Bambang, Joko win berths for Italian tour<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Bambang Sulistyo and Joko Riadi won the Audi quattro Cup amateur
\ngolf tournament at the Rancamaya Golf Course in Bogor, West Java,
\non Sunday to book their places at the world finals in Sardinia,
\nItaly, in October.<\/p>\n
The one-day tournament, which used the stableford scoring
\nsystem, featured as many as 150 amateur golfers divided into
\nflight A and flight B.<\/p>\n
Flight A saw golfers with handicaps up to 14 while flight B
\ngrouped those with handicaps between 15 to 28.<\/p>\n
Bambang scored 42 points to win the flight A category. He beat
\nclose rivals Winarso Tanu Pranoto and Firman Soma Chandra, who
\nfinished with 41 and 39 points respectively.<\/p>\n
Joko, who admitted to taking golf seriously only in the last
\ntwo years, scored 44 points in flight B, followed by Hamdi Adnan
\nwith 42 points and Ratiyan Abdurrahman with 41 points.<\/p>\n
The winners, who will be up against participants from 28
\ncountries during the championships in Italy, were elated after
\ntheir achievements.<\/p>\n
\"I had not expected I would win. I just played as well as
\npossible. I'm glad that I did it well,\" Joko, a production
\nmanager of the Jakarta-based fish-exporting company Bonecom, told
\nreporters.<\/p>\n
Bambang, 49, said consistency was the key to his win. \"Playing
\nunder the stableford system, we can't afford to lose our
\nconsistency. I just held my nerve to avoid making blunders,\" said
\nthe vice-president of Panamas Jaya, a subsidiary of cigarette
\nmaker Sampoerna.<\/p>",
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