Mikael Lindberg secured his first DP World Tour title and qualified for the US PGA Championship with a two-stroke win at the 2026 Turkish Airlines Open.
The Swede, making his 70th start on the DP World Tour, held off playing partner Daniel Rodrigues with a final round of 69 to finish ten under par at National Golf Club in Belek, Antalya.
The 33-year-old’s victory sees him top the Asian Swing Rankings and subsequently earn his Major Championship debut at the US PGA Championship in two weeks’ time. He will be joined at Aronimink Golf Club by Austrian Bernd Wiesberger and American Jordan Gumberg who finished second and third on the Rankings respectively.
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Lindberg and Rodrigues both started with birdies at the first hole, though the Swede gave the shot back at the third. He responded with three birdies in the next four holes to move one ahead of Rodrigues, who had also birdied the fourth.
Both players bogeyed the ninth before Lindberg stretched his lead to two with a birdie at the 13th – and momentarily to three with another at the next, until Rodrigues responded in kind.
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The clubhouse target had by now been set at seven under, initially by Jacob Skov Olesen before he was joined by Darius van Driel and Ewen Ferguson. With the trio sitting four back from the on-course lead though, it came down to a battle between Lindberg, Rodrigues and Guido Migliozzi, with the Italian eight under and three behind Lindberg with three to play.
The leader bogeyed the 15th, allowing Rodrigues to halve the deficit while Migliozzi made a good up-and-down for par at the 16th. Rodrigues was unable to get up and down from a bunker at the 16th, leaving Lindberg two shots ahead once more.
Migliozzi was unable to find a birdie over the final two holes, the Italian improving the clubhouse target slightly to eight under but visibly frustrated not to increase the pressure on Lindberg.
Rodrigues’ long birdie putt at the last slid just by the right of the hole, leaving Lindberg three putts to win it and though he left the first well short, the second safely found the heart of the hole to leave him emotional on the green.
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Rodrigues and Migliozzi shared second place on eight under ahead of Ferguson, Van Driel and Olesen.
Ricardo Gouveia made it two Portuguese players in the top 10, tied with Italy’s second-round leader Gregorio De Leo for seventh on six under. Ugo Coussaud, the third member of the final group with Lindberg and Rodrigues, finished five under alongside JC Ritchie, Marcus Armitage and Kota Kaneko.
Player Quotes
Mikael Lindberg: This is like a dream come true really. I’ve been dreaming about this for so many years and to be able to pull this one off, it’s been a very tough week.
I mean, I was in the lead after the first round and I just felt like I don’t know how to describe this, but it’s been mentally very tough pretty much the whole week. So it’s very nice to pull it off. It was tough for everyone. The weather on the front nine was actually a lot better than I expected, so I felt like I took advantage of that a little bit. And then we heard, some water was coming up on the tenth and they said some bad weather coming in, so I felt like we were all trying to speed up a little bit, but it was tough, it was very tough.
My feelings on this last hole, I almost felt dizzy and I almost felt I want to throw up. It’s been a very tough few holes but the last one was definitely tough.
To be honest, I barely knew it was even possible to get into the U.S. PGA Championship because I saw the guys that were leading the Asian swing were quite far ahead. I don’t know what to say really. It’s going to be amazing.
Bernd Wiesberger: It’s a bit off the radar, since what happened last week it’s obviously gone a bit to the back of my head. It’s nice to be back playing a Major Championship and I’m looking forward to heading over there and hopefully having a good week. It obviously changes my schedule a bit coming into the next couple of weeks.
Obviously a little bit disappointed coming off the golf course right now, I’ve thrown away a good week, but it’s definitely a little bit of a bonus to play Major golf again in two weeks’ time.
I think my last one was at the Open in 2022 at St Andrew’s so it’s been a while and it’s nice to get through. It gets a bit of exposure for our guys to play Major Championships again and I’m very glad to be able to grab one of those spots.
