Juvic Pangunsan
One More Title From Indonesia
After winning the 2007 Pertamina
Indonesia President Invitational in
Jakarta, the Filipino Juvic Pagunsa
n seems to keep a willpower to
repeat his success every time he
comes to Indonesia.
He demonstrated his determination by playing
his best game in the last few tournaments.
And time has finally answered Juvic’s ambition
to collect another title in Indonesia. At the final of
inaugural Asian Development Tour season, Bali Open
,at New Kuta Golf Resort, he showed an increasing
game significantly from day to day and at the end
closing his game perfectly as the champion.
Juvic’s win could be regarded as “perfect”.
Besides leading for three days after the second
round, Juvic made a record to be one out of two
players who earned under par score , totaled
1-under par 273. He also charged a fantastic
winning margin of 11 strokes over his closest
challenger ,Jarmo Sandelin.
With this win, he completed the list of star invitee
winners on Asian Development Tour after Gavin
Flint (Australia) at 2010 Air Bagan Myanmar
Masters and Lin Wen-tang (Taipei ) at Ballantine’s
Taiwan Championship. The other two series were
won by members of Asian Development Tour;
S. Sivachandran (Malaysia) at Negeri Sembilan
Masters Invitational and Thanyakorn Khrongpha
at Kariza Classic.
“I played well, everything worked for me this
week,” said Pagunsan, who bagged the prize
money of US$10,500.
“I knew I needed to get ahead of Jarmo and
waited for him to make mistakes. After the front
nine, I was in total control.This win will be a good
confidence booster as we’ve got the Barclays
Singapore Open and UBS Hong Kong Open
coming up on the Asian Tour,” added Juvic.
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Juvic opened his round at a thorough pace,
carded an even par . He seemed to know well
that New Kuta Golf Resort was not an easy course
to conquer. The windy and very hot temperature around the Dream Land resort had made only two
local players, Rory Hie and Irmansyah alongside
Taipei’s Tseng Hua-Yen were in charge of the
leaderboard with 2-under par 70.
But on the next three rounds, Juvic rocketed at
a fearsome speed by carding an average score
of below 70 (67/68/66 ). The other players were
not only able to catch up with his score but it
looked like carding an under par score weighed the same struggle for them.
Juvic’s lead was almost tallied by another star
invitee, Jarmo Sandelin, a former Ryder Cup
star, on the second and third round. But Jarmo’s
disappointed putting on the last round could
not bring him into his best form and ended on
the runner up position with 4-under par 284.
“Juvic played fantastic golf. Looking back, my
momentum was stopped yesterday when I
made the mistake by lifting my ball on the 12th
hole,” said the Swede about his final round.
“I didn’t hole a putt all day, only one on 18. But
I’ve enjoyed my time in Bali and a second will
always be a second no matter what tournament
it is. Hopefully I can build on this,” he added. |
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