WORLD DEAF GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Round one of the World Deaf Golf Championships

After a long and slow day, 6 hours to finish round one, the two South African ladies finished a comfortable 10th and 11th place in their first
attempt at the World Deaf Golf Championships. The top ladies after round one are :

Melissa Stockton from USA leads with 86
2nd is Susan Hamilton from New Zealand 87
3rd Jennifer Meric from Australia on 89
Vanessa McIllroy (RSA) in 10th on 98 and Gail klichowicz (RSA) 11th with 102 for the first round.

The leaderboard for the men has David Ewen from Scotland leading dayn one with 72 strokes
2nd Johnathan Rose (CAN) with 74 strokes
3rd Mark Forrest (ENG) 75 strokes
16th Cedric Touzard (RSA) 83 strokes
23 Ryan Lotz (RSA) 85 strokes
37 Danie marais (RSA) 89 strokes

Seniors leader board shows Rob Cundy (CAN) taking an early lead on 78
2nd Kenneth Hofman (CAN) 81
3rd Ian Kennedy (SCOT) 81
15th Raymond Graf (RSA) 98

The Ladies Team results has USA in front, follwed by Ireland and South Africa holding 3rd place.

The Torrance course is a beautiful and very tough course, with the most splendid views of St Andrews Bay, set up on the cliff above the sea, you can see Carnoustie across the Bay on a clear day.
The course itself is well manicured, well bunkered for the errant palyer, so club selection is paramount if you want to finished the day unscathed.
It is a typical links course, lots of rolling fairways and deep rough,and finding balls is always difficult. The organizers have thankfully stationed ball spotters along the course maikng it easier to find errant balls
which have a tendency to follow their own flight path. The greens are in excellent condition and fairly easy to read making putting rewarding.

After a very tiring and lengthy day one, day two has dawned on us cold. overcast and a bit windy. The men tee'd off at 6H30 this morning and the ladies will tee off at 12H10

Summary round two The Open:

South African Louis Oosthuisen was leading round two by 5 strokes when inclement weather halted proceedings when the wind caused havoc which affected ball flight and pushed the balls around the greens as if they were on their own mission.
Oosthuizen made good use of excellent playing conditions in the morning, posting a 5 under 67, and no sooner had he finished and the wind bared its teeth with some 40 km/h winds. Round two will carry on this morning and round three will start soon after. With some of the top golfers bordering the cut line, this morning they will have to play their socks off. Marc Calcavecchi who was also one of the fortunate golfers who teed off in the morning, posted a 5 under 67, to move up to 2nd on the leader board.

Louis Oosthuizen a product of the Ernie Els foundation was born in Mossel Bay South Africa in October 1982. Oosthuuizen turned professional in 2002 at the age of 19.He has had 6 professional wins , five in the Sunshine Tour and one in the European tour.
This is Louis 4th attempt at The Open , being cut in 2004,2006 and 2009

The first round of the Open took place yesterday and saw Northen Ireland's Rory McIlroy streak away to a course best of 63 strokes, 2 ahead of upcoming Louis Oosthuizen from South Africa. John Daly one shot behind on 66. Tiger Woods fininshed on 67 and Trevor Immelman finishing 4 underpar in 17th place.

Hole 17 was the toughest hole of the day with 19 double bogeys and 57 bogeys. Only 5 golfers managed to birdie this hole.

Lee Westwood had a streak of 5 birdies in a row while Joshua Cunliffe a streak of 4 bogeys. The projected cut looking dismal for a lot of the top golfers as even par is the cut off line after the first round, today they will have pull out all the stops to secure their place going into the 3rd round.


The second round is underway and Jeff Overton being the biggest mover with a jump of 37 places to 59th place, followed by Mark Calcavecchi jumping up 27 places to 18th place.

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