Local favourite Joost Luiten has won the KLM Open for the second time after a brilliant course-record equalling 63 at The Dutch in Spijk, while Australia's Scott Hend faltered on the final day to finish fourth.
The 30-year-old entered the final day three shots behind overnight leader Hend but while the 43-year-old stumbled to a closing 73, Luiten fired 10 birdies and two bogeys to get to 19 under and secure a three-shot victory over Austria's Bernd Wiesberger.
Hend had still held the lead after eight holes but two double-bogeys after finding the water saw his chances evaporate as the tournament developed into a straight shootout between Luiten and Wiesbeger.
Luiten held a two-shot lead after a birdieing the 10th and 11th but a brilliant up-and-down on the 15th moved Wiesberger ahead in a nip-and-tuck contest.
A first bogey of the day on the 17th stalled the 30-year-old's momentum, however, and three birdies in his last five holes gave 2013 champion Luiten an eventually comfortable victory.
"It was one of those days where everything I looked at went in the hole," he said.
People talk about the zone and I think I was in it today. I missed one shot when I went in the water on 13 but besides that I didn't do much wrong.
"These are the kind of days that make it all worth getting out of bed for."
South Korea's Byeong-hun An closed with a 65 to sit at 13 under, a shot clear of Hend, English duo Ben Evans and David Horsey, and Spaniard Alejandro Canizares.
