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News, 19/5/2010

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(the standings are updated, when the TD report is processed and entered into the PDGA database)


In his third consecutive Swiss Open final, the 33 year old Sylvain Gouge from Dijon, France could turn out as the winner in 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 was needed to decide the winner.

The final of the Swiss Open in 2010 did not disappointing the audience: Entering the final with two shots ahead of Sylvain Gouge, Oscar Stenfelt alternated between high and low during this final. After three holes without changes, the transition from pond #15, allowed Sylvain to resume these two shots after two missed putts from the 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 for the final hole, Sylvain put the pressure on with a large drive, landing 3m from the basket. Oscar did not fail to hammer a 10 meter putt into the chains, which earned him the play-off.

Having played the first extra-hole (#1, the island) with two birdies, 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 good approach, he could not catch up the birdie of Sylvain, who could start to celebrate his first victory in a Eurotour event.

With this new formula for the Open finals, also players from place 5 onwards retained 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. It is also to say, that Felix is not yet 18 and such an exceptional result should enable him to compete in the World Amateur Championships this year.

Ranked three times 2nd in four participations at the Swiss Open, Ville could not defend chances because of a shoulder injury. Jesse Heinonen (current Finnish Champion) was lost in hell of the forest at hole #26 and finally ranked 6th, while Swiss Stephan Müller finished 7th.

The top-3 in the Women's division was in Swedish hands. Former World champion Birgitta Lagerholm defended her Swiss Open title from 2009 by 12 strokes over Angelica Frantz and 18 strokes over Camilla Jernberg.

In the Master's division Kari Vesala from Finland is the current EuroTour leader with his victory in Swiss Open - second 1st place this year. Winner of the Swiss Open 2009, Marco Lehouse from Belgium took 2nd, Jean-Louis Tanghe (also from Belgium) ranked 3rd.

The largest Grandmaster field ever in a Eurotour event was present at the Swiss Open, where 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 Jerome Braun from Germany, who ranked 2nd and just a few strokes behind the leader. 3rd place was awarded to Lucien Guillouët from France.

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 the sponsors for the outstanding support of the tournament and to the staff for working hard to make it all happen again.