{"id":348323,"date":"2025-08-16T05:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348323\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T05:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T05:06:26","slug":"lafeber-and-horno-to-contest-boys-amateur-final-at-county-louth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348323\/","title":{"rendered":"Lafeber and Horno to contest Boys\u2019 Amateur Final at County Louth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He did it thanks to a brilliant short game. For example, he ran his approach shot through the green at the par-4 10th, finishing 30 yards past the flag and facing a tricky pitch over a mound in the green. With Stendahl just off the green but 20 feet from the hole, the Sotogrande member looked like going one down. However, he played a brilliant flop shot to within two feet of the hole for a half.<br \/>\n\u201cMy short game has kept me in a lot of holes and matches this week,\u201d he admitted. \u201cIt\u2019s something I work really hard on.\u201d<br \/>\nThat much was obvious on the 18th. Holding a one-hole advantage and with Stendahl ten feet away for birdie, Horno pitched into the hole from 40 yards short and right of the green for eagle to book his place in the Final.<br \/>\nSpanish history<br \/>\nWhen told about past winners Olazabal (1983) and Garcia (1997), Horno smiled and said, \u201cI hope I can play well to win like them.\u201d<br \/>\nHorno would be the ninth Spanish winner, and first since Adrian Otaegui won in 2010.<br \/>\nStendhal was earlier involved in perhaps the greatest match in the history of the Boys\u2019 Amateur. He ran out a 2&amp;1 winner over joint-leading qualifier Callixte Alzas of France in the quarter-finals, a match with an eclectic score of ten-under-par for the first eight holes.<br \/>\nStendahl was two-under for the first three holes and found himself three down because Alzas started birdie, eagle, eagle. Stendahl made six consecutive birdies from the second hole and was only all-square. He was six-under for his first seven holes. Alzas was seven-under through eight.<br \/>\nThey would eventually record 12 birdies and two eagles. It&#8217;s a match that will long be talked about at County Louth, especially by those lucky enough to witness it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He did it thanks to a brilliant short game. For example, he ran his approach shot through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-348323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115036709484518282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}