, but DeChambeau answered with a birdie on No. 15 to keep his lead at two shots.

Ancer dropped three shots in a four-hole stretch on the back nine, hitting into a hazard and making bogey on the 18th and finishing with a 73. The 27-year-old Mexican did improve from No. 92 to No. 56 and into the top 70 who advance to the BMW Championship at Aronimink next week.

Matt Kuchar failed to advance to the third playoff round for the first time in 10 years, costing him a chance to bolster his Ryder Cup case. Furyk will make three selections on Tuesday, and a fourth after the BMW Championship.

The likely choices Tuesday would seem to be DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson and Woods, who were Nos. 9, 10 and 11 in points when qualifying ended for eight automatic berths after the PGA Championship. Woods closed with a 71 and tied for 24th; Mickelson, who has played on every Ryder Cup team since 1995, made nine birdies Monday in a closing round of 63.

“So fortunate also that it’s the day before the Ryder Cup picks, although I don’t feel that should be a bearing,” Mickelson said. “I think you have to look at the big picture through the course of the year statistically.

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ST. LOUIS — The Latest on the PGA Championship, golf’s final major of the year (all times local): 2 p.m.

Louis Oosthuizen has withdrawn from the PGA Championship less than an hour before his scheduled tee time, giving Kelly Kraft a spot in the field at Bellerive.

The official announcement was made about 10 minutes before Oosthuizen’s scheduled 1:59 tee time, though Kraft has been warming up in case he got just such a chance.

He joined a group along with Thomas Pieters and Bill Haas. ___ 1:40 p.m.

If you’re curious what those bandage-like patches were on Rory McIlroy as he grinded his way to a first-round 70 at the PGA Championship, they are designed to deal with wrist and forearm inflammation.

McIlroy said he hit a lot of extra balls last week at Firestone, trying to work on a few things before arriving at Bellerive. He wound up with a bit of soreness in his right arm that accompanied him to St. Louis.

McIlroy says it hurts “the most when I’m chipping, because I sort of hold the angle a bit,” but he doesn’t think it will affect him too much as the tournament progresses. ___ 1:30 p.m.

Tiger Woods says he’s just happy to still be in the tournament after a rough start at the PGA Championship, and that his goal was to “hole a few putts and grind out a score today.”

He certainly holed a few putts. But he only hit 11 of 18 greens in regulation.

As for the mid-round wardrobe change, Woods said he usually changes shirts before teeing off but there wasn’t anywhere to do it between the driving range and the 10th tee. So, he waited until he came across a portable restroom and peeled off his sweat-soaked shirt.

“I just sweat a lot,” he said with a grin. ___ 1:10 p.m.

Tiger Woods has rallied from a bogey-double bogey start to shoot an even-par 70, leaving him five strokes behind clubhouse leader Rickie Fowler at the PGA Championship.

Woods missed his first two fairways and dumped an approach shot in the water. But scrambled for enough pars to keep his round going, then made a pair of birdies on a bogey-free second nine.

Playing partner Justin Thomas was 1 under and Rory McIlroy also was even. ___ 12:25 p.m.

Rickie Fowler birdie two of his final three holes to shoot 5-under 65, giving him a two-shot lead when he hit the clubhouse after his opening round of the PGA Championship.

Fowler was steady from tee to green, only missing two in regulation. He made four birdies without a bogey on his second nine, highlighted by a beautiful approach shot to the water-guarded, par-3 third that led to a 10-footer for birdie.

Aaron Cook, Ian Poulter and Pat Perez joined him in the clubhouse after rounds of 67. ___ 12:10 p.m.

Austin Cook is a long way from the Adams Tour victory that once earned him $4,000.

The Arkansas native shot a 3-under 67 and was the leader in the clubhouse at the PGA Championship, though Rickie Fowler had a hole left and was about to bump him from the perch.

Cook probably won’t complain. He played well enough to graduate from the Web.com Tour last year, and his stunning win in the RSM Classic earlier this year got him in the PGA Championship.

It was his first win as a pro since that Adams Tour event. It paid a cool $1,116,000, too. ___ 12:05 p.m.

Tributes have been flowing right along with tears at the PGA Championship for Jarrod Lyle, who passed away overnight after a long struggle with cancer in his native Australia.

Lyle was first diagnosed with leukemia as a teenager and suffered recurrences of the disease in 2012 and 2017. He chose not to seek more treatment earlier this month.

His good friend Rickie Fowler, who was 5 under and leading the tournament, wore bright yellow much like Lyle often wore. Justin Thomas said on Twitter that “we will all be thinking of him and his family,” while countryman Jason Day said he was “deeply saddened” by Lyle’s passing.

He was survived by Briony and daughters Lusi, 6, and Jemma, 2. ___ 11:50 a.m.

Ryan Fox has posted the first red number of the PGA Championship, a 2-under 68 capped by a pair of birdies heading into the clubhouse out of the first group on the course.

The son of well-known New Zealand rugby player Grant Fox, Ryan Fox played well at the British Open at Carnoustie. He was sixth at the Scottish Open and second at the Irish Open before that.

Meanwhile, Rickie Fowler has climbed into the lead at 4 under. Fowler has three birdies on his second nine to take a one-shot lead over Stewart Cink. ___ 11:25 a.m.

There are few bogey-free rounds among the morning wave at Bellerive, but Hideki Matsuyama and Jason Day have a couple of them to sit 2 under and one shot off the lead.

Some thought rains early in the week that softened the course, coupled with relatively slow greens, would lead to someone going low. But there appears to be enough teeth in the length and deep rough at Bellerive that bogeys — and worse, for Phil Mickelson — are offsetting the birdies.

Lefty was 1 under through five, but a two bogeys and two doubles have him 5 over. ___ 10:50 a.m.

Looks as if Rickie Fowler’s on-again, off-again form carried over from last week at Firestone.

Fowler opened with a 63 at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, shot 74 on Friday, then had a 65 to get into contention Saturday. He finished with a 73 that dropped him into a tie for 17th.

So naturally, Fowler was due for a good first round at Bellerive. And he’s delivered so far with two birdies on his second nine to reach 3 under, joining Justin Thomas and Stewart Cink in the lead.

Tiger Woods made the turn at 2 over. Tony Finau was a trendy pick given his length off the tee, but he was 4 over with four holes to play in his opening round. ___ 10:30 a.m.

Phil Mickelson’s good start has hit the skids after a double-bogey at the 15th and another bogey at the par-4 18th left him 2 over after the first nine at the PGA Championship.

His playing partners, Jason Day and Keegan Bradley, made the turn at 1 under.

There are 20 teaching pros in the field this week, and Craig Hocknull is making the Southwest Section of the PGA proud. The native of Papua New Guinea, who now teaches out of Gilbert, Arizona, and at Glenwild Golf Club in Park City, Utah, was three shots back of the leader. ___ 10 a.m.

Justin Thomas is off to a good start as he tries to defend his PGA Championship title.

Thomas, who also won last week at Firestone, has three birdies in his first six holes and was tied atop the leaderboard with Stewart Cink among the early wave at Bellerive.

Thomas has experience defending titles. He did it at the CIMB Classic in Malaysia in 2015 and ’16.

Tiger Woods was the last player to win back-to-back PGAs in 2006 and 2007, but four other winners have followed their triumph with top-10 finishes since then. Among them have been Rory McIlroy, who was eighth in 2013, and Jason Day, who finished second two years ago at Baltusrol. ___ 9:30 a.m.

Perhaps experience will trump youthful exuberance at the PGA Championship this week.

With so much attention on young stars such as Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth, it’s been the veterans who have gotten off to hot starts at Bellerive.

Forty-two-year-old Ian Poulter led the way at 3 under, and 48-year-old U.S. Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk and 45-year-old Stewart Cink were among a group one shot back.

Another 48-year-old, Phil Mickelson, and 42-year-old Pat Perez were among a group at 1 under. ___ 9:15 a.m.

Tiger Woods changed his shirt, then set off trying to change his round.

After a bogey-double bogey start, Woods had already sweated through his shirt at Bellerive, so he stepped into a bathroom after the par-4 11th and put on a fresh shirt. He then found the fairway at the 12th and backed his approach shot to within inches for a kick-in birdie.

The weather is expected to be a factor Thursday. The forecast calls for temperatures in the mid-90s with high humidity, and that could mean insufferable conditions for those playing later in the day.

Ian Poulter was 3 under through his first six holes to take the early lead. ___ 9 a.m.

Tiger Woods has started bogey-double bogey at the PGA Championship, hitting wayward tee shots at his first two holes and dumping his approach shot at the par-4 11th in the water.

Woods found the thick zoysia rough right of the 10th to start the round, forcing him to hack back to the fairway. He left his par putt short and had to make a 10-footer just to save bogey.

His tee shot at the 11th found the rough left. But rather than play left of the green, where there was plenty of room, Woods’s approach at the flag was short and bounced into a greenside pond. After his drop, Woods pitched onto the green and two-putted for double.

Playing partner Justin Thomas opened with a birdie. Rory McIlroy was even. ___ 8:25 a.m.

Tiger Woods has survived his first PGA Championship test: making it to the tee.

Massive crowds greeted Woods at his first PGA since 2015, all clamoring for a glimpse of him as he walked from the practice range to the first hole at Bellerive Country Club.

The gallery in some places was more than a dozen deep.

He flared that opening tee shot into the deep rough right of the 10th fairway, forcing him to chop back to the short stop. It was an inauspicious start given the wide avenues at Bellerive.

Woods is playing in a feature group with defending champion Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy. ___ 6:50 a.m.

The 100th PGA Championship has begun in stifling summer heat. Club pro Michael Block hit the opening tee shot down the middle at Bellerive Country Club. The course is playing long and soft because of rain Tuesday and temperatures in the 90s that require PGA officials to keep water on the greens.

The PGA Championship moves to the middle of May next year. Tiger Woods, defending champion Justin Thomas and Rory McIlroy are getting most of the attention from the morning side of the draw.

Block is among 20 club pros who qualified for this major. He is the first club pro in six years to qualify for the U.S. Open and PGA Championship in the same year.

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ST. LOUIS - Even with ample reason to think about what might have been, Paul Azinger prefers to wonder what's next.

This was one time he reluctantly agreed to celebrate the past.

He returned to Inverness Club over the weekend, his first time at the Ohio club since he reached the pinnacle of his career 25 years ago. He never imagined then that his golf would never be better.

Azinger won his only major at the 1993 PGA Championship with four birdies over the last seven holes for a 30 on the back nine, eliminating the likes of Nick Faldo and Vijay Singh, Tom Watson and Hale Irwin, and then beating Greg Norman on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff.

All five are in the Hall of Fame.

''I loved being back there,'' Azinger said. ''It's nice to reminisce, and I remembered a lot about that week. It's not like me to celebrate, but I did it.''

The celebration 25 years ago didn't last long.

His right shoulder had been bothering him that year. Orthopedic surgeon Frank Jobe called him Friday night during that PGA Championship to say results from a bone scan were in and it didn't look good. Azinger asked if it could wait until after the Ryder Cup.

Finding calm in a storm, he won the PGA Championship.

Finding the fight that enabled him to win 12 times on the PGA and twice more in Europe, he battled Faldo to a draw in Ryder Cup singles during a U.S. victory in England.

And then he was told he had cancer.

The diagnosis was non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which required six months of chemotherapy and radiation.

''You don't ever try to imagine what would have happened without getting sick,'' Azinger said. ''As you get older, you start to think more about it. I was a pretty confident player. I might not have been No. 1, but in my brain I was. I had a ridiculous run.''

How long would it have lasted? He'll never know.

''There's two ways to look at it,'' said Curtis Strange, the two-time U.S. Open champion who picked Azinger for his Ryder Cup team in 2002. ''Yes, his golf career was cut short. He really was a special player. He did it his way. He believed in his way, and that's all that matters. On the other hand, you look at what he had to overcome. His life was different. But he came back and won, he played well, and he's done a tremendous job in the TV world.''

Even with his best golf behind him, cut short by the invasion of cancer at 33, Azinger still managed to leave a mark in golf.

He still does. He always wonders what's next.

Azinger won for the last time in 2000, a seven-shot victory at the Sony Open that was best remembered for the long putter he stuck into his belly. That was what first brought attention to a new way of putting. A generation later, when Keegan Bradley at the PGA Championship and Webb Simpson at the U.S. Open won majors with the belly putter, the governing bodies decided to ban the anchored stroke.

He also made it back to another Ryder Cup team, primarily off the strength of that victory in Hawaii. Even though he was No. 22 in the standings, Strange picked him. And then the matches were moved back a year because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and Azinger had fallen outside the top 50 in the world.

He went 0-1-1 for the week, yet both matches were memorable.

Azinger and Tiger Woods combined for a 63 and still lost when Thomas Bjorn, after Azinger had hit 7-iron to 5 inches on the 18th hole, made a 20-foot birdie. In singles, with the Ryder Cup very much undecided, Azinger was 1 down to Niclas Fasth and in the bunker left of the 18th green.

''I said to my caddie, 'I've got to hole this, don't I?' And he didn't say one word,'' Azinger said. ''And then I holed it. That was a moment I'll never forget.''

Europe wound up winning when Paul McGinley made the winning putt against Jim Furyk. That started a run of European dominance that was stopped by Azinger, who brought a maverick way of thinking to the matches when he was appointed captain.

Azinger demanded an overhaul of the points system and asked for four captain's picks instead of two, a model now in place. He also broke his team into three units and, using personality models, allowed players who qualified for the team to choose the wild-card selections.

The U.S. won that year at Valhalla in 2008, and Azinger's model was cited by Phil Mickelson when he criticized Tom Watson after the 2014 loss at Gleneagles, which led to players having more control. The Americans won the next Ryder Cup, and the U.S. team now looks strong as ever.

If it's not Azinger's system, his fingerprints are all over it.

Does he get enough credit for it? Maybe in some corners. Azinger really doesn't care.

Twenty-five years ago, he had reason to believe he would have won a lot more, even more majors. He might be in the Hall of Fame now, just like the players he beat that day at Inverness. The trip to Ohio allowed him to look back, and he found only happy memories.

''I've had an exciting life,'' he said.

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Lagergren beats Lorenzo-Vera in Sicilian Open playoff

(Reuters) – Sweden’s Joakim Lagergren clinched his first European Tour title at the Rocco Forte Sicilian Open after nailing a clutch putt for birdie at the first playoff hole to edge Frenchman Mike Lorenzo-Vera on Sunday.

Overnight leader Lorenzo-Vera began the final round at Verdura Golf Club with a two-shot advantage but Lagergren made a charge up the leaderboard with four birdies in his first nine holes.

A 14th-hole bogey meant the 26-year-old signed for a three-under-par 68 before Lorenzo-Vera sank a crucial birdie on the 17th to share the lead at 16-under overall after four rounds.

Lagergren needed just one extra hole to seal the victory after an inch-perfect approach ensure he made a birdie from eight feet.

“I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole career,” he said. I’ve just been fighting so hard to get to here, it’s just awesome.

“When you’re just missing out a few times you really want to get that first win and it feels like you really need to get over that first step to then really continue and get more and more. This is a big step for me.”

Lagergren and Lorenzo-Vera finished one shot clear of Englishman Andy Sullivan and Australia’s Lucas Herbert, who matched the lowest round of the week with a 63.

Denmark’s Lucas Bjerregaard finished at 14-under, one shot ahead of Frenchman Julien Guerrier.

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(Reuters) – Sweden’s Joakim Lagergren clinched his first European Tour title at the Rocco Forte Sicilian Open after nailing a clutch putt for birdie at the first playoff hole to edge Frenchman Mike Lorenzo-Vera on Sunday.

Overnight leader Lorenzo-Vera began the final round at Verdura Golf Club with a two-shot advantage but Lagergren made a charge up the leaderboard with four birdies in his first nine holes.

A 14th-hole bogey meant the 26-year-old signed for a three-under-par 68 before Lorenzo-Vera sank a crucial birdie on the 17th to share the lead at 16-under overall after four rounds.

Lagergren needed just one extra hole to seal the victory after an inch-perfect approach ensure he made a birdie from eight feet.

“I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole career,” he said. I’ve just been fighting so hard to get to here, it’s just awesome.

“When you’re just missing out a few times you really want to get that first win and it feels like you really need to get over that first step to then really continue and get more and more. This is a big step for me.”

Lagergren and Lorenzo-Vera finished one shot clear of Englishman Andy Sullivan and Australia’s Lucas Herbert, who matched the lowest round of the week with a 63.

Denmark’s Lucas Bjerregaard finished at 14-under, one shot ahead of Frenchman Julien Guerrier.

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(Reuters) – Sweden’s Joakim Lagergren clinched his first European Tour title at the Rocco Forte Sicilian Open after nailing a clutch putt for birdie at the first playoff hole to edge Frenchman Mike Lorenzo-Vera on Sunday.

Overnight leader Lorenzo-Vera began the final round at Verdura Golf Club with a two-shot advantage but Lagergren made a charge up the leaderboard with four birdies in his first nine holes.

A 14th-hole bogey meant the 26-year-old signed for a three-under-par 68 before Lorenzo-Vera sank a crucial birdie on the 17th to share the lead at 16-under overall after four rounds.

Lagergren needed just one extra hole to seal the victory after an inch-perfect approach ensure he made a birdie from eight feet.

“I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole career,” he said. I’ve just been fighting so hard to get to here, it’s just awesome.

“When you’re just missing out a few times you really want to get that first win and it feels like you really need to get over that first step to then really continue and get more and more. This is a big step for me.”

Lagergren and Lorenzo-Vera finished one shot clear of Englishman Andy Sullivan and Australia’s Lucas Herbert, who matched the lowest round of the week with a 63.

Denmark’s Lucas Bjerregaard finished at 14-under, one shot ahead of Frenchman Julien Guerrier.

Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru, editing by Pritha Sarkar

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