Sunday, September 17, 2017


           Vive La France! Gerrier wins in Ireland,            Wattel in KLM Open


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Julien Guerrier clinched a second European Challenge Tour win of the season with a dominant six-shot victory at the Irish Challenge hosted by Mount Wolseley Hotel, Spa and Golf Resort, just hours after compatriot Romain Wattel had sealed a maiden European Tour win at the KLM Open.
Wattel has significant Challenge Tour history of his own, having won on the tour in 2010 when still an amateur, and he is sure to be joined on the European Tour next year by Guerrier, who remains second on the Road to Oman but has cut Aaron Rai’s lead to around 19,000 points.
Guerrier had previously won on home soil at June’s Hauts de France Golf Open but rarely has he been more impressive than in Carlow, where his bogey-free five under par final round of 67 extended his run to 48 holes without dropping a shot.
He also credited becoming a father for the first time earlier in the year with his recent run of good form, which he will hope continues at the lucrative Kazakhstan Open next week.
“I just heard about Romain’s win,” said the 32 year old. “It’s so great because he’s had a difficult year so I am very happy for him, and for my friend Joël Stalter who tied for third – it’s a great day for French golf with me winning as well.
“It was a very good round, very steady. I’m really surprised by how well I managed to play such steady golf – it’s my goal but then to do it this week so well is very pleasing.
“The goal was to make birdies and not to make bogeys. I had a steady start and with Oscar unfortunately dropping shots I built a good gap, and then I made a few more birdies, a second bogey-free round in a row, so it’s very good."
Playing with Guerrier, Oscar Lengden bounced back from a disappointing start to take a share of second place on 11 under par, with Jarand Ekeland Arnoy securing his career-best result alongside England's Steven Brown, who sealed his fifth top five finish of the season.
The leading Irishman was Ruaidhri McGee, whose third successive round of 69 took him to six under par and into a share of 15th place, five shots ahead of Chris Selfridge.
This earned the 26-year-old Derry man the Christy O’Connor Junior Memorial Trophy, awarded for the second time following last year’s sad passing of the popular Irish golfing icon who designed the course at Mount Wolseley.
Final scores:
par 288 (4x72)
271 J Guerrier (Fra) 71 68 65 67
277 S Brown (Eng) 72 68 68 69, O Lengden (Swe) 68 68 69 72, J Arnoy (Norway) 73 68 66 70
279 K Samooja (Finland) 73 68 70 68, M Trappel (Austria) 74 69 67 69, J Dantorp (Swe) 74 68 67 70, C Ford (Eng) 70 74 66 69, O Lindell (Finland) 72 69 71 67
280 N Von Dellingshausen (Ger) 73 70 67 70, B Hellgren (Swe) 75 70 68 67
281 C Braeunig (Ger) 72 70 70 69, M Nixon (Eng) 74 70 68 69, J Van Der Vaart (Netherlands) 73 70 69 69
282 R McGee (Ire) 75 69 69 69, M Baldwin (Eng) 71 72 72 67, R Saxton (Netherlands) 73 68 70 71
283 M Fenasse (Fra) 74 67 73 69, J McLeary (Sco) 77 69 67 70
284 M Madsen (Den) 72 69 72 71, J Sarasti (Spn) 72 70 73 69
285 D Fox (Australia) 74 70 74 67, G Forrest (Sco) 70 73 75 67, T Santos Silva (Portugal) 75 70 69 71, E Cuartero Blanco (Spn) 75 69 71 70
286 D Law (Sco) 70 74 71 71, A Kristiansen (Norway) 73 72 72 69, D Van Driel (Netherlands) 70 74 72 70, C Sordet (Fra) 72 71 71 72
287 N Johansson (Swe) 77 70 74 66, W Enefer (Eng) 74 72 69 72, J Lando Casanova (Fra) 72 68 72 75
288 C Selfridge (Nir) 75 72 71 70, R Kellett (Sco) 75 70 75 68, H Joannes (Belgium) 72 74 73 69, G Schoeb (Fra) 71 73 66 78, B Paolini (USA) 77 69 68 74, O Rozner (Fra) 74 73 73 68, T Perrot (Fra) 74 72 70 72, P Martin Benavides (Spn) 76 70 71 71
289 A Bernadet (Fra) 73 73 68 75, C Sharvin (NIre) 75 68 72 74, B Poke (Denmark) 74 73 72 70
290 M Laskey (Wales) 72 74 74 70, G King (Eng) 73 74 71 72, G Boyd (Eng) 72 72 75 71, J Harrison (Eng) 75 71 72 72
291 L Johnson (Eng) 76 71 74 70, D Carey (Ire) 72 71 76 72, N Lindstrom (Swe) 72 75 69 75
292 P Eriksson (Swe) 75 72 73 72, L Nemecz (Austria) 76 71 72 73,
293 M Ovesen (Denmark) 72 75 69 77, R McCarthy (Australia) 72 75 72 74, M Wolf (Ger) 74 72 72 75, J Vecchi Fossa (Ita) 69 77 71 76
294 H Smart (Eng) 75 71 75 73, A Wennstam (Swe) 76 69 75 74, J Wrisdale (Eng) 74 71 73 76
296 F Maccario (Ita) 71 75 72 78
297 J Makitalo (Fin) 75 72 76 74
                                              

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