McLeod Russel Tour Championship: Race to Royal Calcutta Golf Club 2016 to witness galaxy of stars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nOlympian S.S.P. Chawrasia, the winner of the tournament’s inaugural edition in 2012, came up with a third round of 69 to lurk in third place at nine-under 207 total.<\/p>\n
Shubhankar Sharma (70) of Panchkula, who leads the ranking charts in PGTI, was a further shot behind in fourth place at the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) year-ending event.<\/p>\n
Two-time winner on the Asian Tour, Pariya (66-68-68), the joint second round leader, was off to an explosive start in round three courtesy a hot putter.<\/p>\n
The wire-to-wire leader birdied the first three holes with conversions from a range of 10 to 30 feet. He added another on the eighth to make the turn at four-under.<\/p>\n
Pariya then had a quiet spell till the 14th before an excellent recovery from the bunker and a 12-feet conversion helped him pick up his fifth birdie of the day on the 15th.<\/p>\n
His only blemish was the bogey on 16 where he missed an up and down from 50 yards. The 32-year-old is now in line to become the first foreigner to win the McLeod Russel Tour Championship.<\/p>\n
Rashid (70-64-70), who shared the lead with Pariya in round two, slipped one position to second after mixing four birdies with two bogeys on Friday.<\/p>\n
Rashid, currently fourth in the Rolex Ranking, had a 20-feet birdie conversion on the fifth but also missed out on a 20-feet par putt on the last hole that pushed him two back.<\/p>\n
Rashid, a winner of two titles on the PGTI this year, said: “I have to work on my putting stroke as I missed a lot of putts which went to the right of the hole. Once you’re a little confused with your putting, it gets tough, as putting is half your game. I have to sort this out if I have to win tournaments.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot to play for in the final round as I have to win if I want to seal the Rolex Ranking title,” he added.<\/p>\n
Gaganjeet Bhullar (seven-under 209), Khalin Joshi (six-under-210) and Shiv Kapur (five-under 211) occupied the fifth, sixth and seventh places respectively at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC).<\/p>\n
Jyoti Randhawa and rookie Aman Raj were joint 10th at three-under 213. As things stand, Patna’s Aman Raj is expected to end up with the highest earnings among the rookies and as a result win the PGTI Emerging Player of the Year title.<\/p>\n
Jeev Milkha Singh and Mukesh Kumar were a further shot back in tied 13th, while the Kolkata duo of Rahil Gangjee (one-under 215) and Arjun Atwal (four-over 220) were tied 16th and tied 38th respectively.<\/p>\n
Defending champion S. Chikka was placed tied 35th at three-over 219.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Pariya, the leading foreign player in the field, totalled 14-under 202 after the penultimate round to enjoy a two-shot lead over second-placed Rashid Khan, who scored a 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12943,466,7452,9776,731],"class_list":["post-31028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-golf-golf","tag-golf-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-mcleod-russel-tour-championship","tag-pariya-junhasavasdikul","tag-professional-golf-tour-of-india"],"yoast_head":"\n
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