Graham Gunn the 2006 Canadian Senior PGA champion is leading the Sicilian Senior Open, an event on the European Senior Tour. He is the golf academy instructor at White Sands GC in Orleans/Ottawa these days.
Here is the report just in from Paul Symes of the European Tour..
A superb putting display helped unheralded Canadian Graham Gunn grab the lead on the opening day of the inaugural Sicilian Senior Open on the European Senior Tour.
On only his fifth appearance of the season, Gunn outshone some of the Senior Tour’s leading lights – including home hero Costantino Rocca and all-time leading career money winner Carl Mason of England – with a four under par round of 68 to lead by two strokes from Argentina’s Horacio Carbonetti and Spaniard Domingo Hospital.
Astonishingly, Gunn needed just 24 putts at Il Picciolo Golf Club, on the holiday island of Sicily, where driving rain rendered low scoring doubly difficult. His lead would have been even more commanding were it not for a double bogey at the par three eighth, where he lost his ball after overclubbing. The only other blemish in a round which included seven birdies came at the fiendishly tough 11th hole, which at 472 yards in length did not see a birdie all day.
Gunn, who is in need of a big week in order to upgrade his conditional card for next season, said: “It was tough going in the conditions, but in some ways the rain actually helped at times, because the ball isn’t running too far off the fairways. If the fairways were hard, you could end up way into the trees. Luckily I drove the ball really well today, and then when I did get in trouble off the tee, more often than not my putter rescued me. So it was a good day.”
I will follow his progress here over the weekend..
BryanAngus
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