Tee Times Portugal Golf – FPG 2nd Circuit Tournament – Beatriz Themudo & Afonso Girão
Tee Times Portugal Golf – FPG 2nd Circuit Tournament Champions – Beatriz Themudo & Afonso Girão – First Time Champions
The Estela Golf Club has crowned two players that never had won before in most important circuit of the Portuguese Golf Federation (FPG).
Beatriz Themudo and Afonso Girão won Sunday (6th March 2016) their first titles in tournaments of the FPG Circuit, the most important at national level for amateurs of high competition.
All of them had already shined before at the national team and individual level. For example, they have in common have been national champions sub-18, Beatriz Themudo in 2014 and Afonso Girão in 2015, but a title in FPG circuit is always a landmark, and so, somehow both made personal history at Estela Golf in Povoa de Varzim.
“There had been a tournament of this circuit I had placed at 3rd but this is my first win. Today I started playing very well, I spent the first nine holes with only one above par when yesterday was already with 9 in the first five holes. I remained calm and only at the very end I felt some pressure to win. This victory is a reward for what I have been working since the beginning of the year. It was a difficult victory with a first complicated day, with wind and rain, but it’s great to win, “said Beatriz Themudo, the player of the Club de Golf de Miramar.
In the men’s tournament, Afonso Girão was at 18 holes, just one stroke behind the leader, his twin brother João, who sought to regain the title, but a second round of 70 strokes, two below par (the best of the tournament) led him to a tasty victory with an aggregate of 147 (+3).
“This last round had very important moments, with chip and putts that enabled me to secure the lead, especially at the beginning, I stand it very well until the hole 10. If the titles are kept between brothers no problem, on top he finished 2nd. Not that I do not like to win but if I lose and he wins I’m happy and I think with him is the same, ” said the player of Oporto Golf Club, referring to this twin brother.
The last nine holes were decisive because Afonso Girão played them in 3-under-par with three birdies, free bogeys, while João Girão had a back nine in 1 below par, with 1 birdie on the last hole to hold the 2nd position, just one stroke of his winning brother, with a total of 148/76 + 72) +4.
The next tournament FPG Circuit will be played on 21 and 22 April in Praia d’El Rey in Obidos area, one of the 2016 circuit novelty.
Source: fpg.pt
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