WILLIAM HARROLD BTS FLORIAN FRITSCH IN MATCH-PLAY FINAL

FROM THE HI5 PRO TOUR WEBSITE

The Finals of The Hi5ProTour Lumine Lakes Open showed all spectators the superb golf that our players could produce under great pressure.. The Greg Norman-designed Lakes course was still a great test of competitive golf allied to breezes and very tricky, slick greens. At times the surface of a as a new tournament.

The following players made it to the final.

William Harrold and Florian Fritsch

Florian Fritsch of European Tour experience played much great golf and it appeared, for a while, that the German golfer with Europes tallest Roller Coaster in the background, was playing golf like his Bavarian background, where the beer drinkers would get together and sing “Auf und nieder, immer wieder” (“up and down, again and again”).

 Florian demonstrated his approach skills by often getting down with a difficult pitch and a putt, we think that the up and down roller coaster inspired him.

William Harrold was meanwhile playing like a machine, hitting fairways and greens in regulation and in the end his constant pressure brought a challenging final to a 3 and 2 end where being on the edge of the monster 16th hole in two was the basis of his win. This win was William’s hat-trick of wins.

William is now off to play in the United States, but may also play a lot in Europe this year. He will do well wherever he goes.

The 3rd and 4th positions were fought out by the losing semi-finalists. In the end a match of inspired golf gave James Housby a 4 and 3 margin over Liam Connolly.

The Matchplay proved to be an outstanding success amongst the players and will be played again possibly when the Tour gets going again in the next winte