Paul Waring Stares Down Major Champions To Win Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship

HEAR FROM THE CHAMPION

Describing his emotions towards the end of his Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship success, Waring admitted his “legs were shaking a little bit.”

THE WINNING MOMENT

Here is the winning moment for Paul Waring. Look what it means to him!

PAUL WARING WINS ABU DHABI HSBC CHAMPIONSHIP

Paul Waring wins the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship! And he does it in some style, too, rolling in his birdie putt on the 18th to card a sublime 66 and win by two strokes from Tyrrell Hatton.

THE STAGE IS SET

Lowry and Norgaard are really not helping Waring’s situation here. They’re both struggling to make par as the leader just stands and waits for his turn.

Norgaard finally banks his par following a three-putt from off the green, while Lowry cards a bogey to drop outside of the top-10.

TWO PUTTS AWAY

Waring has quite a lot of fringe to go through to reach the green, plus there is a decent up-slope to navigate, but he does pretty well to leave it 15 feet away. Two putts from there, and Waring will be the champion.

WARING CLOSING IN

Just as Waring is weighing up his options into the 18th green, a white helicopter appears out of nowhere and annoyingly hovers around for a little while before nudging off towards the racing circuit.

Not what you need when you’re trying to close out a championship.

Adrenaline pumping around his body, Waring crunches a 3-wood towards the flag. It skips across the putting surface and settles over the back, but the chances of par or better have risen considerably.

HAMMERED DOWN THE CENTRE

Paul Waring thumps his drive right down the middle of the 18th fairway. It’s been six years since he last won on the DP World Tour – his first victory – but that run could be about to end in a matter of minutes…

BIG BIRDIE FROM WARING

Oohhh what a putt from Paul Waring! This is an easier pin position on the par-3 17th, with a kind of collection bowl feeding balls into the right side and the wind helping, but Waring didn’t really take advantage of it after landing his tee shot in…