GEORGE MURRAY FADES IN FINAL
ROUND OF CHALLENGE TOUR
EVENT AT TOULOUSE

By MICHAEL GIBBONS
Press Officer, European Challenge Tour.

George Murray’s bid for a maiden professional victory at the European Challenge Tour’s A.G.F. Allianz Golf Open de Toulouse disintegrated with a disappointing final round performance at the Golf de Toulouse-Seilh today.
The 2004 Scottish Amateur champion from Anstruehr began the final round in a tie for second place, just one off the lead, but never fully recovered from bogeys at the first and fourth holes as he stumbled to a last round of one-over-par 73 to finish on nine under for the tournament and a tie for seventh place.
Murray’s nine under total was a full eight strokes behind winner Joost Luiten of Holland, who produced a marvellous final round of eight under par 64 to pip overnight leader Nicolas Vanhootegem of Belgium to victory by one stroke on 17-under-par 271.
Andrew McArthur, the only other Scot to survive the halfway cut had, like Murray, a disappointing final round as he faded to a five over 77 to finish the week on two under 286.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4 x 72). 6,924yd.
271 Joost Luiten (Ned ) 70 71 66 64.
272 Nicolas Vanhootegem (Bel ) 71 65 69 67.
277 Gareth Paddison (Nzl ) 70 67 69 71.
278 Magnus Persson (Swe ) 73 67 68 70, Jan-Are Larsen (Nor ) 70 70 67 71; Jamie Little (Eng ) 69 73 67 69.
279 Van Phillips (Eng ) 66 72 71 70; Peter Kaensche (Nor ) 70 70 68 71; Michael Hoey (Nir ) 64 74 69 72, George Murray (Sco ) 67 70 69 73, Leif Westerberg (Swe ) 67 73 68 71;
280 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra ) 69 74 67 70; Christian Reimbold (Ger ) 64 71 71 74; Kalle Edberg (Swe ) 68 72 67 73;
281 Oliver Whiteley (Eng ) 70 73 68 70; Sébastien Delagrange (Fra ) 66 75 70 70; André Bossert (Sui ) 67 69 70 75; Jeppe Huldahl (Den ) 72 71 66 72; Michiel Bothma (Rsa ) 69 66 72 74; Gareth Wright (Wal ) 68 70 72 71;
282 Alfredo Garcia-Heredia (Esp ) 71 69 72 70; Julien Guerrier (Fra ) 71 67 74 70; Daniel De Leon (Mex ) 73 69 71 69; Iain Pyman (Eng ) 71 71 69 72; Peter Baker (Eng ) 70 73 68 72; Nicolas Joakimides (Fra ) 70 71 71 71;
284 Raphaël De Sousa (Sui ) 69 73 67 75; Julien Quesne (Fra ) 69 72 69 74; Colm Moriarty (Irl ) 71 67 70 76; Rodolfo Gonzalez (Arg ) 66 73 72 73; John Wade (Aus ) 68 71 72 73; Antti Ahokas (Fin ) 72 69 71 72; Pontus Ericsson (Swe ) 70 70 70 74;
285 Jean Marc De Polo (Fra ) 68 71 73 73; Kieran Staunton (Eng ) 70 71 68 76; Paul Dwyer (Eng ) 68 73 68 76; Juan Abbate (Arg ) 72 70 74 69; Edouard Dubois (Am) (Fra ) 70 72 72 71;
286 Kevin Harper (Eng ) 72 69 70 75; Emilien Chamaulte (Fra ) 74 69 71 72; Bruno-Teva Lecuona (Fra ) 70 69 74 73; Andrew McArthur (Sco ) 70 71 68 77; Stephen Browne (Irl ) 69 70 72 75; Stuart Davis (Eng ) 70 70 72 74; Adam Gee (Eng ) 69 69 73 75;
287 Magnus A Carlsson (Swe ) 70 71 74 72; Anders Schmidt Hansen (Den ) 71 71 70 75; Felipe Aguilar (Chi ) 72 71 68 76; Robert Dinwiddie (Eng ) 67 73 74 73; Neil Walker (Eng ) 72 69 71 75; Benoit Teilleria (Fra ) 71 72 69 75;
288 Julien Xanthopoulos (Fra ) 73 70 72 73;
289 Inder Van Weerelt (Ned ) 70 72 73 74; Charles-Edouard Russo (Fra ) 71 72 72 74; Michael McGeady (Irl ) 71 71 72 75; Raphaël Pellicioli (Fra ) 73 70 69 77; Arnaud Gabellon (Fra ) 70 70 75 74; Nicola Maestroni (Ita ) 68 74 73 74;
290 Kasper Linnet Jorgensen (Den ) 71 68 81 70; Andrea Maestroni (Ita ) 73 68 72 77; ; Paul Nilbrink (Nor ) 71 70 70 79; Didier De Vooght (Bel ) 72 70 73 75;
291 Benjamin Miarka (Ger ) 70 73 74 74; Dominique Nouailhac (Fra ) 72 70 73 76;
292 Thomas Feyrsinger (Aut ) 74 69 71 78; Mikko Korhonen (Fin ) 70 68 77 77; Anthony Snobeck (Fra ) 71 71 76 76;
294 Robert Coles (Eng ) 69 73 72 80;
295 Toni Karjalainen (Fin ) 69 73 76 77;
300 Jacob Okello (Ken ) 68 72 84 76;