Daniel List three off the pace in Florida with a first-round, three-over-par 74
Australian-born Daniel List, a pupil at Wellington College, Berkshire and the only "England" player in the Junior Orange Bowl international boys' and girls' tournament at the Biltmore course, Coral Gables, Florida, is lying T22 at the end of the first round.
He shot a three-over-par 74 over the 6,742yd course - five shots behind the joint leaders, Chile's Joaquin Niemann, the defending champion, and Belgium's Giovanni Tadiotto.
Kristoffer Retian (Norway) is lying third with a 70 - so a good start by the Europeans in this prestigious tournament last won by an Englishman (pro's son Ben Parker) in 2005.
List made a good start with birdies at the first, second and fifth and he did add one more, at the 10th, but the damage had been done earlier and later. He bogeyed the sixth, seventh, eighth and 11th then had a disastrous double bogey 5 at the short 13th in halves of 35 and 39.
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DAVID MACKINTOSH REPORTS:
JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL
INTERNATIONAL GOLF – Day 1
CORAL GABLES, Dec 27: Defending champion Chile’s Joaquin
Niemann posted a 2-uner par 69 for a share of the lead with Belgium’s Giovanni
Tadiotti.
A windy day at this
famed Biltmore golf venue produced little separation at the top of the
leaderboard, 21 players within four strokes of the lead, Norway’s Kristoffer
Reitan alone in third place on 70.
In the Girls Division USA’s Emigliaccio claimed the outright
lead with a 3-under par 68, after a scintillating back-nine (her opening side) during
which she carded five birdies.
South Korea’s Euikyung Shin lies solo second with a 69, a
single stroke ahead of a three-way tie for third place between Paraguay’s Sofia
Garcia, France’s Mathilda Cappeliez and Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela,
Cappeliez’s round particularly notable for fifteen steady pars.
Niemann, 17, has already had a sterling year with three
international wins and a future place at the University of South Florida, but
his greatest ambition is to repeat his Orange Bowl victory. ”It would be so
cool,” he said, talking softly about a feat nobody has achieved in the history
of the event.
“I played well today, but I can play better,” he said of a
four birdie-two bogeys round, noting that for the main the gusty conditions
didn’t affect his ball striking. “I didn’t miss fairways but I’d like to putt a
bit better tomorrow.”
In Niemann’s favor is the Biltmore Club’s super-fast greens.
“I love Bermuda-grass, it’s my favorite putting surface,” he said. “I really
enjoy the challenge.”
Tadiotti, also 17, son of a golf professional and similarly
professional in his approach to this championship, credits his previous Junior
Orange Bowl experience for the game plan he’s now pursuing. “Last year I made
some mistakes because I did not know the course, how it plays, how to avoid the
worst trouble. This year I have a strategy and I’m sticking to it.”
His five-birdie round was a full of solid golf, he said, and
he easily shook off a couple of front-nine errors. “I missed the green at the 6th
in a bunker where it was virtually impossible to get up-and-down and found
water at the 7th, but I was able to put that behind me quickly. I’m
very comfortable with my game right now.”
17-year old Will Dickson, from Providence, RI, playing in
his 4th consecutive Junior Orange Bowl championship, posted 71 for a
share of 4th place, is leads the US contenders.
ALL THE WINNERS OF THE JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL BOYS' TITLE
BOYS
1964 Richard Spears
1965 Allen Miller
1966 Jim Simon, PGA
1967 Tony Haderer, PGA
1968 Stacy Russell
1969 Gary Koch, PGA
1970 Dennis Sullivan
1971 Jim Haney
1972 Paul Rooker
1973 Jon Feinberg
1974 David Abell
1975 Bill May, PGA
1976 Willie Wood, PGA
1977 Mark Calcavecchia, PGA
1978 Tom Garner
1979 Marco Durante
1980 Adam Armagost
1981 Greg Weber
1982 Marc Pendares
1983 Miles McConnell
1984 Dean Refram
1985 Mangus Rosenback
1986 Eric Anderson
1987 Nicky Goetze, PGA
1988 Kevin Hammer
1989 Frederic Duger
1990 Chris Couch, PGA
1991 Tiger Woods, PGA
1992 Lewis Chitengwa
1993 Grady Girard
1994 Ryuji Imada, PGA
1995 Oliver David
1996 Boyd Summerhays
1997 Camilo Benedetti
1998 Yusaku Miyazato
1999 Camilo Villegas, PGA
2000 Kevin Na, PGA
2001 James Vargas
2002 Benjamin Alvarado
2003 Pablo Martin
2004 Chris Ward
2005 Ben Parker
2006 Sihwan Kim
2007 Sean Einhaus
2008 Mathias Schjoelberg
2009 Romain Wattel
2010 Max Rottluff
2011 Juan Cerda
2012 Patrick Kelly
2013 Renato Paratore
2014 Joaquin Niemann
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