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Report for Egyptian Junior Squad trip to East Lothian, Scotland… including tournament results 27th July 2010 Links Monktenhall junior open results Further photos from Junior Team trip to East Lothian, Scotland
Report 6 of our Egyptian Junior Squad travelled with EGF Golf Manager, Gerard Bent for an 8 day trip to the East Coast of Scotland. Along with competing in 2 junior Opens at Open Qualifying venues, the group would also attend two days of the 150th Open Championship at the Home of Golf St Andrews. Here is a highlights report of the trip. Thursday 15th July - Horizontal Rain but the first Fish and Chips!
Friday 16th July – First Trip to the Open Saturday 17th July – Practice at Craigelaw and first official practice round at North Berwick Sunday 18th – Final Round of Open and an a photo with the World Number 7 As soon as we arrived we headed for the driving range where we met Rory McIlroys manager. He escorted us across the driving range behind the players warming up for the final round and in front of a packed grandstand! I think only Omar Mahfouz enjoyed this experience – acknowledging the crowd as we walked past! We then waited between the range and short game area and had an unbelievable view of the world top players including Villegas, Mickelson, and Tiger Woods. As soon as Rory McIlroy had finished his pre round session with his physiotherapist we grabbed our opportunity to take a photo with Rory McIlroy, now the World number 7. McIlroy will compete in the 2010 Egyptian Open. We stayed at St Andrews until the final put was holed and witnessed the winning speech from the South African Champion. We also managed a quick trip around the British Golf museum Despite getting back very late to the hotel, we again spent 90 minutes on the practice putting green.
Monday 19th July – more rain for practice round at MonktenHall. Monktenhall is regarded as one of the longest courses in the area and with a decent amount of rainfall was certainly playing its full length. More of a parkland style course, it presented an interesting and varied test from that of North Berwick. After some time on the practice green and practice ground we put up the umbrellas and played 18 holes. Katameya’s Steven Burton, very kindly joined us for the practice round as its his home course was able to give the boys some string guidance on how to play the course that is used for British Open qualifying. Tuesday 20th July - First Tournament at Monktenhall The rained stopped but a breeze and overcast weather greeted us for the first of two tournaments we were playing in. The course was surprisingly set up of the Championship tees, making the course considerably long. Sherif Rizk was the strongest performer from our group with a net 72, quite impressive. The course is long anyway and with considerable rainfall certainly played is full length. The scores overall from us were better than fair and it was it wasn’t for a poor last hole could have been much better.Full results awaited from Monktenhall Golf Club Wednesday 21st July – North Berwick Junior Open With all the practice they had voluntarily done, they all thoroughly deserved some success in this event and it certainly came. With less, but the opposite wind to the practice day made them re-think their game plan on almost every hole. This was possible the best group performance that one of our teams has had overseas in recent years and it was only losing on countback that Omar Mahfouz, of Gezira Sporting Club lost out on a prize in a field of more than 80 junior players. His gross 77, net 66 was outstanding and in part was due to strong putting on the back nine. Hassan Fayed also played under handicap with a net 70. Full results awaited from North Berwick Golf Club. Thursday 22nd July – Open top bus tour of Edinburgh Finally a well deserved day off, and a trip to Edinburgh. A 60 minutes open top bus tour was followed by some serious shopping. Despite a late return to North Berwick we still managed some late night putting competitions. Friday 23rd July - return to Cairo
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