Oslo, Norway (Sports Network) – Jens Fahrbring shot 6-under-par 66 on Sunday to win the Norwegian Challenge by three strokes.<\/p>\n
Fahrbring grabbed the third-round lead with a course-record 62 on Saturday and didn’t relent Sunday, opening with an eagle to set the early tone. The Swede added four birdies to finish the tournament at 19-under-par 269 and claim his inaugural Challenge Tour victory.<\/p>\n
“It feels surreal,” said Fahrbring, who is in his first full season on the circuit. “I’ve been in a bubble the last 36 holes. I never thought I could win out here to be honest so this is the best feeling in the world for me.”<\/p>\n
Fahrbring’s compatriot, Pontus Widegren, carded a 68 and tied for second with Daniel Im (67) at 16-under 272, one shot ahead of Johan Carlsson, who took solo fourth with a final-round 65 at Losby Golf Club.<\/p>\n
In addition to his opening eagle, the 29-year-old Fahrbring added a birdie at the third to turn at 16-under, but Widegren met him there, making up his 1- stroke overnight deficit with four birdies over his outward nine.<\/p>\n
Undaunted, Fahrbring reeled off three straight birdies from the 10th to grab a decisive advantage at 19-under, then played his final six holes at even-par to seal the win.<\/p>\n
“Surprisingly I was really calm out there,” said the victor, who was coming off a tie for third at the Finnish Challenge. “I got nervous maybe at the 16th tee but it’s been a great week. I did not expect to play this well, I was actually quite tired going into this tournament and maybe not feeling that motivated. But maybe that was key for me to just relax and go out and play golf.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oslo, Norway (Sports Network) – Jens Fahrbring shot 6-under-par 66 on Sunday to win the Norwegian Challenge by three strokes. Fahrbring grabbed the third-round lead with a course-record 62 on Saturday and didn’t relent Sunday, opening with an eagle to set the early tone. The Swede added four birdies to finish the tournament at 19-under-par […]<\/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-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","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=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}