Viva La Rozner – Soaring Hopefully Stateside After Stunning Eagle Finish

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Frenchman Antione Rozner could be heading to next year’s PGA Tour after sensationally eagling the last hole to be now just one round shy of becoming also the first Frenchman to capture the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.

Rozner, 31 headed up the 18th alongside playing partner Rory McIlroy but lying two shots behind the World No. 3 and with Dane Rasmus Hojgaard in the clubhouse at 12-under-par on the host Earth course at the Jumeirah Estates.

The World No. 154th ranked Rozner found the fairway with a 318-yard drive before decent applause in landing his 191-yard second onto the green around 20-feet shy of the hole but after a couple of seconds his ball began to roll towards the cup and stopping only nine-feet from the cup.

Then are McIlroy’s birdie putt Rozner stepped-up and had the crowd on their feet in brilliantly holing his eagle ‘3’ putt and proudly walking off the 18th now tied for the lead with McIlroy and Hojgaard.

Rozner was the last player to putt and his eagle being the only ‘3’ at the 18th on Saturday.

EAGLE finish

“The eagle on last helped me big time”, he said smiling.

“I’m happy with my day overall. I didn’t produce my best golf of the week so far but I was always hanging in there. I managed to hole a couple putts on the back nine that were big for me.

“I think shooting in the 60s here is good. It’s always good. So I have to be happy with the score for sure”.

Rozner’s won three times on the DP World Tour, including his maiden triumph at the 2020 Golf in Dubai Championship along with a payout of a career cash high of Euro 190,000 the following year’s Qatar Masters but nothing a huge at the season-ending final event that carried a prize purse of $US 2m.

As well, Rozner’s efforts on golf’s traditional ‘Moving Day’ has the Paris-born golfer projected to end the year up 19 places to No. 4 on the Race to Dubai rankings and, if so, he’ll be joining Mattieu Pavon next season on the PGA Tour.

“To be honest I don’t know what to tell you right now because I’m going to try to focus on tomorrow and tomorrow only”, when Pavon was asked his thoughts on possibly earning his PGA Tour card.

“Put a good score, and that’s the only thing that’s going to matter now for me. I have to come out with the right mindset, and yeah, do the best I can and we’ll see how it goes in the end”.

Also, Rozner spoke of his delight in being paired with McIlroy.

“Besides being 50 yards behind on every tee shot, I think it was pretty fun”, said Rozner smiling.

“He’s a nice guy. He’s been very cool with me from the first tee until the end. So it was for sure a really good experience; a day I’ll not forget.

“But again, I had a lot of fun, and making eagle on the last was fantastic for me. I wasn’t aiming there but yeah, happy with the results”.

 

 



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