At the Egyptian Open, Austrian Niklas Regner recovered from third place with a partial 67 (-3) and a score of 266 (65 68 66 67, -14) to secure his first title on the Asian Development Tour, the second largest tour in Asia.
Asian Development, results
On the par-70 Madinaty Golf Club course in Cairo, Egypt, good performances by Michele Ortolani (65 73 67 66) and Luca Galliano (65 68 68 70), who finished eleventh with a 271 (-9). Further back were Andrea Saracino, 27th with a 276 (66 70 68 72, -4), and Gabriele De Barba, 52nd with a 286 (72 68 73 73, +6). This 29-year-old Japanese player on the Japan Golf Tour, who plays with an Italian passport, won on the Asian Development Tour in May at the Ambassador ADT in Taiwan. Edoardo Raffaele Lipparelli, 57th with a 142 (70-72, +2), bowed out after 36 holes.
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Regner, a 26-year-old from Schladming, has played 86 tournaments on the HotelPlanner Tour without a win. As a rookie in Asia, in addition to his win, he achieved three other top-ten finishes in nine events, missing the cut only once. With five birdies and two bogeys in the final round, he left Filipino Carl Jano Corpus and Thais Poom Pattaropong and Tawit Polthai, second with a 268 (-12), by two shots. In fifth place with a 269 (-11), are Moroccan Ayoub Lguirati and Englishmen Sam Rock and Matt Killen.
Ortolani, who finished in the top ten three times this season, shot a 66 (-4) with five birdies and a bogey, and Galliano started with an "8" on a par-4, then recovered to par (70) with five birdies and a bogey. Saracino shot 72 (+2) with two birdies, two bogeys, and a double bogey, and De Barba shot 73 (+3) with two birdies and five bogeys. The four aforementioned players and Lipparelli will compete again from November 4th to 7th, again in Cairo, in the Egypt Golf Series Red Sea Open.
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The winner received a check for $21,875 out of a prize pool of $125,000.
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