The Englishman Danny Willett , with a final run with 67 strokes (-5), and a total of 268 (-20), endorsed the BMW PGA Championship, of the European Circuit, ending with three hits of advantage over the Spanish Jon Rahm , which had to settle for second place, after its 70 final.

This is the first title of Willett, 31, in the present 2019, although it is his seventh title of the European Circuit , which joins one in the PGA and, especially, the triumph achieved in the Augusta Masters in 2016.

Willett's victory in Surrey, starting the last two days sharing leadership with Rahm, began to glimpse with a sweeping start this Sunday: he made two birdies in the first three holes, four in the initial nine. Barrika started instead with the pair in the first three, and his first birdie did not reach the fourth hole.

Final emotion

Only at the end of the 13th hole Rahm was again closer to his rival, by putting himself only with a blow of disadvantage. But immediately the gap between the two was again widened and, even, the Spaniard came to share the second place with the South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout , who delivered a final card with 68 (272 total).

Willett, with two final birdies cleared all doubts about the winner. The title was his, the first of 2019, the second in importance after his brilliant victory in 2016 at the Augusta Masters, where he then became the first European in 17 years to win this prestigious tournament.

Rahm, number six in the world rankings, had to settle for a meritorious second place. A position that most of the players would envy, but that for the Spaniard leaves a sinsabor since it had very close the triumph.

Good taste also leaves the Spanish Rafa Cabrera Bello , who with his last card with 69 strokes concluded sixth, seven of the winner. He also went from less to more in the tournament, the Englishman Rory McIlroy , second in the world, who eventually shared the ninth place, nine impacts from Willett.

Of the rest of Spaniards, the incombustible Miguel Ángel Jiménez finished thirty-first (285); Gonzalo Fernández Castaño , forty-first (287); and Álvaro Quirós , sixty-fourth (292).

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