MPO

Imperial Anttila! As if it were Miron's discus thrower, the young Finnish player has delighted us with an impeccable game at the PDGA EuroTour — Swedish Open presented by Kastaplast, with moments of the highest quality such as the "almost ace" on the 11th hole: a very high turnover that even reminded us a bit of the "Holy Shot" of James Conrad.

But the truth is that he was not the only one: the almost unknown internationally Dennis Augustsson (Sweden) had no doubts when it came to fighting face-to-face with the European Champion, being tied at -8 in the round at the height of hole 14, with which the two were clearly distancing themselves in the general classification. 

The rain got worse towards the end of the round, and some players who had not had the best of performances in the first round showed up at the clubhouse with spectacular cards, almost dry clothes, and more time to rest. Watch out for them tomorrow! Jakub Semerád climbed 36 positions to seventh, tied with his compatriot Jakub Knápek, and Bradley Williams sneaked into the lead card, tying with the also American Clay Edwards and the Finn Joona Heinänen, with quality to spare to be very high.

Paul McBeth

In this way, we reached the area around holes 15 to 18, which are proving to be complicated and very prone to changes in the classification. Paul McBeth found himself again, and his motivation grew as he saw how he closed the gap with the head of 7 to 3 hits. His drives were more accurate, leaving somewhat closer putts with which he managed to convert more birdies, and his only two bogeys were two OBs caused by unfortunate bounces with trees since he opted to disc up due to the slippery nature of some tees due to the incessant rain.

The imperturbable Augustsson gave way in the last third of the round, with no birdies, a bogey, and a double bogey, to drop to provisional third position.

So we have a very solid Niklas Anttila, Paul McBeth chasing him with extra motivation and only 3 strokes from distance. Doesn't that sound like Konopiste two weeks ago? The battle then was epic, and Sunday's will be no less!

FPO

An ace erases all bad thoughts! That's what Estonian Marianne Must should be thinking after her beautiful hole-in-one on the 17th, although it wasn't enough to correct a discreet round that dropped her six places to eight in moving day at PDGA Euro Tour Swedish Open presented by Kastaplast.

Something similar happened to the Swedish Amanda Lennartsson, who gave us some brilliant moments like that hill putt on the 11th hole, but she didn't find her game and moved 13 places away from the leading card she played today.

Who went up? Well, we have a nice triple tie in fifth position between Kajsa Wahl (Sweden), Jenni Karpinnen (Finland), who has not just achieved the necessary regularity in the three rounds to qualify for the final victory, and the one who was the leader in the first half of yesterday's round, the local Matilda Ringbom.

Ahead and already in lead card positions, Lykke Lorentzen (Norway), who started scaring with -4 in the first 5 holes to finish the round at -1 and tie for third position at +1 withanother habitual, Sofie Björlycke who follows the trick of regularity and will fight tomorrow for the bronze medal.

A bit in no man's -or woman's -land with -3 is the Norwegian Anniken Steen, who masterfully recovered from a +3 in the first four holesto finish -2 in the round and -3 in the general that she will fight to maintain in the last day.

The one who seems to play in another league is Silva Saarinen! The Finn continues to achieve rounds close to 1,000 points and obtains an overwhelming advantage of 8 strokes over the Norwegian. After her start to the season in the United States, she has played little in Europe but always achieved good results, and her schedule is still quite limited: she will play next week in Skellefteå and then the European Championship and the World Championship.