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Lahiri up 2 getting into remaining spherical at LIV Golf Virginia
Pursuing his first particular person win with LIV Golf, Anirban Lahiri of India performed a bogey-free second spherical at 7-under 64 on Saturday and holds a two-shot lead at LIV Golf Virginia on Saturday in Gainesville, Va.
A runner-up 4 instances with LIV Golf, Lahiri sank seven birdies and made a 39-foot par putt on No. 16, then completed sturdy with a par on No. 18 after touchdown within the tough. On the 18th, he needed to stand up and down from a distance of greater than 100 yards.
“Yeah, these felt like birdies as properly,” Lahiri mentioned of his spectacular end to the day at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership. “I believe the primary 15 holes was about as stable as I may have performed. I missed a number of putts and I nonetheless made numerous birdies. Then 16, I used to be making an attempt to hit like an in-between 9-iron and I attempted to compress it somewhat bit an excessive amount of, and everybody else noticed what occurred. It was good to make that putt.”
Veterans Bubba Watson, Martin Kaymer and Graeme McDowell—who’re additionally chasing their first particular person LIV Golf win—are at 9-under par getting into Sunday’s remaining spherical, simply two pictures behind the chief.
On the crew entrance, Lahiri and Bryson DeChambeau have the Crushers GC at 21 below par, one up on McDowell’s Smash GC squad and properly forward of the opposite foursomes.
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Diksha stays inside prime 10 after third spherical
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar carded a fair par 72 to carry her place inside the prime 10 after the third spherical of the Tenerife Girls’s Open at Abama Golf.
Diksha was five-under for 3 days and is positioned sole ninth within the standings. She is three pictures behind the chief Sara Kouskova (69) at eighth-under.
The opposite Indian to make the reduce in Tenerife, Avani Prashanth, performed a fair par third spherical and is now positioned at forty third on the leaderboard.
Diksha began her day with a birdie on the primary gap earlier than dropping pictures on the sixth and eighth holes by the point she was hallway by the spherical.
On the again 9, Diksha picked up a shot on the tenth gap earlier than dropping one again on the thirteenth and choosing up yet one more on the sixteenth to verify she remains to be positioned within the High-10.
Avani began her spherical with back-to-back birdies on the tenth and eleventh holes after which dropped a double bogey on the sixteenth. On the entrance 9 she dropped two extra pictures on the primary gap with one other double bogey earlier than choosing them again up on the third and sixth holes.
She would drop a shot instantly on the seventh after which birdie the eighth to shut the day with a par rating on a roller-coaster day.
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Talwar continues good run in Switzerland
India’s Saptak Talwar produced a robust end with 4 birdies within the final 5 holes to card a three-under 68 within the third spherical and transfer to tied sixteenth on the Swiss Problem in Lucerne.
Talwar, who shot 69-69 on the primary two days, added a 68 on the third to get to seven-under. He’s six pictures behind chief, Tobias Jonsson of Sweden, who carded 67 on Day 3.
Having began the spherical on the entrance 9, Talwar was bogey free for the primary 12 holes at Golf Sempach. On the thirteenth gap he dropped his solely shot of the day.
Nonetheless, the Indian star, who gained his breakthrough occasion at house earlier this 12 months, birdied 4 instances in final 5 holes. He picked back-to-back birdies on the 14th and fifteenth holes and on the seventeenth and 18th holes as properly. His whole rating now stands at seven-under
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