(Reuters) – Shaun Norris overcame a poor start to his ultimate spherical to card a 70 and win the DP World Tour’s Steyn City Championship with 25 underneath par on Sunday, his first victory on the European circuit.
South African Norris, who carded a outstanding 62 on Friday, held a four-shot lead going into the fourth spherical however bogied two of the primary 4 holes and was caught on the again 9 by compatriot Dean Burmester.
Fortunes swung, nonetheless, when Burmester carded a double-bogey six on the par 4 seventeenth, and along with his birdie on the identical gap, Norris claimed victory by three pictures.
“I stayed affected person and stored my head, and finally issues fell into place. I used to be hitting the ball properly and I gave myself probabilities. Things began going my method,” a tearful Norris informed reporters.
(Reporting by Nick Said, modifying by Ed Osmond)
