Home favourite Rasmus Højgaard won Made in Himmerland in a six-hole playoff to become the tournament’s first Danish winner in its last ever staging.
Højgaard held off Nacho Elvira after coming from seven shots behind to finish level with the Spaniard on 13 under par.
Elvira began the day one shot clear of Robert MacIntyre, with Richie Ramsay a further shot back, but started with a three-putt bogey.
Kalle Samooja and Højgaard had both moved within a shot of the lead alongside Ramsay, Højgaard with four birdies in six holes on the front nine while Samooja birdied three of the first five.
MacIntyre birdied the 4th to take the lead as Elvira’s birdie putt lipped out as he was already shaping for a celebratory fist-pump.
Both players birdied the par-five 5th but Højgaard and Ramsay came back at them.
Elvira saw another putt horseshoe out, a tremendous left-to-right effort from the fringe of the 9th green, where MacIntyre hit his approach to two feet to secure a birdie and a two-shot lead at the turn.
Elvira hit back at the 10th but when he bogeyed the 13th and MacIntyre ran up a triple after finding trouble down the right, Højgaard’s long birdie putt at the last saw him sharing the lead with Ramsay and Elvira.
Ramsay birdied the short 16th to go one shot ahead and MacIntyre and Elvira both bogeyed the 15th – though the Spaniard responded by birdieing the 16th and sneaking an 11-foot birdie putt at the next into the side of the hole.
Ramsay found the left-hand rough off the final tee and then put his second in the water hazard, the resulting double-bogey meaning a third-place finish at 12 under.
That opened the door to Elvira, whose tee-shot split the fairway, but he went through the green and mishit his third from the fringe of a bunker, needing a long two-putt just to earn a playoff.
Højgaard got up and down from the bunker to par the first playoff hole and take it to a second, where Elvira did likewise.
Højgaard’s pin-high approach third time round gave him the advantage but his putt shaved the hole, and they shared the next two holes as well.
At the sixth extra hole, though, Elvira flew his second shot out of bounds into the practice grounds leaving Højgaard to two-putt for victory.
The moment Rasmus Højgaard claimed his 4️⃣th DP World Tour Title at just 22 years old…?#MIH23 pic.twitter.com/M7lS4cC4s3
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South Africa’s Darren Fichardt shared 10th position on nine under after carding 67 on Sunday, with Hennie du Plessis a further two shots behind.
– Edited report from DP World Tour website
