(ANSA) - Rome, October 14 - Austria's Bernd Wiesberger held
off Britain's Matthew Fitzpatrick to win the 76th Italian Open
on Sunday.
The 34-year-old Vienna born player also took the lead in the
Race to Dubai.
Wiesberger finished on 16 under par.
Two Italians finished in the top ten: Francesco Laporta
seventh and Andrea Pavan 10th.
2018 British Open winner Francesco Molinari missed the cut.
"Winning the Italian Open and my second career tournament in
the Rolex Series European Tour is a great satisfaction," said
the Austrian.
"I'm really happy, also to have come close to the world top
20 and getting the lead in the race to Dubai".
Wiesberger won over $1,160,000.
Wiesberger closed with a six-under par 65 at Olgiata Golf
Club in Rome to defeat Fitzpatrick by one. The victory was
Wiesberger's third of the year and seventh of his career.
In the 2018 season, Wiesberger played the last of seven
starts in late April, then underwent wrist surgery that ended
his season. He predictably was slow to regain his form in the
new season, then won the Made In Denmark in May and the Aberdeen
Standard Investments Scottish Open in July in this the best year
of a European Tour career that began in 2009.