From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Aug 17 18:38:42 1999 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA29017 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:37:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA29006 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:37:28 +0100 (BST) Received: from admin.warwick.ac.uk (sigma [137.205.249.1]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA16255; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:37:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from SIGMA/SpoolDir by admin.warwick.ac.uk (Mercury 1.40); 17 Aug 99 18:37:28 GMT+0000 Received: from SpoolDir by SIGMA (Mercury 1.40); 17 Aug 99 18:35:46 GMT+0000 From: "Derek Robins" <D.J.Robins@admin.warwick.ac.uk> Organization: University of Warwick, CV4 7AL, UK To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk, bdga@egroups.com Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:35:37 +0000 (GMT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: 1999 Disc Golf Worlds X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.01d) Message-ID: <186B9C45610@admin.warwick.ac.uk> Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Just a brief report on PDGA DG World Championships. Ken Climos 9 year reign as Disc Golf World Champion came to an end last Saturday when Ron Russell beat him by 4 shots at the end of 171 holes of golf and a total of 432 shots. He won 4000 USD Juliana Bower easily retained her title as Womens World Champion with a total of 510 shots. Top non-USA performer was Jesper Lundmark of Sweden in 6th place. Six other Swedes and one Fin made it to the semi final round and finished in the top 50. Britain's Simon Luard finished in 152nd place out of 173 finishers in the Open division The masters division (35+) was won by Jim Oates after a play-off with Stan McDaniel, they shot 457. The top european player was me in 34th place out of 97. Just enough to get into the prize money $102.50. This was my best performance at Worlds and my score would have placed me 74th in Open division. Ruth Steele (was Lissaman) was the only european competitor in the womens division where she finished 20th of 25. She took second in a distance competition which was organised for the golfers. Full results available at http://pdga.com/world99_list.phtml Derek Robins *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Derek Robins | | D.J.Robins@admin.warwick.ac.uk Finance Office | | Tel 01203 522710 University of Warwick | | Fax 01203 572645 Coventry CV4 7AL | | Home 01926 864136 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-