Steven Hume has a 76 in the heat of Italy
Gavin Dear is competing in the Scottish Hydro Challenge at Aviemore this week so his Perthshire colleague, Steven Hume, is the only Scot competing in this week's Alps Tour/Italian Pro Tour event, Le Fonti Open at Golf Club de Fonti. Steven had a four-over-par 76.
FROM THE ALPS TOUR WEBSITE
Frenchman Alan Bihan proved again he deserved his leading place at Alps Tour order of merit. Today Bihan shot a seven-under-par 65 to lead by two strokes in the heat of Bologna, Italy. Sharing second place are Italian Marco Cidonio and Spaniard Moises Cobo.
Cobo was co-leader in the clubhouse after half of field finished their round. The 26 year old rookie -he just turned pro eight months ago- did play solid golf.
“I hit the ball very well. I hit 16 greens in regulation and had seven birdies. I was in Austria on Challenge Tour last week and I did well there too. I am part of the Spanish group managed by Federation and the deal is that we, six players, get seven invitations to the Challenge Tour and some on Tour. I will share my time between all circuits and see what is going on.”
Morning session players had about two hours to play in favourable conditions. Then the temperature started to get high around 11 o'clock, rising over 30 degrees Centigrade. In the middle of the fairways, Golf de Fonti was like an oven.
But Alan Bihan is used to deal with these kind of temperature. The Frenchman was born in Brazil, then moved to Chile when he was six and only come back to France in 1997. Bihan has been playing on the Alps Tour for four years and his father is carrying the bag on each tournament. Father and son are doing well working together.
“I played today as well as I did in Paris but here I holed the putts so obviously it makes a difference. I am playing good golf since the beginning of the season and honestly the best decision we made was to move back to Chile. People are so nice and welcoming. I have a big support of Golf Club Las Brisas de Chicureo and I can play Pacific Tour to practice during winter in Europe.
"We are a group of five or six players including Felipe Aguilar. We practise together and it really helps me. Of course the target is to stay in the first five of each Alps Tour event and maybe keep the lead."
Projected cut mark is two over par after the second round.
Agathe Séron
SCOREBOARD IN BRIEF
Par 72
65 Alan Bihan (France).
67 Marco Cidonio (Italy), Moises Cobo (Spain).
Selected scores:
70 Jason Barnes (England), Jason Palmer (England) (jt 7th).
71 Matthew Cryer (England), Sam Robinson (England) (jt 15yh).
72 Ben Mannix (England) (jt 24th).
73 Richard Kilpatrick (Northern Ireland) (jt 33rd).
74 Farren Keenan (England) (jt 40th).
75 Ricki Neil-Jones (jt 51st).
76 Steven Hume (Scotland).
Gavin Dear is competing in the Scottish Hydro Challenge at Aviemore this week so his Perthshire colleague, Steven Hume, is the only Scot competing in this week's Alps Tour/Italian Pro Tour event, Le Fonti Open at Golf Club de Fonti. Steven had a four-over-par 76.
FROM THE ALPS TOUR WEBSITE
Frenchman Alan Bihan proved again he deserved his leading place at Alps Tour order of merit. Today Bihan shot a seven-under-par 65 to lead by two strokes in the heat of Bologna, Italy. Sharing second place are Italian Marco Cidonio and Spaniard Moises Cobo.
Cobo was co-leader in the clubhouse after half of field finished their round. The 26 year old rookie -he just turned pro eight months ago- did play solid golf.
“I hit the ball very well. I hit 16 greens in regulation and had seven birdies. I was in Austria on Challenge Tour last week and I did well there too. I am part of the Spanish group managed by Federation and the deal is that we, six players, get seven invitations to the Challenge Tour and some on Tour. I will share my time between all circuits and see what is going on.”
Morning session players had about two hours to play in favourable conditions. Then the temperature started to get high around 11 o'clock, rising over 30 degrees Centigrade. In the middle of the fairways, Golf de Fonti was like an oven.
But Alan Bihan is used to deal with these kind of temperature. The Frenchman was born in Brazil, then moved to Chile when he was six and only come back to France in 1997. Bihan has been playing on the Alps Tour for four years and his father is carrying the bag on each tournament. Father and son are doing well working together.
“I played today as well as I did in Paris but here I holed the putts so obviously it makes a difference. I am playing good golf since the beginning of the season and honestly the best decision we made was to move back to Chile. People are so nice and welcoming. I have a big support of Golf Club Las Brisas de Chicureo and I can play Pacific Tour to practice during winter in Europe.
"We are a group of five or six players including Felipe Aguilar. We practise together and it really helps me. Of course the target is to stay in the first five of each Alps Tour event and maybe keep the lead."
Projected cut mark is two over par after the second round.
Agathe Séron
SCOREBOARD IN BRIEF
Par 72
65 Alan Bihan (France).
67 Marco Cidonio (Italy), Moises Cobo (Spain).
Selected scores:
70 Jason Barnes (England), Jason Palmer (England) (jt 7th).
71 Matthew Cryer (England), Sam Robinson (England) (jt 15yh).
72 Ben Mannix (England) (jt 24th).
73 Richard Kilpatrick (Northern Ireland) (jt 33rd).
74 Farren Keenan (England) (jt 40th).
75 Ricki Neil-Jones (jt 51st).
76 Steven Hume (Scotland).
Labels: ALPS TOUR
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