Sunday, April 23, 2017

Turkish Airlines Challenge report and totals


Grant Forrest finishes T5 behind winner Ryan Evans

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Ryan Evans sealed a maiden European Challenge Tour victory as he prevailed in an epic tussle with Tapio Pulkkanen to win the Turkish Airlines Challenge by four shots at Gloria Golf Club.
The 30-year-old Englishman was paired with the Finn for the second day running, and with windy conditions in Belek preventing anyone further down the field from challenging, the tournament became a one-on-one battle over the last 18 holes.
Evans, who moves to second place in the Road to Oman Rankings with this win, never relinquished his overnight lead, pulling four shots clear with nine holes to play before nerves, and conditions, added to the back nine drama.
A crucial moment looked to have come on the par five 16th when Evans three-putted from inside 20 feet and Pulkkanen made birdie to move within one shot, but Evans thrillingly bounced back on the 17th with a birdie that made his walk down the last – which he duly birdied too – slightly more relaxed.
“I tried not to think of the situation and just play golf,” said the 30 year old. “My dad texted me last night saying, ‘play the course, not the man,’ and that’s what you have to do, try to forget what Tapio was doing and play the course as well as you can – I’m so pleased to go round under par today.
“We were both quite a bit ahead of everyone else and the back nine isn’t easy in this wind but unless we had a disaster, one of us was going to win it.
“I just had to keep myself ahead of him but try not to make it a match play – it was more, if he puts it in the middle of the green, I’ll put it in the middle of the green, play sensibly."
Evans’ closing one under par round of 71 was one of only five under par scores in the fourth round and took him to 21 par overall, with Pulkkanen runner-up on 17 under par and Frenchman Julien Guerrier two shots further back in third spot.
Ireland’s Ruaidhri McGee took fourth place on


13 under par

Former Scottish amateur champion Grant


Forrest tied for fifth place on 276 - nine behind


the winner.

Final Scores:
par 288 (4x72)
267 R Evans (Eng) 66 66 64 71
271 T Pulkkanen (Fin) 62 69 67 73
273 J Guerrier (Fra) 65 69 68 71
275 R McGee (Irl) 72 66 66 71
276 B Virto (Esp) 68 70 67 71, C Sordet (Fra) 70 65 69 72, G Forrest (Sco) 69 66 68 73
277 A Tadini (Ita) 68 66 70 73, M Kinhult (Swe) 71 66 66 74, M Ovesen (Den) 65 71 65 76
278 J Brun (Fra) 70 68 70 70, B Evans (Eng) 69 70 65 74, B Neil (Sco) 74 64 65 75, M Fenasse (Fra) 67 68 68 75
279 R Sciot-Siegrist (Fra) 73 66 67 73, S Brown (Eng) 66 71 69 73, A Turner (Eng) 65 72 69 73, M Orrin (Eng) 69 66 66 78
280 M Madsen (Den) 68 67 73 72, M Foster (Eng) 69 70 67 74, R Santos (Por) 69 64 73 74, J Makitalo (Fin) 71 65 68 76, S Heisele (Ger) 69 70 63 78, A Ahokas (Fin) 69 65 67 79
281 G Moynihan (Irl) 69 70 70 72, M Wallace (Eng) 70 66 73 72, M Lundberg (Swe) 71 67 69 74, E Van Rooyen (SAf) 71 67 68 75, J McDonald (Sco) 68 70 68 75, C Berardo (Fra) 70 65 71 75, N Lindstrom (Swe) 71 66 67 77
282 T Linard (Fra) 68 71 70 73, J McLeary (Sco) 71 66 70 75, E Di Nitto (Ita) 69 68 69 76, M Lampert (Ger) 70 67 68 77, O Farr (Wal) 69 67 69 77, E Cuartero Blanco (Spn) 66 70 68 78 
283 R Davies (Wal) 70 68 71 74, V Riu (Fra) 67 70 72 74, C Mivis (Bel) 71 64 71 77, L Van Meijel (Ned) 70 67 68 78
284 H McCullen (Eng) 68 69 74 73, J Senior (Eng) 70 69 71 74, M Lafeber (Ned) 71 66 73 74, N Ravano (Ita) 70 69 69 76, W Besseling (Ned) 69 67 72 76 
285 L De Jager (SAf) 72 67 71 75, J Van Der Vaart (Ned) 70 69 69 77, M Quiros (Spn) 68 68 72 77, D Foos (Ger) 71 68 68 78, P Maddy (Eng) 70 69 68 78,
286 D Law (Sco) 73 66 71 76, T Murray (Eng) 67 71 70 78, R Saxton (Ned) 68 68 72 78, J Winther (Den) 68 69 69 80 
288 C Ford (Eng) 68 71 71 78
290 J Mullen (Eng) 69 68 74 79, M Søgaard (Den) 66 67 73 84
292 M Ford (Eng) 70 69 71 82
294 O Stark (Swe) 75 63 71 85
296 M Cort (Eng) 70 69 77 80


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