The winner in the Stroke Play part was Helgi Birkir \u00de\u00f3risson<\/strong>, GSE (G<\/strong>olf Club of Se<\/strong>tberg in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Iceland). \u00a0He played Sandger\u00f0i\u00b4s golf course which is called Kirkjub\u00f3lsv\u00f6llur and is a par-72 course in 1 under par, 71 strokes.<\/p>\n Second place in the Stroke Play part was claimed by \u00c1sgeir Eir\u00edksson<\/strong>, GSG (Golf Club of Sandger\u00f0i) who played even par, 72 strokes. \u00a0Eir\u00edksson is a 5 handicaper and he also won the Stabbleford points part of the tournament, received 41 points – 5 more points then the next competitor and thus won by a large margin.<\/p>\n Among the women Berglj\u00f3t Kristinsd\u00f3ttir,<\/strong> GKG (G<\/strong>olf Club of K<\/strong>\u00f3pavogur and G<\/strong>ar\u00f0ab\u00e6r) won. She played Kirkjub\u00f3lsv\u00f6lur in 85 strokes and got 32 points.<\/p>\n Berglj\u00f3t Kristinsd\u00f3ttir GKG (second from left) and \u00c1sgeir Eir\u00edksson (second from right) were among the winners in Sandger\u00f0i yesterday. Standing beside them were their playing partnes that day Andres I Gudmundsson (farthest to the left) and Baldur Vi\u00f0ar Baldarusson (to the right). Photo: Golf 1<\/p><\/div>\n For both 1st place (in both the Stroke Play part and the Stabbleford points part) there was a prize of 15.000,- Icelandic kronas (approximately $ 120) a check to buy golf equipment from Golfb\u00fa\u00f0in in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, one of Iceland 3 largest stores selling everything necessary to cater \u00a0to golfers needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It must come as a surprise that golftournaments are being held in Iceland in the middle of winter in a temperature of 0\u00b0 Celsius \/ 32 Fahrenheit). \u00a0The road from Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur to Sandger\u00f0i was so slippery that when Golf 1\u00b4s reporter drove it, she passed by 3 car accidents, where cars had weered off the icy road. Yet, it is not astonishing that a golftournment is being held, once conditions to have one reach the minimum, considering the huge amount of interest there is in playing golf in Iceland. In yesterday\u00b4s (January 12th 2013) golftournament in Sandger\u00f0i 94 golfers (thereof 7 women) competed in Stroke play and according to the 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-57424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1295,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57424","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=57424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Berglj\u00f3t](\"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1-GSG-630x472.jpg\")
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