DUNCAN STEWART (69) TOP SCOT ON DAY OF LOW SCORING IN GERMANY
CHALLENGE TOUR REPORT
FROM EUROPEAN TOUR COMMUNICATIONS
Victor Riu fired a course record 63 to lead by two strokes at nine under par at the end of a low scoring first round at the Bad Griesbach Challenge Tour by Hartl Resort in Germany.
Victor Riu fired a course record 63 to lead by two strokes at nine under par at the end of a low scoring first round at the Bad Griesbach Challenge Tour by Hartl Resort in Germany.
The
Frenchman leads by two from Germany’s Nicolas Meitinger, England’s
Chris Hanson and Belgium’s Pierre Relecom, who all posted seven under
par on the Beckenbauer Course.
Riu
got his round off to the ideal start with four birdies in his first
nine holes, picking up shots at the third, sixth, eighth, and ninth,
before an eagle at the par five tenth really kicked his round into top
gear.
Further birdies at the 11th and 14th
saw the Frenchman go eight under par for his round, before a dropped
shot at the 16th had looked like halting his progress, but Riu bounced
back from that with birdies at the 17th and 18th to finish
off a fine opening round.
“I played very well, I’m very happy,
everything was very good,” admitted a satisfied Riu. “The course is
nice, it is playing long but the greens are good. I’m 23rd on the
Challenge Tour Ranking at the moment and have played pretty solid
so far this season, so I’m very happy.
“I have never won as a professional so it would be great after six years to win here this week.”
In a tie for second place, two strokes
adrift, is Meitinger who took advantage of being on home soil to card
seven birdies and no dropped shots on Thursday.
On the same mark is Hanson who shot
the joint lowest round of the afternoon thanks to a couple of long range
birdies, while the last to join the trio at seven under par after 18
holes was Relecom, who based his 65 on solid irons into the
greens and playing smart from the tees.
Jerome Lando Casanova played alongside
the leading Riu in the opening round, and he too was in top form,
finishing in a tie for third alongside the Dutch duo of Daan Huizing and
Robin Kind, the latter of which is making his Challenge Tour
debut this week.
England’s Adam Gee got off to a fast
start first thing on Thursday, carding seven birdies in his first ten
holes, but a costly double at 11 and a bogey at 15 saw him finish with a
67. That was a score matched by Norway’s Knut Borsheim
and two time European Tour winner Kenneth Ferrie, amongst others.
FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 72
63 V Riu (Fra)
65 C Hanson (Eng) , P Relecom (Bel) , N Meitinger (Ger)
66 J Lando Casanova (Fra) , R Kind (Ned) , D Huizing (Ned)
67 S Kannler (Ger) , J Abbott (Eng) ,
M Laskey (Wal) , R Harris (Eng) , D Palm (Swe) , K Borsheim (Nor) , D
Wuensche (Ger) , K Ferrie (Eng) , J Guerrier (Fra) , A Gee (Eng)
68 S Heisele (Ger) , C Mivis (Bel),
F De Vries (Ned), L Weber (Fra) , P Edberg (Swe) , G Watremez (Bel) ,
N Kearney (Irl) , E Johansen (Nor) , L Bjerregaard (Den) , B
Ritthammer (Ger) , B An (Kor) , A Pavan (Ita) , T Pilkadaris (Aus)
, J Huldahl (Den)
69
J Dantorp (Swe) , M Trappel (Aut) , M Crespi (Ita) , S Manley (Wal) ,
A Johnston (Eng) , N Henriques (Por) , D Stewart (Sco) , M Rominger
(Sui) , B Parker (Eng) , G Snow (Ken) , E Dubois (Fra) , L Claverie
(Esp) , N Quintarelli
(Ita) , C Aguilar (Esp)
70 B Hemstock (Eng) , J Moul (Eng) ,
S O'Hara (Sco) , J Carlsson (Swe) , R Kakko (Fin) , J Senior (Eng) , S
Grant (Irl) , G Murray (Sco) , M Glauert (Ger) , L Goddard (Eng) , T
Fournier (Fra) , O Farr (Wal) , Å Nilsson (Swe) , P
Oriol (Esp) , J Mommo (Fin) , P Archer (Eng) , L Kennedy (Eng) , J
Glennemo (Swe) , D Perrier (Fra) , S Garcia Rodriguez (Esp) ,
71 J Barnes (Eng) , W Booth (Sco), J
Gibb (Eng) , S Hutsby (Eng) , F Bergamaschi (Ita) , C Kim (USA), J
Fahrbring (Swe), C Ford (Eng) , B Hebert (Fra) , F Praegant (Aut) , M
Brier (Aut) , J Doherty (Sco) , T Murray (Eng) , P Maddy
(Eng) , J Elson (Eng) , A Bossert (Sui) , M Haastrup (Den) , N
Elvira (Esp)
72 F Svanberg (Sui) , N Lemke (Swe) ,
A Bernadet (Fra) , S Kim (SKor) , M Schneider (Ger), J Garcia Pinto
(Esp), J Lerchedahl (Den) , R Steiner (Aut) , N Ravano (Ita) , L
Tintera (Cze) , T Nørret (Den) , W Besseling (Ned) , F Colombo
(Ita) , P O'Keeffe (Irl) , D Geminiani (Ita) , T Pulkkanen (Fin)
73 G Piris Mateu (Esp) , G Houston
(Wal) , R Russell (Sco) , A Perrino (Ita) , J Pastor Lopez (Esp) , N
Floren (Swe) , I Pyman (Eng) , N Dougherty (Eng) , P Kaensche (Nor) , A
Rota (Ita) , C Suneson (Esp) , S Piaget (Mon) ,
74 C Del Moral (Esp) , K Nicol (Sco) ,
T Sluiter (Ned) , J Timmis (Eng) , H Bacher (Aut) , R Kellett (Sco) , A
Velasco (Esp) , O Whiteley (Eng) , R Saxton (Ned)
75 F McGuirk (Eng) , L Saltman (Sco)
, A Otaegui (Esp) , P Dwyer (Eng) , D Kemmer (USA) , N Dahlgren (Fin) ,
D Vancsik (Arg) , D Im (USA) , J Legarrea (Esp) , P Westermann (am)
(Ger)
76 A McArthur (Sco) , M Novy (Cze) , J Howarth (Eng) , B Chapellan (Fra) , O Lieser (Cze)
77
D Griffiths (Eng) , M Haremza (Ger) , S Davis (Eng) , E Bertheussen
(Nor) , P Erofejeff (Fin) , C Günther (Ger) , M Kramer (Ger) , N
Bertasio (Ita) , P Gal (Cze) , B Hafthorsson (Isl) , R Mattila (Fin) , T
Haylock (Eng)
78 D Wright (Eng) , Y Kafelnikov (Rus)
79 S Matus (Cze) , M Nichols (Eng) , O Rozner (Fra)
80 J Maurer (Aut)
81 J Ruth (Eng)
83 M Lorenzo-Vera (Fra)
86 D Suchan (am) (Cze)
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