Maiden win for Dear

Scot Gavin Dear captured his maiden win by beating young Frenchman George Leriche in sudden death at Feudi di Asti Golf Open presented by SCAVINO-PIAGGIO Veicoli Commerciali.

Dear teed off almost our hour before the last group and played his best golf. “My golf is really better for weeks now, I had good results in August. I knew I needed to score very low. The leaderboard was not updated so I tried to make a lot of birdies.”

Meanwhile, Frenchman Leriche struggled a little with his game and dropped 2 shots on 3rd par 5 where he used to hole for birdy.

Dear signed for score of the day tie 63 but had to wait until last group completed their round. He had a chat with Jason Palmer, winner after many tries…

“Jason told me he was playing for victory twice before winning, I answered that I have been in that position many more times this season ! Finally I did it.”

Leriche did not hole for birdy as he did the first two rounds and had to go into a play off. They played twice the short 18th par 3 and Gavin Dear holed 60 cm to win as his opponent missed 10 meters.

Gavin Dear earned 2 places to be 4th at Alps Tour order of merit and George Leriche jumped from 71st to 38th place.

Agathe Séron