{"id":521749,"date":"2026-06-27T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521749\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:03:11","slug":"niemann-surrenders-lead-as-mckibbin-moves-up-leaderboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521749\/","title":{"rendered":"Niemann surrenders lead as McKibbin moves up leaderboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The in-form Eugenio Chacarra leads the Open d\u2019Italia after three rounds, with Tom McKibbin inside the top 10 after another solid round in Turin.<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Chacarra, chasing a second successive win on the DP World Tour after his KLM Open success a fortnight ago, shot 65 on Saturday to pull two ahead on 17 under par as long-time leader Joaquin Niemann faltered badly on the back nine.<\/p>\n<p>Down native McKibbin enjoyed a third straight round in the 60s on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old shot a bogey-free round of three-under-par 68, moving him inside the top 10 on the leaderboard. Birdies on the first and final holes bookended a solid round, as well as a birdie on the par three 13th for the second day in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Wallace followed up Friday\u2019s course-record 62 at Circolo Golf Torino with a 67 to match Niemann\u2019s three-round total of 15 under, with Scotland\u2019s Richie Ramsay also in the top 10 on 11 under.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace said: &#8220;From a mental standpoint, it was really calm. It was chill. It was efficient. We had mistakes in there, which we backed up and came out of the other side. Bounce-back birdie after hitting it in the water (at the 13th) so yeah, professional round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tomorrow\u2019s my day to go out there and try and win it and I\u2019ll give it my all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/european-tour-1\/28889\/open-ditalia-908771\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FULL LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The in-form Eugenio Chacarra leads the Open d\u2019Italia after three rounds, with Tom McKibbin inside the top 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-521749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}