Considering the fact that he won the Joburg Open in very particular conditions, the flavor of success at the Omega European Masters 2022 is, for Thriston Lawrence, one of the best ones. And he gets to the first play-off hole, after he wasn’t perfect on the last lap.
Matt Wallace had joined him at -18, but the South African finished in par for the 18th hole, while the Englishman sent the putt to the left that would have kept him in the running. 62 64 67 69 the winner’s score, which rises to 9th place in the Race to Dubai, 64 64 68 66 that of the second.
Omega European Masters 2022, results
In third place comes the other English Richard Mansell, at -16, followed at -15 by the Spaniard Jorge Campillo, by the French Antoine Rozner and by the Scotsman Scott Jamieson. Seventh place for the other Iberian Alejandro Canizares together with the German Marcel Schneider (who almost made a hole in one to win a Porsche), both at -14.
Spain again in ninth place with -13, in the names of Nacho Elvira and Adri Arnaus, accompanied by the English Danny Willett, the Japanese Masahiro Kawamura and the South African Louis de Jager. None of them, however, made the best lap of the day.
This, at -6, is the prerogative of four men: the Swede Sebastian Soderberg, the Dane Joachim Hansen, the Malaysian Gavin Green and Francesco Laporta. It is the Apulian who uses this beautiful day alone as a birdie to climb 16th, the second best result of 2022.
On the final card there is -11 for him. -9, instead, for Renato Paratore and Edoardo Molinari, who close together in 29th place; 38 ° with an important ascent to -8, instead, for Guido Migliozzi. The Omega European Masters goes to Thriston Lawrence (62 64 67 69) who in Switzerland overcomes Matt Wallace (64 64 68 66) on the first play-off hole and wins his first career title on the DP World Tour.
In Crans Montana, the The South African and the Englishman closed the 72 regular holes with a total of 262 (-18) strokes, but what made the difference in the play-off was a par (against the opponent’s bogey) of the 25-year-old from Nelspruit.
Among the Azzurri, a nice finish by Francesco Laporta who recovered 35 positions and closed 16 / o with a score of 269 (71 66 68 64, -11), thanks to a last bogey free round in 64 (-6), with six birdies . On the Crans-sur-Sierre GC course (par 70), the Apulian preceded the Roman Renato Paratore and the Turin Edoardo Molinari, both 29 / i with 271 (-9). While Guido Migliozzi from Vicenza closed 38 / o with 272 (-8).
