Paul Casey jumped to third in the world rankings after holding off a sparkling final-round charge by fellow Briton Ross Fisher to win the PGA Championship on Sunday. Casey started the day three strokes clear of the field but local boy Fisher, from nearby Ascot, reeled off eight birdies in a best-of-the-week 64 to set the clubhouse target on 16-under 272 in glorious sunshine at Wentworth. However, the overnight leader responded with three birdies in the last four holes and showed nerves of steel to sink a four-foot putt at the 18th to secure his third victory of the year with a closing 68 and a 271 total. The 31-year-old Casey, who also won in Abu Dhabi in January and Houston last month, picked up a check for 750,000 euros ($1.05 million). “That was not an easy putt (at the last) but it went right in the middle of the hole,” he told BBC television. “The BMW PGA Championship is our flagship event on the European Tour and I've always wanted to get my hands on this trophy. This feels fantastic.” In third place on 275 was Dane Soren Kjeldsen (69), one ahead of Briton Stephen Dodd (67). Former British Open champion Ben Curtis of the United States produced a remarkable birdie-birdie-eagle-eagle finish to shoot 67 for a nine-under 279. Fisher, 28, showed the form that helped him romp to a seven-shot victory in the 2008 European Open at the London Club, cramming eight birdies in 15 holes from the fourth. Casey started erratically with bogeys at the first and eighth mixed in with two birdies but he got his act together on the back nine to add the PGA crown to the World Match Play title he won on the same course three years ago. The Ryder Cup stalwart, who started the year in 41st place in the world, has amassed more 2009 ranking points than any other player. Casey will become the first Englishman to move into the top three in the rankings since Nick Faldo in 1996. Holder Miguel Angel Jimenez recorded only the second albatross since the tournament's inception in 1955, the Spaniard using a six-iron to hole out from 205 yards for a two at the par-five fourth on his way to a 76 and 288. American John Daly, sporting a bright pink outfit in a gesture of support for world number two Phil Mickelson's wife Amy who was this week diagnosed with breast cancer, ended his campaign with a 75 for 296. Tseng and Miyazato matched the 18-hole tournament record with their stellar rounds. Finland's Minea Blomqvist was fourth on 201 after a third-round 66. France's Karine Icher fired a two-over 74 and fell to a share of 17th on 204. Sabbatini wins South Africa's Rory Sabbatini fired a final-round six-under par 64 to win the PGA Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday by two strokes over England's Brian Davis and in tournament
