Feb 29, 2020: Manon De Roey backed up her course record 64 with a superb six-under 66 in the third round of the Women’s New South Wales Open to take a five-stroke lead into the final round at Dubbo Golf Club.
India’s Diksha Dagar continues to be in the top order with her strong contention and tied for forth place. Diksha had to suffer two double and one bogey in the front nine with four birdies. WIth her dominant effort she manged to card bogey free back nine and added another two birdies to finish with one-under-par 71 in the penultimate round and lying at T4.
Trailing Diksha by three shots, Aditi Ashok also sharing the sopt in top ten of the leaderboard at T8. Aditi had a topsy turvy third round with all bogeys and birdies throughout front nine and back nine. She has carded three bogeys and a lone birdy in the front nine. While in back nine she brilliantly managed to card six birdies and two bogeys to finish the round with two-under-par 70.
Teenage star Julia Engström lies in second after a 68, with fellow Swede Camilla Lennarth right behind her in third position.
De Roey has won three times on the LET Access Series and is now just 18 holes away from her first victory on the LET.
“I’ve never been in this position before but it doesn’t really matter. I’ll just stick with my game plan,” she said.
“I was one of my goals to win this year, so it would be great if I am able to achieve it so early in the year.”
The 28-year-old from Antwerp, Belgium, started the day with a two-stroke advantage and birdied two of the first three holes, before making her sole bogey at the sixth.
She birdied the long ninth and 10th holes to build a four-stroke lead and added three more birdies at the 13th, 14th and at the short 18th, where she chipped in from the front of the green.
“I felt pretty confident out there. After an eight-under yesterday, it was always going to be hard to shoot a low score but I didn’t have many expectations. I won’t practise too much, as I’ll save my energy for tomorrow.”
Engström had a relatively quiet front nine but she lit up the back nine with four straight birdies from the 11th to the 14th holes. She picked up another shot at the 16th, but bogeyed the last two holes.
Manon De Roey backed up her course record 64 with a superb six-under 66 in the third round of the Women’s New South Wales Open to take a five-stroke lead into the final round at Dubbo Golf Club.
Teenage star Julia Engtröm lies in second after a 68, with fellow Swede Camilla Lennarth right behind her in third position.
De Roey has won three times on the LET Access Series and is now just 18 holes away from her first victory on the LET.
“I’ve never been in this position before but it doesn’t really matter. I’ll just stick with my game plan,” she said.
“I was one of my goals to win this year, so it would be great if I am able to achieve it so early in the year.”
The 28-year-old from Antwerp, Belgium, started the day with a two-stroke advantage and birdied two of the first three holes, before making her sole bogey at the sixth.
She birdied the long ninth and 10th holes to build a four-stroke lead and added three more birdies at the 13th, 14th and at the short 18th, where she chipped in from the front of the green.
“I felt pretty confident out there. After an eight-under yesterday, it was always going to be hard to shoot a low score but I didn’t have many expectations. I won’t practise too much, as I’ll save my energy for tomorrow.”
Engström had a relatively quiet front nine but she lit up the back nine with four straight birdies from the 11th to the 14th holes. She picked up another shot at the 16th, but bogeyed the last two holes.
Slovenia’s Katja Pogacar is a stroke back in a tie for fourth with Diksha Dagar of India, while Slovenia’s Pia Babnik and two-time LET tournament winner Atthaya Thitikul from Thailand are eight shots from the lead, in a tie for sixth, after rounds of 66 and 70 respectively.
Pogacar holed out for eagle on the 11th and another roar went up as Michele Thomson holed out for eagle on the 17th. She shares eighth place with Aditi Ashok, while Esther Henseleit is tied for 10th place.
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