FINAL DAY OF NICK FALDO

Went over to the Dukes to support Megan and Alex in their final rounds. Megan was still hanging on to second place and despite a couple of course management issues which cost her, was over the moon to finish second and pick up her prize.

Alex got of to the perfect start. Birdied the first by getting up and down from the greenside bunker and went 3 ahead when his closest challenger lost a ball on the 2nd. He was pegged back to 2 by a birdie and after an 8 (gorse trouble x2) and a bogey on 5 he was 3 behind but a run of birdie and 3 pars put him 1 ahead at the turn. Par on 11 put him 2 ahead but missed greens on 12 and 14 led to bogies and the scores were leveled again. Pars on 15 and 16 meant their scores were still tied. His tee shot on 17 was blocked out by 2 trees and his recovery shot was unfortunate to find more trouble but he managed to get a club to the ball but found even worse trouble. His next shot was amazing from waist high thick rough he found the putting surface and just missed the putt but went to the last a stroke behind. On 18 a par was good enough for Markopolo to win the under 16 title but Alex who finished runner up can be pleased with his 3 rounds but will rue a couple of poor shots and a bit of misfortune. 

Great to see Strathmore juniors again with their names high on the leaderboard and no doubt this will just spur them on again to greater things.