Amateur WC, Sweden leads
Italy (Pietro Bovari, Filippo Celli, Marco Florioli) stayed in second place with 408 (-22, 135 GN 134 SN 139 SN) strokes and will compete for the title in the last lap of the World Amateur Team Championship / Eisenhower Trophy, i.e.
the men’s team world championship.
World Championship for amateur teams, results
In the tournament which takes place on the courses of Le Golf National (Albatross course, par 71), in Guyancourt, and on the Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Brèteche (par 72), in the town from which this club takes its name, near Paris in France, the Azzurri, flanked by Japan and the United States, after 54 holes make a shot at the team of Sweden, the new leader with 407 (-23, 137 SN 140 GN 130 SN).
All teams in the upper part of the ranking competed at the Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Brèteche where Norden, who came up from eleventh position, recorded the best part of the day with 130 (-14) thanks to Tobias Jonsson ( 64, -8 ) and Ludvig Aberg (66, -6) and discarded Adam Wallin’s 70 (-2).
Italy combined for 139 (-5) with Pietro Bovari (69, -3, one eagle, five birdies, four bogeys) and with Filippo Celli (70, -2, six birdies, four bogeys), while Marco Florioli shot 74 ( +2, two birdies, four bogeys).
Japan lost the top in two rounds, which did not go beyond 144 par. Taiga Semikawa (69, -3) held, but the contribution of Keita Nakajima (75, +3) and Kohei Okada (76, +4) was insufficient. As for the USA, France moved up the rankings by two places, while France went down two places, fifth with 409 (-21), which will still fight for success like Spain, sixth with 411 (-19) and Norway.
, seventh with 412 (-18), few chances for Argentina (413, -17) and Wales (415, -15). Denmark, the reigning champion, is in 17th place with 422 (-8). In the individual ranking, Taiga Semikawa remained at the top with 197 (-18) and Filippo Celli retained second place with 202 (-13).
Third with 203 (-12) Tobias Jonsson and Welshman Archie Davies and fifth with 204 (-11) Ludvig Aberg, Spaniard David Puig, Frenchman Tom Vaillant (two victories this season among the professionals in the Alps Tour) and the Americans Michael Thorbjörnsen and Austin Greaser.
Bovari is 16th with 207 (-8) and Florioli 29th with 211 (-4). The blue team includes Matteo Delpodio, national team technical director and captain, Alberto Binaghi, technical commissioner of the national men’s amateur team, Giovanni Gaudioso, assistant technical commissioner, and Massimo Messina, athletic trainer and nutritionist.
