Saturday, November 04, 2017

Blairgowrie's Bradley Neil 

wins place on European 

Tour in final 2017 event

Final Challenge Tour Report
Clément Sordet claimed a memorable second victory of the season at the NBO Golf Classic Grand Final as Scott Fernandez (tied fourth) and Bradley Neil, pictured below, (tied ninth) dramatically clinched European Tour cards on the final day of the 2017 European Challenge Tour season.
The top 15 in the season-long Road to Oman Rankings will play in the Race to Dubai next year and there was much movement throughout the fourth round at Al Mouj Golf, with Sebastian Heisele and Robin Sciot-Siegrist ultimately the two to drop out of the European Tour places in the final week of the season.
Estanislao Goya and Oliver Lindell were two others who were inside the top 15 in yesterday’s projected rankings but endured difficult days as the wind picked up off the Sea of Oman, ultimately sharing 11th place – not enough to hold those European Tour positions.
Fernandez and Neil both turned in 33 to climb the leaderboard but started to falter on the back nine, each bogeying the 17th before making impressive pars on the last hole in the knowledge that a dropped shot would be costly.
They took the 14th and 15th cards for next season, Neil finishing 4,436 points ahead of Heisele for that final position, and they will both now embark on rookie seasons on the European Tour.
By contrast, Sordet’s progress to a fourth Challenge Tour title seemed relatively serene.
The Frenchman stretched his overnight lead to four shots with two early birdies and, with the charges of Erik van Rooyen and Goya falling away, he walked down the 18th with a two-shot lead.

Player quote:

Bradley Neil
“After I bogeyed 17, I didn’t really know what to expect coming up the last or where I was standing. I didn’t have a clue what was going on and I was just delighted when that last putt dropped.
“I was actually pretty excited today. After going out in three under, it was actually in my hands, I wasn’t having to shoot an amazing back nine and I was playing well.
“It was really tough to focus on my game and I had to be really strong mentally to focus on what I had to do. It’s been a long, long season and it was horrible to come into the week in 16th place and unable to relax, but it was worth it now.
.”


Final Scores:

par 288 (4x72)

273 C Sordet (Fra) 68 67 68 70
275 M Kinhult (Swe) 68 68 71 68 
276 S Fernandez (Spn) 69 69 68 70, E Van Rooyen (SAf) 70 71 66 69
278 T Linard (Fra) 68 67 71 72, J Dantorp (Swe) 70 71 71 66
279 N Cullen (Australia) 67 70 71 71, P Oriol (Spn) 69 70 71 69 
280 D Huizing (Netherlands) 70 70 71 69, B Neil (Sco) 69 72 70 69 
281 O Lindell (Fin) 69 65 70 77, A Meronk (Pol) 67 69 75 70, E Goya (Arg) 67 66 72 76
282 A Rai (Eng) 68 71 71 72, M Schwab (Austria) 71 69 74 68 
283 S Heisele (Ger) 70 68 73 72, J Heath (Eng) 68 71 72 72, R Evans (Eng) 69 72 71 71 
284 L Gagli (Ita) 70 72 70 72
285 J Guerrier (Fra) 71 72 69 73, G Porteous (Eng) 71 70 69 75, O Farr (Wales) 68 71 76 70, R Sciot-Siegrist (Fra) 72 72 72 69, T Murray (Eng) 70 76 69 70, J Arnoy (Norway) 71 70 71 73, C Mivis (Belgium) 70 73 67 75, O Lengden (Swe) 67 72 75 71, G Moynihan (Ire) 70 73 73 69, A Saddier (Fra) 70 76 69 70
287 M Tullo (Chile) 70 71 69 77, R McEvoy (Eng) 71 75 69 72, V Perez (Fra) 77 73 70 67 
288 C Koepka (USA) 75 72 71 70
289 J Girrbach (Switz) 75 72 72 70 
290 T Pulkkanen (Fin) 71 83 69 67, N Von Dellingshausen (Ger) 71 77 73 69 
291 B Hafthorsson (Iceland) 76 73 71 71 
293 J Sjöholm (Swe) 72 71 79 71, S Brown (Eng) 75 73 73 72
295 M Ford (Eng) 79 71 71 74
296 G Forrest (Sco) 70 72 78 76 
297 P Howard (Eng) 77 73 76 71, C Ford (Eng) 73 73 74 77 
300 M Madsen (Denmark) 76 76 75 73
** M Lundberg (Swe) 76 retired

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