TURKISH AIRLINES OPEN REPORT, SCORES

AMERICAN KOEPKA WINS BY ONE 

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Brooks Koepka held off a spirited challenge from Ian Poulter to win the Turkish Airlines Open by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Koepka claimed his first European Tour title in Antalya, a result which ensured Rory McIlroy won The Race to Dubai for the second time in three years.
The American carded a flawless closing 65 at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal to finish on 17 under par, one shot ahead of Poulter, who missed a birdie putt from six feet on the 18th to force a play-off.
Marcel Siem, Jamie Donaldson or Sergio Garcia had needed to win in Turkey and at next week's DP World Tour Championship, Dubai to have a chance of overtaking McIlroy.
And although Siem started the final round just one shot off the lead, the BMW Masters winner could only card a closing 71 to finish joint eighth, with Donaldson 19th and Garcia 25th.

Later it was revealed that Marcel Siem dislocated a rib early Sunday morning while warming up for his round.
“It’s something I haven’t done for a year now because of my surgeries,” he said after his round. “I couldn’t really do it, and dislocated my rib. I thought I can’t even tee it up.
“Then my physio tried to crack it back in, didn’t work and we went to see the chiropractor and they pushed it back in. I had like 1,600 milligrams of ibuprofen. I couldn’t have a proper back swing, but I played all right. I don’t want to blame it on anything, to be honest.” 
Siem closed with a one-under 71 to finish in joint eighth, five shots back of Brooks Koepka. 

Koepka, who won three times on the Challenge Tour last year to gain instant promotion to The European Tour, carded four birdies on the front nine and holed from 40 feet for another on the 10th, before a brilliant approach to the 13th set up an eagle from just eight feet.
That gave him a two-shot lead and although Poulter halved his deficit with his fifth birdie of the day on the same hole, the Ryder Cup star was unable to find another on the last despite a superb long greenside bunker shot.

Key quotes
Brooks Koepka
“The Final Series is what you prepare for all year, so to win one of them is very special, and I hope I can carry it onto Dubai next week.
“I feel like I’ve been playing really well recently. I’ve been knocking on the door for these last two or three months, I’ve been very close and I feel like I should have won a couple. But I’ve learned something new every time, and I used that today. I was very relaxed, very calm today, and I guess it showed.
“To look where I was a year and a half ago on The Challenge Tour, to now be a winner on The European Tour is incredible.”

Ian Poulter
“I missed a couple of opportunities coming in. That was the difference, a couple of putts here and there. I can look back and add them up, and there were plenty.
“I played some good golf this week, but to play a bad round on Saturday is a bit inexcusable. There are good players out here week in, week out, and you need to play well for four rounds of golf.
“But there are still a lot of positives to take from the week. As bad as 2014 has been, the last two weeks have been pretty good. For me to play well over this stretch of tournaments with new equipment in the bag is very pleasing.”
FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72)
271 B Koepka  (USA) 69 67 70 65
272 I Poulter (Eng) 64 66 75 67
274 H Stenson (Swe) 70 70 70 64
275 D Willett  (Eng) 67 70 69 69, A Sullivan (Eng) 67 75 66 67, M Jiménez (Esp) 63 73 71 68, W Ormsby (Aus) 65 71 68 71
276 M Siem  (Ger) 70 69 66 71, L Westwood (Eng) 70 68 67 71,
277 E Pepperell (Eng) 70 71 67 69
278 A Levy (Fra) 68 71 73 66, E Grillo (Arg) 68 72 71 67, P Uihlein  (USA) 73 65 70 70, R Wattel  (Fra) 67 71 73 67
279 D Lipsky (USA) 69 73 69 68, V Dubuisson  (Fra) 77 68 70 64, B De Jonge (Zim) 65 73 73 68, S Gallacher (Sco) 67 71 71 70
280 F Zanotti (Par) 72 71 69 68, J Donaldson (Wal) 72 72 70 66, T Hatton (Eng) 65 72 72 71, H Otto (RSA) 67 69 72 72, B Grace  (RSA) 67 69 73 71, C Doak (Sco) 69 73 69 69
 281 F Molinari (Ita) 70 71 71 69, J Blixt  (Swe) 68 71 72 70, J Daly (USA) 69 72 67 73, J Luiten (Ned) 70 73 71 67, S Lowry  (Irl) 70 66 72 73, S Garcia  (Esp) 75 71 65 70, R Fisher (Eng) 74 70 70 67,
 282 T Fleetwood  (Eng) 69 71 77 65, L Donald  (Eng) 74 73 68 67, G Bourdy (Fra) 68 73 72 69, D Van Der Walt (RSA) 72 72 68 70,
 283 A Cañizares  (Esp) 69 71 73 70, D Horsey (Eng) 74 70 72 67, T Jaidee (Tha) 69 68 74 72
284 S Jamieson  (Sco) 70 72 72 70, R Bland (Eng) 71 69 73 71, D Fichardt (RSA) 68 73 71 72, R Green (Aus) 71 74 69 70, M Baldwin (Eng) 73 68 72 71, E Molinari  (Ita) 67 72 71 74, M Warren (Sco) 67 74 75 68,
 285 R Karlsson (Swe) 71 71 70 73, R Cabrera-Bello (Esp) 72 68 73 72
286 R Derksen (Ned) 69 74 72 71, D Lynn (Eng) 69 74 72 71, D Howell (Eng) 71 71 71 73, M Carlsson  (Swe) 69 70 75 72
287 B Wiesberger  (Aut) 71 71 74 71, P Larrazábal (Esp) 70 74 73 70, N Colsaerts  (Bel) 80 71 70 66
288 G Coetzee (RSA) 76 71 71 70, S Dyson  (Eng) 68 71 75 74, M Manassero (Ita) 70 77 72 69, G Storm  (Eng) 75 77 69 67, R Jacquelin (Fra) 68 72 78 70, 
289 M Kaymer (Ger) 68 72 75 74, O Wilson (Eng) 76 70 73 70, R Sterne  (RSA) 74 77 73 65, O Fisher  (Eng) 67 81 71 70 
290 M Ilonen  (Fin) 69 72 74 75, T Aiken (RSA) 70 72 75 73, D Clarke (Nir) 75 70 73 72, F Aguilar (Chi) 72 74 71 73 
291 M Foster (Eng) 70 72 78 71, K Broberg (Swe) 72 75 72 72
292 C Montgomerie  (Sco) 76 72 72 72 
294 R Ramsay  (Sco) 76 70 72 76 
295 T Olesen (Den) 77 71 73 74
 297 M Madsen  (Den) 72 76 79 70
 298 J Quesne  (Fra) 77 76 75 70
 303 M Hoey  (Nir) 82 75 73 73
 319 A Altuntas (am) (Tur) 79 84 80 76
 320 E Kemaloglu (am) (Tur) 81 79 86 74
 330 A Afsar (am) (Tur) 82 86 87 75


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