Law Looking To Regroup Heading To RAK Final Round

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... Fatiha Betscher, Al Hamra, RAK 

Scotland’s David Law saw a three-shot lead early on day three end in being three behind heading to the last round of the inaugural Ras Al Khaimah Championship in the northern-most UAE emirate.

Law, 30, was well in command on the stunning Al Hamra course albeit for the three closing holes when hotshot Danish twin Nicolai Hojgaard muscled his way past the Scot thanks to three closing birdies in an eight-under-par 64.

Hojgaard leads at 20-under par and with Law shooting a 69 to be lying second on 17-under-par on the course laid out close to the Arabian Sea.

The 21-year-old Hojgaard and reigning Italian Open champs, 54-hole effort is already three more than at the 2018 Challenge Tour Grand Final on the same course when Spaniard Adri Arnaus won by 17-under-par.

Arnaus is competing in the Asian Tour’s Saudi International and posted a day three 69 to move to second place at 11-under and one behind American Harold Varner 111, who signed for 68 and a 12-under total on a windy Red Sea shoreline layout.

Law headed to the last, and guarded by the waters of the Arabian Sea all down the right, just one behind Hojgaard but leaked his second shot, and from the middle of the fairway, left and just 70-yards into the tree line.

The Aberdonian laid-up 105-yard shy of the flag before a two-shot turnaround in Hojgaard’s favour when he two-putted from 40-feet for birdie while Law walked off with a bogey ‘6’ in a round of 69.

It gave the Dane a closing a birdie hat-trick and his three-shot leading cushion.

It is four days shy of three years since Law sensationally captured a maiden Tour title at the co-sanctioned by holing a fairway shot for an eagle to win the co-sanctioned ISPS Handa Vic Open in Australia.

Law is going to need a similar last-day scenario if he’s to deny his talented rival.

He said: “It’s annoying to finish like that.  I played pretty well until the last four holes, and then I struggled.

“I played really well, felt comfortable. It wasn’t a great start to my round but I settled down with the birdies on three and four, and I played well from then on.  “There were a lot of positives I can take from today and a lot of things to take into tomorrow.

“It’s just that it would have been nick a birdie there at the last and be closer to Nicolai but it didn’t work out that way”

Oban lefty Robert MacIntyre continues to be in good spirits moving into a share of fifth place in grabbing six birdies in a bogey-free 66 to be just three of the pace at 14-under-par.

He said: “I have been doing stuff this season that has not been working, so this week I’ve gone back to playing golf they I like it, and that’s shaping the shots into holes, and it works.

“It’s the way I know how to play golf.  We’ve talked about it a lot but trying to get the perfect golf swing sometimes doesn’t fit the person.  I feel we have worked that out and we’ve started to learn to know the way I know how to swing a club and it’s working now”.

Of interest is that MacIntyre’s long-time coach, Davy Burns was earlier this week in Saudi Arabia working with talented Jordanian-born Brit Shergo Al Kurdi

 

 

 

 

 



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