Emanuele Canonica recovered 21 positions in the final thanks to a 65 (-7, eight birdies, one bogey), the lowest partial of the day, and ranked 19th with 211 (75 71 65, -5) shots in the WINSTONgolf Senior Open, a Legends Tour tournament played on the WINSTONgolf course (par 72), in Gneven in Germany.
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Since last year, senior proettes have been admitted to the competition and Stefania Croce, 49th with 221 (75 72 74, +5), was the best of the five at the start.
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The first title on the circuit was won by the Englishman Van Phillips (204 70 66 68, -12), who finished the event tied with his compatriot Phillip Archer (69 67 68) and the Brazilian Adilson Da Silva (69 71 64) and then overtook them with a birdie on the fourth play-off hole.
In fourth place with 205 (-11) was the Spaniard Miguel Angel Martin, in fifth with 206 (-10) the Scotsman Gary Orr and the Swede Joakim Haeggman and in seventh with 207 (-9) the Frenchman Jean-Franois Remery. Van Phillips, 52, from London, has achieved in his career one success on the DP World Tour (Algarve Portuguese Open, 1999), one on the Challenge Tour and one on the Jamega Pro Golf Tour.
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