LINCOLNSHIRE MAN BEATEN IN AUSSIE AMATEUR STROKE PLAY-OFF
FROM THE ENGLISH GOLF UNION WEBSITE
England’s Dave Coupland (Boston, Lincolnshire) was beaten at the first extra hole of a sudden death playoff for the Australian Men’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at The Victoria Club in Melbourne.
The 25 year old, who is in Australia for four months competing for Waverley GC in the Pennant Series, carded a closing round of 65, with six birdies on the front nine, to tie Queensland’s Cameron Smith on 275, 13 under par, four strokes ahead of New Zealand’s Ben Campbell.
But the Australian, who led the tournament in the three previous rounds, birdied the first playoff hole, something Coupland couldn’t match.
It was Smith’s biggest win to date and he paid tribute to Coupland’s effort, saying: “He played awesome golf. He just went at every pin, hit it to six feet every time and holed the putt.”
The leading 32 players from the stroke play event qualify for elimination match play, to determine the Australian Amateur Champion. Coupland apprears to be maintaining his good form and has already won his first two matches to reach the Quarter Finals.
Coupland’s performance comes in the wake of a string of quality achievements by England’s golfers Down Under this winter.
Andrew Sullivan (Nuneaton, Warwickshire) won the New South Wales Medal, finished runner-up in The Masters of the Amateurs, the New South Wales Cup and was second to Jack Senior (Heysham, Lancashire) in an all-English final of the New South Wales Amateur, while Senior was runner-up to Sullivan in the New South Wales Medal.
Ben Loughrey (Wrag Barn, Wiltshire) won the New South Wales Cup, while Tom Lewis collected silver medals for the leading amateur in the New South Wales Open and the Australian Open Championship.
England’s golfers also retained the Ashes against Australia by with a 13-5 scoreline.
AUSTRALIAN MEN’S STROKE PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Leading scores
275 C Smith (Qld) 66 71 70 68
275 D Coupland (Eng) 72 71 67 65
279 B Campbell (NZ) 71 69 70 69
285 M Batibasaga (Qld) 75 71 70 69
285 V McCall (NZ) 68 76 74 67
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England’s Dave Coupland (Boston, Lincolnshire) was beaten at the first extra hole of a sudden death playoff for the Australian Men’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at The Victoria Club in Melbourne.
The 25 year old, who is in Australia for four months competing for Waverley GC in the Pennant Series, carded a closing round of 65, with six birdies on the front nine, to tie Queensland’s Cameron Smith on 275, 13 under par, four strokes ahead of New Zealand’s Ben Campbell.
But the Australian, who led the tournament in the three previous rounds, birdied the first playoff hole, something Coupland couldn’t match.
It was Smith’s biggest win to date and he paid tribute to Coupland’s effort, saying: “He played awesome golf. He just went at every pin, hit it to six feet every time and holed the putt.”
The leading 32 players from the stroke play event qualify for elimination match play, to determine the Australian Amateur Champion. Coupland apprears to be maintaining his good form and has already won his first two matches to reach the Quarter Finals.
Coupland’s performance comes in the wake of a string of quality achievements by England’s golfers Down Under this winter.
Andrew Sullivan (Nuneaton, Warwickshire) won the New South Wales Medal, finished runner-up in The Masters of the Amateurs, the New South Wales Cup and was second to Jack Senior (Heysham, Lancashire) in an all-English final of the New South Wales Amateur, while Senior was runner-up to Sullivan in the New South Wales Medal.
Ben Loughrey (Wrag Barn, Wiltshire) won the New South Wales Cup, while Tom Lewis collected silver medals for the leading amateur in the New South Wales Open and the Australian Open Championship.
England’s golfers also retained the Ashes against Australia by with a 13-5 scoreline.
AUSTRALIAN MEN’S STROKE PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Leading scores
275 C Smith (Qld) 66 71 70 68
275 D Coupland (Eng) 72 71 67 65
279 B Campbell (NZ) 71 69 70 69
285 M Batibasaga (Qld) 75 71 70 69
285 V McCall (NZ) 68 76 74 67
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