Ronan Mullarney and Hugh Foley will contest the third and final round of the Parma Alps Open at Golf del Ducato Percorso La Rocca Parma in Italy, but they are a distance from the top of the leaderboard where there is a three-way tie for the 36-hole lead.
There is a lot at stake for Mullarney in the penultimate event on the 2025 Alps Tour schedule as he came into the week fourth in the Order of Merit and the top five players earning HotelPlanner Tour cards. Less than 400 points separate fourth from sixth, however, so making the cut was essential and an opening round of 71 left him on -1 and sharing 32nd.
An opening bogey was far from ideal but birdies on seven and eight got him to the turn in red figures, and he added another on the par-3 15th and parred the other eight on the back side to card a two-under 70 and move up three places to T29.
Foley’s rookie pro season could yet result in promotion but he’ll need to win the season-ending Grand Final which offers double points to push his way into the top five.
After an opening 70, the Royal Dublin man had something of a Jekyll and Hyde round two. Starting on the 10th, he birdied the 11th, 12th and 13th, then double bogeyed the 14th. He then bogeyed four of the holes on the front side, birdieing the first and eagling the seventh to end up with a level-par 72 and share 39th.
Robert Moran and Marc Boucher both missed the cut, but at the top of the leaderboard, Italy’s Jacopo Vecchi Fossa, Spain’s Javier Barcos, and France’s Paul Franquet share the lead at 12-under-par. Barcos and Fossa are first and third respectively in the Order of Merit, while Spain’s Asier Aguirre Izcue who lies tied for fourth at -9 is one of the players who could overtake Mullarney with a win this week.
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