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24. 5. bis 27. 5. 2012
Telenet Trophy
Ravenstein Royal GC of Belgium
The Royal Golf Club of Belgium - "Royal" since its foundation in 1906 by decision of King Leopold II - is laid on land belonging to the "Royal Donation". The Château-ferme of Ravenstein owes its name to its first owner, Philippe de Cleves, Squire of Ravenstein. The King particularly wished to implant coniferous of the same species as the ones he had been breedi…
Sometimes you can shoot an even Par round and feel great, getting it up and down from ever…
After the successful qualification for the 2nd Stage in the US PGA Qschool I was planning to fly out from Raleigh (North Carolina) on Saturday 29th of October. Flying out on that day would have meant I am traveling via Newark and Zurich to Singapore were the qualifying for the Singapore Open started on Tuesday 1. November. I should have arrived on the 31st of October early in the morning, being able to play a practice round and get a bit over the 12 hours time difference.
Unfortunately the bad winter weather in the Northeast of the United States made it impossible to travel on my original date and the Airline had to reroute me and that with a 24h delay. This meant I was now not sure to make my tee time at Tanjong Golf Course on Tuesday 7.55am. Landing at 6.30am with back to back flights of 9 and 13hours I jumped into a taxi, changed cloth at the course and went straight to the tee. A bit stressed out I made a double bogey on my first hole. Slowly I found my rhythm and went to make an eagle and many birdies to be suddenly -4 on the 18th teebox. A pulled tee shot however resulted in a bogey and in the end it was one shot shy of making it into the top 5 to qualify for the Singapore Open.
Straight after play I packed up my things and jumped again into a taxi to be able to catch my flight at 3.50pm going from Singapore to Taipei, Taiwan. After the almost 5 hour flight and a 1hour taxi ride I arrived completely exhausted at the hotel in Tamsui.
On Wednesday I was not able to play as the course was closed for the Pro Am. I had a good walk on the course though and was able to put together a solid game plan.
With four steady rounds of 71/75/72/72 on the difficult Taiwan GC I was able to get my second consecutive top 15 result on the Asian Tour. The course was very demanding due to the fact that the greens were rock hard but the surroundings soft. The high rough just off the fairways were calling for flyers and controlling the distance was also hard from the fairway due to the swirling winds. With both my Par rounds on the weekend I improved my position of the day before which shows again how though the course was playing.
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