Canary Islands Championship R3

Canary Islands 2021 R3
May 06-09
Golf Costa Adeje, Tenerife, Spain
€1,500,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes

Garrick Higgo carded four closing birdies in a round of 64 to continue his remarkable run of form and take a two shot lead into the final round of the 2021 Canary Islands Championship.

Canary Islands 2021 R3

“I had a nice lie (on the 18th), I’ve been working on my short game a lot the last three months. It was nice to hit that one pretty close. The lie was good so I knew I was going to get some spin on it.”

“I was just trying to stay patient, because I’m hitting good putts. I’m hitting the ball a lot better than I have the last few weeks, so I’m giving myself a lot more chances. It’s hard to stay patient when you’ve got a lot of putts. That shot on 15 turned it around a little bit.”

Canary Islands 2021 R3

The South African is seeking his third European Tour title – and second in three weeks -after winning the opening event of the Canary Islands Swing, the Gran Canaria Lopesan Open, on the back of a top five at the Austrian Golf Open.

“I hadn’t been playing well up until Austria. But I’ve been working hard, so when it’s going your way you just need to enjoy it.”

Canary Islands 2021 R3

A top ten at the Tenerife Open followed and on day three of the second week at Golf Costa Adeje the 21 year old moved to 20 under par, taking his total score in 11 rounds on the Canary Islands to an incredible 61 under par.

England’s Richard Mansell is his closest challenger at 18 under par after a seven under 64 of his own, one ahead of Scot Calum Hill who signed for a 66.

“I’ve seen guys going low on this course for two weeks now,” said Mansell. “I feel like I’ve played a few rounds where I could have gone really low and didn’t. I wanted to cut out mistakes and thankfully my short game was good today.”

Canary Islands 2021 R3

“Holed a few putts, which for the last few weeks has been missing. I’ve already said if I can putt well I’ll be there or there abouts.”

“The biggest mindset aim was staying gritty and not letting bad stuff phase me. I had a couple of holes where I had a wobble in the middle to back end of the front nine and my short game got me out of trouble. That’s what you’ve got to do at this level.”

Finland’s Tapio Pulkkanen matched the course record with a ten under par 61 to sit alongside Australian Maverick Antcliff and England’s Andrew Johnston at 15 under par and five shots off the lead.

Canary Islands 2021 R3

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Garrick Higgo	-20	66	63	64	193
2	Richard Mansell (a)	-18	65	66	64	195
3	Calum Hill	-17	65	65	66	196
T4	Maverick Antcliff	-15	70	64	64	198
T4	Andrew Johnston	-15	68	63	67	198
T4	Tapio Pulkkanen *	-15	66	71	61	198
T7	Nicolai Højgaard	-14	67	67	65	199
T7	Robin Sciot-Siegrist	-14	66	66	67	199
T9	Adri Arnaus	-13	64	64	72	200
T9	Dean Burmester	-13	68	63	69	200
T9	Louis De Jager	-13	65	68	67	200
T9	Alejandro Del Rey (a)	-13	69	66	65	200
T9	Francesco Laporta	-13	62	68	70	200
T9	Zander Lombard	-13	66	67	67	200
T9	Matthew Southgate	-13	68	66	66	200
T9	Julian Suri *	-13	66	69	65	200
T9	Sami Valimaki	-13	69	64	67	200
T18	Alfredo Garcia-Heredia	-12	64	70	67	201
T18	Garrick Porteous	-12	66	67	68	201
T18	Richie Ramsay	-12	65	65	71	201
T18	Bernd Ritthammer	-12	70	64	67	201
T18	Eduard Rousaud (a)	-12	67	67	67	201
T18	Kalle Samooja	-12	65	68	68	201
T18	Connor Syme	-12	66	64	71	201
T25	Aaron Cockerill	-11	65	66	71	202
T25	Paul Dunne *	-11	65	71	66	202
T25	Rhys Enoch	-11	65	68	69	202
T25	Oliver Fisher	-11	66	66	70	202
T25	Justin Harding	-11	65	68	69	202
T25	Adrian Otaegui *	-11	71	64	67	202
T25	Eddie Pepperell *	-11	66	69	67	202
T32	Grant Forrest *	-10	67	68	68	203
T32	Tom Gandy	-10	70	63	70	203
T32	Sebastian Heisele *	-10	68	69	66	203
T32	Scott Hend	-10	67	66	70	203
T32	Matthieu Pavon *	-10	66	69	68	203
T37	Richard Bland	-9	69	66	69	204
T37	Pedro Figueiredo *	-9	70	66	68	204
T37	Masahiro Kawamura *	-9	70	66	68	204
T37	Niall Kearney	-9	68	64	72	204
T37	Michael Lorenzo-Vera *	-9	72	66	66	204
T37	Sebastian Soderberg	-9	69	65	70	204
T37	Dale Whitnell	-9	68	66	70	204
T37	Fabrizio Zanotti	-9	70	65	69	204
T45	Nino Bertasio *	-8	68	70	67	205
T45	Julien Guerrier *	-8	69	69	67	205
T45	Sihwan Kim *	-8	71	64	70	205
T45	Jack Senior	-8	67	68	70	205
T45	Shubhankar Sharma *	-8	67	71	67	205
T50	Gaganjeet Bhullar *	-7	69	67	70	206
T50	Laurie Canter *	-7	70	67	69	206
T50	Eduardo De la Riva *	-7	68	68	70	206
T50	Scott Fernandez	-7	63	71	72	206
T50	Edoardo Molinari *	-7	70	66	70	206
T50	Ricardo Santos *	-7	67	68	71	206
T56	Pep Angles *	-6	65	71	71	207
T56	Dave Coupland *	-6	68	68	71	207
T56	Janne Kaske *	-6	69	68	70	207
T56	Paul Peterson	-6	69	65	73	207
T56	Alvaro Quiros *	-6	67	70	70	207
T56	Joel Stalter	-6	64	69	74	207
T56	Johannes Veerman *	-6	70	66	71	207
T63	Victor Dubuisson *	-5	69	69	70	208
T63	Matthew Jordan *	-5	68	70	70	208
T63	Thomas Plumb *	-5	68	70	70	208
T63	Justin Walters *	-5	72	64	72	208
T63	Lars van Meijel *	-5	68	70	70	208
T68	Jorge Campillo	-4	66	69	74	209
T68	SSP Chawrasia *	-4	68	68	73	209
T70	Luis Claverie *	-3	67	71	72	210
T70	Romain Langasque *	-3	69	69	72	210
T70	Ondrej Lieser (a) *	-3	70	68	72	210
T70	Suradit Yongcharoenchai *	-3	67	69	74	210
74	Ajeetesh Sandhu *	-1	71	65	76	212
75	Oliver Wilson *	1	73	65	76	214
76	Max Schmitt *	4	67	69	81	217
77	Carlos Pigem *	5	72	66	80	218
CUT	Kristoffer Broberg	-3	74	65		139
CUT	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	-3	72	67		139
CUT	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	-3	68	71		139
CUT	Gavin Kyle Green	-3	70	69		139
CUT	Berry Henson	-3	70	69		139
CUT	Adrian Meronk	-3	73	66		139
CUT	Haydn Porteous	-3	69	70		139
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	-3	69	70		139
CUT	Alejandro Tosti	-3	68	71		139
CUT	Toby Tree	-3	69	70		139
CUT	Borja Virto	-3	69	70		139
CUT	Paul Waring	-3	72	67		139
CUT	Sam Broadhurst (a)	-2	74	66		140
CUT	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	-2	71	69		140
CUT	Raphael Jacquelin	-2	72	68		140
CUT	Shiv Kapur	-2	69	71		140
CUT	Clement Sordet	-2	68	72		140
CUT	Darius van Driel	-2	69	71		140
CUT	David Borda	-1	69	72		141
CUT	Jonathan Caldwell	-1	70	71		141
CUT	Ivan Cantero Gutierrez	-1	73	68		141
CUT	Matt Ford	-1	71	70		141
CUT	Alexander Levy	-1	70	71		141
CUT	Richard McEvoy	-1	71	70		141
CUT	Guido Migliozzi	-1	73	68		141
CUT	Benjamin Poke	-1	73	68		141
CUT	Steven Tiley	-1	70	71		141
CUT	Yi Keun Chang	E	73	69		142
CUT	David Horsey	E	72	70		142
CUT	David Howell	E	70	72		142
CUT	Pedro Oriol	E	74	68		142
CUT	Chris Paisley	E	73	69		142
CUT	Jake McLeod	1	74	69		143
CUT	Andrea Pavan	1	71	72		143
CUT	Robin Roussel	1	72	71		143
CUT	Marcel Schneider	1	71	72		143
CUT	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	1	71	72		143
CUT	Ashun Wu	1	70	73		143
CUT	Sean Crocker	2	71	73		144
CUT	Tyler Koivisto	2	69	75		144
CUT	Tom McKibbin	2	69	75		144
CUT	Jacobo Pastor	2	70	74		144
CUT	Carl Suneson	2	73	71		144
CUT	Grégory Bourdy	4	73	73		146
CUT	Alejandro Cañizares	4	72	74		146
CUT	Harry Ellis	4	75	71		146
CUT	Austin Bautista	5	70	77		147
CUT	Samuel Del Val	5	72	75		147
CUT	Mario Galiano Aguilar	5	69	78		147
CUT	Joakim Lagergren	7	75	74		149
CUT	Alvaro Hernandez Cabezuela	8	74	76		150
CUT	Oscar Sanchez	9	74	77		151
CUT	Scott Gregory	11	71	82		153
WD	Renato Paratore	2	73	36		109
* Player started on the back nine