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Thursday, June 22, 2006

WORLD BOYS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

 NORWAY LEAD WITH ONE ROUND TO GO

 

Norway (622) lead by three shots from Sweden with host nation Japan lying third, five shots off the pace with one round to play in the Toyota world boys’ team golf championship over the Ishino Course at Chukyo Golf Club.

England had their worst team total of the three days – 221 – to drop back to 11th place on 649 in the field of 15 countries.

Sam Hutsby (214) has been the lowest scoring player on the England team, followed by Luke Goddard (216), James Watt (219) and Tom Hesketh (230).

LEADING TEAMS

622 Norway 207 208 207.

625 Sweden 206 205 214.

627 Japan 208 210 209.

632 Chinese Taipei 211 205 216.

639 Netherlands 220 205 214, Argentina 215 210 214.

640 United States 216 209 215.

645 Canada 216 213 216…

646 New Zealand 291 215 212

648 Colombia 219 218 211

649 England 220 208 221.

651 South Africda 218 218 215

654 Korea 213 219 222, Venezuela 226 216 212.

674 Mexico 223 228 223.

LEADING INDIVIDUALS

204 Marius Thorp (Nor) 68 71 65.

206 Bjorn Akesson (Swe) 69 67 70, Naota Nakanishi (Jap) 72 69 65.

207 Jesper Kennegard (Swe) 69 69 70, Tim Sluiter (Net) 71 65 71.

208 Anders Kristiansen (Nor) 71 67 70.

ENGLAND SCORES

214 Sam Hutsby 76 68 70.

216 Luke Goddard 73 70 73.

219 James Watt 71 70 78.

230 Tom Hesketh 78 72 80.