Second place fell to coach and pupil combo, Casabona Navarro and García Simarro, who only managed two birdies in their final round of 70 (-1) finishing two shots behind the winners with a three-round total of 199 (-15).
"When you start the last round in first position, then it is difficult to play, but we played very solid tee-to-green,” said Casabona Navarro. "I think the competition is good and next year I think we have a very good chance to take the trophy.”
"It’s hard for us to be at the top, because I do not practice as I am teaching,” said García Simarro, the ‘coach’ of the pair. “So in the last round it’s difficult for me to hit the ball as well as the last two days…but we are very happy with second position!”
There was a tie for third place between Lorenzo Gagli and Emanuele Canonica (PGA of Italy) and Liam Murray and Xavier Puig (PGA of Spain), both of whom finished at -13 (201).
European Tour winner, Canonica, said, “We didn’t lose the position in which we started – we started third and finished third – and it was a very tough day. We don’t have a lot of chances to play Fourball around the world or in Italy so this one is the only tournament where we can come and have fun to play Fourball."
Gagli added, “It has been a pleasure to play with Emanuele and I am happy with third place because probably it was too difficult to catch 17-under."
Similarly, the PGA of Spain pair, Murray and Puig, ended their round in style, carding birdies on the final two holes to finish the day with an even-par round of 71.
"We are happy about the tournament because tied-third is a good result,” explained Puig. “But it was a pity about the final holes - from 12-16 today we played four bad holes – he hit a bad shot, I hit a bad shot – and in Fourball you pay for that, but then we finished birdie-birdie which is ok."
“It was really tough,” added Murray. “We felt like we were dropping off the pace a little bit, but turns out we probably weren’t. The scoring was not that great apart from the guys that won who played fantastic to shoot seven-under in that wind.”
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