2010 WUC Golf Update: Day 3 of Competitions

ANTEQUERA – The 3rd round of the Championship took place yesterday, June 10th, with the women teeing off from 8.00 a.m.

The weather was cool and a little overcast but much better than the very unpleasant conditions they experienced yesterday.

The scoring was much improved and the best scores of the day were from

CATHERINE O’DONNELL USA 71

KE-HUI HSU CHINESE TAIPEI * 71

ANE URCHEGUI GARCIA SPAIN * 71

ASHLEY BAUER USA * 72

TEREZA VAVRUŠKOVÁ CHECK REP. * 72

Catherine O’Donnell’s 71 enabled her to move into Gold medal position ahead of Morgane Bazin de Jessey of France who had led from the first round. However it would appear that the Gold medal battle may well between these two players as those in Bronze medal position are 11 shots behind the American player.

Individual (Women)

CATHERINE O’DONNELL USA 75 70 71 216

MORGANE BAZIN DE JESSEY FRANCE * 71 73 75 219

ANA FERNÁNDEZ DE MESA SILONIZ SPAIN * 76 78 73 227

KE-HUI HSU CHINESE TAIPEI * 73 83 71 227

ASHLEY BAUER USA * 75 80 72 227

GIULIA MOLINARO ITALY * 71 84 73 228

BELÉN BUENDÍA GÓMEZ SPAIN * 76 76 76 228

MARGOT COULAUD IVANOFF FRANCE * 75 77 77 229

ANNA ROSCIO ITALY * 73 84 73 230

ANE URCHEGUI GARCIA SPAIN * 80 79 71 230

The American Team Coach, Diane Thomason will be disappointed that she left O’Donnell out of the USA Team as they would now be in the lead in the Team event. However, that honour goes instead to Team France who has maintained its Golf medal position from Spain in Silver and USA in Bronze. Despite the day’s equal best score from Ke-Hui Hsu, Chinese Taipei slipped back from second to fourth with the Italians retaining their 5th position.

Team (Women)

446 France

450 Spain

451 USA

455 Taipei

458 Italy

In the Men’s Championship James White (Great Britain) and Jin-Jae Byun (Korea) shared the Championship low round with 5 under Par scores of 67. The under Par scores were completed by another Korean, three Japanese players and two Irish players. The difficulty of the course, where the need for accuracy is paramount as it is the fine line between success and failure, was clearly demonstrated when Garrett Rank (Canada), the leader for the first two days, returned a 10 over Par 82 to drop him down the field.

Individual (Men)

JAMES WHITE GREAT BRITAIN * 67

JIN-JAE BYUN KOREA * 67

YOSHINORI FUJIMOTO JAPAN * 69

KEVIN STACK IRELAND * 69

SHINJI TOMIMURA JAPAN * 70

KEISUKE OTAWA JAPAN * 70

SUNG-HEAK PARK KOREA * 71

JACQUES VAN TONDER SOUTH AFRICA * 71

RICHARD BRIDGES IRELAND * 71

The excellent scores for Korea of 67 and 71 from Byun and Park saw them leapfrog from 4th to the Gold medal by the narrowest margin of 1 shot from Chinese Taipei who retain their second position. Japan’s team score of 209 saw them move from 7th into the Bronze medal position just 3 shots behind leaders Korea. Another example of the challenge of the Antequera golf course was seen when host country Spain, who were leading the Team event after two days, did not score well with a team total of 232, which was 20 shots worse than their second round score, and fell from 1st to 5th.

Team (Men)

651 Korea

652 Taipei

654 Japan

658 Canada

660 Spain

668 Italy and Switzerland

(Source: Ray Robinson, FISU Technical Chair for Golf)