CRAIG LEE FINISHES IN TOP FIVE IN DENMARK

From Challenge Tour Press Officer Paul Symes

Stirling’s Craig Lee warmed up for the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles with a highly creditable top five finish at the ECCO Tour Championship hosted by Thomas Björn and Mercedes-Benz.
Lee closed with a round of 66 at Stensballegaard Golf in Horsens, Denmark, to finish on ten under par, two shots behind the winner, Italian Alessandro Tadini.
The 35 year old will now head home to prepare for this week’s £1.4million European Tour event in Perthshire, where a strong showing would go a long way toward securing his card for next season.

He said: “I’m very pleased with the week – I’d taken a few weeks off, so it was important to see if the practice I’d been putting in had paid off, and it’s worked out very nicely. I’m happy enough with the state of my game, and it gives me a nice wee bit of confidence to take forward.

“It’ll be great to play on home soil, and to sleep in my own bed. Gleneagles is a great track and I’m sure I’ll have a bit of support, so I’m really looking forward to the week. But I can’t let it distract me from the task in hand, because every week from now on in is a very big week. I’ve probably only got five or six tournaments left, so it’s coming to crunch time. The pressure’s on to getting across the finishing line, and hopefully I’ve got a few decent left performances in me.”

Fellow Scot Steven O’Hara finished alongside Lee in a tie for fifth place on ten under par after signing off with a round of 67, whilst Lloyd Saltman closed with his best round of the week, a 68 for a seven under par aggregate total.

Final scores:

276 A Tadini (Ita) 69 71 67 69, J Busby (Eng) 68 71 67 70,

 277 K Broberg (Swe) 70 69 67 71, K Eriksson (Swe) 70 62 73 72,

 278 S Kim (Kor) 70 73 69 66, C Lee (Sco) 71 71 70 66, M Tullo (Chi) 69 74 67 68, S O'Hara  (Sco) 71 69 71 67, N Meitinger  (Ger) 69 69 70 70, B Hafthorsson (Isl) 69 70 69 70, C Paisley  (Eng) 73 71 63 71, A Hansen  (Den) 72 72 68 66, G Clark (Eng) 71 66 69 72,

 279 J Hansen  (Den) 67 75 64 73, M Madsen  (Den) 74 71 67 67,

 280 J Abbott (Eng) 71 74 70 65, M Korhonen (Fin) 69 75 68 68, R Dinwiddie  (Eng) 71 73 64 72, J Parry (Eng) 72 72 70 66,

 281 N Lemke (Swe) 70 72 69 70, A Kaleka  (Fra) 71 73 68 69, L Saltman (Sco) 71 71 71 68, J Garcia Pinto (Esp) 71 65 74 71, L Goddard  (Eng) 74 68 71 68, D Brooks (Eng) 69 71 71 70,

 282 J Legarrea (Esp) 71 69 73 69, E De La Riva  (Esp) 72 72 71 67, B Parker  (Eng) 69 71 73 69, F Fritsch  (Ger) 72 73 67 70, M Ford (Eng) 74 69 70 69,

 283 A Velasco (Esp) 74 70 68 71, A Otaegui  (Esp) 74 69 74 66, S Tiley (Eng) 71 74 69 69, J Doherty  (Sco) 78 66 71 68,

 284 B An (Kor) 71 74 71 68, J Palmer (Eng) 71 70 69 74, R Hjelm (Den) 74 70 69 71, M Carlsson  (Swe) 72 73 68 71, D Palm (Swe) 71 70 69 74,

 285 D Vancsik (Arg) 70 75 68 72, T Sluiter  (Ned) 75 68 69 73, R Echenique (Arg) 72 69 71 73, N Møller (am) (Den) 73 70 71 71,

 286 C Lange  (Den) 72 68 73 73, A Bernadet  (Fra) 75 70 72 69, F Christensen (Swe) 71 73 68 74, M Southgate  (Eng) 72 73 71 70,

 287 C Russo (Fra) 70 75 72 70, C Monasterio (Arg) 71 73 71 72, V Riu  (Fra) 72 73 71 71, P Relecom  (Bel) 72 72 74 69,

 288 L Claverie (Esp) 70 74 73 71, D Ulrich (Sui) 73 72 72 71, P Oriol (Esp) 71 73 71 73, J Carlsson (Swe) 74 70 72 72,

 289 E Dubois (Fra) 71 72 72 74, N Dougherty  (Eng) 74 70 71 74, J Barnes (Eng) 74 71 71 73, E Blom (Swe) 74 70 72 73,

 290 L Kennedy  (Eng) 74 71 72 73, A Hartø  (Den) 69 75 71 75, A Ahokas (Fin) 70 75 72 73,

 291 F Delamontagne  (Fra) 66 77 72 76,

 292 N Johansson (Swe) 74 69 71 78, T Rosendahl (Swe) 72 71 77 72,

 293 J Gibb (Eng) 70 74 72 77,

 296 R Steiner (Aut) 73 72 76 75, M Delpodio  (Ita) 70 75 76 75,

 297 A Kristiansen  (Nor) 75 70 81 71,

 299 G Dear (Sco) 74 71 77 77,

 ** A John (Ger) 69 72 80 WD

 

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