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CSA
Wednesday 31 August 2010
In order to be able to adjust your hcp,
You will find below the CSA of the Total International Juniors 2010.
DAY 1: 0 DAY 2: +1 DAY 3: 0 DAY 4: +1
We wish you all the best for the new term after the summer break!!
And don’t forget to watch our videos…
Final Day
Saterday 28 August 2009
Girls Category:
And the winner is …
Kelsey Mac Donald !
After having digested a disappointing 3rd round of 78, Kelsey played brilliant golf in the third round. She was relegated in the second flight, playing ahead of her direct opponents who were indeed challenged from the very beginning. After the first hole, Kelsey was already joint leader. She made few mistakes and was compensating these almost instantly with a birdie on the next hole. On the back nine, Maria Federica made a double bogey at the tenth and another bogey at the 12th whilst Kelsey was making birdie-par-par, adding another birdie on the 13th and another one at the 16th.
At the 18th she hit a huge drive which found the fairway bunker at 50 yards of the flag, played an impressive recovery but releasing the pressure too soon, finished with her only 3 putt of the day. She finished with a 5 strokes lead on Maria Federica Costantini and a 7 strokes lead on Anaïs Maggetti from Switserland.
In the boys category, the first dramma of the day was played on the first two holes: Yannick Bludau, who had played so nicely for 3 rounds, started bogey-bogey when Victor Perez was starting eagle-birdie.
Suddenly the 5 strokes lead had disappeared and both players were sharing the lead at 5 under. Thomas Elissalde started less impressively but was just adding quitely birdies to pars and pars to birdies, coming out in 32 and joining the leaders at 4 under at the turn.
Then the Spanish, Marcos Pastor Rufian, holed his second shot for an eagle 2 at the 10th and we had 4 players at 4 under. Was the pressure too big for Bludau? He lost the Tournament at the 15th hitting his second shot into the woods and having to take a drop to finish with a double bogey. He would add two more double bogeys on 17 and 18 ending up out of contention. At the start of the 18, Perez and Elissalde were at 4 under and both made par.
Marcos who had lost contact with the leaders with a bogey at 14, drove the green and made a birdie to force the play off.
On the first hole, all players made a birdie, although in different styles, but on the second, followed by a large crowd, Elissalde was imperial:
On this long par four, with the flag at the top of the green, he hit a majestic second shot at 3 feet of the cup while his two opponents were missing the green, unable to recover in 2 shots. Thomas only had to sweep his last put into the hole and the victory was his !
In the Tournament of Nations, thanks to the good performance of Marcos Ruffian, the Spanish Boys took the Cup overtaking Ireland in the very last holes.
The Italian girls were able to maintain their one stroke lead on Denmark and could go back home with the Cup !
Click here to view more pictures of Day Four.
Draw day 4
Friday 27 August 2010
Click on the link below to open the draw for the last day.
LINK .
Day Three
Friday 27 August 2010
After a second night of heavy rain, the course was even more wet disturbing the game of yesterday’s leaders with the result that it is now the Spanish girl Natalia Escuriola who leads the field at 4 over par after a 72 today.
With 70, the Italian Maria-Federica Costantini returned the best score of the day and is now pointing at the second place two strokes behind Natalia.
The third place is shared by Anaïs Maggetti and Kelsey Mac Donald who both played weakly today with respective scores of 76 and 78 and are one stroke behind.
The 5th one is also the best Belgian girl: it is Laura Christiaens at +10, 6 strokes behind the leader.
In the boys category, Yannick Bludau
confirmed his good scores of the two previous days by returning a 71 today. He now stands at -7 with a 5 strokes lead on Victor Perez from France who returned one of the two best scores of the day with 68, and Jonas Robert Kugel, both at -2.
 
Raphaël Higuet is still the best Belgian boy but he is now joined by the local player Cédric van Wassenhove. They are both at 218 (+2 for the Tournament).
In the Tournament of Nations, the German girls lost the lead after the collapse of Roberta Roller and are now sharing the second place together with Denmark, only one stroke behind Italy who is leading the Cup with 456.
The Irish boys, have also lost the advantage of 7 strokes they had yesterday and are now sharing the lead with Switserland at 442.
Click here to view more pictures of Day Three.
Draw Day 3
Thursday 26 August 2010
Click on the link below to open the draw for the day 3.
LINK .
Day Two
Thursday 26 August 2010
After heavy rain during the night, the course was wet and, on top of this, the weather was windy, making playing conditions much more difficult. Probably ideal for a true Scot: with 73, Kelsey Mc Donald shot one of the 3 best scores of the day and has now secured a two strokes lead over the Swiss girl Anaïs Maggetti:
and, the good surprise of the day, the Belgian Fanny Cnops:
In the boys category,
 the young German Yannick Bludau proved that, despite the difficult weather conditions, it was possible to play excellent golf by returning a 4 under par 68: out in 35, back in 33 with 5 birdies and only one bogey.
He is followed at one stroke by the Irish Luke Lennox who shot a 70 today after his 69 of yesterday. At 3 under, we find the leader of yesterday, Robert Junas Kugel who returned a 73 today. The best Belgian player is Raphaël Higuet who stands at fourth place with scores of 72, 71.
In the Tournament of Nations, the German girls are in the lead with 292 followed by the Belgians 3 strokes behind. The Irish boys are still the best with 288 and now have a 7 strokes lead on the Swiss team.
Click here to view more pictures of Day Two.
Day One
Wednesday 25 August 2010
Roberta Roller from Germany is leading the field with a 69, 3 under par. She played very consistant golf all day with one 5 only on her card. Out in 34, back in 35 and birdies on all par 5. She is followed at 2 strokes by two Belgian Girls, Fanny Cnops and Leslie Cloots and at 3 strokes by a trio composed of Olivia Birrer from Switzerland, Marion Duvernay from France and the almost local player, Kelsey Mc Donald from Scotland who was in contantion for the title in each of the previous 3 editions !
Robert Jonas Kugel, also from Germany, came home with the best score of the day: 68. Out in 33, he seemed a moment in difficulty when scoring two bogeys at 12 and 13. He finished however very strongly with 3 birdies in a row on 16, 17 and 18.
He is followed by Luke Lennox from Ireland who shot 69 and by a threesome at 70: Peter Baek from Denmark, Yannick Bludau from Germany and Andy Chris Orsinger from Switzerland. The best Belgian players are Cédric van Wassenhove from Ravenstein and the two “Raphael’s” – Picone and Higuet - who all scored 71 and are still well placed for the next battles.
12 boys have played under par and 20 have played par or better which gives a good idea of the quality of the field.
In the Nations Cup, Germany is leading the girls and Ireland is leading with the boys.
Click here to view more pictures of Day One.
AM-AM
Tuesday 24 August 2010
The Am-Am was played this tuesday. The Formule of play was 4 Balls 2 best balls.
Jack Mac Donald, Liam Johnston, Hervé van Wassenhove and Marlène van Wassenhove won the gross prize with the score of 138.
Click on the link to access the complete gross results
 Karina Kukkonen,Oona Vartianen, Reynald de Sauvage and Didier Perwez won the net prize with the score of 131.
Click on the link to access the complete net results
Draw Am-Am August 23rd
Click on the link below to open the draw for the Am-Am.
LINK .
Candies
Sunday 22 August 2010
Have you had time to relax in this beautiful white marquee next to the putting green? This is where our hostesses are located.
After a long & testing round, nothing is more relaxing than to slump into the comfortable
armchairs that you will find there. You can even watch the Olympics on the TV & catch up on your countries medal totals.
You will have also seen the enormous basket of sweets on the hostesses table.
The mouth will water at the site of these succulent “ bonbons”, I mean the sweets not the hostesses you understand.
We would like to thank the sponsor of these candies who prefers to remain anonymous, but whom we will today call Mister G.
It is now 4 years that Mister G has been supplying the young players with “ ENERGY “.
With 3 kilos of confectionery being consumed each day, it makes a total of 1000 grams of Glycerine, 60 grams of Citric Acid, 45 grams of Gelatine & finally 11/4 kilos of colours that is to say a subtle mixture of E104, E133 & E 171 divided up between our 156 players!!
All that to say that these sweets are just the job to attack a long day of golf.
So we look forward to seeing you relaxing in the convivial atmosphere of the hostess tent.
Provisional draws
Sunday 22 August 2010
Click on the link below to open the provisional draw for the first and second day of the competition.
LINK .
You can also find the draw for tuesday's practice round by clicking on the following LINK .
To all competitors
Tuesday 17 August 2010
Please find here the starting times for the practice round on 24th August. German Selection
Wednesday 11 August 2010
To all German players :
Following our need to limit the number of participants to 144 and our request to the Deutche Golf Verband to make the selection, we have now received the selection of 14 players which is showed on the site. This selection has been mainly based on the ranking in Germany, not on the handicap
We are very sad we can not welcome all of you as we are sure that you are all very good players but in order to keep our Tournament Standard, we have to keep the number of players below 144.
If you have any question, please ask your Federation.
The Comittee
About registrations and arrivals
Wednesday 04 August 2010
As you may have noticed, subscriptions are on… Yet, a few places are available even now. We are still waiting for some players names, such as the Danish, Italian, Dutch, Belgian and French … no worries, they still have a few days to turn in their subscription form : dead line being August 10th.
In order to organize shuttles from airport on arrival in Belgium, we need your flight details (flight number, arrival time, …). The faster, the better …
This year, drivers will be wearing either a green or white shirt. As usual, they will have a TOTAL INTERNATIONAL JUNIORS board so you can recognize them easily. They will, of course, also wear their best smile even if they have to fight for parking spots, lost luggage or flight delays … They will always be in a good mood to welcome you in our country.
Special annoucement
Wednesday 14 July 2010
As each year, and to our greatest pleasure, we are getting many registrations from German players. However, to our deepest regret, we won't be able to accept them all. Only 8 boys and 4 girls per Nation can be retained. Ideally, this selection should be done by the Deutsche Golf Verband. If it is not the case, we shall have to make the selection ourselves, based on handicap. This selection will occur on 11th August.
On the other hand, we understand that most youngsters want to know whether their registration has been received or not. Therefore, we shall show their name on the Player's list with the comment "pending". This means that the registration has been received but is still pending untill the final selection on 11th August.
The Tournament Committee
Copy of the Official Invitation to all Golf Federa
Friday 14 May 2010
Tervuren, 14 May 2010
TOTAL INTERNATIONAL JUNIORS 2010
JUNIORS & GIRLS
25 AUGUST - 28 AUGUST 2010
Dear Sir,
Madam,
We are pleased to enclose herewith some Entry Forms for the 32nd Belgian International Juniors, organised with the sponsorship of TOTAL Belgium. In 2009, the event will be played again in 4 rounds stroke play with a cut after 54 holes.
In consequence, we will be compelled to limit the number of players per country.
In order to ensure a smooth development of the championship, we will not accept more than 144 players overall and we will limit the number of players to 8 boys and 4 girls per country.
For a couple of years now we have been managing a web site which we encourage you to visit (http://www.sij.be ). You can download the Entry Form on your PC and send it back to us by Fax with your stamps and signatures.
Just as each year, 2 boys and 2 girls will be invited as guests (board and lodging at our expense from the evening of the 22th to 29th August). These 4 players, who you will designate yourselves, will compose the team representing your country in the team competition. However, unlike previous years, considering the difficulty of finding family accommodations, applications will be handled on a first come – first serve basis. Meals will remain at our expense for the official country representatives (2 boys and 2 girls).
For ease of planning, please inform us as soon as possible about the number of players that you expect to enter for the team competition. This is very important for accommodation purposes. Please note that we shall only be able to host the 4 players in the Nations Teams (according to obtained availabilities). However, we arranged special rates with one hotel for individual players:
Hotel SODEHOTEL “La Woluwe”, Woluwe St Pierre, (Tél: +32 2 775 31 11 Fax: +32 2 770 47 80): 100 EUR for a double room, breakfast included. A shuttle service will be organised from the hotel.
Furthermore, and because of the success of this competition during the last years, we shall have to limit entries to 144 players. We shall therefore close the entries on August 8th, and make the final selection according to the lowest handicaps. You will receive our reconfirmation by fax not later than August 10th.
This year we shall be able to organise again an Am-Am competition thanks to the support of “Total”, one of the largest European concerns in fuel and petro-chemicals.
The players will once more have the opportunity to play with their host family. The Am-am competition will be held on Monday 23th from 8h30 onwards.
Besides the main competition, we confirm that another competition will also be organised on Tuesday August 25th:
The CLEVELAND Longest Drive contest after the practice round
Please observe the closing date of 10th August 2010.
Yours sincerely,
Charles and Anne Marien
Groenendaalsesteenweg 123
B-1560 Hoeilaart
Tel. + 32 2 768 12 73
Mobile + 32 475 78 68 45
anne.marien@sij.be
Royal Golf Club of Belgium :
Tel. + 32 2 767 58 01
Fax. + 32 2 767 28 41
info@sij.be
FINAL DAY !
Saturday 29 August 2009
And the winners are :
 
Thomas Pieters from Belgium and Marianna Causin from Italy
At the turn, it looked as if it was a lost case for Thomas: with 5 bogeys and one double bogey, he was 7 over par for the day whilst his direct opponent, Dylan, was playing very consistently: one under for the first nine, 3 under for the tournament and a 4 strokes lead on Thomas.
But the young Belgian suddenly found a new inspiration and with 3 birdies on the next 4 holes when Dylan was playing 2 over, Thomas did reverse the situation unexpectedely. He kept playing steadily, coming back in 33, 3 under ensuring a win by 2 strokes on Dylan.
By the girl, Kelsey played the first three holes with authority : birdie, par, birdie and she was already in the lead. But a bogey followed by a double bogey on the 6th and the confidence was back in the camp of Marianna who was out in 35, one under par and again with a lead of 3 strokes on Kelsey.
Kelsey missed an opportunity to regain one stroke at the tenth and looked again in a better position on the 11th : 2 in the bunker whilst Marianna was only in 3 shots on the fringe of the green. Then suddenly everything went wrong: the bunker shot was taken clean and finished on the new course 30 meters further ! Back into the bunker, still in the bunker with the next shot, then just out in the bunker face to finish with an eight: the dream was over for Kelsey and Marianna could afford to play conservatively up to the end, finishing the Tournament at 2 over par 6 strokes ahead of … Nerea Salaverria. The young Spaniard played indeed beautifully all day, finishing even par on the last nine and, thanks to this, overtook Kelsey by one stroke.
For the Tournament of Nations:
After the withdrawal of one of the Belgian boys, it looked as if Netherlands would have an easy day for victory. This was without counting with the tenacity of the Italian boys, Alessandro Grammatica and Stefano Pitoni, who recovered 8 strokes on the Dutch boys and threatened the Dutch team quite closely. But not close enough: the Dutch boys, Dylan Boshart and Martijn Vermei, were able to keep a 5 strokes lead and win the Nations Cup.
By the girls, the game was almost over after the third round and nobody saw how the Italian girls could lose their supremacy !
They had a 23 strokes lead on their direct opponents, the Irish girls, and this difference could not be filled in one round. Both team returned a 151 so the Italian Girls, Laura Seda and Marianna Causin kept the leadership on the Irish “Louises”: Louise Mernagh and Louise Coffey.
Click here to view more pictures of Day Four.
And click here to view pictures of the Prize Giving.
And finally, do not forget to click on the link “Videos” in the upper left corner: you will live again the nice atmosphere of the Tournament !
Short interview of the 3 best girls of day one
Thursday 27 August 2009
1. Isabel GADEA (GERMANY) : 69
a. How old are you? 15
b. Is it the first time that you play under par in an international tournament? Yes, I played once 4 under but it was not during an international tournament.
c. How many putts did you take? 26
d. How many greens did you hit in regulation? 12
e. Which hole is your favorite? 16, short par 4.
f. Did you repair each pitch mark you made? Yes. When I was younger, if I didn’t, I had to pay 1€ to my coach.
The drive of Isabel at the first hole was in the center of the fairway. Her coach is the same as Martin Kaymer’s coach so maybe this can help understanding why she played that good. Isabel had no caddy because she doesn’t want to. And to finish, she ate bread and drank orange juice at breakfast
2. Marianna CAUSIN (ITALY): 70
a. How old are you? 20 years old.
b. Is it the first time that you play under par in an international tournament ? No, I played under the par two weeks ago during the International of Switzerland.
c. How many putts did you take? 28
d. How many greens did you hit in regulation? 11
Birdie at the 2-6-8-12-16.
e. Which hole is your favorite? 11 because of the trees. It’s a complicated and tactical hole.
Marianna had some bread with marmalade for breakfast. She drank a cup of tea. She was not very well prepared at the first tee because woods are forbidden on the practice range. But because she’s not a nervous person, she could hit her first drive in the center.
3. Fanny CNOPS (BELGIUM): 72
a. How old are you? 18 years old
b. How many putts did you take? 28
c. How many greens did you hit in regulation? 9
d. Which hole is your favorite? 1 and 13 because they are par 5. At the first hole, I did an eagle. I played a drive followed by a 9 iron 3 meters of the pin.
e. Which part of your game was the best today? The putting, I don’t putt that good usually.
Fanny had a good feeling at the first tee this morning, that’s why she hit the center of the fairway too. She was relaxed because she ate Special K with milk. She stays in a host family with three other players: The LOGE family.
TOTAL Am-am
Tuesday 25 August 2009
The Am-am competition was played on Monday under a glorious sun. As the course is very dry, many players were surprised by the runs and bounces on the fairways with many balls ending in the bushes or the thick rough.
No wonder then if the best gross score, 138, 6 under, was returned by the team under the leading of Joachim Brandt Hansen who is nobody else than the winner of the International Juniors 2008 ! But in a team, you are never alone and his Danish partner Victor Osterby did his share of the job. But the two “true” amateurs Pierre Vierendeels and Marc-Henri Decrop did even more than their share, considering they improved the scores of the two champions by 4 strokes although they were both handicap … 20 ! It should also be spotted that Pierre Vierendeels scored an eagle 2 at the 16th hole !!!
The winners with their prize
The most disappointed were surely the players from the team composed of the Portuguese boys and youngsters from Ravenstein, Miguel Gaspar, Tomas Silva, Hadrien van Doosselaere and Thomas de Spirlet as they had the same score of 138 but were beaten on the back nine (71 against 67 for the other team).
In net, the first place came to the team composed of Pascal Lizin and Olivier del Marmol, together with the Irish girls, Louis Mernagh and Louise Coffey with the score of 131, 13 under par.
The winning nett team !
For the second place, there were 4 teams with a score of 133 so we had to look at the back nine once again. The best 133 was produced by the team of Jaime Jiminez, Didier Malherbe and the Italian boys, Stefano Piton and Valentino Dall’Arche.
the winners of ... the second place !
Finally the third place went to Mrs Allan Peacock, Alessandro Riccardi, Tessa De Bruijn (NL) and Damien Flachaire (MC). Unfortunately for them, the picture was mistaken ...
Click here to view more pictures of the Am-am.
Drivers gossips
Tuesday 25 August 2009
Once upon a time… there was a (hot) drivers team... Everyday we are happy to drive you around. But the first thing you should know about us is that we are not professionals. Only volunteers (who begin at 6 in the morning!!!). Anyways, while driving we can only be charmed by the passengers and that’s why there are some gossips :
Italy : Most luggage
Spain: Most talkative people.
Columbia: The man who spent the most time at the airport instead of on the course.
Switzerland : Happiest and strangest people.
Germany : Less seen for the moment.
Denmark: Fire hair team.
Madrid : Most lost golf bags.
We are looking forward to gossiping about the other countries as soon as possible…
Don’t forget to be on time for the shuttles because we won’t be allowed to wait for you. And we’ll try to do our best to be on time, but if we are not, don’t worry, we don’t know speed limits…
What about the weather ? yesterday was very hot (30°C) and during the evening appeared a beautiful rainbow on the course. But last night … you probably were woken up because of the Belgian national rain, you’ll have to get used to it if you want to win!
It would be very nice, if you didn’t forget to greet the big boss, Anne, the mother of the tournament (that could be useful if you need her…).
We’d like to remind all players that we’re open to all propositions and requests (also for the party).
PS : Be nice with Eliott, the little boy who drives the golf cars (he’s a future member of the drivers team).
The drivers team
Organisation
Monday 17 August 2009
One week to go before the start of the Tournament.
Registration is closed now: we are 90 boys and 54 girls.
19 nationalities will be present and, as usual, Denmark, France and Germany come with the largest delegation. For the first time since years, we have the pleasure of welcoming Spanish boys.
For those who want to take advantage of our shuttle service between the airport and the golf Club, we request you to provide us your flight details as soon as possible so that we can organise all transports.
For those who would like to play in the Am-am, we still have a few available places. It will be our pleasure and it will enable you to play a second practice round before the start of the competition.
Send a mail to anne.marien@sij.be
Pre-selection
Tuesday 11 August 2009
To all players,
Registration is closed now and we have, as usual, too many participants.
As usual also, we have therefore asked to all Federations to make their own selection in order to stick to the maximum of 16 players per country.
This explains why, to our deepest regret, only 16 German players have been retained on the 28 who had registered legitimately. Many Spanish, French and Belgian players have not been retained either in order to keep the maximum of 144 players for the field.
Entry Form
Saterdday 21 August 2009
Dear players,
The entryform is again avalaible on the website.
The Staff Registration until the 10th August
Tuesday 04 August 2009
Dear players,
Due to a technical problem, it isn't possible anymore to download the entryform on the website.
It will be arranged for tomorrow. Meanwhile, you can send us your registration by e-mail giving the necessary information (Surname, name, hcp, birthday, golfclub).
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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