{"id":21029,"date":"2024-09-13T08:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T06:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladiesingolf.com\/?p=21029"},"modified":"2024-09-14T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T07:33:50","slug":"owen-and-archer-tied-at-european-legends-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladiesingolf.com\/en\/owen-and-archer-tied-at-european-legends-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Owen and Archer tied at European Legends Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
Photo: Legends Tour, Getty Images<\/pre>\n
The English pair started the week with four-under-par 68s to top a congested leaderboard at Golf Almerimar in Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Conditions had been benign all week, but the players had to battle howling winds in Friday\u2019s first round on the Andalucian coast with Greg Owen and Phillip Archer leading the inaugural European Legends Cup<\/a>. But it\u2019s very tight with 23 players within four shots of the lead.<\/p>\n
The early starters definitely had the better of the conditions with very little wind for the first hour-and-a-half of play before it really started to get up from around 10.30am local time before reaching 25-30mph in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Former PGA Tour player Owen picked up three birdies in his first five holes to turn in 33. Another birdie at the 10th<\/sup> was quickly followed by his only dropped shot of the day on the 11th<\/sup>. He then made six pars in a row before picking up a shot on the par-5 18th<\/sup> to get back to -4.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy round was very good,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the best I\u2019ve played in a long, long time. I drove it well and just kind of got it close on the greens. You\u2019re just trying to make pars and take advantage of the par-5s.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere wasn\u2019t a breath of wind (at the start). We managed to get four holes in, and it\u2019s not the longest course we\u2019re going to play. I took advantage early and then it was just hanging on in. I hit a lot of fairways, a lot of greens. I only missed two greens, which in this wind is pretty good. So I\u2019m very happy, but there\u2019s a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Archer made an even faster start as he eagled the 2nd<\/sup> and birdied the 3rd<\/sup> and 5th<\/sup>. He made his sole bogey on the 7th<\/sup> and had a blemish-free inward nine in some of the toughest conditions, with one red number at 15 getting him into the clubhouse with a 68.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played some great stuff,\u201d said the three-time Challenge Tour winner. \u201cI think I\u2019ve missed about four six-footers for birdies on the back nine, but I\u2019ve holed about three four or five-footers for par, so it kind of evens itself out. I was a bit gutted on the last because I hit 6-iron in and didn\u2019t make birdie, but I can\u2019t be unhappy with that score.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no wind on the first three holes, and we were wondering where this wind is going to come from. Then, all of a sudden, someone switched a fan on on the 4th<\/sup> and it just kept getting stronger. It\u2019s not easy out there. I\u2019ve hit a 9-iron 199 yards and a 6-iron 130 yards, so it\u2019s just ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Five players are just one shot back on -3, including former Open champion Paul Lawrie, MCB Road to Mauritius number two Scott Hend, this year\u2019s Swiss Seniors Open winner Jarmo Sandelin, Simon Khan and Euan McIntosh.<\/p>\n
Scott Drummond, Robert Coles, Keith Horne and Jean van de Velde are at -2, with a five-way tie for 12th<\/sup> at -1 featuring six-time Legends Tour winner Adilson da Silva, last week\u2019s Legends Open de France victor Greig Hutcheon and major champion Michael Campbell.<\/p>\n
One-and-a-half hours into play, only one player was over par, but by the end of the day 16 of the 60-man field had completed under-par rounds. The forecast for round two has 20mph winds from the very start, getting up to 26mph in the afternoon, so anyone under par through two rounds is likely to be well in contention going into the final 18 holes on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Photo: Legends Tour, Getty Images The English pair started the week with four-under-par 68s to top a congested leaderboard at Golf Almerimar in Spain. Conditions had been benign all week, but the players had to battle howling winds in Friday\u2019s first round on the Andalucian coast with Greg Owen and Phillip Archer leading the inaugural<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[45],"tags":[4145,3994,3995],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t