The French Team won the 2010 men’s World Amateur Team Championship and the Eisenhower Trophy with a 54 hole team score of 423, seven under par. They finished four shots clear of Denmark. While the South African team recorded a final round of 149, five over par, in very windy playing conditions.
The Eisenhower Trophy was reduced to a 54 hole tournament by the International Golf Federation after half the field were required to return on Saturday to complete their second round.
Rain and lightning disrupted play in the second round of the Eisenhower Trophy being played over two golf courses just outside Buenos Aires, Argentina. This provided for testing conditions in which good scoring was few and far between.
It was not the start the South African amateur golf team, made up of Dean O’Riley (74), JG Claassen (73) and Dylan Frittelli (75), were looking for at the end of the first round of the Eisenhower Trophy. With a team score of 147, five over par, they find themselves twelve shots off the pace.
A top ten finish in the Eisenhower Trophy, world’s premier amateur golf championship, is what the South African Golf Association (SAGA) are looking to achieve in the men’s competition of the 2010 World Amateur Team Championships (WATC).
Ekurhuleni, who beat host Union Boland, at the end of the day emerged the winner of the A Section while Mpumalanga comfortably took the B Section honours in the South African Mid Amateur Inter Provincial Tournament.
The form book is certainly anything but consistent in this year’s South African Mid Amateur Inter Provincial Tournament being played at Worcester Golf Club, especially in the A Section.
Kwazulu-Natal, defending champions in the South African Mid Amateur Inter Provincial Tournament, beat host province Boland to put themselves back in contention to win this year’s tournament being played at Worcester Golf Club.