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Enable Cookies<\/a> England’s Andy Sullivan started the day a shot back from Reed but was left alongside Hovland in third after only managing to shoot a 71.<\/p>\n Francesco Molinari finished alongside Andrea Pavan on eight-under as the Italian pair failed to push on from strong positions, both also shooting 71.<\/p>\n Reed told Sky Sports Golf: “I was able to ride the ship there early in that round and salvage that front nine by getting to a couple-under, then attack those par fives.<\/p>\n “The swing felt really good once I got midway through the front nine, so because of that I had all the confidence in the world to go out and attack this place.”<\/p>\n Twitter<\/p>\n This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> The American plays on the LIV Golf tour, which makes his opportunity to claim world ranking points at this event all the more important.<\/p>\n “It’s very important to get the world ranking points, but really for me the biggest thing is to come out here and get a win,” Reed added.<\/p>\n “I was close here two years ago so hopefully we can come out here and play some solid golf and have an opportunity. It doesn’t matter how big of a lead you have, it’s always hard to close it out. I’m up for the challenge. The big thing is going out tomorrow and just acting like everyone is at even par and trying to win the day.”<\/p>\n McIlroy parred every hole on the front nine before finally making a birdie at the par-five 10th, but the Northern Irishman could only find one more shot at the 14th, before he disappointingly gave it back with a three-putt on the final green.<\/p>\n Watch the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic live on Sky Sports Golf and Sky Sports Main Event from 7am on Sunday. Stream the DP World Tour, PGA Tour, LPGA Tour <\/a>and more contract-free<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1,700 courses across the UK & Ireland<\/p>\n Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1,700 courses across the UK & Ireland<\/p>\n Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1,700 courses across the UK & Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Reed extended his lead to four shots ahead of the final round of the Hero Dubai Desert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-388254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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