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First Challenge Tour Wild Card

It is with a real pleasure that i received on sunday the confirmation of my first start on the Challenge Tour in 2011. I just arrived at the golf course and got my Challenge Tour membership for the current year...i'm looking forward to test my game on that tour because i feel really good lately! The course is in Klagenfurt, Austria. The driving was long, about 900 km but the excitment make it almost short!

I'm looking forward to givie you some more news from Austria,

Great week to all,

Alex



SwissPGA Leuk Tie 2nd

New course, but same result...Once again i was in the hunt but a shot missed at the end. I'm happy about that performance because Leuk was never a course that suited my game, specialy the greens that i can't read correctly! As far as i know -5 is my best result on that course! I'm more happy than in Gams also because i finished my round in a better way : a birdie on 16th and 18th! The game is really solid and the work i'm doing is paying off and will make me soon a winner again!

I wish you all a great week and write you soon again,

Alex



2nd on the first SwissPGA event in 2011

On the very tight and nice course of Gams, i was able to test my game after a month of practicing. The first round was not really exciting but a round without a bogey is always nice to do!I did 16 pars and two birdies, i was maybe a bit far from the flag to expect to hole more putts! The second round was a bit more like wanted, straight 3 under after 8 but a wild tee shot on the 9th caused my first bogey of the tournament. On 16th par 5 i had a 5iron in my hands and end up in the bunker and took 2 shot from there to get on the green, that was the turning point! on 17th i missed a 2m putt to go -6 and on 18th, par 5, got on the green in 2, 3m away from the flag and made a lip out...

It was really good to see what is not good enough for the moment but the game is there and pretty solid!

Next event Leuk in a week...

Have fun on the course and hit them straight!

Best regards,

Alex



"Friends of Alexandre Chopard" Day 1, Wylihof.

Bei strahlendem Sonnenschein konnte der erste Golfanlass dieses neuen Clubs am 20. April auf dem Golfareal Wylihof durchgeführt werden. 27 Mitglieder trafen sich gegen Mittag zum "Scramble". Vor dem Start ging es vor allem darum sich gegenseitig kennenzulernen und in Erfahrung bringen wie man denn wohl den Winter so überstanden hat. Nach kurzer Einführung über den Tagesverlauf durch den Präsidenten Gilbert M. Vollmer konnte das Turnier gestartet werden. Alexandre Chopard begleitete jeden Flight über 2 Löcher und beeindruckte natürlich jedes Mitglied mit seinen golferischen Fähigkeiten. Bereits am Loch 7 wurde dann zum Mittagessen Halt gemacht. Grilladen, Wein und Dessert wurde vom Wirtepaar, Felix Brüderli und Marianne Gander, angeboten. Das noch nicht golfspielende Mitglied Erdal Seezer, selber Barbesitzer in Luzern, hat die Golfer jeweils herzlich empfangen und betreut. Frisch gestärkt ging es dann weiter auf der Runde. Nach dem Loch 13 traf man sich bereits wieder am "Half-Way House". Dieses Mal wohl eher zu Prosecco!Viel zu reden gab es es dann im Clubhaus beim Apéro. Das vorzügliche Diner wurde durch die mit Spannung erwartete Rangverkündigung kurz unterbrochen. Als Sieger an diesem Tage konnte das Team mit Urs Casparis, Niklaus Dürst und Raphaela Clavadetscher ausgerufen werden. Alle Teilnehmer durften am Ende einen schönen Preis in Form eines Flachmanns mit eigener Gravur entgegen nehmen. Spät in der Nacht wurde dann nocht die Heimfahrt angetreten. Dies mit der Gewissheit einen tollen Tag erlebt und neue Freunde kennengelernt zu haben. Alle freuen sich auf den nächsten Golfanlass im Rahmen der "Friends of Alexandre Chopard" vom 18. Juli auf dem Golfplatz Blumisberg.

(Fotos über diesen gelungenen Anlass sind unter " Pictures Gallery" zu sehen)



Big Easy Tour : Podium

The Sunshine Tour created a new tour called the Big Easy Tour. This tour is there to give the sunshine tour player above the top 70 on the order of merite an another opportunity to play and compete. As you might know "Big Easy" is Ernie Els's nick name...and the reason is because Ernie is behind that tour. There is 10 tournaments on the schedule and the top 5 gets a full exemption on the Sunshine Tour 2012.

Last thrusday and friday was the first BET tournament in Crown Mines. I shot a desepointing 75 the first day but was almost happy with it because of the low amount of fairways and greens hit...( 2 Fairways / 5 greeens ). After that first round i was lying on the 46th rank. The second day was different, first because of the wind and mainly my game, with 7 birdies and 2 bogeys i shot the best round of the tournament and moved up to the 3rd spot! That was my last tournament in South Africa for a while, i'm really happy to finish on such a good round!

I will stay a little longer until the weather gets better in Switzerland but the next tournament will be the 4ball Swiss Championship at home Wylihof!!

I wish you all a very nice time and send you all my best regards from sunny Johannesburg,

Alex

 



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