Sam Murphy shot a closing two-under round of 70 to finish tied for 37th in the Alps Tour’s Gosser Open in Austria while Hugh Foley took four strokes more to slip to T48.
Murphy, who got his professional career off to a flying start by claiming victory in the season-opening Elin Bay Open in Egypt, started his final round on the 10th and birdied two of the first four holes before closing out the side with back-to-back bogeys.
He then birdied three of the final nine holes with one dropped shot to end the week on five-under-par and he drops one place to 11th on the Order of Merit.
Foley, with a best finish of tied for 25th this season, paid the price for a triple bogey-seven on his 13th hole having made three birdies and two bogeys to that point.
Though he missed the cut for just the second time in eight Alps Tour starts this season, Robert Moran hangs on to third place in the rankings with five HotelPlanner Tour cards on offer for the leading five players at the end of the season.
Spain’s Alejandro Rodriguez stormed to the top of the leaderboard with a bogey-free 66 and it was enough to secure a one-stroke win over Italian duo Filippo Grossi and Andrea Romano and Frenchman Augustin Hole.
Austrian amatuer Jakob Lotschak who held sole possession of the lead with 18 holes to go could only manage a 71 and finished tied for seventh.
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