EWAN COULD YET BE A GREAT SCOTT
IN JUNIOR OPEN AT LUNDIN LINKS
FROM COLIN FARQUHARSON
The only golf writer at THE Junior Open
St Andrews’ Ewan Scott needs to be a bit more economical with his putting if he is to make a winning charge over the final round of the Junior Open at Lundin Golf Club's links course, Fife
Scott, only just turned 15 and the first Scot ever to win the English Under-14s open b oys' title last year, three-putted five times in slipping back from a promising opening round of 70 to a disappointing 76 for 146. Although he is seven shots behind leader Kenta Konishi (Japan), who had the tournament low round of three-under-par 68 for three-under 139,
Scott is “only” four shots behind second-placed Guillermo Pereira (Chile) (69 to 143) and three in arrears of Daniel Nielsen (Denmark) and Australia’s Anthony Murdaca
So a very good closing round by the Fifer on home soil could see him climb into a final top three or four finish which, in this quality company, would be a good performance.
England’s Nick Ward (Redbourn) is on 144 after a 71.
South Korea’s Hyo-Joo Kim leads the girls’ field on 142 with rounds of 72 and 70. She is one ahead of Thailander Pinrath Loomboonruang (73-70).
England’s Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham), overnight girls’ leader with a 70, dropped back with a 76 to 146 in the more difficult, windy conditions.
Carnoustie Ladies’ Ailsa Summers improved by five shots for a 79 and 163.
Overnight leader Daniel Nielsen from Denmark dropped out of the pole position after a second-round 74 – five shots worse than his first-ever round over a links course – on the second day of the Junior Open under blue skies in the early part of the morning but an increasing wind.
The new leader from early in the afternoon – with about six hours of play to go – was Kenta Konishi, a 16-year-old from Japan, who plays off +4. Konish returned a three-under-par 68, the lowest of the tournament so far, to set the clubhouse target of three-under-par 139.
Konishi’s two-round tally stayed at the top unchallenged for the rest of the long day. He will start the final day with a three-stroke lead.
Nielsen slipped back to 143 after a round which included a double bogey 7 at the ninth where he drove out of bounds on the right.
“The conditions were a little bit more difficult today with the wind,” said the 14-year-old one-handicapper who helped Denmark finish third in Turkey in the European boys’ team championship which did not finish until the weekend. He did not fly into Edinburgh Airport until 5pm on Sunday, leaving no time to squeeze in a practice round.
“I didn’t putt as well today as I did for the 69.”
Konishi, who had a par-matching 71 in the first round, notched four birdies and a solitary bogey, at the first, in halves of 35 and 33 for his 68. He birdied the third, eighth, short 12th and long 13th.
Guillermo Pereira from Chile took over second place after a 69 for 142, a shot ahead of Daniel Nielsen and Australia’s Anthony Murdaca who improved from 74 to 69 even in the more difficult conditions.
Welsh youngster Otto Mand, in contention after an opening 70, dropped down the leaderboard with an 81 for 151.
The leading girl is Hyo-Joo Kim (South Korea) whose second-round 70 for level par 142 equalled Emily Taylor’s best of the day girls’ score returned after 8pm on Monday.
Kim, from Seoul, is only 14 and has one of a handicap.
Emily Taylor slipped back to 146 with a 76 without a single bogey and a run of three bogeys in a row from the sixth.
“I made some silly mistakes,” said Emily.
Hyo-Joo Kim leads by only one shot from Thailand’s Pinrath Loomboonruang who had a 70 to her opening 73 for 143. Two shots farther back, sharing third place, are Cecilia Cho, the +5 15-year-old from New Zealand and Hikari Fujita from Japan. Cecilia had a double bogey at one hole on her way to a 73 while Hikari improved by five strokes for a 70.
For half the field, the higher handicappers of the Silver and Bronze Categories, the championship is over from a playing point of view. On Wednesday the final spotlight is on the 60-odd boys and girls in the Gold Category, i.e. those with low handicaps - and some of them have very low handicaps.
The RandA, taking heed of a severe weather forecast for the early part of tomorrow morning, have delayed the start until 10am and two tees - the first and the eighth - will be used from then on.
The higher handicaps will be there in the afternoon for the grand presenation of prizes and awards to all the different geographical categories.
ROUND TWO TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)
BOYS
139 Kenta Konishi (Japan) 71 68.
142 Guillermo Pereira (Chile) 73 69.
143 Anthony Murdaca (Australia) 74 69, Daniel Nielsen (Denmak) 69 74.
144 Haydn Porteous (S Africa) 70 74, Nick Ward (England) 73 71, Tuck Soon Chan (Malaysia) 71 73.
146 Atiwit Janewattanond (Thailand) 73 73, Ewan Scott (Scotland) 70 76.
147 Julian Lerda (Argentina) 72 75, Petr Gal (Czech Rep) 73 74.
149 Ashbeer Saini (India) 73 76, Alex Gleeson (Ireland) 71 78.
150 Marc Ong (Singapore) 73 77, Gonzalo Leon (Ecuador) 73 77.
151 Otto Mand (Wales) 70 81.
152 Kevin Kwon (Canada) 78 74, Tyler Hodge (New Zealand) 80 72, William Clarke (Brazil) 75 77, Jose Mendez (Costa Rica) 72 80.
153 David Lee (United States) 75 78.
155 Chuan Lin Jian (China) 77 78, Richard Broadhurst (Italy) 79 76, Stephan Sorg (Switzerland) 75 80.
157 Eithel McGowan (Peru) 81 76, Matthew Moucharafieh (Lebanon) 80 77, Allan Kronfeld (Russia) 80 77, Ali Abdulla Al-Bishi (Qatar) 77 80.
158 Paul Yannik (Germany) 80 78, Benjamin Follett-Smith (Zimbabwe) 77 81.
159 Samuel Jabba (Colombia) 78 81, Mateusz Gradecki (Poland) 75 84, Anthony Tam (Hong Kong) 83 76.
162 Shai Bendavid (Israel) 83 79, Egeti Liiv (Estonia) 79 83, Mohit Mediratta (Kenya) 84 78, Enej Sarkanj (Slovenia) 78 84.
163 Gustavo Morantes (Venezuela) 84 79, Marcos Cabarcos (Panama) 80 83, Mubariz Ahmad (Pakistan) 84 79, Issa Abou El Ela (Egypt) 83 80.
164 Nicholas Teuten (Uruguay) 85 79, Kevin Jae Kim Gomez (Honduras) 81 83..
165 Jose Luis Sanchez (Colombia) 84 81, Jack Van De Heyning (Belgium) 83 82.
166 Dwayne Pearman (Bermuda) 85 81.
167 Kristof Eiring (Hungary) 78 89.
168 Daniel Holland (Malta) 80 88, Roland Cuculiza (Nicaragua) 83 85.
170 Carlos Lisboa (Paraguay) 84 86, Kornelijus Baliukonis (Lithuania) 89 81, Taha Ergun (Turkey) 88 82.
171 Alejandro Villasana (Mexico) 89 82.
172 Yassine Ben Halima Tunisia) 87 85, Jeremy Abel (Luxembourg) 88 84, Brian Taikiri (Papua New Guiinea) 86 86, James Pennington (Swaziland) 82 90.
173 Stephanus Bonafatius (Namibia) 89 84, Phil Minkley (Mauritius) 85 88, Enrique Walsh (El Salvador) 85 88.
174 Redge Camacho (Guam) 85 89, Svens Ermansons (Latvia) 86 88.
175 Fahad Bin Tarique (Bangladesh) 88 87.
176 David Pevala (Slovakia) 89 87.
182 Kush Vashee (Zambia) 91 91.
184 Harrison Collins (Bahamas) 86 98.
187 Sachin De Silva (Sri Lanka) 94 93.
188 Nabeel Desai (Botswana) 93 95.
189 Sai Eccles (Cayman Islands) 93 96.
195 Lyubomir Kostov (Bulgaria) 96 99.
198 Constaninos Christodoulides (Cyprus) 99 99.
201 Benjamin Kacheuka (Malawi) 90 111.
GIRLS
142 Hyo-Joo Kim (Korea) 72 70.
143 Pinrath Loomboonruang (Thailand) 73 70.
145 Cecilia Cho (New Zealand) 72 73, Hikari Fujita (Japan) 75 70.
146 Emily Taylor (England) 70 76.
154 Nanna Madsen (Denmark) 77 77, Katerina Vlasinova (Czech Rep) 81 73.
155 Gurbani Singh (India) 79 76.
156 Karen Chung (United States) 77 79.
157 Emily McLennan (Australia) 81 76, Ana Ruga (Venezuela) 80 77, Valentine Loge (Belgium) 79 78.
158 Katia Pogacar (Slovenia) 77 81, Alix Kong (Canada) 79 79, Coralia Arias (Ecuador) 78 80.
159 Aretha Herng Pan (Malaysia) 80 79.
160 Lina Aguillon (Colombia) 81 79, Phoebe Tan (Singapore) 82 78, Kitty Tam (Hong Kong) 81 79, Vivienne Chin (Malaysia) 83 77.
161 Natalia Heckova (Slovakia) 77 84.
162 Silvia Garces (Colombia) 83 79, Izel Pieters (S Africa) 83 79, Monja Maetzler (Switzerland) 82 80.
163 Vilma Paloma Ferreira (Paraguay) 83 80, Ailsa Summers (Scotland) 84 79.
164 Margherita Magri (Italy) 79 85.
166 Hadas Libman (Israel) 84 82.
167 Sena Ersoy (Turkey) 81 86, Dominika Gradecka (Poland) 79 88.
170 Zsofia Szurovszky (Hungary) 89 81.
172 Margine Arguello (Nicaragua) 86 86,
173 Ana Ruiz (Mexico) 83 90, Devanshi Naik (Zambia) 89 84.
174 Maria Noriega (Peru) 83 91.
178 Catalina Fernandez (Uruguay) 89 89.
182 Jessica Jones (Wales) 90 92, Naomi Wafula (Kenya) 89 93.
186 Ouname Mhotsha (Botswana) 96 90, Ieva Cace (Latvia) 91 95, Adriana Pineda (Honduras) 96 90.
187 Julia Debowski (Brazil) 94 93.
189 Monea Matahni (Tunisia) 92 97.
192 Emily Ribbins (Cayman Islands).95 97.
193 Tazbin Sarker (Bangladesh) 97 96.
194 Deborah Ephraim (Ghana) 98 106.
195 Glafkie Christodoulides (Cyprus) 99 96.
197 Migle Rusteikaite (Lithuania) 98 99.
202 Goodness Diamini (Swaziland) 95 107.
210 Shamiso Makwara (Zimbabwe) 105 105.
IN JUNIOR OPEN AT LUNDIN LINKSThe only golf writer at THE Junior Open
St Andrews’ Ewan Scott needs to be a bit more economical with his putting if he is to make a winning charge over the final round of the Junior Open at Lundin Golf Club's links course, Fife
Scott, only just turned 15 and the first Scot ever to win the English Under-14s open b oys' title last year, three-putted five times in slipping back from a promising opening round of 70 to a disappointing 76 for 146. Although he is seven shots behind leader Kenta Konishi (Japan), who had the tournament low round of three-under-par 68 for three-under 139,
Scott is “only” four shots behind second-placed Guillermo Pereira (Chile) (69 to 143) and three in arrears of Daniel Nielsen (Denmark) and Australia’s Anthony Murdaca
So a very good closing round by the Fifer on home soil could see him climb into a final top three or four finish which, in this quality company, would be a good performance.
England’s Nick Ward (Redbourn) is on 144 after a 71.
South Korea’s Hyo-Joo Kim leads the girls’ field on 142 with rounds of 72 and 70. She is one ahead of Thailander Pinrath Loomboonruang (73-70).
England’s Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham), overnight girls’ leader with a 70, dropped back with a 76 to 146 in the more difficult, windy conditions.
Carnoustie Ladies’ Ailsa Summers improved by five shots for a 79 and 163.
Overnight leader Daniel Nielsen from Denmark dropped out of the pole position after a second-round 74 – five shots worse than his first-ever round over a links course – on the second day of the Junior Open under blue skies in the early part of the morning but an increasing wind.
The new leader from early in the afternoon – with about six hours of play to go – was Kenta Konishi, a 16-year-old from Japan, who plays off +4. Konish returned a three-under-par 68, the lowest of the tournament so far, to set the clubhouse target of three-under-par 139.
Konishi’s two-round tally stayed at the top unchallenged for the rest of the long day. He will start the final day with a three-stroke lead.
Nielsen slipped back to 143 after a round which included a double bogey 7 at the ninth where he drove out of bounds on the right.
“The conditions were a little bit more difficult today with the wind,” said the 14-year-old one-handicapper who helped Denmark finish third in Turkey in the European boys’ team championship which did not finish until the weekend. He did not fly into Edinburgh Airport until 5pm on Sunday, leaving no time to squeeze in a practice round.
“I didn’t putt as well today as I did for the 69.”
Konishi, who had a par-matching 71 in the first round, notched four birdies and a solitary bogey, at the first, in halves of 35 and 33 for his 68. He birdied the third, eighth, short 12th and long 13th.
Guillermo Pereira from Chile took over second place after a 69 for 142, a shot ahead of Daniel Nielsen and Australia’s Anthony Murdaca who improved from 74 to 69 even in the more difficult conditions.
Welsh youngster Otto Mand, in contention after an opening 70, dropped down the leaderboard with an 81 for 151.
The leading girl is Hyo-Joo Kim (South Korea) whose second-round 70 for level par 142 equalled Emily Taylor’s best of the day girls’ score returned after 8pm on Monday.
Kim, from Seoul, is only 14 and has one of a handicap.
Emily Taylor slipped back to 146 with a 76 without a single bogey and a run of three bogeys in a row from the sixth.
“I made some silly mistakes,” said Emily.
Hyo-Joo Kim leads by only one shot from Thailand’s Pinrath Loomboonruang who had a 70 to her opening 73 for 143. Two shots farther back, sharing third place, are Cecilia Cho, the +5 15-year-old from New Zealand and Hikari Fujita from Japan. Cecilia had a double bogey at one hole on her way to a 73 while Hikari improved by five strokes for a 70.
For half the field, the higher handicappers of the Silver and Bronze Categories, the championship is over from a playing point of view. On Wednesday the final spotlight is on the 60-odd boys and girls in the Gold Category, i.e. those with low handicaps - and some of them have very low handicaps.
The RandA, taking heed of a severe weather forecast for the early part of tomorrow morning, have delayed the start until 10am and two tees - the first and the eighth - will be used from then on.
The higher handicaps will be there in the afternoon for the grand presenation of prizes and awards to all the different geographical categories.
ROUND TWO TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)
BOYS
139 Kenta Konishi (Japan) 71 68.
142 Guillermo Pereira (Chile) 73 69.
143 Anthony Murdaca (Australia) 74 69, Daniel Nielsen (Denmak) 69 74.
144 Haydn Porteous (S Africa) 70 74, Nick Ward (England) 73 71, Tuck Soon Chan (Malaysia) 71 73.
146 Atiwit Janewattanond (Thailand) 73 73, Ewan Scott (Scotland) 70 76.
147 Julian Lerda (Argentina) 72 75, Petr Gal (Czech Rep) 73 74.
149 Ashbeer Saini (India) 73 76, Alex Gleeson (Ireland) 71 78.
150 Marc Ong (Singapore) 73 77, Gonzalo Leon (Ecuador) 73 77.
151 Otto Mand (Wales) 70 81.
152 Kevin Kwon (Canada) 78 74, Tyler Hodge (New Zealand) 80 72, William Clarke (Brazil) 75 77, Jose Mendez (Costa Rica) 72 80.
153 David Lee (United States) 75 78.
155 Chuan Lin Jian (China) 77 78, Richard Broadhurst (Italy) 79 76, Stephan Sorg (Switzerland) 75 80.
157 Eithel McGowan (Peru) 81 76, Matthew Moucharafieh (Lebanon) 80 77, Allan Kronfeld (Russia) 80 77, Ali Abdulla Al-Bishi (Qatar) 77 80.
158 Paul Yannik (Germany) 80 78, Benjamin Follett-Smith (Zimbabwe) 77 81.
159 Samuel Jabba (Colombia) 78 81, Mateusz Gradecki (Poland) 75 84, Anthony Tam (Hong Kong) 83 76.
162 Shai Bendavid (Israel) 83 79, Egeti Liiv (Estonia) 79 83, Mohit Mediratta (Kenya) 84 78, Enej Sarkanj (Slovenia) 78 84.
163 Gustavo Morantes (Venezuela) 84 79, Marcos Cabarcos (Panama) 80 83, Mubariz Ahmad (Pakistan) 84 79, Issa Abou El Ela (Egypt) 83 80.
164 Nicholas Teuten (Uruguay) 85 79, Kevin Jae Kim Gomez (Honduras) 81 83..
165 Jose Luis Sanchez (Colombia) 84 81, Jack Van De Heyning (Belgium) 83 82.
166 Dwayne Pearman (Bermuda) 85 81.
167 Kristof Eiring (Hungary) 78 89.
168 Daniel Holland (Malta) 80 88, Roland Cuculiza (Nicaragua) 83 85.
170 Carlos Lisboa (Paraguay) 84 86, Kornelijus Baliukonis (Lithuania) 89 81, Taha Ergun (Turkey) 88 82.
171 Alejandro Villasana (Mexico) 89 82.
172 Yassine Ben Halima Tunisia) 87 85, Jeremy Abel (Luxembourg) 88 84, Brian Taikiri (Papua New Guiinea) 86 86, James Pennington (Swaziland) 82 90.
173 Stephanus Bonafatius (Namibia) 89 84, Phil Minkley (Mauritius) 85 88, Enrique Walsh (El Salvador) 85 88.
174 Redge Camacho (Guam) 85 89, Svens Ermansons (Latvia) 86 88.
175 Fahad Bin Tarique (Bangladesh) 88 87.
176 David Pevala (Slovakia) 89 87.
182 Kush Vashee (Zambia) 91 91.
184 Harrison Collins (Bahamas) 86 98.
187 Sachin De Silva (Sri Lanka) 94 93.
188 Nabeel Desai (Botswana) 93 95.
189 Sai Eccles (Cayman Islands) 93 96.
195 Lyubomir Kostov (Bulgaria) 96 99.
198 Constaninos Christodoulides (Cyprus) 99 99.
201 Benjamin Kacheuka (Malawi) 90 111.
GIRLS
142 Hyo-Joo Kim (Korea) 72 70.
143 Pinrath Loomboonruang (Thailand) 73 70.
145 Cecilia Cho (New Zealand) 72 73, Hikari Fujita (Japan) 75 70.
146 Emily Taylor (England) 70 76.
154 Nanna Madsen (Denmark) 77 77, Katerina Vlasinova (Czech Rep) 81 73.
155 Gurbani Singh (India) 79 76.
156 Karen Chung (United States) 77 79.
157 Emily McLennan (Australia) 81 76, Ana Ruga (Venezuela) 80 77, Valentine Loge (Belgium) 79 78.
158 Katia Pogacar (Slovenia) 77 81, Alix Kong (Canada) 79 79, Coralia Arias (Ecuador) 78 80.
159 Aretha Herng Pan (Malaysia) 80 79.
160 Lina Aguillon (Colombia) 81 79, Phoebe Tan (Singapore) 82 78, Kitty Tam (Hong Kong) 81 79, Vivienne Chin (Malaysia) 83 77.
161 Natalia Heckova (Slovakia) 77 84.
162 Silvia Garces (Colombia) 83 79, Izel Pieters (S Africa) 83 79, Monja Maetzler (Switzerland) 82 80.
163 Vilma Paloma Ferreira (Paraguay) 83 80, Ailsa Summers (Scotland) 84 79.
164 Margherita Magri (Italy) 79 85.
166 Hadas Libman (Israel) 84 82.
167 Sena Ersoy (Turkey) 81 86, Dominika Gradecka (Poland) 79 88.
170 Zsofia Szurovszky (Hungary) 89 81.
172 Margine Arguello (Nicaragua) 86 86,
173 Ana Ruiz (Mexico) 83 90, Devanshi Naik (Zambia) 89 84.
174 Maria Noriega (Peru) 83 91.
178 Catalina Fernandez (Uruguay) 89 89.
182 Jessica Jones (Wales) 90 92, Naomi Wafula (Kenya) 89 93.
186 Ouname Mhotsha (Botswana) 96 90, Ieva Cace (Latvia) 91 95, Adriana Pineda (Honduras) 96 90.
187 Julia Debowski (Brazil) 94 93.
189 Monea Matahni (Tunisia) 92 97.
192 Emily Ribbins (Cayman Islands).95 97.
193 Tazbin Sarker (Bangladesh) 97 96.
194 Deborah Ephraim (Ghana) 98 106.
195 Glafkie Christodoulides (Cyprus) 99 96.
197 Migle Rusteikaite (Lithuania) 98 99.
202 Goodness Diamini (Swaziland) 95 107.
210 Shamiso Makwara (Zimbabwe) 105 105.
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