European Challenge Tour
PETER WHITEFORD (67) LYING SECOND
AT KAZAKHSTAN OPEN
From MICHAEL GIBBONS
European Challenge Tour Press Officer
Fifer Peter Whiteford fired a five under par 67 to move into second place at the European Challenge Tour’s richest tournament of the year, the €330,000 Kazakhstan Open.
With the winner at the Nurtau Golf Club taking home €52,800, the Kazakhstan Open is the Challenge Tour’s major tournament of the year, the event that, given the choice, every player wants to win before any other full Challenge Tour event.
Whiteford, currently 83rd on the Rankings, can propel himself into the top 10 with victory in Kazakhstan and put himself in a fantastic position to win a place on The European Tour by finishing inside the end of season top 20.
Seven birdies and two dropped shots represented a great start for the Kirkcaldy professional, who trails leader Leif Westerberg of Sweden by three strokes going into the second round.
“I’m delighted with that,” said Whiteford. “This is a big big week for us with the amount of prize money on offer and I need a fair bit of money to try and get my card, so it was important to get off to a good start and I managed to do that today.”
Of the seven other Scots in the field, Eric Ramsay fared best with a two under par 70. Euan Little and Jamie McLeary finished the day on one under, with Scott Henderson one over. George Murray joined Richie Ramsay on two over, with the injured Andrew McArthur alongside Raymond Russell on four over.
FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 72
64 Leif Westerberg (Swe).
67 Paul Dwyer (Eng), Peter Whiteford (Sco).
68 Fredrik Widmark (Swe), Fabrizio Zanotti (Par), Ross McGowan (Eng), Roope Kakko (Fin), Hernan Rey (Arg), Richard McEvoy (Eng), Pontus Ericsson (Swe), Richard Treis (Ger).
69 Matthew King (Eng), Raphaël Eyraud (Fra), Tim Dykes (Wal).
70 Anthony Snobeck (Fra), Jamie Donaldson (Wal), Philip Golding (Eng), Eric Ramsay (Sco), Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), James Kamte (RSA), Michael Hoey (NIr), Gareth Wright (Wal), Andrew Butterfield (Eng), Felipe Aguilar (Chi).
71 Alvaro Vela (Esp), Inder Van (Ned) ; Pablo Del Grosso (ARG); Alvaro Salto (Esp), Euan Little (Sco), Magnus A Carlsson (Swe), Jamie Little (Eng), Gareth Paddison (NZ).
72 Colm Moriarty (Ire), Benoit Teilleria (Fra), Tobias Dier (Ger), Martin Wiegele (Aut), Robert Coles (Eng), Iain Pyman (Eng), Marco Cr (Esp), Carlos Cardeza (Arg), Mikael Lundberg (Swe), Chris Gane (Eng), Ben Mason (Eng), Pablo Larrazabal (Esp), Kieran Staunton (Eng), Gustavo Acosta (Arg), Stuart Manley (Wal).
73 Lee S James (Eng), Mark Tullo (Chi), Van Phillips (Eng), Scott Henderson (Sco), Martin Maritz (RSA), Jerome Theunis (Bel), Robert Dinwiddie (Eng), John E Morgan (Eng), Edoardo Molinari (Ita), Ally Mellor (Eng), Rafael Gomez (Arg), Peter Fowler (Aus), Tae Jin Kim (Kor), Jamie McLeary (Sco), Stuart Davis (Eng), Juan Abbate (Arg), Wilhelm Schauman (Swe), Jan-Are Larsen (Nor).
74 Kevin Harper (Eng), Nicolas Vanhootegem (Bel), John Mellor (Eng), Daniel De Leon (Mex), Johan Sköld (Swe), Richie Ramsay (Sco), François Delamontagne (Fra), Toni Karjalainen (Fin), Fredrik Ohlsson (Swe), Benjamin Miarka (Ger), Magnus Persson (Swe), Jeppe Huldahl (Den), Julien Xanthopoul (Fra), George Murray (Sco), Julio Zapata (Arg), André Bossert (Swi).
75 Matthew Richardson (Eng), Gareth Maybin (NIr), Adrien Mörk (Fra), Michiel Bothma (RSA), Mickael Dieu (Fra), Carlos Del Moral (Esp), Antti Ahokas (Fin), Gary Clark (Eng), Sébastien Delagrange (Fra), Emilio Dominguez (Arg), Rodolfo Gonzalez (Arg), Liam Bond (Wal), Christophe Brazillier (Fra), Joost Luiten (Ned), Kariem Baraka (Ger), Niki Zitny (Aut), Phil Worthingto (Eng).
76 Raymond Russell (Sco), Paolo Terreni (Ita), Lasse Jensen (Den), Jean- Billot (Fra), Andrew McArthur (Sco), Mikko Korhonen (Fin), Peter Kaensche (Nor), Adam Gee (Eng), Tim Milford (Eng), Julien Foret (Fra).
77 Christian Reimbold (Ger), Michael McGeady (Ire), Yong-Suk Kim (Kor), Klas Eriksson (Swe), Shaun P Webster (Eng), Anders Hansen (Den), Stephen Browne (Ire).
78 Manuel Quiros (Esp), Shim-Jay Dong (Kor), Luis Claverie (Esp), François Calmels (Fra), Miguel Rodriguez (Arg).
79 Cédric Menut (Fra), Julien Van Hauwe (Fra), Paul Waring (Eng), Jong Hyuk Kim (Kor), Gustavo Rojas (Arg).
AT KAZAKHSTAN OPEN
From MICHAEL GIBBONS
European Challenge Tour Press Officer
Fifer Peter Whiteford fired a five under par 67 to move into second place at the European Challenge Tour’s richest tournament of the year, the €330,000 Kazakhstan Open.
With the winner at the Nurtau Golf Club taking home €52,800, the Kazakhstan Open is the Challenge Tour’s major tournament of the year, the event that, given the choice, every player wants to win before any other full Challenge Tour event.
Whiteford, currently 83rd on the Rankings, can propel himself into the top 10 with victory in Kazakhstan and put himself in a fantastic position to win a place on The European Tour by finishing inside the end of season top 20.
Seven birdies and two dropped shots represented a great start for the Kirkcaldy professional, who trails leader Leif Westerberg of Sweden by three strokes going into the second round.
“I’m delighted with that,” said Whiteford. “This is a big big week for us with the amount of prize money on offer and I need a fair bit of money to try and get my card, so it was important to get off to a good start and I managed to do that today.”
Of the seven other Scots in the field, Eric Ramsay fared best with a two under par 70. Euan Little and Jamie McLeary finished the day on one under, with Scott Henderson one over. George Murray joined Richie Ramsay on two over, with the injured Andrew McArthur alongside Raymond Russell on four over.
FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 72
64 Leif Westerberg (Swe).
67 Paul Dwyer (Eng), Peter Whiteford (Sco).
68 Fredrik Widmark (Swe), Fabrizio Zanotti (Par), Ross McGowan (Eng), Roope Kakko (Fin), Hernan Rey (Arg), Richard McEvoy (Eng), Pontus Ericsson (Swe), Richard Treis (Ger).
69 Matthew King (Eng), Raphaël Eyraud (Fra), Tim Dykes (Wal).
70 Anthony Snobeck (Fra), Jamie Donaldson (Wal), Philip Golding (Eng), Eric Ramsay (Sco), Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra), James Kamte (RSA), Michael Hoey (NIr), Gareth Wright (Wal), Andrew Butterfield (Eng), Felipe Aguilar (Chi).
71 Alvaro Vela (Esp), Inder Van (Ned) ; Pablo Del Grosso (ARG); Alvaro Salto (Esp), Euan Little (Sco), Magnus A Carlsson (Swe), Jamie Little (Eng), Gareth Paddison (NZ).
72 Colm Moriarty (Ire), Benoit Teilleria (Fra), Tobias Dier (Ger), Martin Wiegele (Aut), Robert Coles (Eng), Iain Pyman (Eng), Marco Cr (Esp), Carlos Cardeza (Arg), Mikael Lundberg (Swe), Chris Gane (Eng), Ben Mason (Eng), Pablo Larrazabal (Esp), Kieran Staunton (Eng), Gustavo Acosta (Arg), Stuart Manley (Wal).
73 Lee S James (Eng), Mark Tullo (Chi), Van Phillips (Eng), Scott Henderson (Sco), Martin Maritz (RSA), Jerome Theunis (Bel), Robert Dinwiddie (Eng), John E Morgan (Eng), Edoardo Molinari (Ita), Ally Mellor (Eng), Rafael Gomez (Arg), Peter Fowler (Aus), Tae Jin Kim (Kor), Jamie McLeary (Sco), Stuart Davis (Eng), Juan Abbate (Arg), Wilhelm Schauman (Swe), Jan-Are Larsen (Nor).
74 Kevin Harper (Eng), Nicolas Vanhootegem (Bel), John Mellor (Eng), Daniel De Leon (Mex), Johan Sköld (Swe), Richie Ramsay (Sco), François Delamontagne (Fra), Toni Karjalainen (Fin), Fredrik Ohlsson (Swe), Benjamin Miarka (Ger), Magnus Persson (Swe), Jeppe Huldahl (Den), Julien Xanthopoul (Fra), George Murray (Sco), Julio Zapata (Arg), André Bossert (Swi).
75 Matthew Richardson (Eng), Gareth Maybin (NIr), Adrien Mörk (Fra), Michiel Bothma (RSA), Mickael Dieu (Fra), Carlos Del Moral (Esp), Antti Ahokas (Fin), Gary Clark (Eng), Sébastien Delagrange (Fra), Emilio Dominguez (Arg), Rodolfo Gonzalez (Arg), Liam Bond (Wal), Christophe Brazillier (Fra), Joost Luiten (Ned), Kariem Baraka (Ger), Niki Zitny (Aut), Phil Worthingto (Eng).
76 Raymond Russell (Sco), Paolo Terreni (Ita), Lasse Jensen (Den), Jean- Billot (Fra), Andrew McArthur (Sco), Mikko Korhonen (Fin), Peter Kaensche (Nor), Adam Gee (Eng), Tim Milford (Eng), Julien Foret (Fra).
77 Christian Reimbold (Ger), Michael McGeady (Ire), Yong-Suk Kim (Kor), Klas Eriksson (Swe), Shaun P Webster (Eng), Anders Hansen (Den), Stephen Browne (Ire).
78 Manuel Quiros (Esp), Shim-Jay Dong (Kor), Luis Claverie (Esp), François Calmels (Fra), Miguel Rodriguez (Arg).
79 Cédric Menut (Fra), Julien Van Hauwe (Fra), Paul Waring (Eng), Jong Hyuk Kim (Kor), Gustavo Rojas (Arg).
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