Wood Celebrates 'Amazing' Home Turf PGA Win

Chris Wood celebrated a "special" victory on home soil after surviving a huge test of nerve to claim a one-shot victory at the BMW PGA Championship.

Wood vaulted four shots clear of the field after he equalled Danny Willett's two-day-old tournament-record 29 on the front nine, but a run of three bogeys in four holes from the 14th set up a tense finish at Wentworth.

But Wood closed out a final-round 69 with a cast-iron par at the last to wrap up his third European Tour title, and by far the biggest of his career.

"It's amazing, just so hard to put into words at the moment," said the 28-year-old. "I've got my best friends, my fiancee and my family here, and it is so, so special to win in front of them. When I play here every year, I get great support on British soil. There's a special feel about playing in England, and I wish we could do it every week.

"The first time I played here I was leading by a couple going into the final day and had a bad day, but experiences like that now, you sort of look back and think that probably did me some good. Six years on, I've got six years more Tour experience and I'm a better golfer now as I've developed. So to finally win this tournament just feels amazing.

"We had just perfect numbers all day, it felt like that on the front nine anyway. So we decided we could be quite aggressive at the flags - six-irons are perfect, eight-irons are perfect, you don't need to take anything off it, so that makes scoring a lot easier.

"But obviously you've got to roll the putts in, as well. I've been hitting good putts the first three days but not making many, but I suppose when you win, the putts drop for you and I holed a couple of real key ones today."

Wood has admitted in the past that he tries not to look at leaderboards during a round, but he conceded it was tough to stay focused following his sensational front nine.

"When you get off to a start like I did, you know that you're vying. It's very difficult," he added. "You've just got to try and keep doing the same things. But I suppose at the end of the day, you'll take whatever number wins."

Wood is now on course to make his first Ryder Cup appearance this year, and he said: "It's been on the fringe of my mind, but I knew obviously events like this are key to making the team. You can't plan to win events like this, you can plan to prepare as well as you can, but to pull it off is massive."