(CNN)US golfer Billy Horschel won the BMW PGA Championship connected Sunday, becoming conscionable the 2nd American player to triumph the celebrated event.
The 34-year-old changeable a superb seven-under last circular 65 to decorativeness connected 19-under and a shot up of Jamie Donaldson, Laurie Canter and Kiradech Aphibarnrat astatine Wentworth Golf Club.
Playing successful the penultimate group, Horschel's birdie connected the 18th spread gave him the marginal pb implicit Canter who was successful the last pairing.
But England's Canter could lone decorativeness with a par connected the past hole, handing Horschel the celebrated trophy, and putting his sanction alongside 1 of golf's top players, Arnold Palmer.
Palmer, wide considered 1 of the sport's astir influential players, is the lone different American to triumph the event, doing truthful successful 1975 astatine Royal St George's.
And a time aft what would've been Palmer's 92nd birthday, it was a peculiar infinitesimal for the Florida native.
Horschel was 1 of the American golfers who conscionable missed retired connected qualifying for Steve Stricker's Ryder Cup team, but it didn't look to fuss him.
He came retired the blocks firing successful Sunday's last round, posting 3 birdies and nary bogeys connected the opening 9 holes.
And coming down the last straight, with unit mounting astatine the apical of the person board, Horschel avoided immoderate bogeys arsenic good arsenic carding 4 much birdies to borderline him into the lead.
In winning the European Tour's flagship event, Horschel becomes the archetypal American to triumph a Rolex Series event.
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