Mikael Lindberg secured his first DP World Tour title and qualified for the US PGA Championship with a two-stroke win at the 2026 Turkish Airlines Open.
The 33-year-old Swede, making his 70th start on the DP World Tour, held off playing partner Daniel Rodrigues with a final round of 69 to finish ten under par at a rain-swept National Golf Club in Belek, Antalya. Rodrigues finished runner-up alongside Italy's Guido Migliozzi.
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Mikael Lindberg is the 2026 Turkish Airlines Open champion — his first DP World Tour title 🏆#TurkishAirlinesOpen pic.twitter.com/k2LDRiDr45
As the leading finisher on the Asian Swing standings, Lindberg also earned a Major Championship debut at Aronimink Golf Club in two weeks' time and he said: "This is a dream come true, I've been dreaming about this for so many years.
"My feelings on this last hole, I almost felt dizzy and I almost felt I wanted to throw up."
Lindberg and Rodrigues both started with birdies at the first hole, though the Swede gave the shot back at the third.
He responded with three birdies in the next four holes to move one ahead of Rodrigues, who had also birdied the fourth.
Every birdie of Mikael Lindberg's final round as he clinched his first win on Tour 💪#TurkishAirlinesOpen pic.twitter.com/cs2jumrFT7
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Both players bogeyed the ninth before Lindberg stretched his lead to two with a birdie at the 13th - and momentarily to three with another at the next, until Rodrigues responded in kind.
The clubhouse target had by now been set at seven under, initially by Jacob Skov Olesen before he was joined by Darius van Driel and Ewen Ferguson.
With the trio sitting four back from the on-course lead though, it came down to a battle between Lindberg, Rodrigues and Guido Migliozzi, with the Italian eight under and three behind Lindberg with three to play.
The leader bogeyed the 15th, allowing Rodrigues to halve the deficit while Migliozzi made a good up-and-down for par at the 16th.
Rodrigues was unable to get up and down from a bunker at the 16th, leaving Lindberg two shots ahead once more.
Migliozzi was unable to find a birdie over the final two holes, the Italian improving the clubhouse target slightly to eight under but visibly frustrated not to increase the pressure on Lindberg.
How it finished at the National GC, Belek, where Mikael Lindberg claimed his maiden Tour title 🏆#TurkishAirlinesOpen pic.twitter.com/2UEYJNIlhx
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Rodrigues' long birdie putt at the last slid just by the right of the hole, leaving Lindberg three putts to win it and though he left the first well short, the second safely found the heart of the hole to leave him emotional on the green.
He said: “I was in the lead after the first round and I just felt like... I don't know how to describe this, but it's been mentally very tough pretty much the whole week. So it's very nice to pull it off.
"The weather on the front nine was actually a lot better than I expected, so I felt like I took advantage of that a little bit. It's been a very tough last few holes but the last one was definitely tough, yeah.”
Rodrigues and Migliozzi shared second place on eight under ahead of Ferguson, Van Driel and Olesen.
Ricardo Gouveia made it two Portuguese players in the top 10, tied with Italy's second-round leader Gregorio De Leo for seventh on six under.
Ugo Coussaud, the third member of the final group with Lindberg and Rodrigues, finished five under alongside JC Ritchie, Marcus Armitage and Kota Kaneko.
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