Friday, October 01, 2010

Great Scott! Henry shoots a 64 to share

third place in EuroPro Championship

Former Scottish boy and men's amateur stroke-play champion Scott Henry (The Carrick at Loch Lomond) turned the clock back a year or two to shoot a brilliant second-round 64 - the second best score of the day - to move up into joint third place in the race for the €20,000 top prize in the biggest event in the PGA EuroPro Tour season.
Leader is Irishman Brendan McCarroll who had a seven-under-par 63 in the Marfin Popular Bank EuroPro Tour Championship at Aphrodite Hills Golf in Paphos , Cyprus .
Birdies at the first, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, 14th, 15th and 18th, along with a bogey at the 13th, helped McCarroll to lead by two shots on eight-under-par 132.
A victory in Cyprus could catapult McCarroll to the Challenge Tour, depending on how his nearest rivals perform.
McCarroll has been a regular on the EuroPro tour in the last three seasons after he successfully battled through the 2007 Qualifying School .
His highest finish so far came in July when he was tied second at Stoke-by-Nayland, although he also failed to make the cut six times in 2010.
Going into Saturday's final round, McCarroll holds a two-shot lead over George Woolgar, who is one ahead of Scott Henry and Stuart Archibald in tied third.
Henry ended well with birdies at the 17th and 18th, Woolgar claimed an eagle at the par-five sixth, while Archibald registered an eagle of his own on the par-five 18th.
At the start of the second day, three men – Nicky Harris, James Hepworth and Jeremy Kavanagh – were tied in first place but they all fell down the leaderboard.
Harris went round in a level-par round and sits tied fifth, Hepworth has fallen to tied 17th, while double bogeys at the third and 14th from Kavanagh left him in tied 26th.
Craig Lee (Aspire Golf Centre, Ardoe), the only other Scot in action, almost matched Henry's 64. Craig had a 65, which represented a 12-shot improvement on his first round. But Lee is back in a share of 31st place on 142, 10 shots off the pace.
The event, which only features players from the top 60 of the money list from the regular season, concludes on Saturday with the competitors playing their third and final round.
In previous seasons, the players who finish the campaign in the top five on the EPT Order of Merit advance to the Challenge Tour.
However, seven players from the 2010 EuroPro Tour will move up to the Challenge Tour. Daniel Gaunt (winner of a Challenge Tour event earlier in the year) and Craig Lee (guaranteed a place in the top 80 of the Challenge Tour money list) have already secured their spots at the higher level.
Matthew Evans and James Hepworth are guaranteed high finishes on the EPT money list so three spots are still up for grabs in what promises to be a hotly-contested final round in Cyprus.
For more information on the PGA EuroPro Tour, visit the official website www.europrotour.com.

DAY TWO LEADERBOARD
Par 140 (2x70)
132 Brendan McCarroll (JFG Acadamie) 69 63.
134 George Woolgar (Capitalservices.com) 69 65.
135 Scott Henry (The Carrick on Loch Lomond) 71 64, Stuart Archibald (ClaimsJustice.co.uk) 69 66.
136 Lawrence Dodd (G Signs and Design) 71 65, Gareth Davies (Abbeydale GC) 70 66, James Heath (Robert Heath Heating) 68 68, Nicky Harris (Whitefield GC) 66 70.
137 Ben Jones (Crownbrush.co.uk) 70 67, Matt Allen 69 68, Kevin Harper (East Devon) 68 69.

Selected score:
142 Craig Lee (Aspire Golf Centre, Ardoe) 77 65 (jt 31st).
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