Japan’s Keita Nakajima cruised to a wire-to-wire victory at the Indian Open on Sunday to lift his maiden DP World Tour title by four strokes.
Nakajima, 23, finished with a 17-under par total of 271 with fellow Indian Veer Ahlawat, Sweden’s Sebastian Soderberg and American Johannes Veerman sharing second on 13-under.
The former amateur world number one led after every round at the DLF Golf and Country Club near New Delhi and had a four-stroke cushion over Malaysia’s Gavin Green starting the final day.
But he ran into trouble on the back nine, starting with a double-bogey on the 14th.
He clawed one stroke back on the next by sinking a 20-footer but then missed three successive greens to finish his one-over par round of 73 with bogeys on each of the final three holes.
Soderberg also dropped a shot at the last to finish with a 67 but Ahlawat gave the home crowd something to cheer when he sank an eagle putt on the 18th to get into a share of second place after a 71 laced with four bogeys.
Veerman closed with a bogey-free 67 but Green fell away with a two-over 74.
