Matt Wallace has made an impressive case for a Ryder Cup wild card with a third win in his past 15 starts, a victory completed in dramatic fashion in front of captain Thomas Bjorn.
Wallace birdied five of his last six holes to finish 19 under par and get into an all-English four-man playoff with Lee Westwood, Steven Brown and Jonathan Thomson at the Made in Denmark event at Bjorn's home course.
The quartet returned to the 18th for the first extra hole and Brown piled the pressure on his opponents with an approach to three feet but Wallace hit his to seven feet and both made birdie, while Westwood and Thomson were eliminated with pars.
Wallace and Brown then headed back to the par-four 18th and Wallace produced an even better approach to set up a winning birdie from four feet as Bjorn looked on.
Bjorn's fellow Dane Thorbjorn Olesen had earlier secured the final automatic place on the team to face the United States at Le Golf National at the end of the month when Matt Fitzpatrick was unable to claim the victory he needed.
Fitzpatrick could only finish in a tie for seventh and joins the likes of Wallace, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson, Paul Casey and Rafa Cabrera Bello in anxiously waiting to see Bjorn's four wild card selections on Wednesday.
Asked if his win had given Bjorn a selection headache, Wallace said: "I've given myself one! That playoff was pretty mental, four-man, to keep the 100 per cent record going as well from the one in India (where he beat Andrew Johnston) is really nice."
Olesen, who surged into Ryder Cup contention with a victory and four other top 10s in his past nine events before this week, said: "It's been an incredible summer, a lot of pressure but I've been playing well and it's been a lot of fun."
Olesen joins fellow rookies Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Tommy Fleetwood and Alex Noren in the side alongside Open champion Francesco Molinari, Justin Rose and Rory McIlroy.
"There's a few newcomers in there but strong names and people that I have a lot of trust in," Bjorn told Sky Sports.
"I'm pretty much there in my head in how I see this team being and how I want to try and mix and match everyone. But there's still one little doubt in my head."
