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Sunday 16 March 2014European TourYear in Review
Cañizares wins Trophée Hassan II
Golf du Palais Royal, Agadir, Morocco · Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 March 2014 · Alejandro Cañizares’s win no. 2 on the European Tour · purse €1,500,000 EUR
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
11 h 49 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R122°/15°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 38 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R225°/13°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/14°C · wind 11 km/h N, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R431°/17°C · wind 14 km/h NNE, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Andrew Sullivan ENG · 274Started the final round in 15th and shot the day's low 63 with seven back-nine birdies, but finished five behind the wire-to-wire winner. Alejandro Canizares wins by 5 - ESPN (Associated Press)
126 started, 71 made it
Same week
DP World Tour event
Trophée Hassan II
Golf du Palais Royal, Golf du Palais Royal, Agadir, Morocco
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Alejandro Cañizares
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
Associated Press (via ESPN), quoting the European Tour website
16 March 2014
Golf is such a special game because I came here a little depressed about my game,
Associated Press (via ESPN)
16 March 2014
It felt like it was never coming but this week I played great, some of the best golf of my career.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alejandro Cañizares | 62 · 68 · 69 · 70 | 269 | −19 |
| 2 | Andrew Sullivan | 66 · 73 · 72 · 63 | 274 | −14 |
| T3 | Magnus Carlsson | 65 · 71 · 72 · 68 | 276 | −12 |
| T3 | Seve Benson | 63 · 68 · 74 · 71 | 276 | −12 |
| T5 | Rafa Cabrera Bello | 68 · 67 · 75 · 67 | 277 | −11 |
| T5 | Richard Bland | 69 · 70 · 70 · 68 | 277 | −11 |
| T5 | Wade Ormsby | 68 · 71 · 70 · 68 | 277 | −11 |
| T8 | Tom Lewis | 69 · 74 · 70 · 65 | 278 | −10 |
| T8 | Paul Waring | 72 · 69 · 67 · 70 | 278 | −10 |
| T8 | David Horsey | 72 · 64 · 72 · 70 | 278 | −10 |
The golfer
born 1983-01-09, Madrid, Spain; ESP; turned pro 2006; age 31 that week; tour wins to date: 2; majors to date: 0; world No. 141 that week (OWGR rankBefore (owgr.com player profile); Arab News also calls him world No. 141).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet