Dan Bradbury signed for a flawless 66 to reach 16-under and win the FedEx Open de France by one shot. He had won once previously on the DP World Tour at the 2022 Joburg Open.
“It hasn’t sunk in at all,” said the Englishman. “The goal this week was to make the cut so I didn’t have to go to Korea (needing to) keep my card.
“I remember looking at one point, playing with Gunner (Wiebe) and Joe (Dean), they were both two shots behind me and I was second and they were, like, 14th. Part of me was just thinking, ‘well, don’t drop a few!’.
“It was just, stay in it – we all know the finish round here, anything can happen, and it almost did.”
With his win Bradbury’s place in the season-ending Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and DP World Tour Championship in Dubai is secured.
Many players were in contention throughout the final round but Bradbury pulled ahead with three consecutive birdies from the 14th and had to wait for Dane Thorbjørn Olesen and Englishman Sam Bairstow to par the final hole and finish second one shot behind.
Denmark’s Jeff Winther and Germany’s Yannik Paul both stayed bogey-free and closed with rounds of 64 and 66 respectively for their share of second place.
Swede Jesper Svensson who started the round with a one-shot lead made just two birdies against five bogeys and a double bogey at the par-4 18th for a 76 and a T27 finish at 8-under.
