Connor Syme wins maiden DP World Tour title at KLM Open

The 29-year-old Scot was always in control on Sunday at The International in Amsterdam as he closed out a breakthrough win in his 182nd appearance on the DP World Tour.

“Unbelievable,” he said. “It was so, so difficult the last few days. “I just felt so much better this week, I felt really ready to do it, and I’m so, so happy I managed to do it.”

With Syme starting the day two shots ahead of Lagergren and the rest of the field a further four back, it came down to almost a match play battle between the pair – even as a weather-related rescheduling left them playing in a three-ball with Francesco Laporta.

Syme is the 12th different first-time winner on this season’s DP World Tour and he said: “I suppose you don’t really know you can actually do it until you have done it.

“I mentioned a few times that I hadn’t won, to my caddie Ryan especially, and he’s like ‘You have won, you’ve won plenty of times as an amateur and you’ve won on the (HotelPlanner) Tour’. So I definitely know I can do it but it’s obviously doing it on this stage.

“You can see by some of the talent that’s come off the (HotelPlanner) Tour this year, it’s amazing, we’re all very, very good and obviously I’m delighted to add my name to that, one of now 12 first-time winners – it’s absolutely awesome, amazing.”