Marcus Helligkilde Wins the Road to Mallorca Rankings on the Challenge Tour

Modest Golf client Marcus Helligkilde became the third Dane to win the Road to Mallorca Rankings after securing his third victory of the season at the Rolex Challenge Tour Grand Final supported by The R&A.

The 25-year-old posted a closing one over par round of 72 to move to eight under par and clinch an emotional victory at T Golf & Country Club. The Dane’s win saw him climb two places to the top of the Road to Mallorca Rankings and become the third Challenge Tour Number One to hail from Denmark, after 15-time European Tour winner Thomas Bjørn in 1995 and 2018 Rankings winner JB Hansen.

Helligkilde was delighted to secure victory at the season finale in-front of friends and family, praising their inspiration and support throughout the season.

 “I had a terrible lie on 17 and had to hit some kind of miracle shot to leave myself with a 16-footer. On 18 I hit a great second shot from a downslope and got a flyer, ended up in a tree and somehow managed to get it on the green about four feet past but I have missed one of those to win a tournament before and that definitely played on my mind.

“I didn’t have a full status on Challenge Tour at the beginning of the year and I was just trying to get into the top 70. I just stayed focused on what I had in front of me, grind as hard as I could and be the best version of myself. I’m still the same Marcus Helligkilde and I enjoy playing golf.

Helligkilde, who won the Swiss Challenge and Vierumäki Finnish Challenge earlier this season, finished 34,337 points clear of Portugal’s Ricardo Gouveia, who came second in the Rankings, with Spain’s Santiago Tarrio third. Frenchman Julien Brun graduated in fourth place, with countryman Frederic Lacroix one place further back. Alfredo Garcia Heredia, from Spain, finished in sixth position, while South African Oliver Bekker, Scotsman Ewen Ferguson, Germany’s Yannik Paul and Austrian Lukas Nemecz rounded out the top ten.

Marcus can now look forward to competing on the European Tour starting in South Africa in just a few weeks time.