On a troublesome opening day of wind and rain, the AfrAsia Financial institution Mauritius Open leaderboard was packed tighter than a pod of dolphins at La Réserve Golf Hyperlinks on Thursday. Battered by a continuing wind from daybreak to nightfall, and with intermittent squalls of rain, South Africa’s Casey Jarvis and Scotland’s Scott Jamieson rose to the highest of the leaderboard for the shared clubhouse lead with rounds of five-under-par 67. The spherical was unable to be accomplished due to darkness and can restart on Friday morning. They’re one stroke away from six gamers, together with 2017 AfrAsia Financial institution Mauritius Open champion Dylan Frittelli, Herman Loubser – presently second on the Sunshine Tour Courier Man Order of Advantage –, and Brandon Stone. The problem of the situations on day one is mirrored in the truth that of the 155 golfers within the area, solely 33 have been underneath par. Even the 2 leaders had double bogeys on their playing cards. Jayden Schaper made one other good along with his spherical of three-under 69 as he seeks back-to-back victories following his win in final week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship. And he summed up simply how tough a primary day it was. “It’s a troublesome course on the market and we have been on the market for fairly a while. I managed to remain calm and never focus an excessive amount of on the wind round me. I did nicely to dam it out. But it surely’s positively a problem on the market. It’s very windy and the course is kind of tight, and there are loads of crosswinds.” Frittelli agreed. “The wind was howling and we had three rain squalls come by. I used to be actually joyful to be underneath par as we speak. However I’m additionally beginning to be taught this course.” And Levy was equally happy to have come by the opening spherical in competition. “It was robust and I performed rather well. There was wind and rain and it was actually tough. It’s important to maintain the ball on the green as a result of this can be a very tough golf course.”
SCORES (incomplete spherical)
-5 – Scott Jamieson-5 – Casey Jarvis-4 – Alexander Levy-4 – Dylan Frittelli, Herman Loubser, Ryan Gerard, Manuel Elvira, Brandon Stone-3 – Joakim Lagergren-3 – Jayden Schaper, Andreas Halvorsen, MJ Daffue, Alex Fitzpatrick, Hugo Townsend, Anthony Quayle [16]-2 – Rocco Repetto-2 – Adri Arnaus, Lyle Rowe, John Parry, Quim Vidal-1 – Ricky Hendler-1 – Angel Ayora, Daniel Brown, Jeff Winther, Franklin Manchest, Daniel van Tonder, Luke Jerling, Oihan Guillamoundeguy, Christo Lamprecht, Wilco Nienaber, Ryan Van Velzen, Francesco Laporta, Clement SordetPar – Hennie du PlessisPar – Eugenio Chacarra, Marcus Armitage, Pierre Viallaneix, Nathan Kimsey, Tobias Jonsson, Daniel Rodrigues, Nikhil Rama, Clément Charmasson, Oliver Lindell, Nick Bachem, Sebastian Garcia, Marcel Schneider, Zander Lombard, Tom Vaillant, Cameron Adam+1 – Connor Mckinney+1 – Michael Feuerstein, Jamie Rutherford, Jacob Olesen, Gregorio De Leo, Jovan Rebula, Jack Senior, Quintin Wilsnach, Benjamin Follett-Smith, Benjamin Van Wyk, Niklas Lemke, Kyle Barker, Michael Hollick, Marcel Siem, Brandon Robinson Thompson, Andrea Pavan, Rhys Enoch, Joe Lengthy, Kieron van Wyk, Austin Bautista [16], Keagan Thomas [16], Jack Buchanan [15]+2 – Adam Blomme+2 – Renato Paratore, Albin Bergstrom, Shubhankar Sharma, Ross Fisher, Eddie Pepperell, JC Ritchie, Marcus Kinhult, Jean-Paul Strydom, Mike Toorop [16], Deon Germishuys [16], Jens Dantorp [15]+3 – Kieran Vincent+3 – Dominic Foos, Yurav Premlall, Jonathan Broomhead, Ben Schmidt, Oliver Bekker, Jacques P de Villiers, Warwick Buy, Jack Hawksby, Quentin Debove [16], Ryan Peake [16], Bjorn Akesson [14]+4 – Richard Sterne+4 – Mikael Lindberg, Jacques Blaauw, Neil Schietekat, Jordan Burnand, Hennie Otto, Keenan Davidse, Robin Williams, Jason Roets, Frederico Biondi Figueiredo, Christiaan Burke, Wynand Dingle, Dylan Naidoo, Martin Vorster, Todd Clements, Ruan Korb+5 – Euan Walker+5 – Aaron Cockerill, Joshua Berry, Louis Albertse, Hunter Logan, Julien Sale, Ryggs Johnston, George Coetzee, Dylan Mostert, Joe Dean, MJ Viljoen, Rhys West [16]+6 – Matthew Baldwin+6 – Tyrone Ryan, Stefano Mazzoli, Samuel Simpson, Toto Thimba Jnr+7 – Tyran Snyders+7 – Kyle De Beer, David Ravetto, Pieter Moolman, Malcolm Mitchell, Ivan Cantero, Ryan van der Klis, Nicolas Colsaerts, CJ du Plessis+8 – Andres German Gallegos+8 – Rupert Kaminski, Luis Carrera, Davis Bryant, Allen John, Sadom Kaewkanjana, Jacquin Hess [16], Gerhard Pepler [16], Stals Swart [15]+9 – Pierre Pellegrin+9 – Felix Mory, Xander Basson, Robson Chinhoi, Altin van der Merwe [16]+10 – Stephen Ferreira+10 – James Mack, Rowan Lester+12 – Jack YuleRTD – Marcus Sandile Taylor
