Australian Travis Smyth has accomplished his spectacular 12 months on the Asian Tour, ending third within the money-spinning, season-finale on the Saudi Open to soar to fourth general within the Order of Merit standings.
The 28-year-old from Shellharbour, whose spotlight of the 12 months was turning into the primary man to fireplace a hole-in-one on the brand new seventeenth gap at Royal Liverpool within the British Open, needed to give greatest to exceptional Thai teenager Denwit Boriboonsub within the $US 1 million ($A1.5 million) occasion in Riyadh on Sunday.
Boriboonsub, simply 19, received his third occasion in successive weeks to say the $US 180,000 ($A270,000) first prize, ousting veteran former British Open champion Henrik Stenson by three pictures with Smyth an additional shot again.
The Australian, whose different declare to fame was banking $A1.1 million in a single week final 12 months through the infancy of the LIV Golf mission, shot a final-round, four-under par 67 at Riyadh Golf Club to attempt to pressurise {the teenager}.
But he needed to accept a considerable third-place prize pot of $US 63,000 ($A94,000) to complete what’s been a wonderful 12 months, as he leapt three locations to fourth within the ultimate Order of Merit standings which have been headed by American Andy Ogletree.
None of the opposition might address the persevering with, seemingly nerveless excellence of Boriboonsub, who had received the Aramco Invitational two weeks in the past on the Asian Development Tour and adopted up with victory on the Thailand Open final week.
The teen trailed compatriot Phachara Khongwatmai by one going into the ultimate spherical, however his sensible 64 on the ultimate day was the joint-lowest spherical and enabled him to complete on 18 below after he had recorded eight final-afternoon birdies.

Armed with water bottles, his fellow opponents ran on to the inexperienced and drenched {the teenager}, who was left muttering incredulously afterwards: “It is an unbelievable feeling because it is incredible winning three weeks in a row. It is like magic!”
Smyth’s fellow Australian Todd Sinnott, who had been the co-leader at midway and was solely two pictures behind going into the ultimate spherical, slipped down the sphere with a 70 which left him in joint-Tenth place on 11 below.
As nicely as selecting up a $US 20,000 ($A30,000) cheque, the efficiency, simply as importantly, ensured that Melbourne’s Sinnott would hold his Asian Tour card for 2024 on the $US35 million ($A52 million) circuit.
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