The 4th tournament of the Eimskip series, The Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play, took place this past week, July 26th-29th 2012.<\/p>\n
Icelandic Champions in Stroke Play are Haraldur Frankl\u00edn Magn\u00fas<\/strong>, from Golf Club Reykjav\u00edk (abbreviated GR) and Vald\u00eds \u00de\u00f3ra J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, from Golf Club Leynir (abbreviated GL) in Akranes.<\/p>\n The Championship this year was exciting to say the least.<\/p>\n In the Women\u00b4s flight the final contestants were 3: Vald\u00eds \u00de\u00f3ra and Anna S\u00f3lveig Snorrad\u00f3ttir<\/strong> and Tinna J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir,<\/strong> the two latter mentioned from Golf Club Keilir (abbreviated GK) in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. \u00a0The results weren\u00b4t decided untill on the 18th hole. At tee off Anna S\u00f3lveig had a 1 stroke lead; she only had to make par to win the tournament or get bogey to force a playoff, provided the either one of the other two got birdie. \u00a0But she ended with a double bogey and Tinna J\u00f3hansd\u00f3ttir with a bogey so Vald\u00eds \u00de\u00f3ra who made par won the Championship.<\/p>\n It was pretty much the same in the Men\u00b4s flight. R\u00fanar Arn\u00f3rsson<\/strong>\u00a0from GK had the lead, a 1 stroke one, on the 15th hole, but Haraldur Frankl\u00edn Magn\u00fas, GR, \u00a0made birdie on the 16th hole (only one of 2 in his round of 2 under par) whereas R\u00fanar got a bogey and then Haraldur Frankl\u00edn went into a 1 stroke lead which he maintained for the next two holes and won. By winning he became the first of his club GR to do so in 27 years.<\/p>\n Haraldur Franklin\u00b4s victory score was a 7 under par, 273 strokes (67 74 64 68) \u00a0score and Vald\u00eds \u00de\u00f3ra\u00b4s was a 13 over par, 293 strokes (71 75 72 75).<\/p>\n Both will be studying and playing golf in the US next year, Haraldur Franklin as a freshman at Mississippi State ane Vald\u00eds \u00de\u00f3ra will continue at Texas State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 4th tournament of the Eimskip series, The Icelandic Championship in Stroke Play, took place this past week, July 26th-29th 2012. Icelandic Champions in Stroke Play are Haraldur Frankl\u00edn Magn\u00fas, from Golf Club Reykjav\u00edk (abbreviated GR) and Vald\u00eds \u00de\u00f3ra J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, from Golf Club Leynir (abbreviated GL) in Akranes. The Championship this year was exciting to say the least. In the Women\u00b4s flight the final contestants were 3: Vald\u00eds \u00de\u00f3ra and Anna S\u00f3lveig Snorrad\u00f3ttir and Tinna J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir, the two latter mentioned from Golf Club Keilir (abbreviated GK) in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. \u00a0The results weren\u00b4t decided untill on the 18th hole. At tee off Anna S\u00f3lveig had a 1 stroke lead; she only had Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1269,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}