In less than two years on the European circuit and at just 20 years old, the Danish nugget Rasmus Højgaard has won 3 tournaments. Latest triumph to date for the Scandinavian a success at Crans sur Sierre this Sunday with an exceptional card of 63 and a birdie at 18 to beat the Austrian Bernd Wiesberger to the post!
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Among the French, we vibrated with a last dazzling round from Antoine Rozner author of the second best card of the tournament a beautiful 62 with a breathtaking 9 hole passage between the 7 and the 15 with 5 birdies and an eagle!
See his reaction here: Rozner: “It gives confidence for the big weeks that are coming”
Saddier and Italy
The RCF player won a nice 13th place with a rise in the ranking of 43 places! The best representative of French golf this week in the Swiss Alps is Haut Savoyard Adrien Saddier, used to the great outdoors in the mountains.
The Esery player recorded his first top 10 of the season with a final round in 69 and a birdie in 18 which allows him to close his tournament in 7th place just 4 strokes from the winner and get his ticket for the ‘Italian Open next week on the course of the future Ryder Cup 2023!
Rozner pleasures himself
In the 4th round, starting ten shots behind the head of the Omega European Masters occupied by Paratore and Crocker, Antoine Rozner had to rethink a few putts lost here and there on the greens of the tournament. In any case, nothing came to bother him and his Sunday chapter turned into a great spectacle. He still had an awkward putt at 18 for birdie and a… 61. He gets away with 62, as unexpected as it is pleasing, confirming what he told us yesterday about his current form 10 days from the PGA Championship and his extremely rich endowment. From par to 8 shots below, he would have done a quarter the day before, and it was he who would have donned the beautiful red jacket of the Swiss Masters.
« I played today like yesterday. Well. Everything the same, except the score. Golf is a fun game. I played big irons at 7, 8, 11, 13, with an eagle at 14 on a good putt and birdie at 15. I just got back from a three week break and wanted to play this tournament to get back into the game. rhythm, already playing the four rounds. I’m very happy like that, after just passing the cut. Having produced a good game this weekend, it gives confidence before the two big weeks that are coming. ».
Stenson confirms its revival
In the lead precisely, we were gutting with speckled foils, without really escaping. After a good tournament in the Czech Republic (4th in Prague) Henrik Stenson passed the multiplied. Starting -5, he lined up five birdies on his first six holes, but only two more on the last two-thirds of the course for 63. Stenson who tries to convince Harrington to take him to Wisconsin for the Ryder Cup offers himself a podium , his first all circuits since August 2019!
Wiesberger so near so far
At the same time, the return of the “Ballesteros Course” began to titillate the scores. Sharing the game of Ross McGowan then in the lead at -13 out of 10, Saddier missed a putt to go -10 to 11, while the leader lost a stroke. From then on, with Wiesberger’s “remount” to 1st place (-12), the Austrian looking for a place in the Ryder Cup, there were then eleven players in three moves including Saddier, but also the Danish Højgaard and Italian Migliosi.
This once again agitated the landernau of Swiss golf who still has not found the answer to “Why and how Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Austria, even Italy, do to each count at least one handful of players capable of familiarizing with the greatest, or even beating them, and not Switzerland? FYI, the only Helvetian at the start, finally on the right side of the cut, finished 71st …
At 14, Weisberger was at work. This long par 5 is one of the justices of the peace on the way back with the 15 par 5 going uphill this time. An eagle on the first, a bogey on the next, and here it is at -13. Not for long, put back in the saddle by a birdie at 16.
Complicated end of Hébert’s game.
Grouped at -9, there are now a few who can do little for the trophy. Saddier is with Paratore and Crocker, ex-leaders. The other French people are further away. A -7, point Hébert, author of a sad end to the game sanctioned by a bogey at 17 and a double at 18. The Brivist now trained by Olivier Léglise must be content with 32nd place while a top 10 loomed yesterday, his second of the season. Pity.
Scjot-Siegrist -7 wins a good top 20 even if his start to the tournament augured for a better final result. Lévy finished at -4 alongside Hébert, Gonnet and Perez at -1. They are ready for the Italian Open next Thursday played at Marco Simone, the future Roman course of the Ryder Cup and Saddier is surely happy with his 7th place at-9 secured by a birdie on the 72nd hole.
The third from Højgaard
Højgaard birdies 18 for -13, putting pressure on Weisberger’s -14, while McGowan does not come in.
Yves Mittaz who has sweated his tournament this year, not setting it up until May in all its components stamped pandemic, and bubble of the European Tour, is at the clutches. Hanging a nice name of golf on the prize list delighted him in advance like the late President Gaston Barras.
But golf has its reasons that reason will always ignore. Weisberger, perfect so far, plunges his ball into a course bunker at a distance from PW of 18. Everyone in golf has suffered from it on occasion. But fewer also went through the protective pond where the Austrian drowned his already written victory on a double bogey, leaving Rasmus HØjgaard to wear the famous red jacket of the winner for his third success on the European tour at twenty.
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