Published July 17, 2008 on January 27, 2020

Herbert Claims Play-off Victory in Dubai

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Lucas Herbert won his maiden European Tour title with a play-off victory over Christiaan Bezuidenhout on a dramatic final day at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

The duo entered the final day six shots off the lead but with strong winds and showers at Emirates Golf Club, the leaderboard was blown wide open.

Bezuidenhout and Herbert both fired brilliant rounds of 68 to get to nine under par, with the South African finding water after laying up on the last and making a clutch putt for bogey, while Herbert birdied the 17th and 18th.

It was the Australian who found the water with his second on the first play-off hole before saving par thanks to a stunning shot from the drop zone to take it back to the tee.

His second shot next time around could not have been more different, as he got within 20 feet and a two-putt birdie handed him the title, and second position in the Race to Dubai Rankings.

Spaniard Adri Arnaus, South African Dean Burmerster and England’s Tom Lewis finished at seven-under, a shot clear of American Kurt Kitayama and China’s Wu Ashun.

Malaysia’s Gavin Green had a relatively good outing posting rounds of 73-71-70-73 for total one-under 287, eight strokes adrift the champion Lucas Herbert, finishing in joint 27^th spot with France’s Langasque and Finland’s Samooja.

 

Lucas Herbert won at the 2nd play-off hole and after 72 holes with a total of 279 (-9).

279 L Herbert (Aus) 69 71 71 68, C Bezuidenhout (RSA) 73 66 72 68,
281 T Lewis (Eng) 73 69 65 74, A Arnaus (Esp) 72 68 71 70, D Burmester (RSA) 69 68 72 72,
282 K Kitayama (USA) 69 70 68 75, A Wu (Chn) 69 69 67 77,
283 M Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 74 71 67 71, B Dechambeau (USA) 70 67 70 76, R Macintyre (Sco) 74 70 67 72,
284 D Lipsky (USA) 68 75 71 70, T Fleetwood (Eng) 75 65 69 75, S Lowry (Irl) 72 69 69 74, E Pepperell (Eng) 69 67 72 76, M Pavon (Fra) 69 71 75 69,
285 V Perez (Fra) 73 66 67 79, I Poulter (Eng) 71 73 71 70, M Kaymer (Ger) 72 71 73 69, G Forrest (Sco) 73 68 69 75, M Jiménez (Esp) 72 74 69 70, N Elvira (Esp) 73 70 66 76, J Singh Brar (Eng) 71 71 70 73,
286 M Schwab (Aut) 72 72 70 72, V Hovland (Nor) 71 70 71 74, S Garcia (Esp) 71 72 70 73, L Oosthuizen (RSA) 71 72 73 70,
287 R Langasque (Fra) 69 69 73 76, K Samooja (Fin) 69 74 70 74, G Green (Mas) 73 71 70 73,
288 R Fox (Nzl) 76 70 66 76, M Korhonen (Fin) 74 71 68 75,
289 J Smith (Eng) 72 70 71 76, J Guerrier (Fra) 71 74 73 71, S Jamieson (Sco) 74 71 69 75, T Pulkkanen (Fin) 73 73 72 71, T Detry (Bel) 73 72 72 72,
290 S Kjeldsen (Den) 69 76 65 80, H Stenson (Swe) 72 70 72 76, E Van Rooyen (RSA) 70 75 69 76, T Pieters (Bel) 67 77 69 77, J Harding (RSA) 71 73 71 75, J Winther (Den) 76 70 65 79,
291 L Gagli (Ita) 75 70 73 73, D Willett (Eng) 76 70 72 73,
292 A Björk (Swe) 77 69 72 74, A Otaegui (Esp) 72 71 74 75, R Karlsson (Swe) 69 68 79 76, B Hebert (Fra) 72 73 68 79, M Fitzpatrick (Eng) 74 71 69 78,
293 N Colsaerts (Bel) 77 69 69 78, P Harrington (Irl) 71 75 73 74, D Law (Sco) 75 71 76 71, G Bhullar (Ind) 73 71 74 75, R Wattel (Fra) 70 76 76 71, L Westwood (Eng) 78 68 73 74,
294 S Norris (RSA) 69 73 72 80, M Kawamura (Jpn) 69 73 75 77,
295 Z Lombard (RSA) 71 75 74 75, C Shinkwin (Eng) 73 73 70 79, J Scrivener (Aus) 77 69 73 76, D Drysdale (Sco) 74 71 74 76, J Hansen (Den) 75 70 74 76, S Crocker (USA) 72 72 75 76, R Ramsay (Sco) 73 73 73 76, N Møller (Den) 74 72 75 74,
296 N Bertasio (Ita) 74 70 70 82, M Keyser (RSA) 74 68 72 82, J Luiten (Ned) 72 72 73 79, S Heisele (Ger) 70 69 74 83,
298 S Soderberg (Swe) 71 75 77 75,
299 A Rai (Eng) 77 69 72 81,
147 A Johnston (Eng) 76 71 0 0, B Poke (Den) 76 71 0 0, G McDowell (Nir) 72 75 0 0, R Fisher (Eng) 75 72 0 0, J Morrison (Eng) 75 72 0 0, M Kieffer (Ger) 77 70 0 0, J Schaper (am) (RSA) 71 76 0 0,
148 W Ormsby (Aus) 74 74 0 0, S Horsfield (Eng) 72 76 0 0, O Fisher (Eng) 72 76 0 0, R Rock (Eng) 74 74 0 0, P Larrazábal (Esp) 73 75 0 0, T Lee (Kor) 72 76 0 0, H Porteous (RSA) 75 73 0 0, D Horsey (Eng) 77 71 0 0, J Lagergren (Swe) 79 69 0 0, M Southgate (Eng) 74 74 0 0, S Brown (Eng) 77 71 0 0, B Wiesberger (Aut) 76 72 0 0,
149 A Quiros (Esp) 75 74 0 0, R Cabrera Bello (Esp) 76 73 0 0, R Paratore (Ita) 73 76 0 0, J Wang (Kor) 79 70 0 0, P Waring (Eng) 77 72 0 0, D Howell (Eng) 80 69 0 0, R Sterne (RSA) 75 74 0 0, M Kinhult (Swe) 75 74 0 0,
150 J Walters (RSA) 78 72 0 0, D Gaunt (Aus) 78 72 0 0, A Chesters (Eng) 75 75 0 0, T Aiken (RSA) 74 76 0 0, S Gallacher (Sco) 73 77 0 0, G Migliozzi (Ita) 75 75 0 0, E Molinari (Ita) 76 74 0 0,
151 R McEvoy (Eng) 78 73 0 0,
152 B Stone (RSA) 73 79 0 0, S Hend (Aus) 73 79 0 0, R Højgaard (Den) 75 77 0 0, S Sharma (Ind) 77 75 0 0, J Janewattananond (Tha) 76 76 0 0, A Levy (Fra) 81 71 0 0,
153 P Lawrie (Sco) 77 76 0 0, O Wilson (Eng) 75 78 0 0, C Paisley (Eng) 76 77 0 0, M Wallace (Eng) 77 76 0 0,
154 H Li (Chn) 78 76 0 0, F Zanotti (Par) 75 79 0 0, J Hill (am) (Eng) 77 77 0 0,
155 S Imahira (Jpn) 81 74 0 0,
156 V Dubuisson (Fra) 81 75 0 0, G Storm (Eng) 83 73 0 0, J Campillo (Esp) 76 80 0 0, R Jacquelin (Fra) 79 77 0 0,
157 C Wood (Eng) 79 78 0 0,
158 A Pavan (Ita) 76 82 0 0, A Marjan (Mar) 79 79 0 0,
160 H Konig (Eng) 80 80 0 0,
162 G Coetzee (RSA) 82 80 0 0,
171 O Almulla (Ksa) 83 88 0 0,
** A Sullivan (Eng) DQ 0 0 0, T Bjørn (Den) RT 0 0 0,