{"id":799205,"date":"2026-10-11T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799205\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:24:11","slug":"scotlands-grant-forrest-and-englands-joe-dean-tie-for-lead-in-spanish-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799205\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s Grant Forrest and England\u2019s Joe Dean tie for lead in Spanish Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grant Forrest and Joe Dean share a one-shot lead going into the final round of the Open de Espana in Madrid.<\/p>\n

Forrest began the day with a one-shot advantage at the Real Club de Campo Villa de Madrid but slipped down the leaderboard after bogeying the fifth hole.<\/p>\n

However, birdies at the 11th, 14th and 16th gave the Scot a four-under-par round of 67 and a total of 13 under.<\/p>\n

Forrest, who is searching for his third DP World Tour<\/a> title, said on europeantour.com: \u201cI\u2019m happy with how I handled today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t have my best stuff but I\u2019m really proud of how I dug in and made some nice putts, a couple of good recovery shots, and all in all a decent score again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of my favourite tournaments, it\u2019s been good to me in the past, and I\u2019d love nothing more than to go home with a trophy tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

His round was enough to leave him tied for the lead alongside Sheffield\u2019s Dean, who will feel he should have produced an even better outcome than the 65 he signed for.<\/p>\n

Dean followed five birdies on the front nine with three more at the 12th, 14th and 15th to open up a three-shot lead.<\/p>\n

But the 32-year-old then double-bogeyed the 16th and dropped another shot at 17 before finishing on a high with a 31-foot putt for birdie on the last.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gave a little bit of hope after those previous two holes,\u201d said Dean. \u201cWe\u2019ll go again and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

France\u2019s Victor Perez and Dane Jacob Skov Olesen both also posted rounds of 65 to move to 12 under, one shot off the lead, alongside Joel Girrbach of Switzerland, who was round in 67.<\/p>\n

Angel Ayora is the leading Spanish hope and he sits three shots off the lead after a 66 on a day of low scoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799205","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\/799205","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=799205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}