WORLD BOYS' TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

NORWAY PIP SWEDEN IN JAPAN

 

Norway pipped Sweden for the world boys' team golf championship in an all-Scandinavian finish that few would have predicted at the start of the 72-hole tournament at Chukyo Golf Club in Japan.

Norway totalled 832, one shot ahead of Sweden with the host nation third on 839.

The highly-rated Americans (852) could finish only fifth while England trailed in 12^th of 15^th on 872.

England peaked with a second-round team total of 208 – one of the best by any country during the tournament – but they fell away badly over the last two rounds. Tom Hesketh, who had a third-round 80, did not play the final round.

Norway’s Marius Thorp had the lowest individual aggregate of 17-under-par 271. He had rounds of 68, 71, 65 and 67 to finish five shots clear of Sweden’s Bjorn Akesson and Japan’s Naoto Nakanishi.

England’s best player of the week was Sam Hutsby with a one-over-par total of 289.

 

WORLD BOYS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Chukyo Golf Club, Japan.

FINAL TOTALS

832 NORWAY (Marius Thorp, Are Friestad, Anders Kristiansen, Espen Kofstad) 207 208 207 210.

833 SWEDEN (Bjorn Akesson, Jesper Kennegard, Robin Wingardth, Pontus Widergren) 206 205 214 206.

839 JAPAN (Syunsuke Sonoda, Naoto Nakanishi, Yusaku Matsuoka, Ryutaro Nagano) 208 210 209 211.

848 CHINESE TAIPEI (Pan Fu-Chiang, Pan Cheng-Tsung, Liu Chun, Hunag Tao) 211 205 216 216.

852 UNITED STATES (Jordan David Cox, Kyle Stanley, James H Swafford, Alex M Volpenhein) 216 209 215 212

853 ARGENTINA (Estanislao Goya, Alan Wagner, Luciano Dodda, Esteban Martinez) 215 210 214 214.

857 CANADA (Mitch Fox, Eugene Wong, Matt Hill, Nick Taylor) 216 213 216 212.

859 NETHERLANDS (Thrisan Bierenbroodsp, Reinier Saxton, Tim Sluiter, Floris de Vries) 229 295 214 220.

867 COLOMBIA (Andres Echavarria, Esteban Aristizabal, Sergion Franky, Carlos Rodriguez) 219 218 211 219.

869 NEW ZEALAND (Samuel Shin, Ben Wallace, Peter Sperman-Burn, Gary-John Hill) 219 215 212 223.

870 KOREA (Jeong Yeo-Jin, Shin Boo-Ho, Nam Gang-Yul, Lee Min-Joo)213 219 222 216.

872 ENGLAND (Luke Goddard, Sam Hutsby, James Watts, Tom Hesketh) 220 208 221 223.

873 SOUTH AFRICA (Deward Smit, Ryts West, Matthys Daffue, Derick Petersen) 218 218 215 222.

878 VENEZUELA (Julio Vegas, Diego Tamayo, Felipe Velazquez) 226 216 212 224.

894 MEXICO (Gerardo Porras, Maurico Azugue, Juan Pablo Solis, Roberto Rodriguez) 223 227 223 220.

 

LEADING INDIVIDUAL TOTALS

271 Marius Thorp (Nor) 68 71 65 67.

276 Bjorn Akesson (Swe) 69 67 70 70, Naoto Nakanishi (Jap) 72 69 65 70.

277 Jesper Kennegard (Swe) 68 69 70 70, Kyle Stanley (US) 70 69 70 68.

279 Anders Kristiansen (Nor) 71 67 70 71.

280 Syunsuke Sonoda (Jap) 70 68 71 71, Jeong Yeon-Jin (Kor) 69 71 73 67.

England’s  individual scores:

289 Sam Hutsby 76 68 70 75.

291 James Watts 71 70 78 72.

292 Luke Goddard 73 70 73 76.

Retired: Tom Hesketh 78 72 80 -.