Guido Van der Valk. –CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Dutchman Guido van der Valk performed the 72nd gap properly sufficient on a pressure-laden Friday to fend off two hard-charging pursuers and pocket the ICTSI Forest Hills Basic title for his first win of the Philippine Golf Tour season.
The 45-year-old truly prevented an implosion with a clutch par in regulation on the 18th that sealed a one-under-par 70 for a one-shot win over Keanu Jahns and Angelo Que, who truly held the clubhouse lead after checking in with a 66 and 64, respectively.
“No. 18 isn’t the best gap—there’s lots of bother on the market,” Van der Valk mentioned after tallying 272. “I hit drive and adopted it up with a very nice second shot. That helped me calm down a bit and shut it out.”
What was imagined to be a three-man race for the crown within the ultimate spherical amongst Van der Valk and Reymon Jaraula—who began the day sharing a three-shot lead over younger Aidric Chan—become a wide-open race as Van der Valk had all three of his bogeys within the again 9.
Que was flawless in carving out a 30-34 effort, whereas Jahns had 5 of his seven birdies coming residence, with the final of his two bogeys that got here on the par-3 fifteenth stopping him for forging a playoff with Van der Valk.
“For some motive, I received a bit of defensive on the again 9,” Van der Valk mentioned. “That’s after I began moving into bother. I struggled to shake it off and ended up making some bogeys, which positively made issues more durable for me towards the end.
“Nonetheless, I hung in there,” he mentioned.
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