Tommy Fleetwood benefited from a massive stroke of luck on the final hole of his third round at the DP World India Championship to end the day two shots behind leader Keita Nakajima. <\/p>\n
Overnight leader Fleetwood endured a frustrating back nine at Delhi Golf Club, missing a succession of short putts as Japan’s Nakajima overtook him with a stunning seven-under-par round of 65. <\/p>\n
England’s Fleetwood was trailing by three when he put his approach shot deep into trees lining the par-five 18th, but his ball bounced out and he was able to finish with a chip and a putt for birdie. <\/p>\n
The 34-year-old’s 69 took him to 15 under for his three rounds, while Ryder Cup team-mate Shane Lowry is a shot back in third place after also carding a 69. <\/p>\n
Elsewhere, England’s Alex Fitzpatrick is in a four-way tie for fourth place on 13 under following his bogey-free 67, while Rory McIlroy is down in 15th, on 10 under after his 68. <\/p>\n
Fleetwood stormed into the lead with a dazzling eight-under 64 in Friday’s second round, but cut a frustrated figure on Saturday as his putter ran cold. <\/p>\n
He was three under for the day at the turn, but missed two six-foot birdie putts on the back nine, then one from a similar distance on the 17th for par. <\/p>\n
Nakajima seized his opportunity, making seven birdies and no bogeys as he moved from fourth place overnight to head the field on 17 under par. <\/p>\n
Lowry, who played alongside Nakajima, also birdied the last to stay within touching distance of the lead. <\/p>\n
“Keita played great today,” the Irishman told the DP World Tour. “He will be hard to beat tomorrow, but there will be a few of us not far behind him and hopefully giving him a run.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fleetwood benefited from a massive stroke of luck on the final hole of his third round at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-222545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}