Canary Islands Championship R4

Canary Islands 2021 R4
May 06-09
Golf Costa Adeje, Tenerife, Spain
€1,500,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Garrick Higgo continued to write his own chapter in the European Tour history books as he powered to a second win in three weeks at the 2021 Canary Islands Championship.

Canary Islands 2021 R4

“It feels amazing, I am happy to be done now. I am very tired but really happy and thankful. I did (feel pressure) from the start. It is not easy to lead, the other day was my first time, and in this game anything can happen.”

Just 14 days after he lifted the trophy at the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open with a European Tour record low score of 255, a closing 64 with a hole-in-one moved him to 27 under and handed him a six shot victory at Golf Costa Adeje.

Canary Islands 2021 R4

“It’s unreal. I can’t believe it has happened so quickly again, but my game has been good so I can believe it as well. It feels good. I have been working really hard on a lot of little things and I have also accepted what works for me and kind of stuck with that. I think that has been a big thing. If I don’t play as well, I don’t look for something, so I am going to try and keep going.”

Australian Maverick Antcliff was the nearest challenger, one shot clear of Finn Tapio Pulkkanen, with home favourite Adri Arnaus, last week’s winner Dean Burmester, Dane Nicolai Højgaard, England’s Andrew Johnston and Irishman Niall Kearney at 19 under.

Canary Islands 2021 R4

But all eyes were on Higgo as he took his score across the 12 rounds of the Canary Islands Swing to 68 under and sent records tumbling.

A third European Tour win in just his 26th event makes him the fastest South African to three wins not including Majors and World Golf Championships, and he also matches the record of Tiger Woods for the fewest number of events needed to claim three European/PGA TOUR wins since 1990.

The 21-year-old also becomes the fourth youngest player to three European Tour wins and beats countryman Burmester’s mark for the largest winning margin on the 2021 Race to Dubai set last week.

With Burmester’s win being sandwiched by Higgo’s two, this is the first time that we have had three consecutive South African winners on the European Tour since 2012, and it is the first time that feat has ever been achieved outside of South Africa.

Canary Islands 2021 R4

It has been a remarkable run for South African golf of late, with Brandon Stone, J C Ritchie and Wilco Nienaber also making it three wins in a row for the Rainbow Nation on the European Challenge Tour.

(On South African players winning recently) “I think we all want to win and all very hungry for a win,” said Higgo. “I actually called Wilco’s win at the beginning of the week, so I am definitely going to brag about that with the other guys. I think we all just want to win and play our best. It is nice that it is working out perfectly.”

Higgo moves up to fifth on the Race to Dubai Rankings in Partnership with Rolex and also moves to the brink of entering the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time.

Canary Islands 2021 R4

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Garrick Higgo	-27	66	63	64	64	257
2	Maverick Antcliff	-21	70	64	64	65	263
3	Tapio Pulkkanen	-20	66	71	61	66	264
T4	Adri Arnaus	-19	64	64	72	65	265
T4	Dean Burmester	-19	68	63	69	65	265
T4	Nicolai Højgaard	-19	67	67	65	66	265
T4	Andrew Johnston	-19	68	63	67	67	265
T4	Niall Kearney *	-19	68	64	72	61	265
T9	Alejandro Del Rey (a)	-18	69	66	65	66	266
T9	Sebastian Heisele	-18	68	69	66	63	266
T9	Kalle Samooja	-18	65	68	68	65	266
T12	Louis De Jager	-17	65	68	67	67	267
T12	Oliver Fisher	-17	66	66	70	65	267
T12	Alfredo Garcia-Heredia	-17	64	70	67	66	267
T12	Calum Hill	-17	65	65	66	71	267
T12	Richard Mansell (a)	-17	65	66	64	72	267
T12	Eddie Pepperell	-17	66	69	67	65	267
T12	Robin Sciot-Siegrist	-17	66	66	67	68	267
T12	Connor Syme	-17	66	64	71	66	267
T20	Zander Lombard	-16	66	67	67	68	268
T20	Bernd Ritthammer	-16	70	64	67	67	268
T20	Matthew Southgate	-16	68	66	66	68	268
T23	Rhys Enoch	-15	65	68	69	67	269
T23	Grant Forrest	-15	67	68	68	66	269
T23	Masahiro Kawamura *	-15	70	66	68	65	269
T23	Richie Ramsay	-15	65	65	71	68	269
T27	Richard Bland	-14	69	66	69	66	270
T27	Tom Gandy	-14	70	63	70	67	270
T27	Francesco Laporta	-14	62	68	70	70	270
T27	Matthieu Pavon	-14	66	69	68	67	270
T27	Julian Suri	-14	66	69	65	70	270
T27	Sami Valimaki	-14	69	64	67	70	270
T27	Fabrizio Zanotti	-14	70	65	69	66	270
T34	Aaron Cockerill	-13	65	66	71	69	271
T34	Adrian Otaegui	-13	71	64	67	69	271
T34	Eduard Rousaud (a)	-13	67	67	67	70	271
T34	Jack Senior *	-13	67	68	70	66	271
T38	Gaganjeet Bhullar *	-12	69	67	70	66	272
T38	Justin Harding	-12	65	68	69	70	272
T40	Laurie Canter *	-11	70	67	69	67	273
T40	Pedro Figueiredo *	-11	70	66	68	69	273
T40	Julien Guerrier *	-11	69	69	67	68	273
T40	Garrick Porteous	-11	66	67	68	72	273
T40	Ricardo Santos *	-11	67	68	71	67	273
T45	Eduardo De la Riva *	-10	68	68	70	68	274
T45	Paul Dunne	-10	65	71	66	72	274
T45	Sihwan Kim *	-10	71	64	70	69	274
T45	Edoardo Molinari *	-10	70	66	70	68	274
T45	Paul Peterson *	-10	69	65	73	67	274
T45	Johannes Veerman *	-10	70	66	71	67	274
T51	Nino Bertasio *	-9	68	70	67	70	275
T51	Dave Coupland *	-9	68	68	71	68	275
T51	Scott Hend	-9	67	66	70	72	275
T51	Michael Lorenzo-Vera *	-9	72	66	66	71	275
T51	Justin Walters *	-9	72	64	72	67	275
T56	Scott Fernandez *	-8	63	71	72	70	276
T56	Janne Kaske *	-8	69	68	70	69	276
T56	Thomas Plumb *	-8	68	70	70	68	276
T56	Sebastian Soderberg *	-8	69	65	70	72	276
T56	Dale Whitnell *	-8	68	66	70	72	276
T61	Jorge Campillo *	-7	66	69	74	68	277
T61	SSP Chawrasia *	-7	68	68	73	68	277
T61	Victor Dubuisson *	-7	69	69	70	69	277
T61	Alvaro Quiros *	-7	67	70	70	70	277
T61	Joel Stalter *	-7	64	69	74	70	277
T66	Matthew Jordan *	-6	68	70	70	70	278
T66	Romain Langasque *	-6	69	69	72	68	278
T66	Lars van Meijel *	-6	68	70	70	70	278
69	Shubhankar Sharma *	-5	67	71	67	74	279
70	Pep Angles *	-4	65	71	71	73	280
T71	Luis Claverie *	-3	67	71	72	71	281
T71	Ondrej Lieser (a) *	-3	70	68	72	71	281
T71	Ajeetesh Sandhu *	-3	71	65	76	69	281
74	Suradit Yongcharoenchai *	-2	67	69	74	72	282
T75	Carlos Pigem *	3	72	66	80	69	287
T75	Oliver Wilson *	3	73	65	76	73	287
77	Max Schmitt *	4	67	69	81	71	288
CUT	Kristoffer Broberg	-3	74	65			139
CUT	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	-3	72	67			139
CUT	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	-3	68	71			139
CUT	Gavin Kyle Green	-3	70	69			139
CUT	Berry Henson	-3	70	69			139
CUT	Adrian Meronk	-3	73	66			139
CUT	Haydn Porteous	-3	69	70			139
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	-3	69	70			139
CUT	Alejandro Tosti	-3	68	71			139
CUT	Toby Tree	-3	69	70			139
CUT	Borja Virto	-3	69	70			139
CUT	Paul Waring	-3	72	67			139
CUT	Sam Broadhurst (a)	-2	74	66			140
CUT	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	-2	71	69			140
CUT	Raphael Jacquelin	-2	72	68			140
CUT	Shiv Kapur	-2	69	71			140
CUT	Clement Sordet	-2	68	72			140
CUT	Darius van Driel	-2	69	71			140
CUT	David Borda	-1	69	72			141
CUT	Jonathan Caldwell	-1	70	71			141
CUT	Ivan Cantero Gutierrez	-1	73	68			141
CUT	Matt Ford	-1	71	70			141
CUT	Alexander Levy	-1	70	71			141
CUT	Richard McEvoy	-1	71	70			141
CUT	Guido Migliozzi	-1	73	68			141
CUT	Benjamin Poke	-1	73	68			141
CUT	Steven Tiley	-1	70	71			141
CUT	Yi Keun Chang	E	73	69			142
CUT	David Horsey	E	72	70			142
CUT	David Howell	E	70	72			142
CUT	Pedro Oriol	E	74	68			142
CUT	Chris Paisley	E	73	69			142
CUT	Jake McLeod	+1	74	69			143
CUT	Andrea Pavan	+1	71	72			143
CUT	Robin Roussel	+1	72	71			143
CUT	Marcel Schneider	+1	71	72			143
CUT	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	+1	71	72			143
CUT	Ashun Wu	+1	70	73			143
CUT	Sean Crocker	+2	71	73			144
CUT	Tyler Koivisto	+2	69	75			144
CUT	Tom McKibbin	+2	69	75			144
CUT	Jacobo Pastor	+2	70	74			144
CUT	Carl Suneson	+2	73	71			144
CUT	Grégory Bourdy	+4	73	73			146
CUT	Alejandro Cañizares	+4	72	74			146
CUT	Harry Ellis	+4	75	71			146
CUT	Austin Bautista	+5	70	77			147
CUT	Samuel Del Val	+5	72	75			147
CUT	Mario Galiano Aguilar	+5	69	78			147
CUT	Joakim Lagergren	+7	75	74			149
CUT	Alvaro Hernandez Cabezuela	+8	74	76			150
CUT	Oscar Sanchez	+9	74	77			151
CUT	Scott Gregory	+11	71	82			153
WD	Renato Paratore		73	36			109
* Player started on the back nine