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Vani finishes tied eighth in Aramco Sequence, 16-year-old Chiara wins title
Jeddah: India’s Vani Kapoor closed the week with a birdie-birdie end for a strong card of 3-under 69 on the Aramco Sequence – Jeddah and register a second straight high 10 end on the Girls European Tour.
The tied eighth end in Jeddah, on her Aramco Sequence debut with 8-under 208 complete, got here on the heels of an analogous end on the Hero Ladies’s Indian Open.
The opposite Indians had been means behind with Amandeep Drall (72) in tied forty ninth, Diksha Dagar (74) in tied 58th and Tvesa Malik (73) in tied 63rd place.
Vani, taking part in with the skilled Lee Ann Tempo, birdied second and fourth, however dropped a shot in between on the third.
Eighth pars adopted earlier than a birdie and a bogey on thirteenth and 14th, at which level she was 1-under for the ultimate spherical. She birdied seventeenth and 18th for a nice end and a high 10 consequence forward of the Tour Championships.
In the meantime, 16-year-old Chiara Noja, a highschool senior primarily based in Dubai, claimed her maiden victory on the LET following a sensational play-off towards her childhood idol, Charley Hull.
Noja matched the match low of 65 within the last spherical at Royal Greens Golf & Nation Membership to safe her place within the play-off whereas Hull produced 4 birdies in her final six holes to tie with Noja on 13-under-par in common play.
Regardless of the strain on the younger schoolgirl, Noja had back-to-back birdies within the play-off, to safe the victory and the USD 75,000 first prize.
Nicole Garcia additionally entertained the gang on 18 with an eagle from off the inexperienced to safe sole third place. She additionally led her crew to victory right here in Jeddah, her second crew championship win as captain.
Jeddah marks the tip of the 2022 Aramco Workforce Sequence following occasions in Bangkok, London, Sotogrande, and New York.Â
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Shubhankar strikes into competition after three rounds
Solar Metropolis, South Africa:
Shubhankar Sharma of India put himself in competition with a spherical of 3-under 69 that took him to 6-under for 3 rounds and positioned him tied seventh on the Nedbank Golf Problem right here.
Sharma, who after his runner-up end in Abu Dhabi initially of the 12 months, had struggled appears to have discovered kind in South Africa, the place he gained one in all his two European Tour titles.
Ranging from tenth, Sharma opened with an eagle and birdie adopted by two bogeys after which two birdies as he had no pars in his first six holes. A par on seventh was adopted by a birdie on eighth as he turned in 4-under, however bogeys on first and eighth pulled him again.
He closed with a birdie on ninth, his last gap for the day to be tied seventh.
Thomas Detry and Rasmus Højgaard shared a one-shot lead on a day when the 66-player area confronted an early begin to full spherical two after unhealthy climate hit Solar Metropolis on second day.
Detry produced a blistering begin and end to his third spherical, signing for a five-under-par 67. That took the Belgian – who’s chasing a maiden DP World Tour title – to 9 below for the week, the place he was joined by Dane Højgaard after his third successive 69.
Tommy Fleetwood with three 70s was six-under and seemed set to make a last day problem forward of the DP World Tour Championship subsequent month.
Detry began his third spherical on the tenth and birdied his opening two holes earlier than selecting up one other shot on the 14th. Two bogies and one other achieve adopted in his subsequent 10 holes earlier than he reeled off three birdies to complete.
Three-time DP World Tour winner Højgaard additionally made a fast begin with a birdie on the second however, after dropping photographs on the fourth and eighth, his spherical kicked into life on the ninth when he rolled in an eagle putt from 14 ft, including two additional birdies on the again 9 to affix Detry on the summit.
South Africans Thriston Lawrence and Branden Grace had been at eight below par, whereas European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald and one other dwelling favorite in Christiaan Bezuidenhout had been two photographs additional again.
Defending champion Fleetwood and DP World Rankings quantity two Ryan Fox had been at six-under alongside Sharma.Â
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Ajeetesh Sandhu shoots 5-under to rise to twenty first after three rounds in Egypt
Cairo: India’s Ajeetesh Sandhu fired 4 birdies in his final 5 holes for a 5-under 65 that noticed him rise to tied twenty first on the finish of the third spherical of the USD1.5 million Worldwide Sequence Egypt right here.
Sandhu, who shot 70-69 within the first two rounds to be tied forty sixth, is now the highest Indian on the leaderboard.
Viraj Madappa (70) was tied thirty ninth, whereas six-time Asian Tour winner SSP Chawrasia (71) was tied forty third alongside S Chikkarangappa (71) and Gaganjeet Bhullar was tied 61st.
Former US Beginner champion Andy Ogletree continued to place collectively the most effective performances of his brief skilled profession when he took the third-round lead.
The American, helped by an excellent birdie-eagle end, shot a five-under-par 65 to achieve 15 below for the match and open up a three-shot lead from Austrian Bernd Wiesberger, who additionally made a nice eagle on 18 for a 65 of his personal, and second-round chief Richard T. Lee from Canada (69).
Final 12 months’s US Beginner champion American James Piot (64) and his compatriots Jarin Todd (67) and Sihwan Kim (68), Thailand’s Promenade Meesawat (66) and Jinichiro Kozuma from Japan (68) are tied for fourth, 4 behind the chief.
Ogletree began one again from Lee however pulled forward of the pack with three birdies on the trot from the fifth and narrowly stayed forward of a crowded chief board all day till his improbable end.
He holed a 12-footer for birdie on the par-five seventeenth earlier than reaching the 345-yard par-five 18th in a single with an attention-grabbing drive earlier than he holed out from 30 ft.
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