May 30 - June 02
Rinkven International Golf Club, Antwerp, Belgium
€1,000,000
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Round 1, Round 2, Round 4
Bernd Wiesberger continued his incredible comeback to advance to the quarter-finals of the Belgian Knockout at Rinkven International Golf Club.
"We got it done. We had a really strong opponent this afternoon and he kept finding a last putt, it was good to get that over the line."
After an opening 76 in Antwerp, the Austrian carded a 64 on day two to sneak into the medal match play stages and won three matches on Saturday as he looks for a second consecutive European Tour win. He will next face Italian Guido Migliozzi, who needed two extra holes to beat David Law in his last-16 match.
"I played quite steady, nothing fancy, picked up a couple of shots every now and then when I needed to and made sure I wasn't going to give him any free shots. I kind of plugged away.
"It was not quite the start to the week we wanted but we found something yesterday and a couple under par steadily today as well. We got our games in nice and tight, it's working very well out there.
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"We need to make sure we don't lose our focus, in this format you don't want to be behind early in the game and just make sure 100 per cent focus is on the next shot."
In the other quarter-finals, Ewen Ferguson will face Gavin Green, Matthew Southgate will take on Darius van Driel, and Marcel Siem goes head to head with Grégory Havret.
“I am very happy with my game," said Siem. "Antoine (Rosner) is a strong player and I knew if I made one mistake, he was going to get me, so quite a bit of pressure. That format is unbelievable. Usually if you play match play you can be a lot more aggressive when you are two up. If you make a bogey and he makes a birdie, then you are all square, so on this golf course it is pretty tough mentally.
“I started with a new coach about six weeks ago just before Morocco and he got me back to my old swing a little bit, and renewed my follow though. I am staying behind the ball instead of having a reverse pivot and being too handsy on the impact, and that helps me a lot, especially under pressure hitting good shots.
Wiesberger missed seven months of last season with a wrist injury but if he can come through three more rounds of nine hole stroke play knockout, he will have two wins in seven days and six European Tour titles.
Green and home favourite Thomas Detry had made just one bogey each coming into their last 16 match and while they both kept that record intact, Green made three birdies to Detry's two.
"I'm very sad, very disappointed," said Detry. "I played some great golf, I made one bogey the whole day. I left one putt short at 17, he made it, that's golf, we move on.
"It was great, fantastic. Thomas Pieters came out as well and watched me, all the Belgian juniors, Belgian crowd, it's just fantastic. At this venue especially, with a tree lined course, when the crowd get going, it's pretty amazing.”
Scot Ferguson trailed Nacho Elvira after five holes, with the Spaniard birdieing the first, but Elvira bogeyed the sixth and Ferguson holed a ten footer on the seventh and took advantage of the par five eighth to win by two shots. Dutchman Van Driel was made to battle for his last 16 victory, birdieing the last from eight feet to beat Dane Jeff Winther by one shot.
Southgate bogeyed the first and birdied the second and that was enough to hand the Englishman victory over Leon at level par, as the Chilean made three birdies and four bogeys. Frenchman Antoine Rozner also made three birdies and four bogeys in his nine holes, allowing Siem to emerge as a relatively comfortable victor after birdies on the second, third and sixth from the German.
South Africa's Burmester and Frenchman Havret did not make a birdie between them in their last 16 match but Havret's single bogey on the first was followed by eight pars as Burmester made two bogeys and a double.
Player | Score |
Score |
Player | |||||
64 Qualifiers |
||||||||
Ben Evans Eng | -3 |
-4 |
< |
David Law SCO | ||||
Richie Ramsay SCO | Par |
-2 |
Edoardo Molinari ITA | |||||
Darius Van Driel NLD | -3 |
+2 |
Nino Bertasio ITA | |||||
Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño ESP | > |
Par |
Par |
Kristian Krogh Johannessen NOR | ||||
Oliver Fisher ENG | -2 |
-4 |
< |
Bernd Wiesberger AUT | ||||
Kevin Hesbois BEL | Par |
-2 |
< |
JC Ritchie RSA | ||||
Hugo Leon CHI | > |
-3 |
-2 |
Haydn Porteous RSA | ||||
Ashley Chesters ENG | Par |
-2 |
< |
Oscar Lengden SWE | ||||
Anders Hansen DEN | > |
-2 |
Par |
Benjamin Hebert FRA | ||||
Kristoffer Reitan NOR | > |
-3 |
Par |
Daan Huizing NLD | ||||
Jeff Winther DEN | > |
-2 |
+1 |
Lorenzo Gagli ITA | ||||
Gavin Green MAL > | > |
Par |
+2 |
Stanislav Matus CZE | ||||
Justin Walters | +1 |
Par |
< |
Daniel Gavins ENG | ||||
Alexander Levy FRA | > |
-2 |
-1 |
Filippo Bergamaschi ITA | ||||
Dean Burmester RSA | > |
-2 |
-2 |
Grant Forrest SCO | ||||
Louis De Jager RSA | > |
Par |
+3 |
Tom Murray ENG | ||||
Guido Migliozzi ITA | > |
-3 |
Par |
Pedro Oriol ESP | ||||
Marcel Siem GER | > |
+1 |
+3 |
Gavin Moynihan IRE | ||||
Oliver Wilson ENG | +1 |
-3 |
< |
Rikard Karlberg SWE | ||||
Sihwan Kim USA | -1 |
-2 |
< |
Adrian Otaegui ESP | ||||
Ewen Ferguson SCO | > |
-2 |
+1 |
Matthias Schwab AUT | ||||
Espen Kofstad NOR | > |
-5 |
-2 |
Steven Brown ENG | ||||
Matthew Southgate ENG | > |
-3 |
+1 |
Joakim Lagergren SWE | ||||
Sebastian Soderberg SWE | > |
-1 |
-1 |
Jack Singh Brar ENG | ||||
David Horsey ENG | Par |
-2 |
< |
Wade Ormsby AUS | ||||
Robert MacIntyre SCO | Par |
-4 |
< |
Renato Paratore ITA | ||||
Richard McEvoy ENG | Par |
-2 |
< |
Antoine Rozner FRA | ||||
Adrien Saddier FRA | +1 |
-1 |
< |
Thomas Detry BEL | ||||
Anton Karlsson | > |
-3 |
-2 |
Søren Kjeldsen DEN | ||||
Chris Paisley ENG | > |
-3 |
+1 |
Sam Horsfield ENG | ||||
Jake McLeod AUS | Par |
-1 |
Gregory Havret FRA | |||||
Nacho Elvira ESP | > |
-3 |
-2 |
Jens Dantorp SWE | ||||
32 Qualifiers |
||||||||
Edoardo Molinari ITA | -2 |
-3 |
< |
Darius Van Driel NLD | ||||
David Law SCO | > |
Par |
+1 |
Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño ESP | ||||
Bernd Wiesberger AUT | > |
-2 |
+2 |
Oscar Lengden SWE | ||||
JC Ritchie RSA | +1 |
Par |
< |
Hugo Leon CHI | ||||
Kristoffer Reitan NOR | -1 |
-3 |
< |
Jeff Winther DEN | ||||
Anders Hansen DEN | Par |
-3 |
< |
Gavin Green MAL | ||||
Daniel Gavins ENG | > |
-3 |
Par |
Louis De Jager RSA | ||||
Alexander Levy FRA | > |
-2 |
-1 |
< |
Dean Burmester RSA | |||
Marcel Siem GER | > |
-3 |
+4 |
Rikard Karlberg SWE | ||||
Guido Migliozzi ITA | > |
-3 |
+3 |
Adrian Otaegui ESP | ||||
Ewen Ferguson SCO | > |
-4 |
Par |
Sebastian Soderberg SWE | ||||
Espen Kofstad NOR | +1 |
-1 |
< |
Matthew Southgate ENG | ||||
Renato Paratore ITA | -2 |
-3 |
< |
Antoine Rozner FRA | ||||
Wade Ormbsby AUS | -2 |
-3 |
< |
Thomas Detry BEL | ||||
Anton Karlsson SWE | -1 |
-3 |
< |
Nacho Elvira ESP | ||||
Chris Paisley ENG | +1 |
-2 |
< |
Gregory Havret FRA | ||||
16 Qualifiers |
||||||||
Jeff Winther DEN | +1 |
Par |
< |
Darius Van Driel NLD | ||||
Daniel Gavins ENG | -2 |
-3 |
< |
Bernd Wiesberger AUT | ||||
Guido Migliozzi ITA | Par |
-1 |
< |
David Law SCO | ||||
Matthew Southgate ENG | > |
Par |
+1 |
Hugo Leon CHI | ||||
Antoine Rozner FRA | -1 |
-3 |
< |
Marcel Siem GER | ||||
Thomas Detry BEL | -2 |
-3 |
< |
Gavin Green MAL | ||||
Gregory Havret FRA | > |
+1 |
+4 |
Dean Burmester RSA | ||||
Nacho Elvira ESP | Par |
-2 |
< |
Ewen Ferguson SCO |