Shiv Kapur top Indian @Qatar Masters

Doha, January 23, 2014. Shiv Kapur remains the top Indian at Qatar Masters even as two bogeys midway through the front nine saw him slip out of the top-10 to be tied 22nd at the end of the third round of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters.

Kapur, who was tied 10th at the midway stage on Thursday evening, carded an even par 72 with three birdies and three bogeys. Also making the cut was Jeev Milkha Singh (73) but he slipped from tied 32nd overnight to tied 45th at three-under.

Former three-time Asian Tour No.1 Thongchai Jaidee shot a smart three-under 69 and moved up from tied 53rd to tied 32nd at five-under.

South African Branden Grace produced the shot of the day as he grabbed a share of the lead after round three of the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters in Doha.

Grace, already a winner at the Alfred Dunhill Championship this season, was one over through four holes when he drove into trees down the right of the fifth.

With no obvious escape route, Grace snap-hooked a wedge to six feet for the most unlikely of birdies, holed from 20 feet at the next and had three more gains in an inward 33 for a 68 and 13 under par total.

That put the 26 year old alongside playing partner Emiliano Grillo, Scotland’s Marc Warren and Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger after a day full of twists and turns at the top of the leaderboard.

“I actually didn’t hit that bad a tee shot,” Grace, a five-time European Tour winner, said of his exploits at the fifth.

“I thought I was just in the rough on the right but it must have had a big bounce to the right. Where it finished, I thought, this is going to take some magic.