Connor Syme won his maiden DP World Tour title as he saw off playing partner Joakim Lagergren by two shots at the 2025 KLM Open.
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The 29-year-old Scot was always in control on Sunday at The International in Amsterdam as he closed out a breakthrough win in his 182nd appearance on the DP World Tour.
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With Syme starting the day two shots ahead of Lagergren with the rest of the field a further four back, it came down to almost a match play battle between the pair – even as a weather-related rescheduling left them playing in a three-ball with Francesco Laporta.
Syme struck first with a birdie at the second, hitting his approach to four feet. Lagergren responded with a 15-foot putt at the seventh but gave the shot back after finding sand beside the ninth green.
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Both players birdied the 13th, Syme holing from 15 feet and Lagergren matching his score, but the Scot dropped a shot at the next – his first bogey in 33 holes, since the 16th on Friday – to cut his lead back to two.
Lagergren missed the 15th green and though he almost salvaged par with a brilliant chip that brushed the edge of the hole, a shot slipped away. Syme had a birdie chance from around 10 feet and though the putt died off to the left, his lead was three with three holes to play.
Lagergren hit an excellent approach into the 16th but had to settle for a par, with Syme making a superb up-and-down to match his score.
Another nerveless par at the 17th, as Lagergren dropped a shot, gave Syme a four-shot lead to take up the last and after all three players hit their tee-shots within two feet of each other in the fairway, Syme calmly hit two more shots to the front of the green.
Lagergren sent a Hail Mary fairway wood right over the pin and holed a fine eagle putt to finish nine under but Syme two-putted from 70 feet to join the likes of Colin Mongomerie, Gordon Brand Jr and Ken Brown as Scottish winners of the KLM Open.
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South Africa’s Jayden Schaper finished third at four under after a final round of 69.
Ewen Ferguson had his own champagne moment earlier in the day with a hole-in-one at the seventh, helping him to a 67 and a share of third place on three under with fellow Scot Richie Ramsay and England’s Jack Senior.
Laporta bogeyed the last after finding sand and then water to drop to two under, level with last week’s Austrian Alpine Open presented by SalzburgerLand champion Nicolai von Dellingshausen as well as Spanish pair Jorge Campillo and Manuel Elvira and Englishmen Andy Sullivan and Dan Bradbury.
