It took three thrilling sudden-death play-off holes to decide the Kai Fieberg Costa Rica Open 2006, after which Sweden’s Johan Axgren emerged victorious, collecting the third European Challenge Tour title of his career at the end of a wonderful final round battle with his compatriot Alexander Noren. What a final round it was as the two Swede’s overhauled third round leader Ariel Canete of Argentina to set up that grandstand finale at the Cariari Country Club in San Jose.
Argentina’s Ariel Canete was among the players to take advantage of the unusually benign conditions at the Cariari Country Club in Costa Rica, as he carded a third round of three under par 68 to post a seven under par 206 aggregate and move into a one stroke lead at the European Challenge Tour’s Kai Fieberg Costa Rica Open 2006. Meanwhile, Canete’s fellow countrymen – Eduardo Argiro and Sebastian Fernandez – were setting a new course record of six under par 65. If ever there was a day to go low at the Cariari Country Club it was on Saturday as the winds that protect the 6551 yard lay out stayed flat calm and allowed the players of the Challenge Tour and the Tour de las Americas to make stage their respective assaults on the leaderboard.
Sweden’s Alexander Noren produced a second consecutive round of four under par 67 at the Cariari Country Club to extend his lead at the European Challenge Tour’s Kai Fieberg Costa Rica Open 2006 to three shots over England’s Van Phillips, with the European pair holding off a typically strong push from the Central and South American Members of the Tour de las Americas (TLA) going into the final two rounds of the last of three joint-sanctioned TLA events of the 2006 season.
Sweden’s Alexander Noren leapt into the lead of the European Challenge Tour’s Kai Fieberg Costa Rica Open after staging a fantastic recovery over the Cariari Country Club’s closing eight holes. Noren was two over par through eleven holes of his opening round of this joint-sanctioned event with the Tour de las Americas, but notched six birdies on his back to the clubhouse to establish a two stroke lead over Argentina’s Ariel Canete, Frenchman Bertrand Coathalem and England’s Van Phillips.
The European Challenge Tour remains in Central America this week for the Kai Fieberg Costa Rica Open 2006 - an event that promises to be a very special tournament, as well as, for many of the people involved in the running of the event, a very emotional week at the Cariari Country Club in San Jose. The reason for that is a simple one. It was less than one month ago that the Costa Rica Open's promoter Kai Fieberg lost his life in a tragic car accident.
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