Good week for Australasians in Morocco
Denzel Ieremia – file image Golf NZ
It was a good week for Australasian golfers at this week’s International Series Morocco event at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam (Red Course), with five finishing inside the top ten of the US$2 million event.
New Zealand’s Denzel Ieremia and Australian Maverik Antcliff both picked up cheques for US$102,000 for finishing in a share of the runner-up position.
Sydney’s John Lyras and South Australian Jack Buchanan shared 8th place while another Sydney golfer, Kevin Yuan tied for 10th.
For Ieremia the performance represents his best finish in an event on a recognised tour and the biggest cheque to date in his professional career.
The former Iowa State graduate finished 5th in the 2019 Australian Open but has struggled to go on from there and has struggled, without full status, to gain starts in events of late.
Antcliff is a multiple winner on the China Tour in previous years and managed to gain access to the then European Tour as a result of that pathway and did finish runner-up in the Canary Islands and an impressive 3rd in the Irish Open in 2020 but is currently without status in Europe. Antcliff too played collegiate golf in the US at Augusta State before turning professional in 2016.
The winner of the event was Zimbabwe’s Scott Vincent who won his 5th professional title but his first in nearly three years with his four shot victory.
The Asian Tour now has a break of several weeks until the Indonesia Open in late August, although several of its players have a start at the Open Championship in two weeks.
