Robert Moran shot a final-round five-under 67 to earn a share of eighth place at the weather affected 2025 Tunisian Golf Open on the Alps Tour, but it was Spain’s Alvaro Hernandez Cabezuela who stole the show with a blistering 10 birdies and a 62 to secure a two-stroke win.
Extreme winds forced the suspension and eventual cancellation of Thursday’s opening round, meaning the tournament would be decided over 36 holes. Moran (71), Hugh Foley (73), Michael Young and Ronan Mullarney (74s) all made the cut after 18 holes where the winds had subsided considerably but still gusted heavily, but in calmer final-round conditions, the golf course was there to be taken on.
Moran carded six birdies – two on the front and four on the back – but a bogey at 14 and failure to take advantage of the par-5 closing hole cost him a first top-five finish of the 2025 season.
Foley, who had a T10 and a T3 finish in his previous three Alps Tour starts in his rookie season as a professional, matched Moran’s final-round tally, but the Royal Dublin man was quicker out of the traps with four birdies on the front and two on the back, dropping a shot on the par-5 15th and settling for a T16 finish.
Young shot a closing 69 to finish tied for 33rd, while Mullarney’s 73 left him tied for 51st.
Hernandez, who began the day one shot off the lead, reeled off five birdies-in-a-row starting on the second to take control, and never let up, adding another before the turn and four more on the back to secure a two-stroke win at -13.
It’s his second win of the 2025 campaign and he opens up a near-5,000-point advantage at the top of the Alps Tour Order of Merit.
At ninth, Mullarney remains the highest-ranked Irishman, with Foley moving into the top 10 and Moran climbing to 16th.
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