Published July 17, 2008 on March 31, 2019

Gallacher Triumphs in Hero Indian Open

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Stephen Gallacher birdied three of his last four holes to produce a stunning comeback and win his first European Tour title in five years at the Hero Indian Open.

The Scot had shared the first-round lead but a second round 74 saw him slip back and his chances looked doomed when he made a quadruple bogey eight on the seventh hole on Sunday.

The lead kept moving backwards on a windy day at DLF Golf and Country Club but as he stood on the 15th tee, Gallacher still looked an outside bet facing one of the toughest closing stretches on the Race to Dubai.

The 2014 Ryder Cup star knows a thing or two about performing under pressure, however, and he took advantage of the par five before hitting stunning approaches into the 17th and last to claim his first win since the second of back to back Omega Dubai Desert Classic titles in 2014. On Mother’s Day back in his native Scotland, it was a father and son show in New Delhi, with son Jack caddying for Gallacher this season in what is likely to be a permanent move for the duo.

A closing 71 moved the 44-year-old to nine under and gave him a one-shot win over Japan’s Masahiro Kawamura, with Spaniard Jorge Campillo a further shot back.

Kawamura had the opportunity to force a play-off with Gallacher at the last but could not take it into extra time as he could only make par. The Japanese settled for second place on his own following a 73.

American Julian Suri had led by three after 12 holes but produced a quadruple bogey of his own on the treacherous 14th to slip back, and he finished alongside South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout at six under.

Bezuidenhout made six birdies and two bogeys in a 68 that handed him a third top ten in four events and he finished three shots off the lead, one ahead of fellow South Africans George Coetzee and Erik van Rooyen, Spaniard Nacho Elvira and England’s Callum Shinkwin.

Finn Kalle Samooja made the third hole-in-one of the week with a pitching wedge from 139 yards on the 12th for the eighth ace of the season.

Local prospects Rashid Khan (70) and S. Chikkarangappa (74) finished as the highest-placed Indians in tied-10th position at the event which was celebrating its 55th edition this week.

Gavin Green of Malaysian posted a final round 80 to finish six-over 294 for joint 58^th spot. The other Malaysian in the field, Nicholas Fung withdrew from the tournament due to a neck injury.

 

Final scores

279 S Gallacher (Sco) 67 74 67 71,
280 M Kawamura (Jpn) 69 70 68 73,
281 J Campillo (Esp) 70 73 71 67,
282 C Bezuidenhout (RSA) 68 76 70 68, J Suri (USA) 67 67 71 77,
283 G Coetzee (RSA) 70 66 74 73, E Van Rooyen (RSA) 69 73 69 72, C Shinkwin (Eng) 72 65 68 78, N Elvira (Esp) 72 69 72 70,
284 K Horne (RSA) 73 73 70 68, M Korhonen (Fin) 71 69 70 74, V Dubuisson (Fra) 71 72 70 71, A Otaegui (Esp) 70 72 73 69, S Kim (USA) 76 68 67 73, S Chikkarangappa (Ind) 74 70 66 74, R Khan (Ind) 72 70 72 70, J Todd (USA) 73 69 72 70,
285 K Samooja (Fin) 75 71 69 70, M Schwab (Aut) 72 68 70 75, J Morrison (Eng) 70 71 69 75, R Rock (Eng) 70 70 75 70, N Bertasio (Ita) 70 75 73 67,
286 B Wiesberger (Aut) 71 70 75 70, P Marksaeng (Tha) 69 69 78 70,
287 P Pittayarat (Tha) 71 70 74 72, A Chesters (Eng) 69 73 71 74,
288 S Sharma (Ind) 69 73 71 75, J Higginbottom (Aus) 73 70 77 68, A Pavan (Ita) 75 68 72 73, L Gagli (Ita) 76 65 72 75, H Porteous (RSA) 73 73 70 72,
289 B Campbell (Nzl) 72 71 73 73, A Rai (Eng) 74 69 73 73, R Jacquelin (Fra) 70 74 70 75,
290 S Hend (Aus) 69 68 74 79, S Vincent (Zim) 72 72 72 74, M Fraser (Aus) 71 71 74 74, P Saksansin (Tha) 69 75 71 75,
291 P Larrazábal (Esp) 68 76 73 74, G Bhullar (Ind) 72 74 74 71, B Henson (USA) 70 72 79 70, J Singh Brar (Eng) 72 70 75 74, J Hansen (Den) 73 72 70 76, W Liang (Chn) 72 73 74 72,
292 J Walters (RSA) 74 71 78 69, N Thangaraja (Sri) 71 70 77 74, R Karlsson (Swe) 68 68 73 83, R Wannasrichan (Tha) 73 73 74 72, J Catlin (USA) 71 75 72 74, P Meesawat (Tha) 68 74 71 79, S Brazel (Aus) 73 69 73 77, S Chawrasia (Ind) 74 72 71 75, H Tanihara (Jpn) 71 73 71 77,
293 A Sandhu (Ind) 74 71 73 75, R Ramsay (Sco) 69 71 75 78, S Brown (Eng) 73 70 74 76, D Nisbet (Aus) 70 73 73 77,
294 J Wang (Kor) 73 69 76 76, D Horsey (Eng) 72 73 70 79, G Green (Mas) 72 71 71 80, J Kruger (RSA) 73 71 75 75,
295 J Dantorp (Swe) 70 72 70 83,
296 T Pilkadaris (Aus) 75 70 76 75,
297 A Da Silva (Bra) 71 73 73 80, D Kataoka (Jpn) 76 69 74 78, D Burmester (RSA) 71 73 73 80,
298 T Kaewsiribandit (Tha) 71 75 71 81,
300 S Kjeldsen (Den) 71 75 77 77,
301 R Gangjee (Ind) 70 74 77 80, G Singh (Ind) 73 73 73 82,
147 J Janewattananond (Tha) 74 73 0 0, O Fisher (Eng) 73 74 0 0, S Yongcharoenchai (Tha) 71 76 0 0, M Waite (Eng) 71 76 0 0, W Ormsby (Aus) 70 77 0 0,
148 A Lahiri (Ind) 77 71 0 0, H Park (Kor) 77 71 0 0, S Rahman (Ban) 76 72 0 0, A Rohana (Sri) 75 73 0 0, S Kapur (Ind) 74 74 0 0, S Ahmed (Ind) 74 74 0 0, O Chouhan (Ind) 71 77 0 0,
149 S Soderberg (Swe) 76 73 0 0, K Joshi (Ind) 76 73 0 0, J Norris (Aus) 75 74 0 0, N Srithong (Tha) 75 74 0 0, M Dharma (Ind) 73 76 0 0, R Gouveia (Por) 73 76 0 0, M Kieffer (Ger) 71 78 0 0,
150 D Law (Sco) 78 72 0 0, P Peterson (USA) 78 72 0 0, D Bajaj (Ind) 77 73 0 0, A Raj (Ind) 77 73 0 0, K Kumar (Ind) 77 73 0 0, U Mane (Ind) 76 74 0 0, J Randhawa (Ind) 76 74 0 0, M Kokocinski (Swe) 75 75 0 0, S Khan (Ind) 74 76 0 0, M Mollah (Ban) 73 77 0 0, D Boonma (Tha) 72 78 0 0, S Chan (Tpe) 71 79 0 0, E Molinari (Ita) 69 81 0 0,
151 P Tangkamolprasert (Tha) 76 75 0 0, M Shin (USA) 74 77 0 0, M Warren (Sco) 73 78 0 0, J Veerman (USA) 71 80 0 0,
152 K Kochhar (Ind) 78 74 0 0, B Stone (RSA) 78 74 0 0, C Nirat (Tha) 77 75 0 0,
153 V Parikh (am) (Ind) 77 76 0 0, V Ahlawat (Ind) 77 76 0 0, M Perera (Sri) 76 77 0 0, D Howell (Eng) 75 78 0 0, P Figueiredo (Por) 73 80 0 0,
154 T Pulkkanen (Fin) 81 73 0 0, M Mamat (Sin) 79 75 0 0, M Choi (Kor) 78 76 0 0, M Manassero (Ita) 77 77 0 0, Y Chang (Kor) 76 78 0 0, H Gupta (Ind) 75 79 0 0, T Ghai (Ind) 73 81 0 0,
155 A Wu (Chn) 80 75 0 0, V Madappa (Ind) 77 78 0 0,
156 C Kumar (Ind) 77 79 0 0, A Chadha (Ind) 77 79 0 0,
157 Y Chandra (Ind) 81 76 0 0, M Kumar (Ind) 79 78 0 0,
159 D Singh (Ind) 83 76 0 0, A Singh Ahlawat (am) (Ind) 79 80 0 0,
161 C Wood (Eng) 80 81 0 0, R Wattel (Fra) 77 84 0 0,
162 S Das (Ind) 80 82 0 0, A Sharma (Ind) 76 86 0 0,
163 A Quiros (Esp) 84 79 0 0,
165 A Malik (Ind) 84 81 0 0,
167 D Gleeson (Aus) 84 83 0 0,
174 H Sethie (am) (Ind) 87 87 0 0,
78 Z Lombard (RSA) 78 RT 0 0,
80 K Sharma (am) (Ind) 80 RT 0 0,
81 R Lee (Can) 81 RT 0 0,
78 S Norris (RSA) 78 WD 0 0,
79 H Baisoya (Ind) 79 WD 0 0,
0 N Fung (Mas) RT 0 0 0, S Manley (Wal) RT 0 0 0,