DUNCAN STEWART CLINCHES RUNNER-UP FINIZH IN KAZAKHSTAN
REPORT FROM EUROPEAN TOUR COMMUNICATIONS
Duncan
Stewart claimed the best finish of his European Challenge Tour career
at the lucrative Kazakhstan Open, despite a bogey at the final hole
which meant he had to share second place with
two others, seven back from runaway winner Johan Carlsson of Sweden.
The result elevated Stewart from 40th position in the Challenge Tour Rankings to 14th and inside the cut-line for a European Tour card while also securing his place in
the final three events of the season in China, Oman and Dubai.
Stewart was just off the green at the 18th
and, needing a par to finish on 12 under in outright second, his
disappointing chip fell 12 feet short before he rolled the resultant
putt
to the left of the cup to settle for a level par 72 and an aggregate
total of 11 under par.
While
the over-riding emotion in the wake of the finale at Nurtau Golf Club
was disappointment, the Grantown-on-Spey man knows that it was a huge
result and the €32,000 (£26,742.44) could go
a long way in securing a rapid rise to the top tier of European golf in
his rookie season on the Challenge Tour.
“I
can’t complain with the result but when you’re on the fairway at the
last you can’t be making bogey,” said the 29 year old. “I didn’t
actually play that bad. I had two stupid holes but to
be honest I wouldn’t go back and change any shots that I hit.
“At
the end of the day we were always playing for second but I had a chance
to get it by myself going down the last. You have to take those
opportunities when they’re there.
“If
somebody said to me at the start of the week I had to take tied second,
of course I would, but I lost a lot of money on the last, which would
almost have been enough to guarantee my European
Tour card. Now it’s down to the last three events so we’ll see what
happens.”
Stewart
shared second place with England’s Tyrrell Hatton and Spaniard Adrian
Otaegui on 11 under par as Carlsson, another rookie on the tour this
year, virtually sealed his path to The European
Tour with a record winning margin for the event, finishing with a five
under par 67 and an 18 under par total.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72)
270 J Carlsson (Swe) 69 67 67 67,
277 T Hatton (Eng) 68 72 65 72, A Otaegui (Esp) 67 70 69 71, D Stewart (Sco) 70 70 65 72,
278 O Wilson (Eng) 70 66 75 67, R Dinwiddie (Eng) 71 68 70 69,
279 R Kakko (Fin) 72 71 70 66, A Pavan (Ita) 70 71 69 69,
280 S Kim (Kor) 69 69 75 67, F
Praegant (Aut) 71 69 69 71, N Elvira (Esp) 69 73 68 70, N Lemke (Swe)
73 68 72 67, J Huldahl (Den) 63 72 73 72,
281 S Kapur (Ind) 71 71 69 70, P Oriol (Esp) 71 71 74 65, C Kim (USA) 65 74 73 69,
282 C Del Moral (Esp) 71 71 72 68, A Rota (Ita) 74 70 70 68, D Brooks (Eng) 71 69 73 69,
283 S Arnold (Aus) 67 67 74 75, P
Maddy (Eng) 69 69 71 74, B Ritthammer (Ger) 69 70 74 70, V Riu (Fra) 73
64 73 73, C Ford (Eng) 72 70 72 69,
284 M Brier (Aut) 70 73 71 70, B An (Kor) 70 68 73 73,
285 R Steiner (Aut) 69 69 75 72, T
Sluiter (Ned) 66 79 71 69, L Bjerregaard (Den) 72 70 71 72, L Kennedy
(Eng) 69 71 75 70, D Gaunt (Aus) 69 70 77 69,
286 D Huizing (Ned) 73 69 73 71, J
Garcia Pinto (Esp) 72 71 72 71, C Hanson (Eng) 71 73 71 71, L Claverie
(Esp) 70 67 75 74, S Tiley (Eng) 74 65 71 76, J Barnes (Eng) 71 74 71
70,
287 F Calmels (Fra) 73 70 73 71, R
McGowan (Eng) 73 69 76 69, J Heath (Eng) 75 70 74 68, A Gee (Eng) 68
75 70 74, J Fahrbring (Swe) 68 73 69 77, J Elson (Eng) 74 68 71 74, A
Velasco (Esp) 69 74 70 74, A Johnston (Eng) 70 74 71 72,
288
H Porteous (RSA) 76 67 73 72, B Stone (RSA) 69 72 74 73, J Guerrier
(Fra) 71 70 72 75, F Bergamaschi (Ita) 72 71 69 76, G Cambis (Fra) 69
71 75 73,
289
W Booth (Sco) 71 72 72 74, T Pilkadaris (Aus) 70 71 71 77, E Dubois
(Fra) 73 71 72 73, A Bernadet (Fra) 70 73 74 72, R Davies (Wal) 73 72
73 71, G Stal (Fra) 70 74 68 77, M Ford (Eng) 70 75 71 73,
290 P Edberg (Swe) 71 74 74 71, D Im (USA) 70 73 73 74,
291 P Archer (Eng) 71 70 76 74, C Brazillier (Fra) 73 72 73 73, A McArthur (Sco) 74 71 74 72, M Haastrup (Den) 74 71 74 72,
292 J McLeary (Sco) 73 72 73 74, S Hutsby (Eng) 72 72 76 72,
294 J Senior (Eng) 73 72 75 74, P Widegren (Swe) 69 70 80 75,
295 D Kemmer (USA) 70 73 76 76,
297 G Houston (Wal) 72 72 76 77, N Ravano (Ita) 72 73 78 74,
298 J Lando Casanova (Fra) 70 75 76 77,
301 P Figueiredo (Por) 70 75 78 78,
303 C Aguilar (Esp) 71 72 78 82,
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