Aartselaar, Belgium (SportsNetwork.com) – William Harrold parred the first playoff hole Sunday to defeat Florian Fritsch and win the Belgian Challenge Open.<\/p>\n
Fritsch followed a birdie at the 17th with a closing par to post a 6-under 65 and meet Harrold at 18-under-par 266. Harrold, who was the third-round leader, carded a 5-under 66 during his final round at Cleydael Golf & Country Club to also end there.<\/p>\n
The pair headed back to the 18th, and Harrold made par to earn his first European Challenge Tour title.<\/p>\n
Harrold birdied two of the first three holes to start his round. After four pars in a row, Harrold poured in three straight birdies from the eighth to get to 18-under. He closed with eight consecutive pars. For the week, Harrold played the front nine in 17-under par with no bogeys and 17 birdies.<\/p>\n
Fritsch birdied three of the first four holes to open his round. He wrapped birdies at six and eight around a bogey on the seventh. Fritsch birdied the 13th and 17th to join Harrold at 18-under.<\/p>\n
Jason Palmer and Dave Coupland both closed with 66s and they shared third at minus-16. Joel Stalter posted a 67 on Sunday and ended alone in fifth place at 15-under-par 269.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aartselaar, Belgium (SportsNetwork.com) – William Harrold parred the first playoff hole Sunday to defeat Florian Fritsch and win the Belgian Challenge Open. Fritsch followed a birdie at the 17th with a closing par to post a 6-under 65 and meet Harrold at 18-under-par 266. Harrold, who was the third-round leader, carded a 5-under 66 during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}