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Hasn’t he already qualified for the Challenge tour, because he came top 5 (1st in fact) on the tour?I don't know but he did perform well in the events I followed from here.
Hasn’t he already qualified for the Challenge tour, because he came top 5 (1st in fact) on the tour?I don't know but he did perform well in the events I followed from here.
Hasn’t he already qualified for the Challenge tour, because he came top 5 (1st in fact) on the tour?
Hasn’t he already qualified for the Challenge tour, because he came top 5 (1st in fact) on the tour?
Richard Mansell 8 over after round one and joint last!
Great day there today. 9am 22* and no breeze but by 3pm it was 27* and very breezy. Ideal scoring conditions early on and a number to the early starters were taking advantage of it.
The course itself has taken some stick this year, with rumours that it was getting a bit raggy and untidy in places. The greens were fantastic. They took a well struck, high ball really well but something coming in low would run through. The surface was excellent - no jumping and bouncing when putting. Speed was well up there, and quicker than most of us will experience on a weekly basis. Bunkering and rough was as expected, maybe the rough a little longer than last year but that would be splitting hairs. One or two players seemed to struggle with the typical wirey Bermuda around the greens.
Dare we talk about the fairways? A significant number of threadbare patches on just about all the fairways, some having several patches. Unfortunately this has also led to the encroachment of rabbits, with a number of these areas showing burrowing. Common sense has seen them adopt placing but that doesn't do you much good if your ball is coming down in one of those areas but takes a wicked bounce - saw a few take unfair bounces.
How good are these guys? The golf from just about everyone was excellent, maybe a few getting going only to throw in a couple of bogeys followed by birdies. There's a score to be had around there but it needs to be kept on the straight and narrow. Virtually no holes where you could just blast. Yes you could take a driver quite often but you ran the risk of being on the wrong side of the fairway for a decent shot in. A number of the morning players, those from the lower echelons of the OOM, posted decent scores, which quite a few of the afternoon players struggled to get near because the wind did start to blow. I left when Lundberg only had a few holes to go. He was sitting on -5 and the wind was really getting up. For him to go on and post -8 is phenomenal.
Ferguson looked very solid, and the whispers on the clubhouse veranda was he's well in form and will be up there in round 3.
They play a very different game than the majority of us but, on occasion, they can really screw up too. On one hole I watched a guy miss the green by 3 yards, falling into a lateral water hazard. His ball came to rest in 6 inches of grass in a very wet lie, and probably only 10 paces from the pin at most. Off came the shoe as he looked to knock the ball on for 3 and maybe make par but no worse than bogey. He dropped a good, swinging putt for an 8.
Tomorrow is another day, and we'll be there early. Not sure on the wind but they're predicting an even warmer day.
Good write up indeed!! Sad to hear it was in tip top condition, always used to be.... Funny place up there, I remember my last visiting staying on site. Needed a ski jacket walking down the road to dinner, then played in shorts the following day!
(how is Val Del Este these days? That's a fun place to play!)
Great day there today. 9am 22* and no breeze but by 3pm it was 27* and very breezy. Ideal scoring conditions early on and a number to the early starters were taking advantage of it.
The course itself has taken some stick this year, with rumours that it was getting a bit raggy and untidy in places. The greens were fantastic. They took a well struck, high ball really well but something coming in low would run through. The surface was excellent - no jumping and bouncing when putting. Speed was well up there, and quicker than most of us will experience on a weekly basis. Bunkering and rough was as expected, maybe the rough a little longer than last year but that would be splitting hairs. One or two players seemed to struggle with the typical wirey Bermuda around the greens.
Dare we talk about the fairways? A significant number of threadbare patches on just about all the fairways, some having several patches. Unfortunately this has also led to the encroachment of rabbits, with a number of these areas showing burrowing. Common sense has seen them adopt placing but that doesn't do you much good if your ball is coming down in one of those areas but takes a wicked bounce - saw a few take unfair bounces.
How good are these guys? The golf from just about everyone was excellent, maybe a few getting going only to throw in a couple of bogeys followed by birdies. There's a score to be had around there but it needs to be kept on the straight and narrow. Virtually no holes where you could just blast. Yes you could take a driver quite often but you ran the risk of being on the wrong side of the fairway for a decent shot in. A number of the morning players, those from the lower echelons of the OOM, posted decent scores, which quite a few of the afternoon players struggled to get near because the wind did start to blow. I left when Lundberg only had a few holes to go. He was sitting on -5 and the wind was really getting up. For him to go on and post -8 is phenomenal.
Ferguson looked very solid, and the whispers on the clubhouse veranda was he's well in form and will be up there in round 3.
They play a very different game than the majority of us but, on occasion, they can really screw up too. On one hole I watched a guy miss the green by 3 yards, falling into a lateral water hazard. His ball came to rest in 6 inches of grass in a very wet lie, and probably only 10 paces from the pin at most. Off came the shoe as he looked to knock the ball on for 3 and maybe make par but no worse than bogey. He dropped a good, swinging putt for an 8.
Tomorrow is another day, and we'll be there early. Not sure on the wind but they're predicting an even warmer day.
Looks far more open now, Lundberg got it to -11 early on and looked like spreadeagling the field but he fell away quite badly to -7. -9 leads and 9 players within 3 shots
Looks far more open now, Lundberg got it to -11 early on and looked like spreadeagling the field but he fell away quite badly to -7. -9 leads and 9 players within 3 shots
We've had the Euro Pro at my home course Wychwood Park 3 times. I've always taken 3 days off work to watch it. On a couple of occasions our club champion has been playing in it - entry into the comp was his prize for winning the club champs. I think every course gets 3 or 4 places which they can allocate to club golfers or local amateurs.
Our club champion is a +1 golfer and he was made to look distinctly average when he played. There's some really really good players on the EuroPro and it really is eye opening to think that this is the 3rd tier of professional golf. It makes you think how good are these top European and PGA Tour players!
The players that I've watched have been really nice fellas too, they had no problem with you walking around with them and chatting to them.
Sounds like a fun finish, waiting for Hobbits final write up