Gavin Dear wins play-off on Alps Tour

FROM THE ALPS TOUR WEBSITE
Scot Gavin Dear captured his maiden pro win on the Alps Tour by beating young Frenchman George Leriche in a sudden death play-off climax at Feudi di Asti Golf Open presented by SCAVINO-PIAGGIO Veicoli Commerciali.
Dear teed off almost our hour before the last group and played his best golf. “My golf is really better for weeks now, I had good results in August. I knew I needed to score very low. The leaderboard was not updated so I tried to make a lot of birdies.”
Meanwhile, Frenchman Leriche struggled a little with his game and dropped 2 shots on 3rd par 5 where he used to hole for birdy.
Dear signed for the score of the day, a 63 for a total of 210, but had to wait until last group completed their round. He had a chat with Jason Palmer, winner after many tries.
“Jason told me he was playing for victory twice before winning, I answered that I have been in that position many more times this season ! Finally I did it.”

Leriche did not hole for birdie as he did the first two rounds and had to go into a play off. They played twice the short 18th par 3 and Gavin Dear holed from 60 cm to win as his opponent missed 10 meters.

Gavin Dear earned two places to be 4th at Alps Tour order of merit and George Leriche jumped from 71st to 38th place.
Agathe Séron


LEADING FINAL TOTALS
200 Gavin Dear (Sco) 66 71 673, George Leriche (Fra) 67 64 69. Dear (6,525 Euros) bt Leriche (4,432 Euros) at second hole of sudden-death play-off.
202 Joon Kim (Ita) 67 69 66, Matthew Cryer (Eng) 65 69 68 (2,652 Euros each).

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