Hillier seond at European Tour stop in India
Kiwi golfer Daniel Hillier has finished alone in second at the DP World Tour India Championship in New Delhi. His 19 under par total was two shots behind Eugenio Chacarra of Spain.
Hillier finished made a late charge on the back nine gave Chacarra a scare, cutting what had once been a six-shot lead down to two late in the tournament which had been disrupted by bad light throughout.
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Hillier started the India Championship with a two over par 72 which had him mid field, but two rounds of 64 then got him into contention and he was the club house leader when he completed his final round.
"Just a crazy week," Hiller wrote on social media. "If you told me I was going to finish runner up after the start I had, I probably would have just laughed at you.
"May have given myself too much work to do to finish on top but this feels like a win."
Hillier started the year by winning the New Zealand Open. He has had five other top ten finishes. Auckland's Ryan Fox, who missed the cut in India.
The next World Tour event is in South Korea at athe Genesis Open.
