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Sunday 13 September 2015European TourYear in Review
Pieters wins KLM Open
Kennemer G&CC, Zandvoort, The Netherlands · Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 September 2015 · Thomas Pieters’s win no. 2 on the European Tour · purse €1,800,000 EUR · KLM
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 31 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 41° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/11°C · wind 22 km/h E, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R218°/11°C · wind 20 km/h E, gusts 34 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R319°/13°C · wind 22 km/h SSE, gusts 38 · 3.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/13°C · wind 27 km/h SSE, gusts 42 · 2.3 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
- Lee Slattery ENG · 262joint overnight leader; needed a par at the 18th to force a playoff but missed a five-foot putt Nervous Thomas Pieters holds on for back-to-back European Tour wins - ESPN
- Eduardo De La Riva ESP · 262closing 63 to climb into a share of second, a shot behind Pieters' clubhouse total KLM Open: Four key talking points - Golf Monthly
156 started, 68 made it
Same week
DP World Tour event
KLM Open
Kennemer G&CC, Kennemer G&CC, Zandvoort, The Netherlands
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Thomas Pieters
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas Pieters | 68 · 66 · 62 · 65 | 261 | −19 |
| T2 | Eduardo De La Riva | 66 · 66 · 67 · 63 | 262 | −18 |
| T2 | Lee Slattery | 66 · 65 · 63 · 68 | 262 | −18 |
| 4 | Fabrizio Zanotti | 67 · 66 · 67 · 63 | 263 | −17 |
| T5 | Eddie Pepperell | 67 · 66 · 67 · 64 | 264 | −16 |
| T5 | Morten Ørum Madsen | 64 · 67 · 66 · 67 | 264 | −16 |
| T7 | Mikko Korhonen | 67 · 70 · 65 · 63 | 265 | −15 |
| T7 | Magnus Carlsson | 65 · 66 · 70 · 64 | 265 | −15 |
| T7 | Rafa Cabrera Bello | 65 · 66 · 63 · 71 | 265 | −15 |
| T10 | Wade Ormsby | 61 · 68 · 68 · 69 | 266 | −14 |
| T10 | Paul Lawrie | 61 · 71 · 63 · 71 | 266 | −14 |
The golfer
born 1992-01-27, Geel, Belgium; BEL; turned pro 2013; age 23 that week; tour wins to date: 2; world No. 141 that week (OWGR rankBefore for KLM Open 2015 (141 -> 88) per OWGR player profile).
What’s in the bag
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From the papers
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