Mark Power carded a bogey-free 66 to climb to just outside the top 10 on moving day at the HotelPlanner Tour’s Challenge de España in Girona. The Kilkenny native started round three on the back nine and made just a single bogey on his opening nine holes, but a three on the par-4 second kickstarted a late surge and he added further birdies on four, six and nine to move to -9 overall and into a share of 12th place, six off the lead. Two behind him are Alex Maguire and Jonathan Caldwell on -7. Maguire shot a two-under 69
Jonathan Caldwell shot a five-under 66 to lie just outside the top 10 on day one of the HotelPlanner Tour’s Challenge de España at Fonatanals Golf Club in Girona. The Clandeboye man carded six birdies with a lone dropped shot coming on the last, leaving him three shots shy of first round leader Victor Sidal Svendsen who birided six of his opening nine holes. Caldwell is making his sixth HotelPlanner Tour start of 2025 and has yet to finish inside the top 25 so it’s a welcome return to form. Max Kennedy, Mark Power and Alex Maguire all share 71st
Opening his second round with six consecutive pars, Frenchman Sciot-Siegrist picked up three shots around the turn before adding further birdies on the 14th and 16th holes to move to 11 under for the tournament. The 30-year-old, who sits 64th in the HotelPlanner Tour’s Road to Mallorca Rankings, is one clear of his closest rival in Spaniard Sebastian Garcia and is ready to embrace the leaderboard pressure heading into the weekend. “I am just going to keep doing what I am doing and deal with the pressure,” he said. “There’s still two more days and a lot of golf to
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