Canada and Finland on course for World Cup

9/27/2008

Canada’s Wes Heffernan and Graham DeLaet join Mikko Korhonen and Roope Kakko of Finland at the top of the leaderboard after the second round foursomes at the Omega Mission Hills World Cup Qualifier.

Finland, who led by one shot overnight, continued their run of good form shooting a four under par 68 in the challenging foursomes format to take them to 12 under par.

This total was later matched when Canada carded an impressive 67, the best round of the day, to join the Finns at 12 under.

The foursomes format proved a tough one for most teams with only three nations recording under par scores for the day. The Portuguese team of Tiago Cruz and Ricardo Santos moved ahead of the Czech Republic and into third place on seven under after a one under par round of 71.

The Czech Republic will be hoping for a return to form in tomorrow’s fourball format having fallen back to just two under par after a disappointing 78. Switzerland moved into fourth place with a 73 and will be hoping they can continue make up some ground on Saturday.

Having decided a conservative approach was the way to go for the alternate shot format, the Finns were all smiles after their round.

Missing just one fairway during their round, the Finnish duo made just two bogeys against six birdies in what was an impressive display of foursomes golf.

The round of the day belonged to Canada who achieved their goal of keeping the ball on the short grass in challenging foursomes format.

Leaderboard – Round 2 – Foursomes:

132 - Finland
        Roope KAKKO / Mikko KORHONEN                     64 68 -12

132 - Canada        
         Graham DELAET / Wes HEFFERNAN                    65 67 -12

137 – Portugal
         Tiago CRUZ / Ricardo SANTOS                          66 71 - 7

141 – Switzerland
         André BOSSERT / Martin ROMINGER                   68 73 - 3

143 – Czech Republic
         Jakub KUCERA / Ondrej LEBL                             65 78 - 1

144 – Belgium
         Gerald GRESSE / Laurent RICHARD                     67 77   E

147 – Iceland
         Heidar BRAGASON / Bjorgvin SIGURBERGSSON     71 76 + 3

147 -  Norway
         Paul NILBRINK / Kristoffer REE                           72 75 + 3

150 – Poland
         Jakub OSSOWSKI / Marcin STELMASIAK              72 78 + 6

152 – Israel
         Itamar Cohen / Oren Geri                                 75 77 + 8

153 – Slovenia
         Janez GRILC / Damjan MURGELJ                       72 81 + 9

154 – Greece
         George DIAKOU / Themis GINIS                        76 78 +10

164 – Croatia
         Darko LJUBANOVIC / Miro RAIC                         79 85 +20

Source: European Tour