Tommy Fleetwood maintained his scintillating late season form to win the inaugural DP World Tour India Championship at Delhi GC.
The Englishman, who claimed a long-awaited first PGA Tour win at the Tour Championship in August, started the day two strokes off the lead held by Keita Nakajima but delivered a magnificent putting display on Sunday en route to a flawless 65.
Ireland's Shane Lowry had to settle for third after posting a four-under par 68, one marked by numerous missed birdie opportunities.
Fleetwood briefly fell three strokes behind his Japanese playing partner after dropping his only stroke of the day at the second hole but he hit a hot streak around the turn to grab the initiative.
With New Zealand's Daniel Hillier birdieing six of the first eight holes to jump into the lead, Fleetwood timed his run well, with four birdies on the trot between the seventh and 10th to reach 20-under par.
While overnight leader Nakajima was stalling, and Hillier's double-bogey on the par-5 14th took him out of the reckoning, Fleetwood held firm down the stretch.
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After finding the greenside bunker on the 14th, he drained a 25ft downhill birdie putt to reach 21-under, a dagger to the heart of the chasers.
He followed that rolling in an uphill 20-footer on the par-3 17th to essentially seal the win.
With Nakajima unable to reach in two, the 72nd was a procession for Fleetwood, who was able to cosy his birdie putt up to the hole for a tap-in par and a two-stroke victory.
"I had said for all the good that has happened this year, a couple of things have disappointed me, that my DP World Tour sort of has, so another win feels great," the Southport golfer said in an interview on the DP Tour website.
"We were at home last week and we were driving the buggy. I think we were playing golf together, and he (Frankie) just said randomly, 'do you know what you've never done?’
"He said, ‘you’ve never won a tournament and I’ve been able to run on to the 18th green’. I was like, ‘I’m writing that down’, so I had that written down all week."
Starting three off the lead, Lowry began brightly enough, birdieing the par-5 opener and then rolling in a 12-footer on the third to get to 16-under.
After a birdie putt slipped agonisingly past the cup on the difficult sixth hole, Lowry did birdie the par-5 eighth.
The European Ryder Cup hero was a big draw for the Delhi galleries, with one member of the crowd clutching a photo of him like it was a portrait of Pope John Paul II.
However, with Hillier and Fleetwood beginning to make moves, Lowry's hopes suffered a major dent on the ninth.
He pulled his iron into the trees on the left, forcing a sideways recovery shot and then found the bunker with his approach. In the end, he did well to salvage a bogey but it suddenly left him four adrift of the lead and he was chasing it from there.
The back nine was a tale of missed opportunities, with decent birdie chances slipping by on 10, 11, 15, 16 and 17.
In the end, he would only gain strokes on the two par-5s, at 14 and 18, to finish on 18-under par, tied with third alongside Thriston Lawrence and Alex Fitzpatrick.
South Africa's Lawrence was well out of the reckoning until an extraordinary stretch in the middle of the back nine, in which he recorded four birdies and an eagle in five holes between the 12th and 16th, jumping to 18-under and briefly into contention.
Rory McIlroy failed to propel himself into the mix, concluding with a one-under par 71 to finish in tied-26th on 11-under, part of a quintet which also contained 2023 Open champion Brian Harman who had a disappointing final round.
With additional reporting: PA
