Jack Floydd won the Ein Bay Open with 199

Jack Floydd won the Ein Bay Open with 199 (65 69 65, -17) strokes, the inaugural competition of the 2023 Alps Tour held at the Sokhna GC in Suez in Egypt on 18 holes (par 72) obtained from the B&C courses, after a nice final duel with Andrea Romano and Cristiano Terragni, also absolute protagonists of the event and second with 201 (-15). And with another blue among the top ten, the brilliant amateur Flavio Michetti, ninth with 208 (-8).

Jack Floydd, results

Floydd, the 26-year-old Englishman who so far had achieved eight top tens on the circuit between 2019 and 2022 and who had demonstrated his good momentum on the Mena Tour with second place in January in the Egyptian Swing 1 @Madinaty Golf Club, has signed the first title on the Alps Tour by recovering from third position with a 65 (-7, eight birdies, a bogey), best score of the day also achieved by Romano (68 68 65) with an eagle, six birdies and a bogey, climbed from fourth, while Terragni (67 66 68) scored a 68 (-4, four birdies without bogey) keeping second.

In fourth place with 203 (-13) the Spanish Alvaro Hernandez Cabezuela, leader after two rounds, in fifth with 204 (-12) the Irish Ronan Mullarney, in sixth with 205 (-11) the Iberian Joel Moscatel and the Dutch Kiet Van der Weele and eighth with 207 (-9) the other Dutch Davey Porsius, the third author of a 65.

Enrico Di Nitto gave way from fourth to 14th with 209 (-7) after a 73 (+1), despite leading the first six holes with four birdies, and Federico Maccario and Andrea Saracino also cashed, 18. i with 210 (-6), Luca Cianchetti, 23rd with 211 (-5), Riccardo Bregoli, 27th with 212 (-4), Manfredi Manica, 34th with 213 (-3), and Edoardo Raffaele Lipparelli, 43 ° with 215 (-1). The winner was awarded a check for €5,800 out of a prize pool of €40,000.

Now it is repeated, still on the same Sokhna GC of Suez, but on the A&B tracks, with the second tournament on the calendar, the Red Sea Little Venice Open (26-28 February), an event that in 2020 was the prerogative of Stefano Mazzoli, moreover at sign in the Ein Bay Open 2022, the second Italian to win it after Michele Cea in 2018.