{"id":550923,"date":"2026-04-26T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550923\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:18:09","slug":"sizzling-62-fires-otaegui-into-lead-ahead-of-china-climax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550923\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizzling 62 fires Otaegui into lead ahead of China climax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Otaegui surged to the top of the leaderboard following a brilliant 62 at the Volvo China Open.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old, who represents the United Arab Emirates, began the day five shots behind overnight leaders Bernd Wiesberger and Shaun Norris, but reeled the pair in with his nine-under-par third round.<\/p>\n<p>Otaegui carded an eagle, eight birdies and a bogey to set the clubhouse target at 16 under, which could not be matched after Wiesberger&#8217;s bogey at the 15th saw him slip one back during his 68.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very, very happy with the way I finished, the way I stayed patient so very, very happy,&#8221; Otaegui said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m confident, so all I want to do is keep going, keep doing the same that I\u2019m doing and give myself a chance for tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are no Irish in the field at this year&#8217;s tournament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/results\/golf\/european-tour-1\/28889\/china-open-908765\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrian Otaegui surged to the top of the leaderboard following a brilliant 62 at the Volvo China Open.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-550923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550923","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=550923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}