Forrest Grabs A Hat Trick, Parry & Herbert Lead As Pepperrel Misses Out On New Electic Motor

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Grant Forrest grabbed a hat-trick of birdies to be the leading Scot at three-under after the opening round of the co-sanctioned Magical Kenya Open.

Forrest, 31, posted a three-under 68 to be trailing five shots behind the leading duo of England’s John Parry and Frenchman Benjamin Herbert who signed for 63s on the 5,500-foot host Muthaiga course in Nairobi.

Parry continued his pre-Festive Season start to the new 2024/25 wraparound season, sharing second at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa early in December before ending a 15-year Tour winless drought with success at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open a week later.

Parry said:  “I just keep doing the same things that worked last year and hopefully they’ll keep working for the rest of the year. I think if I keep doing that the results will come.”

Forrest’s score is a ninth Kenya Open round in the 60s among his now 13 rounds since a maiden 2018 Kenya Open appearance, capped with a closing 65 to share 11th place when he was last in Kenya two years ago.

Fifer Connor Syme struggled with a level par 70 while Callum Hill and Daniel Young signed for 72s and David Law a 74.

And England’s Eddie Pepperell missed out on a new electric car having started his round from the 10th hole and recording bogey, ace and bogey and with the car up-for-graps at the next, the par-3 13th.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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