Team Canada Sits Tied For 43nd at World Amateur Championship
Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:45:52
The Canadian contingent of Lee Curry of Ottawa, Dan Swanson of Surrey, B.C., and James Lepp of Abbotsford, B.C. fired a team total 13-over-par 157 to sit 20 shots off the lead heading into second-round action.
Lepp, whose 78 was the best Canadian round on the day, found trouble on 15 where he made quadruple bogey to finish six-over. Swanson got off to a rough start shooting seven-over on the front but rallied for even par on the back nine to finish at 79. Curry struggled throughout his round and finished at 15-over.
""We need to regroup tonight and put this behind us,"" said Doug Roxburgh, RCGA Director of Player Development. ""Our guys are first off tomorrow so they will go out, shoot some respectable scores and get back in the game as best they can.""
The United States, led by 2002 US Amateur champion Ricky Barnes and 2002 US Amateur runner-up Hunter Mahan sit alone atop the leader after firing a team total seven-under-par 137. France is second at two-under-par 142 while Argentina, Colombia, England, Finland and Thailand sit third, six shots off the lead.
Second-round Canadian starting times are as follows: (local Malaysian time)
7:30 am--Dan Swanson (79)---(Bunga Raya Course)
7:40 am--James Lepp (78)---(Bunga Raya Course)
7:50 am--Lee Curry (87)---(Bunga Raya Course)
For a complete listing of competitors, start times and post-round results for the 2002 World Amateur Golf Team Championships, please visit www.wagc.org.
The competition is being played at both the Bunga Raya and Palm courses and features the world's best male amateur golfers from over 55 countries. The tournament is contested over four rounds of stroke play, with the top two scores from each team counting each day. The winning team will take home the Eisenhower Trophy.
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