{"id":924109,"date":"2026-10-11T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924109\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T10:00:14","slug":"dean-and-forrest-share-lead-at-spanish-open-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924109\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean and Forrest share lead at Spanish Open \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Dean of England made eight birdies in 15 holes, then recovered from a rough two-hole stretch by closing with a 30-foot birdie putt for a 6-under 65 and a share of the lead at the Spanish Open.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland\u2019s Grant Forrest had a 67 to join Dean at 13-under 200, one shot ahead of Victor Perez, Joel Girrbach and Jacob Skov Olesen going into the final round.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Scrivener is the only Australian to have made the cut and is in a share of 54th heading into the final round, at even par for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791712814_865_.jpeg\" alt=\"Golf\"\/>Jason Scrivener has performed the best of the Australians and is at even par for the tournament. (<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.aap.com.au\/search\/20251203168592712360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Ross\/AAP PHOTOS<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Dean won his first European title just six weeks ago in the British Masters. A victory on Sunday would move him well into the top 10 in the Race to Dubai and practically assure the 32-year-old from England a PGA Tour card for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>He was brilliant for much of the third round, piling up eight birdies to take over the lead. But on the par-4 16th, he went bunker-to-bunker, came up short of the green, chipped too strong and missed a 15-foot putt to make double bogey. Then, he went long on the par-3 17th for another bogey.<\/p>\n<p>But he saved himself at the end with a birdie to share the 54-hole lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gave a little bit of hope after those previous two holes,\u201d Dean said. \u201cBut nothing\u2019s guaranteed in this game and it only takes a slight lapse in concentration or a bad shot and before you know it you\u2019re chasing. It\u2019s nice to finish with a birdie on the last. We\u2019ll go again and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eugenio Chacarra, who is playing with a foot injury after banging his toe in the middle of the night, had a 70 and was five shots behind. Chacarra is trying to overtake American Patrick Reed for the lead in the Race to Dubai. Reed missed the 36-hole cut on Friday. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Dean of England made eight birdies in 15 holes, then recovered from a rough two-hole stretch by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,2057,755,405163,85],"class_list":["post-924109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-europe","tag-golf","tag-overseas-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}