10 Oct 2009 at 22:11 | Published by: Hans | Views: 10237 | News search

The Moscow player Sergey Kovylyaev was clearly the best in preliminary rounds of the Sochi Open. His margin to Hannes Hahsler, Knittelfeld, Austria was no less than 13 strokes.

By being the best of all on the tricky MOS Betong Course with an average of 28,3 and the second best on the real though new eternit course with an average of 23,3 he was in a class of his own.

Third in preliminary rounds was Csaba Pálinkás, Hungary one stroke behind Hannes and fourth came Markus Berger of Austria one stroke behind Csaba.

In the ladies competition the world number one player Elisabeth Berger-Rella of Wien, Austria was also she in a class of her own. This was due to strong play on the Betong since she was actually 11 strokes behind the best player overall on eternit Natalia Machekhina of Moscow with a fine average of 23,0. But Natalia has really much problems on the Beton course with an average of 38,4 giving Elisabeth the victory. Tatiana Chesnova, Sochi, Russia was third six strokes behind Natalia.

After the preliminary rounds, the competition ended with matchplay finals, in which Csaba Pálinkás took victory in men, and Elisabeth Berger-Rella in women.

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