Fleetwood ended with a four-round total of 277 to defeat Fox by one shot after the New Zealander bogeyed the final hole.
Tommy Fleetwood of England won the Nedbank Golf Challenge 2022 at Gary Player Country Club on Sunday with a five-under-par 67, fighting off a fierce challenge on the back nine from Ryan Fox and Shubhankar Sharma. Fleetwood ended with a four-round total of 277 to defeat Fox by one shot after the New Zealander bogeyed the final hole, with India’s Shubhankar a further shot down to the third place. Since winning the Nedbank Golf Challenge prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, Fleetwood hadn’t won in three years. With his victory, Fleetwood earned his sixth DP World Tour victory. With the season-ending DP World Tour Championship coming up, his success lifted him to fourth place overall on the DP World Tour.
Fleetwood shot an eagle from the bunker on the 14th hole to tie Fox and Sharma and set up an exciting closing four holes. When Fleetwood chipped in for par at the end after nearly sinking a birdie effort, Sharma’s challenge ended owing to bogeys at holes 16 and 17. Fox too paid for a subpar tee shot by recording his only bogey of the day. As a result of which, the New Zealander was denied the opportunity to overtake the field in the tour standings before the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai the following week.
Position | Player | Score | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Total |
1 | Tommy Fleetwood | -11 | 70 | 70 | 70 | 67 | 277 |
2 | Ryan Fox | -10 | 64 | 74 | 72 | 68 | 278 |
3 | Shubhankar Sharma | -9 | 72 | 69 | 69 | 69 | 279 |
4 | Richie Ramsay | -8 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 69 | 280 |
T5 | Sebastian Soderberg | -7 | 71 | 71 | 72 | 67 | 281 |
T5 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | -7 | 73 | 68 | 68 | 72 | 281 |
7 | Gavin Green | -6 | 72 | 65 | 75 | 70 | 282 |
T8 | Min Woo Lee | -5 | 68 | 76 | 70 | 69 | 283 |
T8 | Richard Bland | -5 | 68 | 68 | 75 | 72 | 283 |
T8 | Maximilian Kieffer | -5 | 70 | 72 | 69 | 72 | 283 |
T8 | Rasmus Højgaard | -5 | 69 | 69 | 69 | 76 | 283 |
T8 | Branden Grace | -5 | 70 | 67 | 71 | 75 | 283 |
T13 | Jordan Smith | -4 | 75 | 70 | 69 | 70 | 284 |
T13 | Ewen Ferguson | -4 | 71 | 73 | 69 | 71 | 284 |
T13 | Scott Jamieson | -4 | 71 | 71 | 70 | 72 | 284 |
T13 | Thriston Lawrence | -4 | 74 | 69 | 65 | 76 | 284 |
T13 | Luke Donald | -4 | 65 | 71 | 73 | 75 | 284 |
T13 | Thomas Detry | -4 | 73 | 67 | 67 | 77 | 284 |