EUROPRO TOUR SEASON FINALE IN EGYPT
ELLIOT SALTMAN SETS RED SEA PACE
NEWS RELEASE
By NICK TEALE
The
Scot shot a 67 on day one and is one clear of the six golfers tied for
second on four under. With a £15,000 top prize from the £60,000 prize
fund, the winner will add crucial money to their Race To El Gouna
standings.
The top five not
otherwise exempt on the Race To El Gouna at the end of the event will
earn a Challenge Tour card for 2015.
Peter
Tarver-Jones currently lies second on the Race To El Gouna and is one
of the six tied second on four under. James Robinson also carded a
first-round 68 and with William Harrold now out of the Race To El Gouna
having made one start
short of the required five, Robinson moves from sixth to fifth place.
A
strong finish this week will should see him secure his Challenge Tour
card for 2015.
Sixth
place may be enough with Race To El Gouna leader Jack Senior likely to
earn an exemption through his performance on the Challenge Tour Order of
Merit. Alex Belt, Nick McCarthy, James Frazer and Paul Shields are also
four under and
each could earn a promotion to Europe’s second-tier tour if they
perform well this week.
Leader
Saltman said: “I started off well with birdie, birdie which was nice. I
then birdied the sixth – a par four which you can get quite close to. I
managed to birdie nine with driver, three-wood so I turned four under.
“I
bogeyed ten with a three putt but kept my wits about me and managed to
birdie the par five at 13. I birdied the last as well and it was nice to
finish with a birdie and get to five under.
“It
is a great golf course, really, really good. It is a really good test. I
have been playing really well the last three or four weeks back home
trying to prepare for this.
"It is a nice place to come. It is the first
time I have ever been
to Egypt and it is nice to come here and the course is in great
condition.”
The
Visit Egypt Tour Championship is a 54-hole stroke-play event, with the
final round taking place on Friday.
Only the top 60 on the
Race To El Gouna after the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour’s 16
regular-season events were
invited.
A two-hour highlights package of the event will be broadcast
on Sky Sports HD on Tuesday, November 11.
LEADING FIRST ROUND
Par 72
67 E Saltman (Archerfield Links)
68 A Belt (Snainton), N McCarthy (Moortown), J Frazer (Pennard), P Shields (Kirkhill), J Robinson (Southport and Ainsdale), P Tarver-Jones (Worthing).
OTHER SCOTS' SCORES
72 N Fenwick (Dunbar) (T18)
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