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A FINAL
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Being already in the Final last year, the 33 year old
Sylvain Gouge from Dijon, France
wins the 9th edition of the Swiss Open. During the exciting
final he catched up the leader Oscar
Stenfelt from Sweden and having both players tied on
the first place, a play-off needed to be played to decide the
winner.
The final of the Swiss Open in 2010 did not disappoint his
audience: Entering the final with two points ahead of Sylvain
Gouge, Oscar Stenfelt alternated between high and low during
this final. After three baskets without changes, the
transition from pond #15, allowed Sylvain to resume these two
points after two missed putts of young Swedish prodigy, which
is very unusual from him.
Then the next basket was in favor of Oscar after a drive of
Sylvain went out into the forest (#24). Reverse scenario at
#26, where Oscar hit the barrier of tennis with a very bad
rebound in the forest, from where he needed to limit the
damage at this hole.
Being tied perfectly for the final hole, Sylvain puts the
pressure on with a large drive, landing 3m at the basket.
Oscar did not fail to hammer a 10 meter putt into the chains,
which offered him the tiebreak.
Having played the first extra-hole (#1, the island) without
problems, hole #2 then provided the highlight of this final.
Sylvain started first and his perfect drive passed through the
double mando. As from the first second of the flight, you
could imagine that the disc may make it: the disc crashed into
the chains, but unfortunately did not rest and landed finally
5 meters from the basket.
Oscar under pressure now, touched one of the trees of the
mando which of course changed the flight direction of the
disc. Despite a goog approach, he could not catch up the
birdie of Sylvain, who could start to celebreat his first
victory in a Eurotour event.
With this new formula for the Open finals, also players from
place 5 onwards retain a chance to catch up with the front.
This was finally the case with Ville Piippo from
Finland and Felix Ban from France, who managed to
regain third place equaly with the US-Swiss Tony Ferro,
who reached the top-4 in Europe for the second time during
this season. What a superp performance. It is also to say,
that Felix is not yet 18 and such an exceptional result should
enable him to compete the World Amateur Championships this
year.
Ranked three times 2nd in four participation at the Swiss
Open, Ville could not defend chances because of a shoulder
injury... he also thought to be operate a tendon by end of the
year. Jesse Heinonen (current Finnish Champion) was
lost in hell of the forest at hole #26 and finally ranked 6th,
while our compatriot Stephan Müller finished 7th with a
great peformance on Sunday (best score in the finals).
The top-3 in the Women's division have been in Swedish
hands. World champion Birgitta Lagerholm was a class on
her own and defended her swiss open title from 2009 by 12
strokes over Angelica Frantz and 18 strokes over
Camilla Jernberg. Best swiss performance: Iris Beyeler
Ferro, 5th place.
In the Master's division Kari Vesala from
Finland is the current Eurotour leader and after his victory
at the Durtch Open and a 2nd place at the Copenhagen Open, his
now also won the Swiss Open. Winner of the Swiss Open 2009,
Marco Lehouse from Belgium took 2nd, Jean-Louis Tanghe
(also from Belgium) ranked 3rd. Best swiss performance:
Andreas Gertsch, 7th place.
The largest Grandmaster field ever in a Eurotour event
was present at the Swiss Open, where compatriot and
team-member of Disc Golf Genève Paul Francz was again a
class on his own. Even he personally was not fully satisfied
with his play (specially putting), he never was in danger not
winning the Swiss Open again. With an extraordinary
performance in the final, he won the tournament with a
comfortable lead of 12 strokes on Charlie Mead from UK,
who won the battle with George Braun from Germany, who
finally placed 3rd one stroke behind.
The future of the Disc Golf sport, the Juniors, showed
absolutely great performance. Specially Maxime Tanghe
from Belgium, who's total score was 12 under Par! and who shot
a 51 in the 3rd round (Rating 1007!!). What a great future he
has. He already could survive well in the Open division. So,
the victory at the Swiss Open was more then good. Another big
hope is Jerom Braun from Germany, who ranked 2nd and
just a few strokes behind the leader. 3rd place was awarded to
Lucien Guillouët from France. There were no swiss
juniors competing.
And finally, the Amateurs, where the title also gone to
Belgium, namely David Boland, who won the event by 2
strokes on Adrien Pontieux from France. 3rd place taken
by Fred Janquin, also from Belgium.
Many thanks to all players being part of this great event,
to our sponsors for the outstanding support of the tournament
and to all staff for working hard to make all happen again.
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