Africa-Press – Angola. With 80 strokes, in 27 holes, António Marçal was the best ranked athlete of the National Team, occupying the 9th position of the African Amateur Golf Championship of Region V, which started this Monday, at the Resort Mangais course, in Luanda.
With this result, the player, who recorded a lost ball (throwed the ball into the lake), ended the circuit, played over 10 kilometers, with a negative balance of more 8 strokes of the 72 recommended.
The Angolan surpassed the Zimbabwean Clifford Sibanda, who in the same number of holes (27) scored 85 shots and scored two lost balls, but ended up being supplanted by the Namibian Grant Mather, who made 74 shots.
In 15th position, Paulo Gomes is the second well-positioned Angolan with a record of 88 shots and five lost balls. In the same position is Nito Gomes, with 88 strokes and two missed shots.
António Luife is 19th in the table with 94 strokes.
South African Casey Jarvis leads the African classification with 72 strokes.
The competition, which has 20 competitors, continues on Tuesday, from 8:00 am, with one round (18 holes) and nine additional rounds from the second round started today.
The African Amateur Golf Championship is being played by five groups of four golfers each, in four rounds of 18 holes, which must be completed with the regulatory average of 72 strokes.
In addition to host Angola, golfers from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Malawi are present at the event.
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