The Doral Junior Golf Classic, the prestigious youth tournament in which many Italian players took part, ended at the Doral in Miami, Florida.
Doral Junior Golf Classic, results
Boys 14-15 – On the Golden Palm course (par 71), Alessandro Cesario obtained a good seventh place with 221 (73 72 76, +8) in the match won by the American Campbell Williams with 213 (70 70 73, par) ahead of compatriots Preston Hage, second with 216 (+3), and Clark Mason, third with 217 (+4). Of the other Italians Giampaolo Gagliardi finished 14th with 225 (+12), Giovanni Binaghi and Giovanni Bernardi, 17th with 228 (+15). The latter two were accompanied by Alberto Binaghi, Coach of the Men’s National Amateur Team.
Boys 16-18 – On the prestigious Blue Monster course (par 72) three Azzurri finished in the top ten: Luca Memeo fourth with 215 (72 72 71, -1), Marco Florioli eighth with 219 (+3) and Biagio Andrea Gagliardi ninth with 221 (+5). Giorgio Celani is also in a good position, 18th with 224 (+8), Lorenzo Lombardozzi and Michele Ferrero, 24th with 226 (+10), and Giovanni Manassero, 26th with 227 (+11). Further back Gian A. Minciarelli, 57th with 238 (+22): Mexican Rafael Estrada won with 207 (72 68 67, -9) ahead of the Ukrainian Mykhailo Golod, second with 208 (-8), and al French Tomy Jaunet, third with 214 (-2).
Girls 14-15 – On the Red Tiger course (par 72), where Girls 16.-18 also played, the French Marie-Elodie Prats-Rigual prevailed with 212 (72 71 69, -4), the only player below par. The American Francesca Choquette is clearly detached, second with 218 (+2) and leader in the first two rounds, and the other American Ryan Donaldson, third with 222 (+6). The best among the Italians was Guia Vittoria Acutis, ninth with 227 (75 77 75, +11), then 14th with 235 (+19) Anna Giulia Dal Lago and 33rd with 262 (+46) Vittoria Grillo.
Girls 16-18 – American Helen Yeung narrow success with 216 (69 71 76, par) strokes, one ahead of Mexican Clarisa Temelo (217, +1) and two ahead of Amelie Phung (218, +2). In 22nd place with 233 (80 76 77, +17) Maria Eugenia Furnari, in 26th with 235 (+19) Giulia Foresta and in 33rd with 239 (+23) Rebecca Galasso.
Boys 8-9: success for Liam Baldassari – Liam Baldassari, bearer of the Olgiata Golf Club, won in the Boys 8-9 category, completing the two rounds of nine holes on the Red Tiger course (par 72) with a score of 67 (35 32, -5) shots narrowly surpassing the American from Tennessee Simon Bustos (68, -4). Behind them two other Americans, Tobias Gordio-Ronderos, third with 69 (-3), and Samuel Perrodin, fourth with 70 (-2).
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