Betfred British Masters R4

British Masters 2021 R4
May 12-15
The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, England
£1,850,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes

At the age of 48 and in his 478th attempt, Richard Bland has claimed his first European Tour title in a playoff at the 2021 Betfred British Masters hosted by Danny Willett.

British Masters 2021 R4

He arrived at The Belfry third on the list of players with most appearances without a win and revealed he was thinking about the seniors game but he demonstrated on Sunday he could still best much younger players.

Bland birdied his final hole to close with a 66 to reach 13-under and take the clubhouse lead while 24-year-old Guido Migliozzi closed with a 68 to join him in the playoff. Bland parred the first extra hole and Migliozzi three-putted for a bogey.

British Masters 2021 R4

“It’s probably going to take a few days to sink in. It’s what I’ve worked for for 20 years. That’s what we all work for, to win out here and try and prove yourself. I’ve had a few close calls and I assume someone up there was looking down on me quite favourably today. It was just my day.”

“I kept telling myself on the last I thought 13 would be a really good score. There was maybe two or three guys on 11. Especially if the weather stayed how it was. We played the last three holes in the worst of the weather as well. I thought if it stays like this then the par fives are playing pretty long. They’re not giveaway birdies. To hole that putt on the last, I don’t think I saw it go in. I knew it was in with about a foot to go. I think I turned to the left to celebrate before it had even gone in. I’d have looked silly if it’d missed. Fortunately it went in.”

British Masters 2021 R4

Bland made his European Tour debut at the 1998 Open Championship and has achieved three second places, two thirds and 26 other top tens since.

He was a European Challenge Tour graduate in 2001, 2004 and 2008 and also came through the Qualifying School in 2007 and 2011 before finishing in a then career high 27th on the Race to Dubai Rankings in 2016.

He had to return to the Challenge Tour after losing his Tour card in 2018 and become the oldest ever graduate at the age of 46.

British Masters 2021 R4

“I’ve done it,” said an emotional Bland as he was interviewed by long time coach Tim Barter, who was clearly emotional himself.

“My game had been trending in the right way and I’d worked really hard, as you know we’ve worked so hard on the wedges.”

“I just drove the ball so well this week, I’ve gone back to my old driver. Round here – especially for me, I’m not the longest on Tour – I’ve got to hit fairways and I’ve probably missed single digit fairways all week.”

British Masters 2021 R4

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Richard Bland	-13	68	69	72	66	275
2	Guido Migliozzi	-13	68	72	67	68	275
T3	Dave Coupland	-12	71	69	68	68	276
T3	Mikko Korhonen	-12	70	71	68	67	276
T3	Adrian Meronk	-12	70	72	65	69	276
T6	Dean Burmester	-11	69	73	65	70	277
T6	Andy Sullivan	-11	69	71	68	69	277
T8	Calum Hill	-10	67	70	70	71	278
T8	Robert MacIntyre	-10	71	66	70	71	278
T8	Edoardo Molinari	-10	71	72	64	71	278
T11	Jazz Janewattananond	-9	73	69	71	66	279
T11	Renato Paratore	-9	73	70	70	66	279
T11	Eddie Pepperell	-9	70	68	68	73	279
T11	Matthias Schwab	-9	66	75	67	71	279
T11	Danny Willett	-9	69	72	68	70	279
T11	Chris Wood	-9	69	72	68	70	279
T17	Andrew Johnston	-8	71	71	68	70	280
T17	Jordan Smith	-8	71	69	69	71	280
T19	Justin Harding	-7	69	69	70	73	281
T19	Søren Kjeldsen	-7	71	72	69	69	281
T21	Sam Horsfield	-6	72	70	69	71	282
T21	Raphael Jacquelin	-6	75	67	69	71	282
T21	Min Woo Lee	-6	75	67	69	71	282
T21	James Morrison	-6	68	73	72	69	282
T21	Matthieu Pavon	-6	68	71	73	70	282
T21	Julian Suri	-6	68	74	72	68	282
T21	Sami Valimaki	-6	71	73	70	68	282
T21	Dale Whitnell	-6	70	74	68	70	282
T21	Ashun Wu	-6	73	71	66	72	282
T30	Alexander Björk	-5	73	72	67	71	283
T30	Laurie Canter	-5	70	71	71	71	283
T30	Louis De Jager	-5	68	72	70	73	283
T30	Julien Guerrier	-5	72	66	72	73	283
T34	Alexander Levy	-4	71	71	72	70	284
T34	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	-4	71	74	75	64	284
T34	Shubhankar Sharma	-4	73	71	71	69	284
T34	Clement Sordet	-4	68	74	68	74	284
T34	Matthew Southgate	-4	72	73	67	72	284
T34	Bernd Wiesberger	-4	68	72	72	72	284
T40	Alejandro Cañizares	-3	71	74	69	71	285
T40	Aaron Cockerill	-3	70	73	68	74	285
T40	Adrian Otaegui	-3	73	71	70	71	285
T43	Adri Arnaus	-2	69	72	71	74	286
T43	Ashley Chesters	-2	73	69	74	70	286
T43	Thomas Detry	-2	73	72	71	70	286
T43	Ross Fisher	-2	69	74	71	72	286
T43	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	-2	71	73	69	73	286
T43	Richie Ramsay	-2	70	71	72	73	286
T43	Ricardo Santos	-2	73	70	70	73	286
T43	Cormac Sharvin	-2	73	71	73	69	286
T43	Sebastian Soderberg	-2	73	72	69	72	286
T52	Paul Dunne	-1	72	69	73	73	287
T52	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	-1	71	73	75	68	287
T52	Chris Paisley	-1	70	74	73	70	287
T52	Tapio Pulkkanen	-1	72	70	69	76	287
T52	Jack Senior	-1	72	73	75	67	287
T57	Jamie Donaldson	E	74	71	74	69	288
T57	Joachim B. Hansen	E	71	71	77	69	288
T57	Richard Mansell (a)	E	69	71	73	75	288
T57	Thorbjørn Olesen	E	71	73	72	72	288
T57	Darius van Driel	E	74	70	70	74	288
T62	Josh Geary	1	70	72	70	77	289
T62	Garrick Porteous	1	70	74	72	73	289
T62	Robin Sciot-Siegrist	1	72	73	71	73	289
T65	Jonathan Caldwell	2	76	69	80	65	290
T65	Gavin Kyle Green	2	75	70	72	73	290
T67	Thomas Bjørn	3	72	71	75	73	291
T67	Lee Slattery	3	72	68	76	75	291
T67	Joel Stalter	3	69	72	78	72	291
70	Johannes Veerman	4	71	74	72	75	292
71	Steven Tiley	5	74	71	74	74	293
72	Oliver Wilson	7	73	72	72	78	295
73	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	14	73	72	77	80	302
CUT	Maverick Antcliff	2	73	73			146
CUT	Lucas Bjerregaard	2	74	72			146
CUT	Jorge Campillo	2	76	70			146
CUT	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	2	76	70			146
CUT	Pedro Figueiredo	2	74	72			146
CUT	Gregory Havret	2	77	69			146
CUT	Sebastian Heisele	2	72	74			146
CUT	Maximilian Kieffer	2	74	72			146
CUT	Pablo Larrazabal	2	71	75			146
CUT	Alvaro Quiros	2	74	72			146
CUT	Bernd Ritthammer	2	73	73			146
CUT	Ajeetesh Sandhu	2	74	72			146
CUT	Max Schmitt	2	68	78			146
CUT	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	2	73	73			146
CUT	Justin Walters	2	74	72			146
CUT	Oliver Farr	3	74	73			147
CUT	Tom Gandy	3	73	74			147
CUT	David Law	3	72	75			147
CUT	Jake McLeod	3	73	74			147
CUT	Wade Ormsby	3	74	73			147
CUT	Robert Rock	3	73	74			147
CUT	Connor Syme	3	75	72			147
CUT	David Dixon	4	72	76			148
CUT	Stephen Gallacher	4	76	72			148
CUT	Rasmus Højgaard	4	74	74			148
CUT	Sihwan Kim	4	72	76			148
CUT	Romain Langasque	4	75	73			148
CUT	Haotong Li	4	76	72			148
CUT	Andrea Pavan	4	69	79			148
CUT	Carlos Pigem	4	71	77			148
CUT	Callum Shinkwin	4	74	74			148
CUT	Toby Tree	4	71	77			148
CUT	Fabrizio Zanotti	4	78	70			148
CUT	Lars van Meijel	4	77	71			148
CUT	Marcus Armitage	5	76	73			149
CUT	Sean Crocker	5	72	77			149
CUT	Lorenzo Gagli	5	75	74			149
CUT	Benjamin Hebert	5	76	73			149
CUT	David Howell	5	74	75			149
CUT	Matthew Jordan	5	74	75			149
CUT	Masahiro Kawamura	5	72	77			149
CUT	Jason Levermore	5	74	75			149
CUT	Pedro Oriol	5	71	78			149
CUT	Steven Brown	6	71	79			150
CUT	Bradley Dredge	6	75	75			150
CUT	David Horsey	6	77	73			150
CUT	Janne Kaske	6	73	77			150
CUT	Martin Kaymer	6	74	76			150
CUT	Niall Kearney	6	73	77			150
CUT	Joakim Lagergren	6	77	73			150
CUT	Zander Lombard	6	76	74			150
CUT	Richard McEvoy	6	75	75			150
CUT	Jason Scrivener	6	79	71			150
CUT	Michael Bullen	7	74	77			151
CUT	Yi Keun Chang	7	72	79			151
CUT	SSP Chawrasia	7	75	76			151
CUT	Ben Evans	7	77	74			151
CUT	Scott Hend	7	78	73			151
CUT	Rikard Karlberg	7	72	79			151
CUT	Francesco Laporta	7	76	75			151
CUT	Marc Warren	7	74	77			151
CUT	Kristoffer Broberg	8	76	76			152
CUT	Alejandro Del Rey (a)	8	76	76			152
CUT	Matt Ford	8	76	76			152
CUT	Ross McGowan	8	75	77			152
CUT	Benjamin Poke	8	74	78			152
CUT	Suradit Yongcharoenchai	8	76	76			152
CUT	Gaganjeet Bhullar	9	77	76			153
CUT	Colm Moriarty	9	78	75			153
CUT	Robin Roussel	9	73	80			153
CUT	Pep Angles	10	76	78			154
CUT	Wil Besseling	10	77	77			154
CUT	Marcel Schneider	10	79	75			154
CUT	Grant Forrest	11	78	77			155
CUT	Adrien Saddier	11	77	78			155
CUT	Rhys Enoch	13	74	83			157
CUT	David Drysdale	14	76	82			158
CUT	Scott Jamieson	14	80	78			158
CUT	Graeme Storm	18	82	80			162
WD	Paul Waring	1	73				73
WD	Haydn Porteous	7	73	50			123
WD	Oliver Fisher	5	37				37
WD	Jeff Winther	4	72	70	78		220