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
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
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