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The Dundee-based Frenchman started the day with a strong battle against co-leaders Sean Lowry, Francesco Molinari and Lee Min-woo. Australian Lee remained in contention as former Open champion Lowry and Molinari retired and managed to equalize after Perez dropped the ball on the 14th hole at Yas Links. Perez, a runner-up here in 2020, impresses with an immediate birdie on the 15th, before bunking in the 17th to take the lead again for a two-shot lead. It looked invulnerable until he found another bunker and a restricted area on the 18th hole, but he made bogey and finished with an 18-under overall victory. Lee and Swede Sebastian Soderbergh shot 68 and 67 to tie for second, while Padraig Harrington, at 51, became the oldest DP World Tour winner. Finished with a 67 and shot 16 under par, ranking fourth personally. “I got off to a good start, I was just focusing on myself and doing my best because I know you can’t control what other people are doing and I just wanted to take things slowly,” he told European Travel Network“But Seb played really well, was there, never gave me a chance. I’m happy to get the title. It was a crazy ending, but I feel like I’m used to it now. Hopefully I can make it a little bit next easier.
“It’s been a good year. Lots of big things going on. I had a really good offseason. I worked really hard.”
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