Stomach bug KOs Schwartzel from S A Open

NEWS RELEASE
It is with much regret that Charl Schwartzel’s management team has announced that he has had to withdraw from the BMW South African  Open  at Glendower Golf Club from  January 7 to 10.
The Schwartzel family has had a wretched festive season, with Charl and most of his extended family afflicted with a particularly nasty stomach virus, which has seen several trips to hospital for treatment. 
Charl himself has been in and out of hospital for rehydration treatment and, while he is on the road to a full recovery, it is clear that he will not be fit enough to participate in the first tournament of the year and will aim to return at the following week’s Joburg Open.
Speaking from his home in Johannesburg, Charl said, “I am hugely disappointed to be missing out on the SA Open. Everybody knows how keen I am to win our national Open and, having come so close the last couple of years and following my good form at Leopard Creek, I was really looking forward to contending at Glendower. I look forward to being strong and healthy in time for the Joburg Open the following week, however.”

 Europe team could have a youthful look for 

 

2016 Ryder Cup match at Hazeltine, Minnesota

EUROPEAN TOUR COMMUNICATIONS

The 2016 Ryder Cup match at Hazeltine might be months away, yet eyes are already glancing towards the Points Race, such is the excitement and anticipation that the contest generates.

The race to qualify for European captain Darren Clarke’s team began back in August at the M2M Russian Open, and will reach its conclusion at the aptly atmospheric Made in Denmark tournament in August 2016.
With so many emerging stars making big impressions on the European Tour in 2015, we have taken a closer look at which players currently occupy the automatic qualifying positions, while also profiling some of the other strong contenders for a seat on the plane to Minnesota.

The European Points List, from which the leading four members will qualify, makes for fascinating reading. Seeing Rory McIlroy’s name at the top of it will not come as a surprise to anyone, and a resurgent Victor Dubuisson occupies second spot, largely thanks to his fine win in the Turkish Airlines Open.
In third place is Matthew Fitzpatrick, the young Englishman who enjoyed a sensational maiden season on the European Tour, winning the British Masters  en route to finishing 12^th in the Race to Dubai.
No other player in 2015 hit more fairways than the Sheffield youngster, and that sort of form has earned him a place in the European team for the EurAsia Cup in January, where Clarke will be able to run the rule over his ability to handle the pressure of a major team event.
There is arguably no better judge of match play prowess than Ian Poulter, star of five Ryder Cups, who said: “It wouldn't be a shock to see Matt in the Ryder Cup team. He won a big tournament and he won it well.”
Move down the list one spot and you will find another Englishman in Andy Sullivan, who also enjoyed a spectacular 2015, winning three times to take eighth place in the Race to Dubai and ending the campaign with a thrilling performance in the DP World Tour Championship, where he was runner-up after a captivating duel with Rory McIlroy.
The likeable 28 year old, who is nicknamed the Smiling Assassin, has also made it into the EurAsia Cup team and will hope to make a big impression on Clarke.
Below fourth place, the next three spots are occupied by rookies – Chris Wood, Kristoffer Broberg and Danny Willett, so we could well see a young and exciting team at Hazeltine.

The World Points List, however, is a more familiar picture a third of the way through qualifying, with Henrik Stenson, McIlroy and Justin Rose occupying the top three places.
Five players are taken from the World List, and with McIlroy and fourth-placed Fitzpatrick already in, Wood is in position to make his Ryder Cup bow, thanks to a brilliant display in the Nedbank Golf Challenge earlier this month.
The Englishman was in bed on a drip on the Tuesday evening and gave himself no chance of playing after struggling with severe dehydration in the searing heat, but recovered to take third place and with it the biggest pay cheque of his career.
In sixth and seventh are Dubuisson and Sullivan, who are already in through the European Points List, meaning Broberg and Willett would be in line to join Clarke’s charges. 
Broberg, who blitzed through the Challenge Tour in 2012, made his European Tour breakthrough at the BMW Masters, while Willett had a superb season with two victories en route to second place in the Race to Dubai.
With eight months, four Majors, two World Golf Championships and a host of other lucrative events yet to play before the team is finalised, much is bound to change, but judging by the way the race has started, what’s left makes the mouth water.

Tiger celebrates 40th birthday with a dinner 

(at own restaurant) and going to a concert

FROM GOLFWEEK.COM

By Kevin Casey

Tiger Woods turned 40 on Wednesday, and we had it covered.
How did Woods himself celebrate his 40th, though? With a big dinner at his own restaurant and a Darius Rucker concert. r
(Editor: Who's Darius Rucker?)

That's a pretty nice birthday right there. Woods also took a second to appreciate the birthday support, and based on his reaction to turning 40, a mid-life crisis isn't in the offing any time soon.

TIGER'S TWEETS
 


Tiger Woods ✔ @TigerWoods

Thanks everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes. 40 is cool.

 Tiger Woods ✔ @TigerWoods

Had a great time celebrating my 40th with family and friends at The Woods Jupiter last night. Thanks @dariusrucker for a fun show.

Deeside Golf Club's No 1 course has suffered its worst flooding for many a year.  Splendid aerial picture by courtesy of Iain Landsman.

Flooded Deeside course closed until further 

notice ... clearing mud is going to take time

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com 
Deeside Golf Club Director of Golf Frank Coutts believes it will be "some time" before the Haughton course is re-opened for play.
It is meantime closed until further notice.
The muddy waters coming up the burn from the River Dee has made a terrible mess of the course.
The flood waters have gone down from the first green but left it under a sea of mud.

Frank, pictured right, thinks that situation will be repeated all over the course as the excess water drains away - and that will take some time because there is so much water lying on the course added to by the River Dee, in spate, and surging up the burns, spilling over the banks and on to the course. 
A nightmare scenario for the Deeside GC course manager and  his greenkeeping staff and all the members of the private golf club in the Bieldside suburbs of west Aberdeen.
"Even when the water does drain away, we will have to wait until the mud that is left in its wake dries and hardens before we can remove it," said Coutts.
"We just cannot scrape the mud off the grass. That would not do the greens or fairways, for that matter, any good at all. 
"Ironically, we might have to use even more water - through a hose - to disperse the mud and make the course playable again." 

 Another view, by Cal Carson Golf Agency, of the flooding at Deeside golf course, this one from the clubhouse. Frank Coutts said that when he left the club at 4pm on Wednesday, the flood waters were well over the 18th green, pictured in foreground,  and lapping at the upslope to the clubhouse.
So the water has gone down a bit.
If you look at the extreme right of the first picture and the left of the second picture , you might be able to see that the first green is now brown in colour, caked with mud left by the floodwater.
The very bad news is that a lot more rain is forecast for the weekend.
MAN THE PUMPS!

Italians Mazzoli, Barbieri thrive at Orlando International Amateur under Binaghi

Stefano Mazzoli (left) is all smiles walking off No. 18 with Italian national team coach Alberto Binaghi after winning the Orlando International Amateur on Dec. 30 at Orange County National in Winter Garden, Fla. ( Tracy Wilcox )

Europeans amateurs are doing well in in Florida events over the Festive period. Following the success by Norwegian and Swiss competitors at the Junior Orange Bowl, comes news of more European domination in America.

FROM GOLFWEEK.COM

By Allen Etzler

WINTER GARDEN, Florida: Walking off the 18th green at Orange County National Golf Center and Lodge, Alberto Binaghi put his arm around Stefano Mazzoli and the two embraced, smiling ear-to-ear.
It was a similar scene hours earlier when Binaghi, the Italian national team coach, hugged Alice Barbieri and kissed her cheek after a tap-in par putt, though the emotions were a bit different.
Mazzoli’s tap-in par putt clinched a runaway, four-stroke victory at 11 under in the Orlando International Amateur.
Barbieri’s tap-in par putt wasn’t enough to clinch a victory on the women’s side, as she fell in a one-hole play-off to Ariadna Fonseca after both finished the third round Wednesday at 3 over.
Mazzoli was the star of the inaugural tournament, and Barbieri had a strong performance, but the two Italian national team-mates who joined him in competition, Michele Ortolani (2 over) and Luca Cianchetti (3 over), more than held their own with T-17 and T-21 finishes, respectively.
“I’m very happy because we had one player win and one player almost win,” Binaghi said. 
“They all played well, especially Mazzoli, even though he didn’t score as well today, because he was so far ahead he didn’t want to (risk a blow-up). I was also impressed with Alice. She played very well the last two rounds. For us, it means a lot to come here because Italy is a small country in the world of golf, so it’s make it special for me.”
The 18th for Mazzoli was one of the few holes throughout the three-day tournament that Binaghi got to be a part of, as the former professional spent much of the event operating as Barbieri’s caddie. Even though Barbieri isn’t on the Italian national team like Cianchetti, Ortolani and Mazzoli, Binaghi, who also trains Matteo Manassero, acts as her personal coach throughout the year.
With Barbieri living in Florida and attending nearby Rollins College, she doesn’t get to work with Binaghi as frequently as do the men's players. So, when she found out about the OIA, she jumped at the opportunity to have the guys come stay with her while they competed in the previous week's South Beach International Amateur and the OIA.
“It was so great having (Binaghi). It was his first time on the bag for me the whole tournament,” Barbieri said. “It definitely helped me out a lot because he knows my personality and my tendencies a lot. I tend to overreact and overthink, and he kept me calm and positive, especially today on the back nine when I started to lose my patience a little bit on the greens.”
She impressed Binaghi with her focus and iron play, hitting all 18 greens in regulation on Tuesday and making up a two-stroke deficit on the final day to force a playoff.
“That’s something you don’t see quite often,” Binaghi said. “Unfortunately she didn’t make enough putts to win. We needed one putt less and we’re on top of the podium. But I think it’s important to spend time as a caddie for a player you coach. You can spend time on the driving range on the carpet, and that’s OK. You can build a good swing, but you can’t build a good player. I wanted to help her with how to think and see how she thought on many shots.”
Barbieri was one of the few players in the field living in the U.S. with no college golf experience. She moved to Florida from Monaco when she was 13 to pursue golf as a career, but received advice that, if possible, she should keep her college career separate from her golf career. 
So after attending IMG Academy and working with coach David Leadbetter, she set out on the amateur and mini-tour circuits, chasing her dreams.
However, the one thing Barbieri probably has missed out on was the opportunity to play on the national team. Because she doesn’t play in Europe as much, she said, it is difficult to get recognized or move up the rankings to get in position to play for the team.
But during the winter months, weather precludes Binaghi and his players from spending much time outside playing golf in Italy. The Italian national players are mainstays in Florida during this time of year, though.
So, when Binaghi and Co. crossed the Atlantic shortly before Christmas, Binaghi took advantage of the time and played a practice round with Barbieri before she played in the Dixie Amateur.
“It was like a little reunion for us,” Barbieri said. “We didn’t really work on much. We just played and worked on focusing on hitting good shots.”
For Mazzoli, the OIA is his second-biggest amateur victory. In August, he earned an exemption to the 2016 Open at Royal Troonby winning the European Amateur. Binaghi said the OIA was the eighth victory of the year for an Italian men's national team player, with seven individuals winning events.
Binaghi has caddied for Manassero multiple times in the Open, and knows Royal Troon well. He is not sure whether he will caddie for Mazzoli in his first major tournament.
“I don’t know what we are going to do," Binaghi said. "I think I can help him, but I don’t know if he wants to use me or someone else."
Italians have long been known for their treatment of amateur golfers and newly-turned professionals, and Barbieri said these golfers are no different. Not all golfers will turn into the next Manassero or Francesco Molinari, but they all get treated as if they will.
“All of these players will turn professional,” Binaghi said, “and we will try to help them get as far as they can.”

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European teenagers win boys' and girls' titles at 

Junior Orange Bowl in Florida

CORAL GABLES,  Florida: The 52^st edition of the Junior Orange Bowl International belongs to Europe! Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan and Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela won the individual boys' and girls' prestigious titles, writes David Mackintosh, Press Officer, JOB.

Reitan posted a four-day total of 279, 5-under par with a final-round 70, resilient play for a tournament featuring stiff wind all week.

Valenzuela finished 3-under par (281) to take the Girls' Division by three strokes from France’s Agathe Laisne and South Korea’s Euikyung Shin, while frontrunner for most of the event, North Carolina’s Emilia Migliaccio, finished 5^th.   
The two title winners were the only players to finish under par for the 72-hole tournament.     

Defending champion Joaquin Niemann from Chile and Belgium’s Adrien Dumont de Chassart both birdied the 72^nd hole to tie second place on even par. 

Niemann’s attempt to become the first  boy player to repeat the title was thwarted by a balky putter, his ball striking as immaculate as ever. “It’s the way golf goes, but obviously frustrating,” he said. 

Will Dickson from Providence RI was the low USA boy, tied 7^th on 288.

“It feels amazing,” Reitan, 17, said afterwards. “That was the hardest round of golf I’ve ever played, mentally really exhausting, having to keep my emotions in check for the entire day. I was particularly pleased to avoid doing anything stupid, especially toward the end. 

"To feel all these emotions on a golf course was a really good experience and hopefully will be useful in the future.”

Asked at what stage he began to believe he could win, the charismatic young Norwegian confessed “It was never easy. After the first nine, when I led by five strokes, I was still thinking there was a long way to go. Then I bogeyed three in a row and the lead was down to two. 

"Luckily I was able to birdie the 13^th and from there on I got more comfortable. But it was only when I hit the 17^th green that I felt I had compete control.” 
Daniel List, Australian-born student at Wellington College, Berkshire, tied for 10th place on five-over-par 289 with rounds of 74, 72, 73 and 70.

Valenzuela came into the week full of confidence, having won at the Doral Junior Open the week pre-Christmas and competing in the JOBI for the third time.

“The golf course suits my game,” she said. “After last year (when she finished third) I knew that if I played my style of golf, I would have a chance. To actually achieve my ambition of winning this event, well it still has to sink in.”  

 A solid final round of 70 sealed the championship. “I enjoy attacking pins and that’s how I played today, and it worked.”

Now she’s off to challenge for the Mexican Amateur in Guadalajara, a tournament where her father was runner-up four times. “I’d love to win there for family honour, but honestly, to win the Junior Orange Bowl is truly fantastic.”

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
BOYS
6742yd Par 284 (4x71)

1 Kristoffer Reitan (Norway) 279 (70 67 72 70)

T2 Adrien Dumont de Chassart (Belgium) 284 (71 71 73 69)

T2 Joaquin Niemann (Chile) 284 (69 73 70 72)

T4  Adrien Pendaries (France) 285 (73 74 70 68)

T4 Sachin Kumar (Trinidad and Tobago) 285 (72 68 70 75

6 David Ravetto (France) 286 (71 73 69 73)

T7 Will Dickson (USA) 288 (71 74 74 69)

T7 Kieran Vincent (Zimbabwe) 288 (71 75 72 70)
T7 Jeong Weon Ko (France) 288 (72 74 70 72)

T10 Daniel List (Australia) 289 (74 72 73 70)

T10 Herik Machado (Brazil) 289 (72 75 72 70)

GIRLS

6089yd. Par 284 (4x71) 
 1 Albane Valenzuela (Switzerland) 281 (70 70 71 70)
T2 Agathe Laisne (France) 284 (76 68 73 67)
T2 Euikyung Shin (S Korea) 284 (69 69 78 68
4 Mathilda Cappeliez (France) 285 (70 73 72 70)
5 Emilia Migliaccio (USA) 287 (68 70 74 75)
6 Mika Liu (USA) 290 (75 71 72 72)
7 Sofia Garcia (Paraguay) 292 (70 74 75 73)
T8 Isabella Fierro (Mexico) 293 (77 74 76 66)
T8 Luiza Altmann (Brazil) 293 (78 70 75 70)
T8 Valeria Pacheco (Puerto Rico) 293 (77 72 71 73)

 For complete list of boys' and girls' final totals, visit www.jrorangebowl.org/golf

Death of long-serving club pro John Boath (87)
 

The funeral service for Angus-born, retired golf professional John Boath will be held at 1pm on Tuesday, January 5 at Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh.
John, who was 87, died at Woodlands Nurshing Home, Livingston before Christmas.
Over a long career, Boath worked at a total of seven golf clubs, on both sides of the Border, had a spell as a tournament player and then spent the last 20 years of his working life at Braid Hills, Edinburgh.
He played his amateur golf at Carnoustie before being called up for National Service in 1946 and serving in the Middle East.

Boath had left school at 14 when he started an engineering apprenticeship which he concluded on his return from National Service.

In 1950 he started a long career as a PGA professional when he  he joined Fred Bullock, head professional at Glasgow Golf Club, Killermont as ab assistant.

After three years, Boath joined Hamish Ballingall , pro at Northumberland Golf Club, where he stayed for one year before  becoming unattached and playing tournament golf for a spell.

John's next move saw him team up again with Fred Bullock  at Moortown Golf Club, Leeds where England cricket captain Herbert Sutcliffe was the golf club captain.
The Moortown pro's shop suffered from the fact that Sutcliffe had a Leeds sports store where all the golf club members purchased their equipment.
Boath returned to Scotland and his native Angus with Bullock, who became head pro for the two Dundee muncipal golf clubs, Caird Park and Camperdown.
John succeeded Bullock in 1995

In 1970  Boath returned to England to join Ryder Cup player Dave Thomas at Dunham Forest Golf Club, Cheshire, as head assistant.
He remained there for the best part of five years and was popular with the members who had a testimonial for him, from which he received £750, a goodly sum 40 years ago.
Then Boath returned to Scotland for his final post in the PGA pro world at Braid Hills Golf Club, Edinburgh where he remained for 20 years before retiring to St Andrews

JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL  INTERNATIONAL GOLF – Day 3

REPORT FROM PRESS OFFICER

DAVID MACKINTOSH

CORAL GABLES, Florida: With 18 defining holes to play, Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan leads Trinidad’s Sachin Kumar by a stroke in the Boys Division, Chile’s defending champion Joaquin Niemann three off the lead.  

The Girls' title is also closely contested, Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela overtaking second round leader Emilia Migliaccio to lead by a single stroke, their closest challenger France’s Mathilda Cappeliez.

In yet another windy day in South Florida, the evolving story was as complex as the weather. After nine holes, by reeling off three birdies in the first four holes, Reitan led by six.

“It was all going well, then suddenly it wasn’t,” he explained. “I missed an easy chip and putt par save at 11, then hit my tee shot in the water at the par-3 12^th and took a double-bogey. I thought I’d steadied up with a birdie at the 14th but poor shots on 16 and 17 cost a couple more shots.

“Obviously I’m pleased still to have the lead. In fact, I’m glad it is just one shot, rather than three, because I think I’ll learn much more from the experience.”    

Kumar wasn’t watching his co-competitor struggles; he was fighting his own demons. “My iron game was off but fortunately my wedge game was really sharp. I had seven, maybe eight, up-and-down par saves.” Two birdies on the back-nine par fives and his day added up to 70, two better than Reitan.

Niemann, suffering from a sore throat, also carded 70 without the aid of his putter. “I didn’t make a thing all day,” he said.

In the Girls' Division, the story was similar. Migliaccio pushed her overnight lead to four at the halfway point but she too was put on tilt by a double-bogey at the 13^th, a greenside chip caught clean followed by a horrid lie. “I wasn’t hitting my irons well, and I couldn’t fix it out on the course,” she said.

Migliaccio’s bogey at the 16^th presented Valenzuela a tied lead and when the 17-year old from Geneva birdied the closing hole, she was in front for the first time. Neither girls believe in pressure of their situations. “I didn’t feel any pressure,” said North Carolina’s Migliaccio, “I just could not hit the shots as I wanted.”

“I’m not a nervous person,” said New York-born Valenzuela, whose parents moved to Switzerland when she was five. “I just go and play, try my best and see what happens.”         

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Euan McBride best with five under par at Dalmahoy West Course


FROM WALTER BURNS
Scottish Junior Tour

Here are the results from the Scottish Junior Golf Tour Fun Family Christmas event yesterday at Dalmahoy on the West course. Thankfully the weather was fine, helping to make it a great day.

It was a better-ball team competition in addition to the individual competition which was 9:9ParGolf where only the best nine holes count.

The scoring was excellent and five of the boys shot four under par but the best score of the day was Euan McBride’s 5 under par. George Burns had the best score from the adults with 5 under par.

 

Leading Scores

 

Under 18

-5 Euan McBride (Lenzie)

-4 Fraser Kane (Kirkhill),  Andrew Thompson (Lanark)

Under 16

-4 Aidan Husenne (Haggs Castle), Greg Dalziel (Airdrie),  Craig Jackman (Dunblane)

-1 Jack Broun (Belleisle), Max McCluskey (Lenzie)

Under 14

-3 Roddy McCauley (Fereneze), Jack Lockhart (Pitreavie), Ewan Wheat (Royal Montrose)

-1 Ross Barclay (Carnoustie), Jamie Fulton (Muckhart), Callum Leeson (Pitreavie), Jonathan Murphy (Erskine)

Under 12

-1  George Cannon (Falkirk), Andrew Forbes (Haggs Castle), Thomas Rankine (Haggs Castle)

Level  Ross Laird (Falkirk), Aamar Saleem (Ladybank)

The Adults

-5 George Burns (Williamwood)

-3 Iain Fulton (Muckhart), Malcolm Kpedekpo (Dalmahoy)

-2 Callum Husenne (Haggs Castle), Stuart Jackman (Dunblane), Tommy Kelly (Fereneze)

The handicap prize was won by Ross Laird with 10 under par.

Stuart Jackman won the adults' handicap prize with 9 under par.

The team event was won by Stewart Kane, Scott Kane, Fraser Kane and Andrew Thompson with 9 under par gross 59.

The handicap team event was won by Peter and Roddy McCauley, and Tommy and Cameron Kelly with nett 48 (20 under par!)

The Team Skills Challenges were won by Karine and George Burns,  and Aidan and Callum Husenne with 62 points.

 

Thanks to all our Junior Tour families for making  our first Christmas event a great one. It will now become a regular event in our season. Weather dependent of course!

Walter Burns

Scottish Junior Golf Tour

Mob: 07951 103 827

Email: walter@scottishjuniorgolftour.co.uk

Web: www.scottishjuniorgolftour.co.uk

 

Norwegian boyleads Junior Orange Bowl by one stroke after Round 3

Norwegian boy goes one stroke clear after 54 holes of the Junior Orange Bowl boys' championship in Florida.

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Press Officer David Mackintosh's report of the third day's play will be on display tomorrow (Wednesday)

JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL INTERNATIONAL GOLF – Day 2

REPORT FROM DAVID MACKINTOSH

CORAL GABLES, 28^TH Dec: Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan vaulted to a 3-stroke lead in the Boys' championship with a bogey-free 67 and a halfway total of 137.  Trinidad’s Sachin Kumar also posted 68 for outright second (140) with defending champion Joaquin Niemann, 73 (142) tied for third with Belgium’s Adrien Dumont de Chassart.

In the Girls' Division, USA’s Emilia Migliaccio (68, 70) shares the lead with South Korea’s Euikyung Shin (69, 69), two strokes ahead of Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela (70, 70). France’s Agathe Laisne took Girls low round of the day, a 68 lifting her to a tie for 5^th place.

A second day of gusty conditions challenged low scoring and most players admitted to playing conservatively on a tough layout where short-sided misses can be costly.

“This was a day I had fun,” Reitan said, explaining that for him that means playing with complete confidence rather than those rounds when he has to struggle to keep things under control. That confidence reflected in fifteen greens in regulation and only two fairways missed. “I hit a lot of really good shots and the few I didn’t get perfectly finished in good position,” he explained. “And my putting was sound, so combined it all made for a fun day.”  

 Kumar, from Trinidad and Tobago currently at school in Florida, credited a red-hot putting streak for his 68, which contained four birdies and an eagle. “I holed a 15 footer at the 18^th (his 9^th) for eagle and birdied four of the next five holes, most with putts from about 15 -18 feet. Unfortunately it cooled off a bit toward the end.”

Niemann, the Chilean defending champion seeking to become the first Boy Division repeat winner in 52 years, admitted to playing “horrible” but vowed to put the day behind him. “There’s plenty of golf to be played over the next two days,” he said, “and tomorrow I’ll be ready.”   

Emilia Migliaccio two rounds have been remarkably dissimilar but her attitude, that’s always high-positive. She opened the championship with a seven birdie, three bogey helter-skelter, round two a demure and steady 1-under par 70 with just one error.

“Yes, it was very different. Today was much steadier, I went a long stretch just missing birdies by inches but never got into any real trouble.” Confessing she enjoys playing in windy conditions, Emilia also feels comfortable on these superfast Bermuda-grass greens. “My course in North Carolina recently changed to this type of grass, so I’m felling right at home.”       

Euikyung Shin has so far carded nine birdies in 36 holes. “I like the course and I’m playing, very steady,” she said.

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David Mackintosh - JOBI Press Officer

www.mygolfranking.net, Fife Men, Week 2015/51

1 Gary Wishart (Charleton) 1144 pts

2 Michael Riddell (Cupar) 1120

3 Blaine McGowan (Thornton) 1117

4 Stewart Lamond (Pitreavie) 1100

5 Ryan Mackie (Balbirnie Park) 1085

6 Michael Lindsay (Pitreavie) 1083

7 Graham Brown (Lundin) 1078

8 Ross Gribbons (Dunfermline) 1071

9 Fraser Carr (Crail) 1068

10 Stuart McGaulley (Balbirnie Park) 1066

 

www.mygolfranking.net, Fife Clubs Men, Week 2015/51

1 Dunfermline 907 pts

2 Dunnikier Park 878

3 Balbirnie Park 859

4 Ladybank 837

5 Aberdour 823

6 Pitreavie 810

7 Kirkcaldy 807

8 Lundin 803

9 Canmore 743

10 Thornton 733

*Entry this week

 

Fife women's and club rankings are on www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

 

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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 6^th in a bunker where it was virtually impossible to get up-and-down and found water at the 7^th, 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 4^th consecutive Junior Orange Bowl championship, posted 71 for a share of 4^th 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