Lee Westwood opened up a two-shot lead as Matthew Fitzpatrick kept his Ryder Cup hopes alive during the final round of the Made in Denmark at Silkeborg Ry Golf Club.
With incumbent Thorbjørn Olesen back in a tie for 19th after a 68 and with the field unlikely to come back towards the Dane, Fitzpatrick knew that a win would almost certainly secure him the final automatic place at Le Golf National.
He played his first 13 holes in five under but that left him four behind Westwood, who turned in 33 to sit at 19 under.
Belgian Thomas Detry was the 23-time European Tour winner's nearest challenger, with English pair Steven Brown and Jonathan Thomson a further shot back.
Another Englishman in Matt Wallace and South African Erik van Rooyen were then alongside Fitzpatrick at 15 under.
Brown got off to the perfect start, with a tee-shot to 15 feet on the par three first setting up an opening birdie to send him into a share of the lead.
That then became a three-way tie when Detry hit a beautiful approach to the third and left himself a very short putt for his first birdie of the day.
Westwood hit back on the same hole from six feet, however, with Brown giving back the shot he picked up on the first.
Thomson set up a tap-in birdie to get within one of the lead on the fourth and playing partner Detry joined it on the next with the help of a lovely chip off a tricky lie.
Brown was in danger of heading in the wrong direction when he made it back-to-back birdies after getting a flier on the fourth but he hit back by taking advantage of the par five fifth.
That moved him back to 15 under and alongside Van Rooyen who was making a charge through the field with birdies on the second, fifth, seventh and eighth.
Fitzpatrick's Ryder Cup chances looked to be evaporating as he started with four pars but he birdied the fifth, sixth and eighth and when he holed a long left-to-righter on the ninth to turn in 32, he was just three off the lead.
Thomson had birdied the seventh in the first three rounds but he made a bogey there on Sunday and the leading duo were two clear.
Wallace had bogeyed the third and fourth in a poor start but back-to-back birdies on the eighth and ninth saw him turn in level par and join Fitzpatrick at 14 under.
Westwood got on the eighth green in two for a birdie and the solo lead with Brown also making the most of the par five.
Fitzpatrick was not giving up, however, and he got up and down from the side of the green on the driveable par four 12th for a gain of his own.
Wallace was the next man to join the group three off the lead with a long putt on the tenth before Thomson moved out of it with a birdie at the ninth.
Westwood hit a wonderful drive down the ninth and and when he spun his approach back to six feet for a third birdie of the day, the lead was two shots.
Lucas Bjrerregaard and Ashley Chesters were 14 under, a shot clear of clubhouse leaders Ryan Evans and Phachara Khongwatmai.
