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Luiten wins second home Open with dazzling 63

Netherlands' Joost Luiten holds the winner's trophy after winning his second KLM open on the final day of the KLM Open golf tournament in Spijk

Local favourite Joost Luiten lived up to his billing as the home hero with a record-equalling final round 63 to clinch the Dutch Open in Spijk on Sunday. The 30-year-old produced a dazzling display of iron play and long-range putting to deny Austrian Bernd Wiesberger by three shots. The pair went blow for blow for much of the fourth round but three birdies in his final five holes helped Luiten to a 19-under-par total of 265. Luiten was the first Dutch player to win his home Open twice since it joined the European Tour in 1972 - following his win in 2013 - and makes him a five-time winner on Tour. "The first one was special but this one is very special," he said. "To have the Dutch people behind me all week and to be able to stand here with the trophy in my hands is very special. "It was one of those days where everything I looked at went in the hole. "These are the kind of days that make it all worth getting out of bed for." This was his first win for almost two years and reward for a brilliantly consistent 2016 so far that saw him come into the week with eight top tens, including two runner-up finishes, and represent the Netherlands at the Olympic men's golf competition in Rio. South Korea's An Byeong-hun was third at 13 under after matching Austria's Wiesberger with a 65, a shot ahead of Spaniard Alejandro Canizares, English duo Ben Evans and David Horsey and Australia's Scott Hend. England's Chris Hanson and Frenchman Mike Lorenzo-Vera were then at 11 under, a shot ahead of Tommy Fleetwood, Scott Jamieson, Simon Khan, Mikko Korhonen, Lee Soo-min and Brandon Stone.