married Emily,<\/a> who carried his bag that week and this.<\/p>\n“I can’t thank her enough,” said Dean on Sky Sports. “I hope I made her proud.”<\/p>\n
Dean started Sunday’s final round seven shots behind leader Dan Hillier and made a move with four birdies in his opening six holes. Five more followed on the back nine, including a 10-footer at the last to set the target at 14 under par.<\/p>\n
He then had to wait about 90 minutes to be crowned champion as challengers came and faded.<\/p>\n
Dean eventually won by three strokes from four players, including 2023 champion Hillier, at a tournament that was disrupted by stormy conditions in Warwickshire.<\/p>\n
More than nine hours of play was lost on Thursday and Friday, leaving organisers scrambling to complete the event before more forecast inclement weather returned.<\/p>\n
Marco Penge, who had a breakthrough year in 2025 with three wins, led on 10 under after a sparkling 65 in round two.<\/p>\n
He also started the final round on that total after completing a third-round 72 on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
Five birdies and two bogeys in his first nine holes of round four catapulted Penge into a one-stroke lead with nine to play.<\/p>\n
However, a third bogey of the round, on the 11th, halted his momentum and five more pars followed to leave him 12 under with two to play.<\/p>\n
Penge compounded the error of a wild drive into trees on the par-five 17th by hitting a branch with his second shot and then had to chip out sideways with his third.<\/p>\n
That led to a bogey and with his challenge over, he dropped a shot at the last too to finish with a 72 and 10-under total.<\/p>\n
A double-bogey six on the sixth hurt Hillier’s tilt at winning a second title. And while the New Zealander had two birdies on his back nine, he closed with a one-over 73 to finish on 11 under.<\/p>\n
That left him joint second alongside the Danish pair of Niklas Norgaard and Jacob Skov Olesen who both signed for 71s, and Spain’s Nacho Elvira who carded a 69.<\/p>\n
Paraguay’s Fabrizio Zanotti threatened to trouble Dean’s lead late on after firing four birdies in five holes during a purple patch on his back nine to get to 12 under, but he had a triple bogey on the last after taking two shots to get out of a fairway bunker and then finding water.<\/p>\n
The British Masters was the first event in the race to qualify for the European team to take on the United States at next year’s Ryder Cup in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Masters final leaderboard -14 J Dean (Eng); -11 JS Olesen (Den), N Norgaard (Den), N Elvira (Spa),…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1033389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1033388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}