Hero Indian Open ‘Moving Day’ …. But For Three Of 68 Players It Was In The Opposite Direction

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Round three of any golf tournament is commonly referred to as ‘Moving Day’.

It’s the day when those who made the halfway cut seek to make their presence felt and hopefully putting themselves in contection ahead of golf’s ‘Pay Day’.

Though was not the script on day three of the Hero Indian Open and in a scenario you rarely see in the men’s pro game all but three of 68 players who made the halfway posted under-par scores on the ultra-tough DLF host course in New Delhi.

The only players to break par was South African Brandon Stone

The other 65 players, including the two overnight day two leaders Spain’s Eugenio Chacarra and Japan’s Keita Nakajima signed for rounds over par.

Chararra’s 73 has him leading by a stroke on three-under and with Nakajima (74) tied second with South African Brandon Stone (71) on two-under.

Stone is one of just three players to break par on day three with a 71.

The other two included American Troy Merritt signing for a 71 to be sharing sixth place at level par and just three shots off the lead while South African Casey Jarvis also posting a 71 to be tied 11th at three-over.

Looking a little deeper into the scoring and among those 68 players who made the extremely high 6-over cut, just 11 have broken 70 over any of the three rounds with Nakajima shooting a day two 66, easily the lowest in the entire field of 138 players and also a score two shots fewer than three rounds of 68 with each posted on day one.

Scotland’s triple Tour winning Ewen Ferguson began his third round sharing ninth place and when he birdied the third, he was up into a tie for sixth though it would prove the highwater mark of his challenge as he doubled the sixth, and while he birdied the par-5 eighth for a third day running, Ferguson ended his round in a golfing ambulance doubling both the 16th and also the last.

His Tartan compatriot Calum Hill, and winner of last fortnight’s Joburg Open, was another.

Hill make the very high six-over cut right on the mark but with his third round a nightmare ride in signing for a seven-over 79 that included two birdies, including a birdie at the lucky 13th for a third round in succession but also on his scorecard was four bogeys, a double bogey at the eighth for a second time in three days and then a horror triple-bogey ‘8’ at 18.

 



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