Saturday, May 14, 2016

Jamie McLeary slumps to an 81 in European Tour event

Dodt's third-round 77 opens door for 

Mauritius Open rivals
FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Siddikur Rahman took advantage of a late collapse from Andrew Dodt to claim the third-round lead at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.
Dodt came into the day with a three-shot lead and had extended that to five at one point but he came home in 43 to sign for a 77 and open the door for the rest of the field.
Siddikur capitalised as he recorded a 69 at Four Seasons Golf Club at Anahita to get to seven under and open up a one-shot lead over Trophée Hassan II champion Jeunghun Wang, with Dodt and Nicolas Colsaerts both four shots off the lead.
Australian Scott Hend was then at one under after a 69, a shot clear of South African Brandon Stone whose 68 was the low round of the day.

A win for Siddikur would be his first on the European Tour while victory for Wang would be his second in as many weeks after his triumph in Morocco just six days ago.
"I really enjoyed my round today," said Siddkur. "It was a very special day for me."
"I am very excited and I will try to enjoy myself tomorrow. One more day to go. Nothing's going to change. I'll just try and play the same way as I did for the last few days. I am looking forward to playing in the leader group again tomorrow."
Things started well for Dodt and when he put approaches close on the sixth and seventh for birdies and Wang dropped a shot on the eighth, the Australian led by five.
The South Korean had earlier birdied the second and he picked up a second gain of the day on the ninth before adding another on the tenth. Dodt bogeyed the same hole to see his lead slip to two shots and the leader ran into big trouble on the 13th.
He found an unplayable lie in a bush and had to drop into thick rough resulting in a double-bogey before another dropped shot on the next handed Wang the lead.
Siddikur, meanwhile, was keeping himself in the hunt with birdies on the first, fourth and 11th and a single dropped shot on the fifth, and when Wang bogeyed the 15th the Bangladeshi was in a share of top spot.

Dodt surrendered another double-bogey on the same hole and he dropped alongside Colsaerts, who was then within two of the lead.
The big-hitting Belgian - who is attached to the Four Seasons and had used all his local knowledge to fire a brilliant 65 on Friday - turned in 37 after a double-bogey on the eighth and dropped another shot on the 12th before back-to-back birdies.
More drama was to come on the 16th as Colsaerts, Wang and Dodt all dropped shots but Siddikur hit a brilliant three wood close and opened up a two-shot lead.
"The highlight today and possibly the highlight for me so far this week is on 16," Siddikur added. "I had a great drive and I hit my second shot with my three wood from 225 yards into the wind from left to right before sinking an eight-footer for birdie. That was by far my best birdie for the week."
A birdie on the last from Wang cut the gap to one and just five players will head into the final round under par as the windy conditions continue to provide a tough test in the Indian Ocean.
SCOTSWATCH. Jamie McLeary slumped to a third-round 81 for 231 and has nobody behind him on the scoreboard with 18 holes to play. The only way is up for the Scot

SCOREBOARD
par 216 (3x72)
1 Siddikur Rahman 68 72 69



209
2 Jeung-hun Wang 69 70 71



210
T3 Nicolas Colsaerts 75 65 73



213
T3 Andrew Dodt 66 70 77



213
5 Scott Hend 72 74 69



215
6 Brandon Stone 73 75 68



216
T7 Estanislao Goya 69 79 69



217
T7 Lionel Weber 74 71 72



217
T7 Oliver Bekker 75 69 73



217
T7 Jaco Ahlers 71 72 74



217
T11 Richard McEvoy 71 74 73



218
T11 Rhys West 73 71 74



218
T11 Masahiro Kawamura 72 72 74



218
T14 Rashid Khan 68 81 70



219
T14 Adrian Otaegui 77 71 71



219
T14 Jyoti Randhawa 73 75 71



219
T14 Jason Scrivener 71 77 71



219
T14 Miguel Tabuena 77 71 71



219
T14 Adilson Da Silva 74 73 72



219
T14 Natipong Srithong 70 76 73



219
T14 Daniel Gavins 74 72 73



219
T14 Terry Pilkadaris 74 72 73



219
T14 Chris Hanson 72 73 74



219
T14 Ryan Evans 71 73 75



219
T25 Jack Harrison 72 78 70



220
T25 Rahil Gangjee 73 76 71



220
T25 Danie Van Tonder 72 75 73



220
T25 Haydn Porteous 73 73 74



220
T25 Jaco Van Zyl 71 72 77



220
T25 Ruan de Smidt 71 72 77



220
T25 Ross McGowan 75 67 78



220
T32 Thitiphun Chuayprakong 71 77 73



221
T32 Panupol Pittayarat 72 77 72



221
T32 Ryan Fox 73 75 73



221
T32 Louis De Jager 71 76 74



221
T32 Jazz Janewattananond 74 73 74



221
T32 Carlos Pigem 75 72 74



221
T32 Stuart Manley 71 76 74



221
T32 Ulrich Van Den Berg 73 73 75



221
T32 Scott Vincent 74 71 76



221
T41 Arjun Atwal 73 76 73



222
T41 Rourke van der Spuy 74 74 74



222
T41 Keith Horne 73 74 75



222
T41 Vaughn Groenewald 74 73 75



222
T41 Phachara Khongwatman 73 73 76



222
T41 Berry Henson 72 72 78



222
T41 Edoardo Molinari 72 72 78



222
T48 Lyle Rowe 74 76 73



223
T48 Daniel Chopra 76 74 73



223
T48 Nino Bertasio 75 74 74



223
T48 David Dixon 74 73 76



223
T48 Wallie Coetsee 71 75 77



223
T48 Chiragh Kumar 70 76 77



223
T54 Brett Munson 75 75 74



224
T54 Matthew Southgate 72 75 77



224
T54 George Coetzee 71 74 79



224
T54 Hennie Otto 71 72 81



224
T58 Sam Brazel 73 76 76



225
T58 Lukas Nemecz 73 73 79



225
T58 Himmat Singh Rai 73 73 79



225
T58 Paul Peterson 72 73 80



225
T62 Dean Burmester 72 78 76



226
T62 Soomin Lee 75 74 77



226
T62 Christiaan Basson 72 75 79



226
T65 Jbe' Kruger 70 79 78



227
T65 Christofer Blomstrand 74 74 79



227
T65 Mardan Mamat 72 76 79



227
T65 Jeev Milkha Singh 73 74 80



227
T65 Richard T. Lee 73 73 81



227
70 Chien-yao Hung 76 74 78



228
71 Jean Hugo 74 76 80



230
T72 Samuel Cyr 73 77 81



231
T72   Jamie McLeary 76 74 81



231
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