Scott Jamieson\u00a0earned his second DP World Tour win almost 14 years after his first with a two-shot victory at the\u00a02026 Nexo Championship.<\/p>\n
The Scot made it back-to-back home winners at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire, following Grant Forrest\u2019s success last year, as a final round of 67 saw him to 11 under par and ensured he held off England\u2019s<\/p>\n
An emotional Jamieson said: \u201cFourteen years, that\u2019s wild. It\u2019s just so tough, so hard to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so patient all day\u2026 just can\u2019t believe I\u2019ve won.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan\u2019s compatriot Andy Sullivan was third outright after overnight leader Shaun Norris\u2019 challenge faded following a two-stroke penalty on the front nine.<\/p>\n
Jamieson rolled in a solid birdie putt at the seventh and a longer one at the eighth, and he went desperately close to a third in succession while Jordan made an unfortunate double bogey at the ninth after failing to execute a tricky escape from rough on the side of a dune.<\/p>\n
Norris suffered a two-shot penalty after he was adjudged to have broken Rule 8.1 \u2013 Players Actions That Improve Conditions Affecting the Stroke \u2013 in moving a divot from under his feet in the fifth fairway.<\/p>\n
That dropped him out of the lead as he turned for home and left Jamieson as the outright leader. The Scot began his back nine with two more birdies, extending his run to four in five holes.<\/p>\n
He dropped a shot at the 13th and with Jordan having birdied the 12th, the lead was back down to one shot \u2013 until Jamieson pulled two clear again with a birdie at the spectacular 14th hole.<\/p>\n
Jamieson struck a decisive blow at the 17th when he got up and down from a bunker in front of the green to save par and then watched Jordan\u2019s own par putt stay up on the left edge of the hole.<\/p>\n
That gave Jamieson a three-shot lead to take down the last and he made a safe par, with Jordan\u2019s up-and-down for a birdie making certain of second place on his own.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI was kind of patient all week. I think when you get the weather like we had, it\u2019s easy to be patient because level par is a good score.<\/p>\n
\u201cMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I was here practising and I felt like I was hitting the ball really well. Did some good stuff with my coach, Jamie Gough, he\u2019s helped me tremendously in the last couple of months.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I was feeling good, but that doesn\u2019t always translate into good results. But it did this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jamieson has found himself battling to keep his DP World Tour card in recent years, most notably at the 2023 Qatar Masters where he made five birdies in the final nine holes to jump from 119th to 82nd on the Race to Dubai Rankings delivered by DP World.<\/p>\n
This week\u2019s result means an even more dramatic leap from 135th to 42nd and secures his card for two more years and he said: \u201cThat grind\u2019s worse than trying to win. Trying to win\u2019s enjoyable.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut obviously the position I was in this year, you know, I was starting to get to the business end of the season and didn\u2019t have a lot of points up.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo yeah, to win and get a couple of years of free go is nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sullivan holed a long birdie putt from well off the back of the 11th green for a second straight gain, and fourth in six holes, then mixed two birdies and two bogeys in the closing holes for a 68 to finish seven under.<\/p>\n
Quim Vidal, Marcus Kinhult and Keita Nakajima shared fourth place on six under, with Norris\u2019 76 leaving him five under alongside Richard Mansell \u2013 who in contrast shot 65 to claim the Course Record Presented By Nexo and a $10,000 bonus \u2013 and Fabrizio Zanotti.<\/p>\n
Jamieson also finished as the winner of the Closing Swing, adding a $200,000 bonus to take his week\u2019s earnings beyond the $700,000 mark.<\/p>\n
He is the second home winner in successive weeks, following Jeff Winther\u2019s Danish Golf Championship success, and said: \u201cI\u2019m sure we\u2019ll have fun tonight. Yeah. Obviously, winning in Scotland\u2019s cool, really cool.<\/p>\n
\u201cShout out to Jeff Winther winning in Denmark last week. I\u2019m good friends with Jeff, so a little bit of inspiration there.\u201d<\/p>\n
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