KLM Open 2016: Final Leaderboard Scores, Prize Money Payouts
Joost Luiten won the 2016 KLM Open on Sunday, his second European Tour win in his home country of the Netherlands and fourth overall.
The local favourite entered the day in third place and played a fantastic round of golf, leading the entire field with a score of 63.
Bernd Wiesberger kept pace with the Dutchman until the final holes, but even the experienced Austrian eventually lost touch with the surging Luiten. Here's a look at the final leaderboard, complete with prize money payouts:
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| 1 | Joost Luiten | -19 | 63 | €300,000 |
| 2 | Bernd Wiesberger | -16 | 65 | €200,000 |
| 3 | Byeong Hun-an | -13 | 65 | €112,680 |
| T4 | Alejandro Canizares | -12 | 68 | €90,000 |
| T4 | David Horsey | -12 | 70 | €76,320 |
| T4 | Ben Evans | -12 | 70 | €63,000 |
| T4 | Scott Hend | -12 | 73 | €54,000 |
| T8 | Mike Lorenzo-Vera | -11 | 68 | €45,000 |
| T8 | Chris Hanson | -11 | 69 | €40,320 |
| T10 | Mikko Korhonen | -10 | 67 | €36,000 |
For the full leaderboard, visit the European Tour's official website. Payout info provided by Golfandcourse.com.
Recap
Luiten started the day with back-to-back birdies, setting the tone for a phenomenal day of golf, particularly in the short game. The 30-year-old knows these greens better than most on the European Tour and showed it all day long, making tricky putt after tricky putt.
A bogey on the eighth brought his score down slightly, but with five birdies on the front nine and his favoured back nine still to come, things were looking up. As shared by the European Tour, almost everything was falling for Luiten:
His approach game wasn't bad, either:
Luiten would bogey one more hole, the 13th, but five more birdies gave him a three-shot lead heading to the final hole over the rest of the field.
Wiesberger and Scott Hend spent most of the day battling the Dutchman for the top spot, with the latter holding the early lead and the former coming on strong on the back nine.
The Austrian started his strong run with two consecutive birdies and an eagle on the front nine, but a par stretch left him scrambling to keep up until two more birdies moved him into a tie for the lead.
With Luiten putting on a clinic, the pressure was on Wiesberger to keep up, and as shared by the Golf Channel, he dropped his first shot of the day at the worst possible time:
His score of six under comfortably kept him in second place, ahead of Korea's An Byeong-hun.
Hend double-bogeyed the ninth and 15th holes to tumble down the leaderboard in a hurry, ruining his chances of grabbing the title. It was a frustrating end to a fine tournament for the Australian, who has struggled closing the show in 2016.
Ben Evans didn't have a great start to his round, finishing the front nine two over, but he produced this magical shot on the back nine to keep his bid to finish in the top five alive:
Alejandro Canizares played a round of three under to finish one shot behind Byeong-hun, and Chris Hanson and Mike Lorenzo-Vera also grabbed top 10 spots. Nino Bertasio, who came into the day as a contender for the crown, completely lost control of his putter, finishing outside the top 10 after hitting two bogeys.
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