Grant and Strom share eighth place in Canada

LPGA Tour. American Megan Kang has a three-way lead heading into the final round of the CPKC Women’s Open in Canada. Kang had a third-round 68 (-3) and was tied for eleven under par overall, now closely chased by South Korean Sei Young Kim at eight under par. Lynn Grant was the only runner-up to play on Saturday, but a third-round 76 dropped Grant to finish eighth, nine strokes behind. Linnea Strom is tied for eighth at two under after shooting 73 on Saturday. Maja Stark is slowly but surely moving up the leaderboard, sharing eleventh place before the final round. Stark walked 72 batters Saturday.

PGA Tour. The cash-rich and prestigious Tour Championship is being played this week at East Lake GC in Georgia. After three rounds, the in-form Norwegian leads the pack, Viktor Hovland, who has found his best form in the season finale. Hovland shot a 66 (-4) in the third round and was 20 even before the final round. The Norwegian is six strokes ahead of Xander Schauffele and seven ahead of Keegan Bradley and Collin Morikawa heading into the final day. In fifth place are world number one Scotty Scheffler, Spaniard Jon Rahm and Wyndham Clarke.

DB World Tour. This week’s tournament on the DB World Tour, the T+T Real Czech Masters, is all about which players will get their last chance to play on the European Ryder Cup team this fall. After next week’s Omega European Masters, qualifying is over and soon European captain Luke Donald will hand out his six wild cards. Finland’s Sami Vallimäki and England’s Matt Wallace are tied for the lead at 16 under through the Czech Masters final. Both Alexander Björk and Ludvig Åberg were good after two rounds, but both lost in Saturday’s round. Åberg rolled in 71 shots (-1). But during a lightly beaten day, it went from a shared fifth place on the leaderboard to a shared 14th place. Alexander Bjork shot a 75 after a tough start and dropped from the lead to joint 20th place, sharing it with Jens Tandorp on 67 (-5).

Asia Tour. American Dirk Petit carded a 62 (-10) in the third round of the St. Andrews Bay Championship to take a 17-under lead into the final round. Australia’s Matt Jones is second, one stroke behind Petit. The only Swede in the field, Bjorn Helgren, had a round of 69 and tied for 27th place, nine strokes behind the leader.

Challenge Tour. Rain has affected this year’s edition of the Dormy Open at Askersund’s GK and Saturday’s third round was broken with some players still on the course. A limping leaderboard leader is currently Italian Aaron Gemmer at eight under par with four holes to play in the third round. Niclas Weiland, Adam Blommé and Hugo Townsend currently share twelfth place, with different lengths of their third rounds remaining. The third round will be completed on Sunday morning and then you can go straight to the final round without drawing any balls.

Moregolf MasterCard Tour. Finn Rasmus Carlson leads the Timberwise Finnish Open after two or three rounds. Carlson is ten under par and two strokes ahead of compatriot Juzo Kahlos and Dane Viktor Sydal Svendsen. Per Langfors and Jacob Hansen are currently the top Swedes in fourth place.

Amateur golf. Team Europe defeated Great Britain and Ireland in the Jacques Leglis Trophy final at Golf de Chantilly in France on Saturday. Two Swedes were in the team and Simon Hovdal and Philipp Fallberg-Johnson both won their singles matches on Saturday. The final score was 17-8 in favor of the European team.

Major. It was a British double ahead of the final round of the US Senior Women’s Open at Waverley Country Club in Oregon. England’s Trish Johnson holds a one-stroke lead over her old Solheim Cup teammate Catriona Matthews of Scotland at four under. Annika Sorenstam is five strokes behind Johnson at one over par for seventh place in the final round. Charlotte Sorenstam is one stroke behind her sister and Helen Alfredsson is tied for 27th, eleven strokes ahead.

Legends Tour. Patrik Sjoland is the top Swede in tenth place ahead of the final round of this week’s Stasher PGA Seniors Championship. Sjöland went 69 strokes (-3) in the third round and was eleven strokes behind the leading Englishman, Peter Baker.

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Text: Swedish Golf • 2023-08-27

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