Acciona Open de España R3

Open España 2021 R3
October 07-10
Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
€1,500,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4

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Spain’s Rafa Cabrera Bello posted a bogey-free 64 on Saturday to take a two-shot lead at 17-under in the Acciona Open de España presented by Madrid.

Open España 2021 R3

He finished second in 2019 but has had a difficult time in the past two years and even dropped out of the top 200 in the Official World Ranking.

“Today was one of my favourite days ever out there, in front of my countrymen, playing on a course that I Iove and with beautiful conditions, I felt really good. I felt their support – I was getting goosebumps almost every hole hearing them yelling my name, it was very special and I’m very proud that I could put on a show for them.”

Open España 2021 R3

” I played really good, I drove it well, I hit really good iron shots and I did hole some very nice important putts. I guess that’s what happens when you’re playing good.

“It would be amazing [to win]. I’ve won every Spanish amateur title there is and I’m missing this one which would be the pinnacle of Spanish golf. I’m going to have a very good chance at it tomorrow but I’m sure there’ll be more chances in the future too so I’ll just go out there, have fun, feed off the crowd and try to put on a show for them again.”

Open España 2021 R3

Fellow countryman Adri Arnaus signed for a 67 and a share of second place alongside France’s Julien Guerrier (66) closely followed by Englishman Jack Seniot who fired a 65 to take solo fourth place.

“It was great to see that I can go a bit deeper and it was a good confidence booster because I have been working on a few things outside the course, so for it to translate on the course it felt nice, and today kind of worked as well.”

Open España 2021 R3

“The course is playing a bit trickier, a bit firmer, it wasn’t easy to get to pins but I think we did a pretty good job on the front nine. The putts went a bit long, I was lucky enough to have a good look on nine and ten to take advantage of those, and eleven, but in the end you just try the best you can.”

Open España 2021 R3

Wil Besseling, who led after the second round, extended his lead with three birdies and a bogey on the front nine before making another bogey and a double bogey at the par-4 15th to close with a 72. He shares fifth place with India’s Shubhankar Sharma (70) as well as Frenchman Alexander Levy (65) and Englishman Richard Bland (64), both bogey-free.

World number 1 Jon Rahm slipped down into a share of ninth place alongside Scotsman Grant Forrest (70) after three bogeys and a double bogey at the par-4 5th led to a 72.

Open España 2021 R3

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Rafa Cabrera Bello	-17	67	65	64	196
T2	Adri Arnaus	-15	67	64	67	198
T2	Julien Guerrier	-15	66	66	66	198
4	Jack Senior	-14	67	67	65	199
T5	Shubhankar Sharma	-12	67	64	70	201
T5	Wil Besseling	-12	64	65	72	201
T5	Alexander Levy	-12	72	64	65	201
T5	Richard Bland	-12	69	68	64	201
T9	Grant Forrest	-11	65	67	70	202
T9	Jon Rahm	-11	63	67	72	202
T9	Ross McGowan	-11	61	70	71	202
T9	Matthew Jordan	-11	68	65	69	202
T9	David Drysdale	-11	64	70	68	202
T9	Marc Warren	-11	66	67	69	202
T9	Lucas Bjerregaard	-11	66	68	68	202
T16	Pablo Larrazabal	-10	67	66	70	203
T16	Santiago Tarrio	-10	66	68	69	203
T16	Jamie Donaldson	-10	64	70	69	203
T16	Adrian Otaegui	-10	68	70	65	203
T16	Ryan Fox	-10	65	71	67	203
T21	George Coetzee	-9	69	69	66	204
T21	Victor Dubuisson	-9	67	68	69	204
T21	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	-9	68	68	68	204
T21	Joachim B. Hansen	-9	68	66	70	204
T21	Scott Jamieson	-9	66	68	70	204
T21	Jazz Janewattananond	-9	67	67	70	204
T21	Mikko Korhonen	-9	69	66	69	204
T21	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	-9	67	69	68	204
T21	Adrian Meronk	-9	69	68	67	204
T21	Edoardo Molinari	-9	67	70	67	204
T21	Wilco Nienaber	-9	71	65	68	204
T21	Renato Paratore	-9	67	70	67	204
T21	David Puig (a)	-9	68	67	69	204
T21	Alvaro Quiros	-9	71	67	66	204
T21	Bernd Wiesberger	-9	70	67	67	204
T36	Jorge Campillo	-8	67	70	68	205
T36	Andrew Johnston	-8	70	68	67	205
T36	Joakim Lagergren	-8	65	69	71	205
T36	John Murphy (a)	-8	68	68	69	205
T36	Jordan Smith	-8	66	71	68	205
T36	Fabrizio Zanotti	-8	69	66	70	205
42	Min Woo Lee	-7	67	69	70	206
T43	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	-6	68	68	71	207
T43	Calum Hill	-6	70	68	69	207
T43	Jacobo Pastor	-6	71	66	70	207
T43	Kalle Samooja	-6	67	72	68	207
T43	Graeme Storm	-6	71	67	69	207
T48	Thomas Aiken	-5	69	68	71	208
T48	Marcus Armitage	-5	69	68	71	208
T48	Nino Bertasio	-5	67	71	70	208
T48	Steven Brown	-5	68	68	72	208
T48	Aaron Cockerill	-5	66	69	73	208
T48	Dave Coupland	-5	68	69	71	208
T48	Luke Donald	-5	69	70	69	208
T48	Lorenzo Gagli	-5	70	69	69	208
T48	Francesco Laporta	-5	67	71	70	208
T57	Ashley Chesters	-4	71	66	72	209
T57	Søren Kjeldsen	-4	69	69	71	209
T57	Niklas Lemke	-4	68	69	72	209
T57	Zander Lombard	-4	72	67	70	209
T57	Jason Scrivener	-4	71	68	70	209
T57	Andy Sullivan	-4	67	70	72	209
T57	Connor Syme	-4	67	69	73	209
T57	Darius van Driel	-4	67	71	71	209
T65	Oliver Farr	-3	72	67	71	210
T65	David Law	-3	70	69	71	210
T65	Richie Ramsay	-3	69	69	72	210
T65	Antoine Rozner	-3	67	72	71	210
T65	Robin Sciot-Siegrist	-3	65	73	72	210
T65	Justin Walters	-3	71	68	71	210
T71	Darren Fichardt	-2	70	66	75	211
T71	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	-2	62	73	76	211
T71	David Horsey	-2	66	70	75	211
T71	Maximilian Kieffer	-2	71	68	72	211
T71	Haotong Li	-2	68	71	72	211
T76	Ross Fisher	-1	69	70	73	212
T76	Nicolai Højgaard	-1	73	66	73	212
T76	Chris Paisley	-1	70	69	73	212
T79	Daniel Gavins	+1	69	68	77	214
T79	Ashun Wu	+1	66	73	75	214
CUT	Alejandro Cañizares	-2	69	71		140
CUT	Gavin Kyle Green	-2	70	70		140
CUT	Romain Langasque	-2	66	74		140
CUT	James Morrison	-2	72	68		140
CUT	Matthieu Pavon	-2	68	72		140
CUT	Eddie Pepperell	-2	70	70		140
CUT	Tapio Pulkkanen	-2	69	71		140
CUT	Joel Stalter	-2	70	70		140
CUT	Dale Whitnell	-2	69	71		140
CUT	Jeff Winther	-2	72	68		140
CUT	Jonathan Caldwell	-1	73	68		141
CUT	Raphael Jacquelin	-1	69	72		141
CUT	Sami Valimaki	-1	70	71		141
CUT	Oliver Wilson	-1	73	68		141
CUT	John Catlin	E	70	72		142
CUT	Sean Crocker	E	70	72		142
CUT	Samuel Del Val	E	71	71		142
CUT	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	E	70	72		142
CUT	Justin Harding	E	75	67		142
CUT	Benjamin Hebert	E	73	69		142
CUT	Scott Hend	E	73	69		142
CUT	Masahiro Kawamura	E	71	71		142
CUT	Sihwan Kim	E	70	72		142
CUT	Garrick Porteous	E	70	72		142
CUT	Haydn Porteous	E	71	71		142
CUT	Matti Schmid	E	69	73		142
CUT	Kristoffer Broberg	+1	73	70		143
CUT	Guido Migliozzi	+1	74	69		143
CUT	Joel Moscatel	+1	71	72		143
CUT	Robin Roussel	+1	70	73		143
CUT	Ricardo Santos	+1	70	73		143
CUT	Matthew Southgate	+1	75	68		143
CUT	Julian Suri	+1	73	70		143
CUT	Gaganjeet Bhullar	+2	75	69		144
CUT	Oliver Fisher	+2	72	72		144
CUT	Rikard Karlberg	+2	72	72		144
CUT	Victor Perez	+2	71	73		144
CUT	Sebastian Soderberg	+2	72	72		144
CUT	Daniel van Tonder	+2	71	73		144
CUT	Pep Angles	+3	75	70		145
CUT	Richard McEvoy	+3	74	71		145
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	+3	75	70		145
CUT	Eduardo De la Riva	+4	74	72		146
CUT	Marcus Kinhult	+4	74	72		146
CUT	Thorbjørn Olesen	+4	70	76		146
CUT	Maverick Antcliff	+5	74	73		147
CUT	David Howell	+5	74	73		147
CUT	Carlos Sanchez Molina	+5	73	74		147
CUT	Andrea Pavan	+6	77	71		148
CUT	Alfonso Buendia	+9	77	74		151
CUT	Gordan Brixi	+10	74	78		152
RETD	Joel Sjoholm	+2	22			22