CHAUDHURI, BRAGULAT GO CLEAR WITH 64s

FROM THE ALPS TOUR WEBSITE
England's Neil Chaudhuri and Spaniard Juan Antonio Bragulat shot 64, minus 7, today at The Omnium of Belgium. Both players did not dropped any shot and signed for perfect card. They are 3 strokes clear of a big group of 10 players including Belgium amateur, Rutger Dhondt from Keerbergen Golf Club and pro Gérald Gresse.
Bragulat is used as twice winner to be on top of the leaderboard but Neil Chaudhuri Has not been playing for a while :
“ I needed time away from tournaments. I struggled so much with my game that I took 5 weeks off. I have been training very hard for the last three weeks. I changed very little things on my swing and today my iron game was very solid. I did not miss any green and holed only one long putt. I was often closed to the pins.”
Englishman is far away in the ranking but does appreciate to feel much more confident on course as he will play Tour School in September.
The projected cut is level par including 12 Belgium's players.
Agathe Séron
SCOTSWATCH. Gavin Dear is in seventh place on the Alps Tour's Order of Merit. He needs to be in sixth place by the end of the current tournament if he is to be exempt from the first stage of the European Tour School qualifying process.
The Murrayshall man has not started the tournament well and he has the proverbial mountain to climb. A three over par 74 which including a doule bogey 7 at the long fifth left him languishing in joint 86th position. In fact, he could miss the cut!
Fellow Perthshire traveller Steven Hume had a 72 for joint 72nd place so the scoring is low at this Alps Tour event.

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