Niclas Fasth completed his own Spanish double success in 2006 as well as claiming his fifth European Tour International Schedule title overall when a composed and controlled final round performance saw the Swede win the Mallorca Classic at Pula Golf Club.
Saturday is traditionally referred to as ‘Moving Day’ at golf tournaments but the idiom could not have been further from the truth at Pula Golf Club where none of the main protagonists in the Mallorca Classic shifted very much at all. Summing that up perfectly were leaders Niclas Fasth and Gary Murphy who started the day tied at the head of affairs and ended it in exactly the same situation.
Irish golf fans endured a mixture of good and bad news as the Mallorca Classic reached its halfway stage at the Pula Golf Club. The former came via Gary Murphy, whose battle to keep his European Tour card remained on course when he moved into a share of the lead with Niclas Fasth. The latter came from Padraig Harrington who missed the cut, thus ending his hopes of moving ahead of Paul Casey in this, the penultimate counting event in the enthralling race to be the 2006 European Tour Number One.
Padraig Harrington's bid to steal a march on his European Tour Order of Merit rival Paul Casey went awry when the Irishman shot a seven over par 77 in the opening round of the Mallorca Classic to lie 11 strokes behind leaders Niclas Fasth of Sweden, South African Andrew McLardy and Ireland's Gary Murphy.
As befits a man who ranks The European Tour Order of Merit just behind a Major Championship, Ireland’s Padraig Harrington has submitted himself to a Spanish inquisition on the sunshine island of Majorca this week in a bold bid to wrest the leadership of the money list from Paul Casey in the Mallorca Classic at Pula Golf Club.
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