30th British Open
May 31 - June 1 2008
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What A Finnish!
Yes, the Finnish players were in fine form. The 2008 British Open Champion is Ville Piippo; the Masters Division champion is Kari Vesala; and the Womens Champion is Anne Matilainen, all from Finland.
*** We were on Midlands Today on Friday night!! ***
Going into the Final, Piippo had a comfortable lead over Sweden's Robert Buzasy. There was quite a battle for 3rd place, though, and England's Derek Robins managed to catch Pascal Thioux to share 3rd place.

1st Ville Piippo (Finland)
2nd Robert Buzasy (Sweden)
3rd = Pascal Thioux (Belgium) and Derek Robins (England)
5th Jester Wilson (Scotland)

The Masters division was hotly contested, with Kari Vesala beating Sweden's Per Gylle on the first play-off hole. John Massey (England) was third.

Amateur Division was won by Sander Bahnerth (Netherlands), over QP regular Jesse Denny.

Junior Champion is Maxime Tanghe from Belgium. He is only 12, but could be challenging in the Open division in a few years from now! His 2nd round 55 beat the score of all but 8 of the Open division players! Scotland's Ben Bruce was not far behind.

The tournament ran smoothly according to schedule, and all the players seemed most appreciative of the course and the organisation. Big thank you to all the staff, all the players, all the sponsors (especially Wolseley), and all the spectators who swelled the galleries for the finals.

The results are posted on the PDGA website, and we will have a copy on this site too, in due course.

Photos have been taken by several people, thus far I have these links: -

Andy Gray

Rene Westenberg

This was the pre-tournament Press Release (MS Word .doc)

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