SWEDEN’S Alex Noren overturned a seven-shot deficit with a sensational final round of 62 to win his fifth European Tour title in 11 months at the BMW PGA Championship.
Noren fired eight birdies and then an eagle on the 18th in a new course record on the West Course, which underwent a £5 million renovation programme immediately after last year’s event. That took the 34-year-old to 11 under par and set a clubhouse target none of the later starters could match — Noren having teed off almost two hours before the final group.
Open champion Henrik Stenson, Shane Lowry, Hideto Tanihara, Andrew Dodt and Branden Grace were in a five-way tie on nine under early on the back nine, but faded on the closing stretch to leave Noren to collect the first prize of £894,000.
His playing partner Peter Uihlein labelled it “the best round of golf I’ve ever seen” and Noren conceded it “probably” was, adding: “And I putted probably the best I’ve ever putted.
“It’s a tough course mentally coming down the stretch. It’s not super narrow, but it’s just if you hit it a little bit wayward it can cost you.”
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