Denmark’s Thorbjørn Olesen will take a four-stroke lead into the ultimate spherical of the Ras Al Khaimah Championship as he bids for an eighth DP World Tour win.
The 2018 Ryder Cup star adopted Friday’s course record-equalling ten-under-par 62 with a nine-under 63 to steer on 22-under from fellow Dane Rasmus Højgaard, whose 68 included an important 18-foot par-saving putt on the 18th.
“I believed as we speak I performed so much higher (than yesterday),” Olesen stated. “I hit much more fairways as we speak, and that gave me the prospect to be aggressive with the second photographs.
“It was good to search out so many fairways. It was an important spherical once more.
“I’ll play roughly the identical. You may have a man like Rasmus behind you and something can occur together with his firepower.
“You must maintain centered, do your individual factor. It’s by no means going to be straightforward, however I’m going to strive my hardest.”
Olsen has transformed six of his earlier seven 54-hole leads into wins and hopes to make it seven from eight.
“That’s a reasonably good stat,” he stated. “I really feel fairly snug in that place. There’s all the time going to be nerves, but it surely’s the way you cope with it.
“I get pleasure from being in that place. That’s what you observe for as somewhat child, to have the prospect to win on a Sunday on the DP World Tour. It’s going to be a variety of enjoyable tomorrow.”
Højgaard, whose twin brother Nicolai is only a shot off the lead heading into this night’s last spherical of the Farmers Insurance coverage Open at Torrey Pines, was happy together with his par save on the final.
“(The putt on 18) was essential,” Hojgaard stated. “My final two holes… I performed them not precisely how you’ll need to. However I managed to gap two superb putts and I really feel like I’ve given myself an opportunity for tomorrow.”
Galgorm’s Tom McKibbin made three birdies in a 70 to share twenty fifth on nine-under, whereas Padraig Harrington’s one over 73 left him joint 57th on five-under.
In newbie golf, Lurgan’s Annabel Wilson and Elm Park’s Emma Fleming clinched top-10 finishes within the Portuguese Worldwide Women Beginner at Penina.
Wilson closed with a stage par 73 to complete tied eighth on six-under, 12 strokes behind Germany’s Helen Briem, who additionally shot 73 to win by 4 strokes from Sweden’s Moa Stridth on 18-under.
Fleming made six birdies in a three-under 70 to tie for tenth on five-under, whereas Hermitage’s Kate Lanigan shot 72 to share sixteenth on three-under.
