Wednesday, September 17, 2014

DUKE OF YORK YOUNG CHAMPIONS TOURNAMENT HIT BY FOT


THICK HAAR HALTS PLAY FOR DAY AT 

BALGOWNIE at 12.30; ONLY NINE HAVE 

COMPLETED SECOND ROUNDS



NEWS RELEASE

Play was suspended on the second day of the Duke of York Young Champions Trophy when dense fog reduced visibility at Royal Aberdeen Golf Club.

By late morning a thick haar had come off the North Sea and meant the Balgownie Links became unplayable. Organisers and R and A referees called the competitors off the course shortly after 12.30pm before suspending play for the day at 2.30pm.

Just nine of the 54-player field had completed their rounds, while the remaining 45 under-18 competitors will resume their second round on Thursday from 8am.
The three-ball groups from the second round will stay the same for the third and final round and will tee off from 9am in the hope of completing the 54-hole tournament as scheduled.    

First-round leader Gisli Sveinbergsson maintained his lead and was four-under. The Icelander carded an opening two-under 69 and was two-under after five holes before the claxon sounded to suspend play.

Sveinbergsson was two ahead of Scotland’s Ewen Ferguson in second plXW. The Scottish Boys Match Play and Strokeplay champion picked up a shot in his opening five holes.

Carlotta Ricolfi was the third member of the final group alongside Sveinbergsson and Ferguson and was level through five to be tied third on one-under. The Italian was joined by England’s Marco Penge and Japan’s Ren Okazaki.

Emma Kaper was one of the nine players to complete her second round and what a difference a day makes. The young Belgian carded a four-under 67 in a magical round that included a hole-in-one at the par-three eighth. That was a staggering 19 shots better than her opening round. 

“I hit a nice eight-iron and thought wow this is a good shot, it was right on line. The ball bounced a few feet short of the hole and rolled in. This is my second hole in one in tournament golf,” beamed Kaper.

“The hole-in-one definitely helped my scorecard. I had a much better day today. Yesterday I was playing okay but I had three disastrous holes when I made a triple and two quadruple bogeys.

“Today everything went well, I found the fairways and my putting was much better.” 

SECOND-ROUND COMPLETED SCORES


Par 142 (2x71)
153 Emma Kaper (Belgium) 86 67, Marek Siakala (Czech Republic) 81 72
157 Anna Svanka (Latvia) 84 73
159 Ana Belac (Slovenia) 85  74
161 Lucas Becht (Belgium) 84 77
162 Sandra Salonen (Finland), Samarth Kumar (Netherlands) 82 80, Davis Lamb (USA) 82 80
171 Dominika Gradecka (Poland) 84 87

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