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Legends Tour: Canonica fourth, Griffiths wins


Second consecutive top ten and third of the season for Emanuele Canonica who ranked fourth with 206 (66 70 70, -13) shots in the Farmfoods European Senior Masters hosted by Peter Baker, a Legends Tour tournament that took place on the La Magna Club course (par 73), in Murcia, Spain.

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The 51-year-old Englishman Simon Griffiths won with 202 (64 70 68, -17), beating his compatriot Van Phillips by two shots, second with 204 (-15). In third place with 205 (-14) is Scott Hend, who plays on various fronts including the Asian Tour where he is making his mark, and together with Canonica, the German Thomas Gogele, who scored in the Sergio Melpignano Senior Italian Open at San Domenico Golf (BR), the South African Keith Horne, the Argentine José Coceres and the Brazilian Adilson Da Silva, leader of the order of merit. In ninth with 207 (-12) the Welshman Phillip Price and in tenth with 208 (-11) the Englishmen David Shacklady and Gary Evans.

Canonica, who finished eighth in the previous event in Puglia, concluded his run with a 70 (-3, five birdies, two bogeys).

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