JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL INTERNATIONAL GOLF
– Day 2
Karl Vilips stays on top in Boys, Somi
Lee now leads Girls
FROM DAVID MACKINTOSH
JOB Press Officer
CORAL
GABLES, 28TH Dec: On a virtually windless day overnight leader, 15-year
old Australian Karl Vilips, added a smooth 67 to his opening-day 65, racing to
a five-stroke lead at 10-under par.
In the Girls
Division, with a two-day total of 137, South Korea’s 17-year old Somi Lee
overtook France’s Agathe Laisne, who added 72 to her opening 67. Canada’s Monet
Chun (68, 73) and Mexico’s Ana Laura Collado (69, 72) are tied third, 12-year
old US phenom Alexa Pano posting 71 for a share 5th place.
Lee became interested
in golf at age 7, when PGA Tour star K.J. Choi offered golf classes at her
school and she was quickly hooked. “I immediately liked the discipline of the
game,” she said through a translator. Over time she has become one of her
country’s most talented amateurs, winning a national tournament for her spot at
the Junior Orange Bowl.
“Today I
wasn’t as sharp on the greens as I would like,’ she explained. “I missed a lot
of birdie chances, by just an edge on several. I need to improve on that but
otherwise I’m happy with the way I’ve performed so far.”
Agathe was also
pleased that she was able to recover from a poor start. “I don’t know what or
why, maybe because the sun was really hot, but I felt tired at the beginning,
not sharp, and after seven holes I was three-over. But somehow I was able to
switch on some concentration and finish strong.” Birdies at both back-nine par
fives help cement that recovery.
Again Vilips
made simple work of a less-than-easy golf course. Starting at 10th with
a birdie, pitching to tap-in distance, he held steady for that nine, then
pounced on three more birdies on the shorter front side. “I could have putted
better, but it was a fair round, nothing too much went wrong. No eagles like
yesterday, but my driving was fine, and I had good flight control.”
Chile’s Joaquin
Neumann, the 2014 winner, complied a solid 1-under par 70, marred only by a
double-bogey at the par- 12th, moving him into a second-place tie
with 16-year old Argentine Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira.
“I had a good driving day
and my long iron play was accurate, so I was able to make a lot of chances,”
the Argentine Junior Champion said, disappointed only by a short putt missed at
his 17th hole.
USA’s Brian
Tech’s 67, highlighted by an eagle 3 at the final hole,
tied Vilips for low
round of the day.
Scottish boys champion Eric McIntosh (Bruntsfield Links) is tied
for 46th place with rounds of 79 and 75 for a 12-over-par tally of
154 over the par 71 Biltmore Course.
Eric is finding the outward half hard to master. For the second
day in a row it cost him 40 strokes (five over par). In contrast he
covered the second nine in one-under-par 35 with birdies at the
11th, short 14th and par-5 18th
Scottish boys champion Eric McIntosh (Bruntsfield Links) is tied
for 46th place with rounds of 79 and 75 for a 12-over-par tally of
154 over the par 71 Biltmore Course.
Eric is finding the outward half hard to master. For the second
day in a row it cost him 40 strokes (five over par). In contrast he
covered the second nine in one-under-par 35 with birdies at the
11th, short 14th and par-5 18th
SECOND-ROUND LEADERBOARD
BOYS
par 142 (2x71), yardage 6,742
132 Karl Vilips (Australia) 65 67
137 Joaquin Niemann (Chile) 67 70, Mateo Fernandez de Oliveir
(Argentina) 69 68
138 Edgar Catherine (France) 68 70
140 Bryan Teoh (USA) 73 67, Will Dickson (USA) 71 69, Pedro Silva (Portugal) 70 70, David Rauch (Germany) 70 70
SELECTED SCORE
154 Eric McIntosh (Scotland) 79 75 (T46)
GIRLS
par 142 (2x71) yardage 6,089
137 Somi Lee (South Korea) 68 69
139 Agathe Laisne (France) 67 72
141 Monet Chun (Canada) 68 73, Ana Laura Collado (Mexico) 69 7
72
144 Tanya Eathakotti (USA) 71 73, Alexa Pano (USA) 73 71
132 Karl Vilips (Australia) 65 67
137 Joaquin Niemann (Chile) 67 70, Mateo Fernandez de Oliveir
(Argentina) 69 68
138 Edgar Catherine (France) 68 70
140 Bryan Teoh (USA) 73 67, Will Dickson (USA) 71 69, Pedro Silva (Portugal) 70 70, David Rauch (Germany) 70 70
SELECTED SCORE
154 Eric McIntosh (Scotland) 79 75 (T46)
GIRLS
par 142 (2x71) yardage 6,089
137 Somi Lee (South Korea) 68 69
139 Agathe Laisne (France) 67 72
141 Monet Chun (Canada) 68 73, Ana Laura Collado (Mexico) 69 7
72
144 Tanya Eathakotti (USA) 71 73, Alexa Pano (USA) 73 71
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