美国球手John Catlin赢香港公开赛：决赛轮64杆、总成绩低于标准杆20杆，领先5杆首获大师赛资格
中国香港——美国高尔夫球手 John Catlin 10月25日在香港高尔夫球会粉岭球场举行的香港公开赛决赛轮打出低于标准杆6杆的64杆，四轮总成绩低于标准杆20杆（260杆），领先5杆夺冠，拿下个人第7个亚巡赛冠军。据路透社报道，Catlin 决赛轮共抓下7只小鸟。
Catlin 现年35岁，来自加州 Sacramento，是2024年亚巡赛奖金王。前三轮过后他处在并列领先集团中；决赛轮他先在第5洞吞下柏忌，随后独自领跑，第14洞从厚长草区约120码外精准打上果岭中央、续抓小鸟，稳住胜局。比利时球手 Thomas Pieters 与美国球手 Caleb Surratt 最终与 Sampson Zheng 并列第六。
香港球手 Matthew Cheung 与芬兰球手 Kalle Samooja 同以低于标准杆15杆并列亚军。Samooja 在最后一洞前还领先 Cheung 一杆，却在第18洞吞下柏忌跌至并列第二；Cheung 就此创下香港球手在粉岭主场参加本项赛事的历史最佳名次。
这是 Catlin 自2024年4月以来首个亚巡赛冠军。夺冠同时为他赢得2027年美国大师赛的首次参赛资格，以及2027年在 St Andrews 举行的英国公开赛参赛席位。Catlin 赛后说：「这就像梦想成真。我从五岁、七岁、十岁起就练习推杆、想象自己赢下大师赛；这一路走了很久、付出了很多，也有很多不知道接下来会怎样的时候，但我始终没有放弃信念。终于能站上大师赛，我说不出话来。」他还说：「非常、非常特别。能让自己的名字与这项运动一些最伟大的球手同列一座奖杯，我感到谦卑，也非常感激。」
Catlin 职业生涯曾三夺欧巡赛冠军，2024年曾在澳门打出59杆，成为亚巡赛历史上首位单轮低于60杆的球手。本届香港公开赛为第65届，总奖金200万美元，10月22日至25日举行。
John Catlin Wins Hong Kong Open by Five Shots at 20 Under, Earns First Masters Invitation
HONG KONG, China — American golfer John Catlin shot a six-under-par 64 in Sunday's final round to win the Hong Kong Open at Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling, finishing at 20 under par (260) for a five-shot victory and his seventh Asian Tour title. Catlin made seven birdies in the final round, according to Reuters.
The 35-year-old from Sacramento, California, who won the Asian Tour Order of Merit in 2024, began the final round in a share of the lead. He shook off a bogey on the fifth hole to take a solo lead, and on the 14th he found the center of the green with a precise 120-yard shot from thick rough to stay on course for a birdie. Belgium's Thomas Pieters and American Caleb Surratt finished tied for sixth alongside Sampson Zheng.
Hong Kong's Matthew Cheung and Finland's Kalle Samooja tied for second at 15 under. Samooja led Cheung by a stroke going into the 18th hole but bogeyed it to fall into the tie, while Cheung secured the best finish by a Hong Kong player in the tournament's history at Fanling.
It was Catlin's first Asian Tour trophy since April 2024. The win earned him a maiden invitation to the 2027 Masters at Augusta National and a place in the 2027 Open Championship at St Andrews. "It's like a dream come true," Catlin said. "I remember when I was five, seven, 10 years old, practicing, hitting putts to win the Masters; it's been a long time coming, a lot of hard work, a lot of times when I wasn't sure what was coming, but you just kind of held the faith. To finally be at the Masters, speechless." He added: "It's very, very special. Any time you can be on a trophy with some of the greatest players that ever played the game, I just feel very humble and very grateful."
Catlin has also won three times on the European Tour and in 2024 shot a 59 in Macau, the first sub-60 round in Asian Tour history. The Hong Kong Open, in its 65th edition with a US$2 million purse, was played from October 22 to 25.
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图片来源：图：香港高尔夫球会粉岭球场老球场球道实景（资料照片），本届香港公开赛即在此举行。冠军 John Catlin 本人开放授权照片经查无，以赛场实景图代替。Soybeans 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons 发布。/ The Old Course at Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling, venue of the Hong Kong Open (file photo). No openly licensed photo of champion John Catlin was available. Photo by Soybeans, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
