ANTEQUERA – The final round of the Championship took place yesterday June 11th, to decide the medal winners of the 13th edition of this Championship with Spain winning Gold and Silver in the Men’s Individual event while Bronze went to Korea.
The two best rounds of the day were returned by Gerard Piris Mateu and Carlos Pigen Xammar of Spain with 68 and 69 respectively. This gave Gerard a total of 281 and a 7 shot win over his compatriot as well as Sung-Heak Park of Korea and, the leader from the third day, Yoshinori Fujimoto all on 288. Carlos took the Silver medal and Sung-Heak the Bronze on the better last day cards.
Gerard had 4 birdies and an eagle for 7 holes of his last nine and then dropped a shot at each of the last two holes or his score would have been even better.
Men’s Scores of the Day
PIRIS MATEU, GERARD SPAIN 68
PIGEM XAMMAR, CARLOS SPAIN * 69
MATSUYAMA, HIDEKI JAPAN * 69
PARK, SUNG-HEAK KOREA * 71
HUANG, TAO CHINESE TAIPEI * 71
LOWER, JUSTIN USA * 71
TESTA, FRANCESCO ITALY * 71
DALL’ARCHE, VALENTINO ITALY * 71
Individual (Men)
PIRIS MATEU, GERARD SPAIN 72 69 72 68 281
PIGEM XAMMAR, CARLOS SPAIN * 72 71 76 69 288
PARK, SUNG-HEAK KOREA * 74 72 71 71 288
FUJIMOTO, YOSHINORI JAPAN * 71 71 69 77 288
WHITE, JAMES GREAT BRITAIN * 76 75 67 72 290
MATSUYAMA, HIDEKI JAPAN * 76 74 72 69 291
HUANG, TAO CHINESE TAIPEI * 71 76 73 71 291
VAN TONDER, JACQUES SOUTH AFRICA * 75 72 71 73 291
LOWER, JUSTIN USA * 72 76 73 71 292
There was a tremendously close battle for the medals in the Men’s Team event and it was only decided on the last hole. Korea took the Gold on a total of 869 by 3 shots from Japan on 872 who took the Silver from Spain by one shot on 873. Spain in turn won the bronze by just one shot from Chinese Taipei on 874.
The best scores of the day from the Women were returned by
HSU, KE-HUI CHINESE TAIPEI * 71
ANDERSON, LAURA USA 71
BAZIN DE JESSEY, MORGANE FRANCE * 73
O’DONNELL, CATHERINE USA 74
MOLINARO, GIULIA ITALY * 75
KENDLER, ALIZAH AUSTRALIA * 75
MACDONALD, KELSEY GREAT BRITAIN * 76
CORÉ, MELISSA CANADA 76
Catherine O’Donnell’s 74 enabled her to win the Gold medal for USA on 290 ahead of Silver Medallist Morgane Bazin de Jessey of France on 292 and Bronze Medallist Ke-Hui Hsu of Chinese Taipei on 298.
Individual (Women)
O’DONNELL, CATHERINE USA 75 70 71 74 290
BAZIN DE JESSEY, MORGANE FRANCE * 71 73 75 73 292
HSU, KE-HUI TAIPEI * 73 83 71 71 298
MOLINARO, GIULIA ITALY * 71 84 73 75 303
ANDERSON, LAURA USA 73 80 80 71 304
BAUER, ASHLEY USA * 75 80 72 77 304
FERNÁNDEZ DE MESA SILONIZ, ANA SPAIN * 76 78 73 79 306
MACDONALD, KELSEY GREAT BRITAIN * 76 82 74 76 308
VAVRUŠKOVÁ, TEREZA CHECK REP. * 81 78 72 77 308
KENOYER, STEFANIE USA * 75 83 73 77 308
The team medals for the women went to France (gold), Chinese Taipei (silver) and USA (bronze).
(Source: Ray Robinson, FISU Technical Chair for Golf)
The women’s medallists
RESULTS
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