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Shubhankar Sharma finishes 14th at Dutch Open

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India’s Shubhankar Sharma accomplished a superb week, laced with 18 birdies, with a Tied-14th end on the Dutch Open on the DP World Tour.

Sharma had as many as 18 birdies over 4 days. But the Indian additionally gave away 13 bogeys.

The end would nonetheless give Sharma a giant increase, contemplating he missed 4 cuts in 5 earlier begins.

After three birdies in his opening 71, Sharma had six birdies in a second spherical 71 and 6 extra in his third spherical 69.

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The closing spherical noticed two birdies on entrance 9 however he gave away three bogeys in his first six holes on again 9 earlier than closing with a birdie on 18th for the third time in 4 days.

With a packed calendar forward, Sharma will hope his birdie-making expertise come good at the same time as he works on slicing down the bogeys to enhance on his seventeenth place on the Race to Dubai rankings.

The different two Indians, Gaganjeet Bhullar (73-74) and SSP Chawrasia (74-77) had missed the reduce.

Meanwhile, the Dundee-based Frenchman Victor Perez, 29, was distinctive in clutch placing and held off Kiwi Ryan Fox in a play-off to win his second DP World Tour title.

Perez began the ultimate day in a share of the lead however following Fox’s nice present, he was three photographs again as he stood on the seventeenth tee.

Fox double bogeyed the 18th and Perez birdied the penultimate gap after which missed a six footer for birdie. The duo went right into a tie and a play-off down the par-five 18th.

Perez additionally earns himself a spot at The a hundred and fiftieth Open Championship this summer time alongside Fox and Pole Adrian Meronk, with the highest three gamers within the high ten not exempt heading to St Andrews.

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Meronk completed a shot out of the play-off after a 68, a rating matched by German Marcel Schneider who completed at 11 below.

Swede Sebastian Soderberg and England’s Matt Wallace have been at ten below, two photographs forward of one other Swede in Alexander Björk and Portugal’s Ricardo Gouveia.