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Barbasol C’Ship: Atwal cut, placed 46th in the middle of the third round
India’s Arjun Atwal came through and was knocked out 2 under 7 holes when play was halted following heavy rain at the Barbasol Championships in Kentucky.
Atwal is 7-under through 43 holes and is located at 46.
Atwal hit loops 70-69 the first two days and made the cut on the rope. In the third round, he opened with a bird and another when the match was stopped.
Max McGreevy took a one-stroke lead after playing just three holes of the third inning.
The second round of the tournament was completed on Saturday morning as the tee time on Friday afternoon was delayed by 5 and a half hours due to fog and lightning.
The third round was suspended for four and a half hours on Saturday afternoon due to more than 2.5 inches of rain in Nicholasville.
Matti Schmid, rookie of the year at the 2021 DP World Tour, shared an over 16 lead on par with McGreevy at the end of the second round after both beat them by nine points under 63.
Both Schmid and McGreevy won the first hole of the third round after teeing off at 8pm, but the German dropped a shot on the second hole and now shares second place with Canada’s Adam Svensson .
Taking another step back was Ricardo Gouveia above 15 below par, who also played three holes in his third round.
In 5th place out of 14 is the American trio of Trey Mullinax, Sean O’Hair and Kevin Streelman.
Winners of the Barbasol Championship will receive exemptions on both the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR, as well as a final spot at The 150th Open in St Andrews next week via The Open Qualifying Series.
-PTI
Estrella Damm Ladies Open: Amandeep Drall shoots 71 to improve 32nd place in Spain
Indian golfer Amandeep Drall continued her steady streak at the Estrella Damm Ladies Open as she hit 1 under 71 to advance to T-32 after round 3 of the Ladies European Tour event.
Amandeep, who was tied in 34th place after day two, is currently 1 under 215 in three innings.
The only other Indian to make it through, Vani Kapoor is 3 out of 219 after hitting 1 over 74. She is currently T-50.
Vanilla started in ninth place and suffered a double on the 18th.
Overall, she has three birdies in 12th, 16th and second and her other three games are 11th, 14th and nineth at 1 to 74.
Four other Indians Diksha Dagar, Tvesa Malik, Neha Tripathi and Ridhima Dilavari skated.
The Spaniard, Carlota Ciganda, had four points under 68 to lead over 16 under after three rounds.
Looking for a win, the 2019 tournament champion is leading four strokes ahead of Swedish pair Maja Stark and Sofie Bringner to advance to the final round at Club de Golf Terramar in Sitges.
34-year-old Ciganda started off strong with a birdie on the first hole and went on to hit three birdies in a row from the sixth hole with a perfect nine of four under par 33. She went home at 35 with nine points. stability. syntax analysis.
24-year-old Bringner shot down the tournament in the eighth round under par 64 on Tuesday while Stark, who led the LET Race to Costa del Sol, scored 67.
22-year-old Stark, who has won the LET twice this season, went out at par 37 but turned the heat with three birdies and an eagle in her final seven holes to return in 30.
Magdalena Simmermacher from Argentina, who has a 68 card, sits in fourth, followed by Scotland’s Laura Beveridge in fifth on 10 under par.
Sweden’s Jessica Karlsson and Spain’s Nuria Iturrioz are sixth out of eight under par, with five other players tied for eighth out of seven.
– PTI
