Maximilian Kieffer closed with a 6-under 66 to win the rain-hit Czech Masters for his first European tour title on Sunday.
Kieffer completed one shot forward of in a single day chief Gavin Inexperienced on the Albatross Golf Resort close to Prague with a 16-under 200 whole.
Play had been suspended for the day on Saturday after the course was flooded following heavy rain shortly after the third spherical began. The spherical resumed on Sunday with the event determined over 54 holes.
The primary trophy for the 32-year-old Kieffer got here after 4 runner-up finishes on the tour. He additionally turned the primary German to win since Marcel Siem captured the 2014 BMW Masters.
“It is powerful proper now to say what it means, I do not know,” Kieffer mentioned. “It is nice. I am misplaced for phrases,”
Beginning the spherical at 4 photographs behind Inexperienced, Kieffer rebounded from a bogey on the fifteenth with a decisive seventh birdie of the spherical on the par-4 seventeenth to take the lead.
“I assumed I might want at the least one other birdie as a result of Gavin was at 17 beneath,” Kieffer mentioned. “I attempted to be aggressive on the seventeenth.”
Inexperienced took a three-stroke lead into the ultimate spherical however the Malaysian hit the water on the 14th for a double bogey after three birdies on Nos. 1, 6 and 10 to permit Kieffer and Tapio Pulkkanen of Finland to tie him atop the leaderboard at 15 beneath.
Inexperienced (71) equaled his finest tour outcome, a runner-up place on the 2017 Hero Indian Open.
Pulkkanen bogeyed the ultimate 18th gap to card 67 and tie South African Louis de Jager (68) for third place one other shot again.
