The leaderboard's risky down at the Emirates Australian Open. The winds are swirling and gusting around the Australian Golf Club in Sydney, and the gamers are suffering. Nearly 25 players had been beneath par while the 0.33 round commenced; as I write this, a mere 7 players are inside the purple. The wind has knocked some actually high-quality pictures right out of the air at the green, even when the pin appears to be pretty calm.
To give you an idea of what it's been like, Rod Pampling (picture above from The Guardian's live update page) has either led or held a piece of the lead -- which is still -5 -- for most of the round, ever since he holed out for eagle on the 10th hole. (Oops, he just dropped a stroke at 17.)
At the other end of the spectrum, Rory McIlroy went triple-double on nine and 10, losing to 1 in which he is spent maximum of the spherical on the grounds that. Rory hit a pressure into some nasty hay on the par-four ninth, tried to hit it out (there was no properly drop to be had) and he drove it down into the sand, and needed to take a drop besides. That shot went manner right and, regardless of a very good shot over a tree to the green, he wanted 2 putts for his 7. He managed to make a bounceback birdie at the 11th, but dropped another shot at 13. He's still 5 for the day.
Adam Scott has been scuffling with away in view that a terrible begin inside the first spherical. He's presently tied with Pampling and Jordan Spieth -- who is performed amazingly nicely for his first time on an Australian sandbelt path, even main periodically -- at -4.
Currently Brett Rumford and Greg Chalmers -- you likely recognize both of those names, as they've played the PGA Tour quite a bit -- lead at that magical total of -5. It's only -5 after 3 full rounds of golf, the same that it was after the second round.. and the first round. THAT's how tough the course is playing.
The very last round this night have to be pretty a shootout. Nobody's gonna run away with this one!
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