Friday, March 23, 2007

IRELAND LEAD BY THREE IN MEN'S EUROPEAN
NATIONS CUP; GERMAN WOMEN WELL CLEAR


Ireland (649) lead by three strokes from England, Portugal and Denmark with one round to go in the men's team championship of the European Nations Cup at Sotogrande, Spain.
Scotland dropped to 10th place on 667 - 18 strokes behind Ireland - with third-round counting scores of 73 from John Gallagher (Swanston) and 75s each from James Byrne (Banchory) and Glenn Campbell (Blairgowrie). For the third day in a row Steven McEwan (Barassie) had a non-counting score.
In the women's championship, it is all over bar the shouting - Germany (423) are 16 strokes clear of the field. England are in fourth place on 442 with Wales fifth on 445.

THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARD

MEN'S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
649 IRELAND (R McIlroy 70, S Lowry 75, N Kearney 75).
652 PORTUGAL.
652 DENMARK, ENGLAND (E Richardson 71, P Waring 71, G Wolstenholme 72).
656 NORWAY.
659 WALES (N Edwards 72, C Evans 77, L Matthews 77).
661 SWEDEN.
662 FINLAND.
664 GERMANY.
667 SCOTLAND (J Gallagher 73, G Campbell 75, J Byrne 75).
668 SPAIN.
673 AUSTRIA, NETHERLANDS.
674 BELGIUM.
681 SLOVENIA.
683 ITALY.

MEN'S INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP
208 M Thorp (Nor) 69 69 70.
209 R McIlroy (Ire) 69 70 70.
213 X Feyaerts 69 72 72.
215 O Bonning 73 72 70.
216 P Baunsoe 68 80 68, J Carlota 79 66 71, N Edwards (Wal) 73 72 71.
Other scores:
217 G Wolstenholme (Eng) 71 74 72 (jt 8th).
218 P Waring (Eng) 74 73 71, M Cryer (Eng) 72 74 72, J Byrne (Sco) 75 68 75 (jt 10th).
224 J Gallagher (Sco) 76 75 73 (jt 31st).
225 G Campbell (Sco) 76 74 75 (jt 34th).
234 S McEwan (Sco) 79 76 79 (jt 56th).

WOMEN'S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

423 GERMANY.
439 SPAIN.
440 DENMARK.
442 ENGLAND (N Edwards 73, K Smith 73).
445 WALES (B Loucks 75, T Davies 76).
449 NETHERLANDS.
456 BELGIUM.
464 AUSTRIA.
465 FINLAND.
466 ITALY.

WOMEN'S INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP
212 C Masson (Ger) 73 71 68.
215 K Schallenberg (Ger) 69 71 75.
216 M Silva Zamora (Spa) 71 74 71.
218 K Smith (Eng) 70 75 73, M Jorgensen 73 74 71.
223 B Loucks (Wal) 74 75 74, S Doering (Ger) 73 79 71, T Koelbaek 77 72 74.
Other scores:
224 S Hassan (Wal) 74 72 78 (jt 9th).
225 N Edwards (Eng) 77 75 73 (jt 11th).
229 M Reid (Eng) 76 76 77 (jt 18th).
233 T Davies (Wal) 75 82 76 (jt 25th).

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