The 27-year-old Englishman earned $9,000 for his sterling effort, moving into the second spot in the standings with $28,173 in his kitty as England’s Zane Scotland ($31,117) continued to maintain his top position.

With this convincing win, his second on the MENA Golf Tour this season, Hinton has climbed to a career-high 769th spot in the latest Official World Golf Rankings after sitting at No1,711 at the start of the season. With two more events to go before the season-ending Tour Championship gets underway in three weeks’ time, Hinton will be hoping to break into the world’s top-500 and end a fantastic season of golf on a high.

The top three professionals on the Order of Merit along with the leading amateur will be invited to compete in the 2017 Omega Dubai Desert Classic in February in addition to earning full-time playing privileges on the Sunshine Tour and exemptions into the Final Stage of the Asian Tour Q-School.

Meanwhile, India’s Rayhan Thomas has assured himself of winning the leading amateur title — and a place in the starting line-up of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

With 297 points to his credit, the 16-year-old prodigy currently leads the race by a mile, while the race for the leading MENA professional and amateur will go down to the wire. The Moroccan trio of Younes El Hassani ($5,436), Faycal Serghini ($3,314) and Ahmed Marjan ($2,592) are locked in a neck and neck battle at the top and so are the Saudi amateurs Othman Almulla (81 points) and Khaled Atieh (52).