Spanish Open Leaderboard And Live Updates: Marco Penge In Control

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2025-10-12T14:25:10.018Z

SO CLOSE

We shouldn’t forget about Switzerland’s Joel Girrbach by the way, who came into this event just trying to keep his card, let alone win. He’s now in a position where he could do both in style.

The Swiss player has a decent eagle chance at the 14th himself, but it just burns the edge! Girrbach tidies up for a birdie anyway and moves to 13-under, two strokes behind Penge.

Meanwhile, Brown fails with his long-range eagle chance and also lips out for birdie, so he remains at -13.

2025-10-12T14:21:45.068Z

GREAT ESCAPE

Despite the wild play from Penge, a brilliant bunker shot to a foot has helped the Englishman escape with a steady par. The only par-5 on the back nine here is this one, though, so that’s quite a big chance to extend his lead gone now.

2025-10-12T14:20:02.911Z

LUCKY PENGE

Trying to navigate his way to the finish line, this is as ragged as I’ve seen Marco Penge play in a while when in contention. He’s hit two of 14 fairways today, and you’re always playing with fire when you don’t find the short grass – especially at a course this tight.

He went right off the tee, punched a low iron out to the left of the green via a tree, then fluffed an attempted flop shot into the bunker in front of him. What is he doing here?!

2025-10-12T14:17:59.548Z

BROWN CONTINUES

Brown is continuing and is playing some decent golf, somehow. His drive went a little left into the rough – not what you want when you’re dealing with a neck injury – but he’s punched one onto the front-left edge and technically has an eagle putt, even if it is on a different planet. These holes are mostly quite small, but Brown is on the other side of one of the biggest.

2025-10-12T14:06:28.519Z

WELCOME

Hello and welcome to the closing stages of the 2025 Open de España at Club de Campo in Madrid. Marco Penge leads the way by two strokes with five holes to go, but there has recently been a bit of a distraction in his group with Dan Brown unfortunately sustaining a neck injury of some sort.

It looks as though Brown is in a fair but of discomfort and has called for the doctor/physio several times now. He only has 15 minutes of treatment available per round, and he’s already used up about half of that in three holes. Whether he makes it to the end seems to be tough and go.

For Penge, he is likely to want this finished as quickly as possible. He was two-over through the front nine and hanging in there before making a first birdie of the day two holes ago. Miraculously, Brown then fired a birdie at the most recent hole, the 13th, despite having over five minutes of treatment as the issue really seemed to flare up.

We’re set for a fascinating end to this one with plenty of others still in contention as well. Thanks for tuning in!