Maiden win for Rasmus Hjelm in Denmark

Rodding/Denmark (mat) – Rasmus Hjelm from Denmark is the winner of the 2010 Danfoss Masters. The 25 year old from Aalborg/Denmark celebrated his maiden win as a Golf professional when he fired rounds of 68, 70 and 68 on the par 72 course of the Royal Oak Golf Club in Rodding in his home country. After 54 holes he was two shots ahead of Swede Joonas Granberg (69, 68, 71 / -8), Germany’s Dennis Küpper shared 3rd place with Scotsman Paul O’Hara, Morten Hedegaard from Denmark and Dutchman Tim Sluiter – they all played 7 under par.

The Danfoss Masters was a co-sanctioned tournament of both the Danish Ecco-Tour and the EPD Tour, presenting a total prize money of 36,500 euro. The winner’s purse was 5913 euro.

„That was a fantastic tournament. The greens were in excellent condition and this was a major reason for my good performance“, the winner said (picture on the right). “My putting is very good since a few weeks already and this really paid off this week.” Hjelm started to play professional golf in 2009.

With the Danfoss Masters 10 of 20 tournaments of the 2010 EPD Tour season are finished – and the next event starts on Monday already with the Licher Classic in Germany. Defending Champion is Marcel Haremza (Germany).