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Hans India
11-05-2025
- Sport
- Hans India
Golf: Saptak Talwar slips to T-48 in Girona
Saptak Talwar had a none-too-good 2-over 73 and slipped down the leaderboard in the third round of the Challenge de Espana at Fontanals Golf Club. Lying T-11 after the second round with 69-66, he shot 73 and at 5-under, he was tied 48th with one round to go. Talwar, playing his first full season on the HotelPlanner Tour, had three bogeys and one birdie after starting on the 10th. Clement Charmasson will take a one-stroke lead into the final day of the Challenge de Espana at Fontanals Golf Club, as he closes in on securing a maiden HotelPlanner Tour title. The Frenchman signed for a five under par round of 66 on a low-scoring day in Girona to reach 15 under par for the week, one shot clear of Scotsman Euan Walker, who occupies solo second on 14 under. The 26-year-old Charmasson, who earned promotion from the Pro Golf Tour in 2024, will now tee it up in the final group on Sunday, in just his fifth start on the HotelPlanner Tour. Charmasson is targeting a breakthrough win. Swiss Benjamin Rusch fired a six under par round of 65 to climb into a share of third place on 12 under par alongside overnight leader Luis Masaveu, with Finn Kim Koivu's round of 64 putting him in fifth place alongside Sweden's Oliver Gillberg on 11 under. Five players are a further shot back in seventh on ten under par, including Victor Sidal Svendsen and Jeppe Kristian Andersen from Denmark, Spaniard Joseba Torres, Welshman Jack Davidson and Englishman Tom Shadbolt.
Scotsman
10-05-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
Scottish golfer chasing third title triumph on Hotel Planner Tour
Euan Walker sits just one shot off lead in Challenge de España in Girona Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Euan Walker is one shot off the lead heading into the final round of the Challenge de España as the Scot chases a third win on the Hotel Planner Tour. Walker followed opening rounds of 65 and 67 at Fontanals Golf Club with another 67 in the penultimate circuit to sit on 14 under par. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The Ayrshireman birdied the fourth, seventh, ninth and tenth before dropping his only shot of the day at the par-3 11th but quickly got that back at the 13th. Euan Walker in action during the third round of the Challenge de Espana at Fontanals Golf Club in Girona |'It was really good today,' he said. 'I played really nicely throughout and made very few mistakes. I actually hit loads of great putts and quite a lot of them didn't go in, but that's just the way it goes after I holed some nice putts over the first two days.' Walker will be in the final group on Sunday with Frenchman Clement Charmasson, who leapt into the lead with a 66, and Swiss Benjamin Rusch, who is on 12 under. 'Yeah, that is exciting,' admitted the 29-year-old. 'It doesn't come round too often, to be honest, being in that position in a tournament. You have got to play close to your best to be there.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Walker's group in the third round included home favourite Luis Masaveu, who shared the halfway lead with Swede Oliver Gillberg and is still in the hunt on 12 under. 'That was quite useful because I thought 'you know what, if he takes it out with a few birdies then there's not really much pressure on me' and I had the opportunity to feed off him, which I was able to do on the front nine,' admitted Walker. 'It's very changeable,' he added of the conditions at the Girona venue. 'We played nine holes in almost perfect weather then it got a little colder and windier before it was absolutely horrible for the last three holes and last two in particular. 'I mean, the par I made on 18 was up there with the best pars I have ever made. Every shot was really difficult.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Walker made his Hotel Planner Tour breakthrough in the 2022 British Challenge presented by Modest! Golf Management before adding the Swiss Open title last year. 'Try and do exactly the same as I have done the first three days as I have given myself a load of birdie chances,' he said of his plan for the final round on this occasion. After carding a second successive 67, Hotel Planner Tour newcomer Graeme Robertson sits just outside the top 20 on seven under alongside both Jack McDonald and Sam Locke after they carded matching 68s. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Elsewhere, Farmfoods Scottish Challenge champion Brandon Robinson Thompson holds a three-shot lead heading into the final round of the Turkish Airlines Open at Regnum Carya in Belek. Bidding to land a maiden win on the main tour, the Englishman stormed to the top of the leaderboard with a brilliant nine-under-par 62, a course record-equalling effort that was illuminated by an eagle at the 12th. 'The scary part was I probably could have had a few more, but, you know, beggars can't be choosers,' joked Robinson Thompson, who has Spaniard Jorge Campillo, China's Haotong Li and South African Robin Williams chasing him.
Irish Independent
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
Eagle-eyed Séamus Power fires superb 64 in Myrtle Beach Classic first round
As Hughes birdied his last four holes to fire an eight-under 63 for the early lead at Dunes Golf and Beach Club, the West Waterford man (38) followed two birdies in his first four holes with a 162-yard hole-out for eagle at the eighth. Trialling a new putter this week after placing his misbehaving regular blade 'on alert', he added further birdies at the 11th, 15th and 16th to share second place with Will Chandler in the event opposite the Truist Championship. 'Yeah, great start,' said Power, who is hoping to make his 10th Major appearance in next week's PGA Championship with a third PGA Tour win and a two-year exemption under his belt. 'Did a lot of good things. Hit the ball nicely. Didn't miss too many greens. Got lucky there on No 8 as well for a hole-out. All in all, a lot of good stuff.' Power was thrilled to hole out with a nine-iron from 162 yards at the eighth and see some putts drop. 'It was a funny one,' he said of his eagle. 'It was right between clubs. With the greens being firm and that pin once you got past it, it's just not going to stop. I just tried to lean on a nine-iron and came out perfectly. It landed right where I wanted it, and obviously, it was very lucky to go in.' As for his putting, he said: 'I feel like I've been hitting decent putts, but my speed has been a little bit up and down. 'So I got a new one that Ping made. I put it in on the weekend, and it felt really good immediately.' In the Turkish Airlines Open, Conor Purcell's four-over 75 left him joint 133rd, 10 shots behind Germany's Tiger Christensen, France's Martin Couvra and South Africa's Robin Williams. They shot 65s at Regnum Carya to head Brandon Robinson Thompson and Joost Luiten by a shot. In the Challenge de Espana, Jonathan Caldwell's five-under 66 left him joint 13th, three shots behind Dane Victor Sidal Svendsen at Fontanals in Girona, where Max Kennedy, Mark Power and Alex Maguire were 76th after 70s. At Seapoint, defending champion Matt McClean (31) from Malone opened with an eight-under 64 to lead the Flogas Irish Amateur Open by a shot from Concra Wood's Charlie McDonnell. Meanwhile, Royal Dublin's Hugh Foley (27) shot an eight-under 62 to go into the final round of the Alps Tour's Memorial Giorgio Bordoni in Como tied for second, just three shots behind Spain's Asier Aguirre Izcue.
