Cazoo Open R4

Cazoo Open 2021 R4
July 22-25
The Celtic Manor Resort, City of Newport, Wales
€1,250,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 3

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Nacho Elvira started the day with a six shot lead that quickly shrank. He made the turn in 36 after playing three birdies and three bogeys followed by two birdies and two bogeys to close with a 72.

Cazoo Open 2021 R4

Justin Harding was T2 six shots behind after the third round and shot a 65 to reach 16-under and join Elvira in a playoff. Harding bogeyed the first extra hole while Elvira parred for victory in the Cazoo Open supported by Gareth Bale.

“It means the world. That’s what we practise for and what we strive for. We try to win, to be at the best level on the European Tour and play with the best. It means the world to me.”

Cazoo Open 2021 R4

Having previously come second three times on the European Tour, twice in a playoff, he hadn’t finished in the top-10 in over two years and had missed the cut nine times in his last eleven starts. This maiden title on the European Tour comes in his 195th attempt. He becomes the third wire-to-wire winner this season and the second Spanish winner following Miguel Ángel Jiménez in 2005.

“It was tougher than I thought, it ‘s golf and you have to play 72 holes. I was playing with Callum, he was playing great – he was hitting at every pin and trying to catch some ground. I had a little bit of a shaky start and woke up on number six, then started playing some solid golf. I missed a couple of shots. I was trying to be not too aggressive. I think the putter wasn’t as sharp today as it was the last two days, you could see that on 18, obviously. After six I was pretty relaxed until 18, the last three putts were tough. I don’ t think I ‘ve ever been nervous , and I’m not ashamed to admit I was quite nervous.”

Cazoo Open 2021 R4

“I was more relaxed in the playoff than I was in regulation. I hit a good drive, just a little bit left, and I didn’ t catch a good lie – on the rough. I had good distance to go for it, but the lie wasn ‘t good enough. I saw Justin laid up, so decided to get a good yardage and try to hit a great shot – that ‘s what I did. After that I hit a great putt, just a little bit short.”

Mikko Korhonen signed for a 66 to finish third at 15-under, Callum Shinkwin (67) fourth at 14-under, Masahiro Kawamura (67) fifth at 12-under and Chase Hanna (70) tied with Sam Horsfield (69) for sixth at 11-under.

Cazoo Open 2021 R4

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total
1	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	-16	64	67	66	71	268
2	Justin Harding	-16	68	69	66	65	268
3	Mikko Korhonen	-15	66	70	67	66	269
4	Callum Shinkwin	-14	68	72	63	67	270
5	Masahiro Kawamura	-12	71	63	71	67	272
T6	Chase Hanna	-11	67	69	67	70	273
T6	Sam Horsfield	-11	67	72	65	69	273
T8	Bryce Easton	-9	68	75	64	68	275
T8	Matt Wallace	-9	67	68	70	70	275
T10	Sihwan Kim	-8	69	70	69	68	276
T10	Jacques Kruyswijk	-8	68	68	70	70	276
T10	Vincent Norrman	-8	64	69	77	66	276
T10	Wade Ormsby	-8	67	72	70	67	276
T14	Oliver Farr	-7	73	69	65	70	277
T14	Nicolai Højgaard	-7	71	70	66	70	277
T14	Hugo León	-7	72	69	68	68	277
T14	Ricardo Santos	-7	71	72	65	69	277
T18	Wil Besseling	-6	70	71	66	71	278
T18	Ashley Chesters	-6	73	69	69	67	278
T18	Nicolas Colsaerts	-6	67	73	67	71	278
T18	Oliver Fisher	-6	73	69	68	68	278
T18	Søren Kjeldsen	-6	69	71	68	70	278
T18	David Law	-6	70	73	69	66	278
T18	Connor Syme	-6	72	70	68	68	278
T25	Alejandro Cañizares	-5	71	69	67	72	279
T25	Tapio Pulkkanen	-5	69	73	71	66	279
T25	Richie Ramsay	-5	70	73	69	67	279
T28	David Dixon	-4	74	70	70	66	280
T28	Bradley Dredge	-4	72	71	70	67	280
T28	Romain Wattel	-4	71	68	73	68	280
T28	Jordan Wrisdale	-4	67	73	67	73	280
T32	John Catlin	-3	68	73	68	72	281
T32	David Drysdale	-3	68	71	69	73	281
T32	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	-3	67	75	66	73	281
T32	Deyen Lawson	-3	72	70	70	69	281
T32	Richard Mansell	-3	68	73	70	70	281
T32	Richard McEvoy	-3	74	68	66	73	281
T32	Shubhankar Sharma	-3	70	71	77	63	281
T32	Chris Wood	-3	71	72	73	65	281
T40	Maverick Antcliff	-2	69	74	70	69	282
T40	Laurie Canter	-2	76	68	67	71	282
T40	Julien Guerrier	-2	72	71	70	69	282
T40	Niall Kearney	-2	71	72	67	72	282
T40	James Morrison	-2	66	76	66	74	282
T40	Benjamin Poke	-2	72	69	71	70	282
T40	Clement Sordet	-2	73	71	68	70	282
T47	Steven Brown	-1	69	74	69	71	283
T47	Bryden Macpherson	-1	67	76	70	70	283
T47	Matthias Schmid	-1	73	70	70	70	283
T47	Jordan Smith	-1	69	72	72	70	283
T47	Marc Warren	-1	73	70	69	71	283
T52	Kristoffer Broberg	E	71	70	72	71	284
T52	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	E	73	70	72	69	284
T52	Alex Fitzpatrick (a)	E	70	74	68	72	284
T52	Brad Kennedy	E	70	69	73	72	284
T52	Alexander Levy	E	72	72	70	70	284
T57	Ben Evans	+1	70	72	73	70	285
T57	Pedro Figueiredo	+1	73	69	74	69	285
T57	David Howell	+1	72	72	73	68	285
T57	Lee Slattery	+1	70	71	71	73	285
T57	Toby Tree	+1	70	71	74	70	285
62	Calum Hill	+2	69	70	68	79	286
63	Aaron Rai	+3	68	73	74	72	287
T64	Archie Davies (a)	+5	69	75	70	75	289
T64	Scott Hend	+5	71	72	73	73	289
T64	Robert Rock	+5	67	77	73	72	289
67	Suradit Yongcharoenchai	+10	74	70	78	72	294
CUT	Dave Coupland	+3	72	73			145
CUT	Josh Geary	+3	71	74			145
CUT	Berry Henson	+3	71	74			145
CUT	David Horsey	+3	73	72			145
CUT	Raphael Jacquelin	+3	68	77			145
CUT	Niklas Lemke	+3	75	70			145
CUT	Adrian Otaegui	+3	71	74			145
CUT	Max Schmitt	+3	72	73			145
CUT	Elvis Smylie	+3	74	71			145
CUT	Julian Suri	+3	76	69			145
CUT	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	+3	72	73			145
CUT	Matthew Baldwin	+4	73	73			146
CUT	Jack Davidson	+4	74	72			146
CUT	Matt Ford	+4	76	70			146
CUT	Matthieu Pavon	+4	74	72			146
CUT	Nicholas Poppleton	+4	74	72			146
CUT	Rhys Enoch	+5	77	70			147
CUT	Lorenzo Gagli	+5	70	77			147
CUT	Ross McGowan	+5	71	76			147
CUT	Gavin Moynihan	+5	73	74			147
CUT	Kristoffer Reitan	+5	75	72			147
CUT	Adrien Saddier	+5	71	76			147
CUT	Matthew Southgate	+5	74	73			147
CUT	Daniel Young (a)	+5	70	77			147
CUT	Aron Zemmer	+5	72	75			147
CUT	Matthew Jordan	+6	78	70			148
CUT	Chan Kim	+6	73	75			148
CUT	John Murphy (a)	+6	75	73			148
CUT	Paul Peterson	+6	72	76			148
CUT	Alvaro Quiros	+6	76	72			148
CUT	Jack Senior	+6	73	75			148
CUT	James Sugrue (a)	+6	73	75			148
CUT	Sean Towndrow	+6	78	70			148
CUT	Ross Fisher	+7	75	74			149
CUT	Tom Gandy	+7	73	76			149
CUT	Liam Johnston	+7	75	74			149
CUT	Janne Kaske	+7	76	73			149
CUT	Zander Lombard	+7	72	77			149
CUT	Carlos Pigem	+7	78	71			149
CUT	Bernd Ritthammer	+7	72	77			149
CUT	Ajeetesh Sandhu	+7	73	76			149
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	+7	75	74			149
CUT	Dale Whitnell	+7	72	77			149
CUT	Daniel van Tonder	+7	74	75			149
CUT	Nino Bertasio	+8	75	75			150
CUT	Gaganjeet Bhullar	+8	74	76			150
CUT	Grégory Bourdy	+8	77	73			150
CUT	Paul Dunne	+8	73	77			150
CUT	Damien Perrier	+8	76	74			150
CUT	Graeme Storm	+8	73	77			150
CUT	Euan Walker (a)	+8	79	71			150
CUT	Eric Bae (a)	+9	78	73			151
CUT	Haydn Porteous	+9	73	78			151
CUT	Lars van Meijel	+9	74	77			151
CUT	Sebastian Heisele	+10	72	80			152
CUT	Tyler Koivisto	+10	68	84			152
CUT	Marcel Schneider	+10	78	74			152
CUT	Justin Walters	+11	74	79			153
CUT	Gregory Havret	+12	81	73			154
CUT	Andrea Pavan	+13	78	77			155
CUT	Oliver Wilson	+13	79	76			155
CUT	Joe Long (a)	+14	77	79			156
CUT	James Ashfield	+16	75	83			158
CUT	Haotong Li	+17	84	75			159
CUT	Tim Dykes	+18	83	77			160
CUT	Matt Roberts	+21	82	81			163