Cazoo Open R3

Cazoo Open 2021 R3
July 22-25
The Celtic Manor Resort, City of Newport, Wales
€1,250,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4

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Nacho Elvira started the day two shots ahead and started with a bogey at the par-4 1st immediately corrected by a birdie at the 2nd, followed by five more birdies to close with a 66 and increase his lead to six shots at the Cazoo Open supported by Gareth Bale. His 16-under total is the biggest 54 hole of the season.

Cazoo Open 2021 R3

The four-time European Challenge Tour winner’s form hasn’t been the best recently, he made just two cuts in his last eleven starts, but he could become the third wire-to-wire winner this season on Sunday following Bernd Wiesberger and Lucas Herbert.

“It’s a good feeling. But to be honest, I don’t care at the moment. I struggled a bit the last year, year and a half, not with form but it’s golf – mentally, a little bit physically, battling with an injury. I’m happy playing golf again and being in the moment.”

Cazoo Open 2021 R3

“To be in contention is a gift. It shows that the work I’ve been doing is paying off. We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow but I’m happy with the way I am to be honest.

“I’m trying not to think about it. I’m going to play as if I was tied for the lead or a couple behind. I want to play the same way I’ve played these last few days. Play smart, go at pins when we can if I have the number or play safe because there are some tucked pins. The most important thing, I’m going to try and enjoy myself.”

Cazoo Open 2021 R3

“It rained a lot last night, the last couple of rounds I had the pace (on the greens) pretty well. My lines matched my speed, the first putt I hit today was right on the forehead. They were slower than I thought they’ d be, but I managed well. I struggled with the speed on long putts, but I did pretty well.

“I’m going to try and play my best, if that brings me to the top of the leaderboard then great, if not, it’s a learning process.”

Callum Shinkwin (63) shot the lowest round of the week to tie for second alongside Mikko Korhonen (67), Justin Harding (66) and Chase Hanna (67).

“It was pretty chill to be fair,” said Shinkwin. “All three of us were cruising around and it just happened. I was three under out and on the back nine I started holing a couple of putts and that’s where the score came from.

“I played within myself today and played how Callum Shinkwin plays golf. It was nice. I didn’t think about anything, I saw my name on the leaderboard and thought ‘that’s great’ but I just kept doing what I’m doing. I was hitting the ball well today. My iron play clicked today, which helps. At the end of the round I holed a couple of nice putts.

Cazoo Open 2021 R3

“Where has it come from? I don’t know. I’ve been doing the right things, but nothing has been clicking for me. Today I was hitting the right numbers, the right shots and hitting it out the middle – which helps.

“Anyone out here can win, there’s so many people who can win. It’s tough. Winning is hard on the European Tour. There’s too many good players out there who can shoot good numbers on last days and come through. I was lucky enough to do that last year. You just have to wait for your time to come, you never know when it’s going to happen.”

Sam Horsfield, the 2020 Celtic Classic champion, signed for a 65 to take solo sixth place at 9-under.

“It was good. I haven’t been getting off to the greatest of starts over the last few days. Today was better. I was level through six and made a nice birdie on seven. I got things going but didn’t play the par fives too well, but I’m happy with six under. I just realised I had four birdies on the last five. I got hot at the end, made a few nice putts and have an outside look at tomorrow. I’m right there.

“I have great memories of this golf course, winning here last year. I really like this place. It’s a big property with a lot of land and a lot of space, they have done an unreal job of designing the golf course. You can tell it was designed for the Ryder Cup with the banks on the sides of the hills. It’s a really cool place and I have a love for it.”

Cazoo Open 2021 R3

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	-16	64	67	66	197
T2	Chase Hanna	-10	67	69	67	203
T2	Justin Harding	-10	68	69	66	203
T2	Mikko Korhonen	-10	66	70	67	203
T2	Callum Shinkwin	-10	68	72	63	203
6	Sam Horsfield	-9	67	72	65	204
T7	Masahiro Kawamura	-8	71	63	71	205
T7	Matt Wallace	-8	67	68	70	205
9	Jacques Kruyswijk	-7	68	68	70	206
T10	Wil Besseling	-6	70	71	66	207
T10	Alejandro Cañizares	-6	71	69	67	207
T10	Nicolas Colsaerts	-6	67	73	67	207
T10	Bryce Easton	-6	68	75	64	207
T10	Oliver Farr	-6	73	69	65	207
T10	Calum Hill	-6	69	70	68	207
T10	Nicolai Højgaard	-6	71	70	66	207
T10	Jordan Wrisdale	-6	67	73	67	207
T18	David Drysdale	-5	68	71	69	208
T18	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	-5	67	75	66	208
T18	Sihwan Kim	-5	69	70	69	208
T18	Søren Kjeldsen	-5	69	71	68	208
T18	Richard McEvoy	-5	74	68	66	208
T18	James Morrison	-5	66	76	66	208
T18	Ricardo Santos	-5	71	72	65	208
T25	John Catlin	-4	68	73	68	209
T25	Hugo León	-4	72	69	68	209
T25	Wade Ormsby	-4	67	72	70	209
T28	Oliver Fisher	-3	73	69	68	210
T28	Niall Kearney	-3	71	72	67	210
T28	Vincent Norrman	-3	64	69	77	210
T28	Connor Syme	-3	72	70	68	210
T32	Laurie Canter	-2	76	68	67	211
T32	Ashley Chesters	-2	73	69	69	211
T32	Richard Mansell	-2	68	73	70	211
T35	Steven Brown	-1	69	74	69	212
T35	Alex Fitzpatrick (a)	-1	70	74	68	212
T35	Brad Kennedy	-1	70	69	73	212
T35	David Law	-1	70	73	69	212
T35	Deyen Lawson	-1	72	70	70	212
T35	Benjamin Poke	-1	72	69	71	212
T35	Richie Ramsay	-1	70	73	69	212
T35	Lee Slattery	-1	70	71	71	212
T35	Clement Sordet	-1	73	71	68	212
T35	Marc Warren	-1	73	70	69	212
T35	Romain Wattel	-1	71	68	73	212
T46	Maverick Antcliff	E	69	74	70	213
T46	Kristoffer Broberg	E	71	70	72	213
T46	Bradley Dredge	E	72	71	70	213
T46	Julien Guerrier	E	72	71	70	213
T46	Bryden Macpherson	E	67	76	70	213
T46	Tapio Pulkkanen	E	69	73	71	213
T46	Matthias Schmid	E	73	70	70	213
T46	Jordan Smith	E	69	72	72	213
T54	Archie Davies (a)	+1	69	75	70	214
T54	David Dixon	+1	74	70	70	214
T54	Alexander Levy	+1	72	72	70	214
T57	Ben Evans	+2	70	72	73	215
T57	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	+2	73	70	72	215
T57	Aaron Rai	+2	68	73	74	215
T57	Toby Tree	+2	70	71	74	215
T61	Pedro Figueiredo	+3	73	69	74	216
T61	Scott Hend	+3	71	72	73	216
T61	Chris Wood	+3	71	72	73	216
T64	David Howell	+4	72	72	73	217
T64	Robert Rock	+4	67	77	73	217
66	Shubhankar Sharma	+5	70	71	77	218
67	Suradit Yongcharoenchai	+9	74	70	78	222
CUT	Dave Coupland	+3	72	73		145
CUT	Josh Geary	+3	71	74		145
CUT	Berry Henson	+3	71	74		145
CUT	David Horsey	+3	73	72		145
CUT	Raphael Jacquelin	+3	68	77		145
CUT	Niklas Lemke	+3	75	70		145
CUT	Adrian Otaegui	+3	71	74		145
CUT	Max Schmitt	+3	72	73		145
CUT	Elvis Smylie	+3	74	71		145
CUT	Julian Suri	+3	76	69		145
CUT	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	+3	72	73		145
CUT	Matthew Baldwin	+4	73	73		146
CUT	Jack Davidson	+4	74	72		146
CUT	Matt Ford	+4	76	70		146
CUT	Matthieu Pavon	+4	74	72		146
CUT	Nicholas Poppleton	+4	74	72		146
CUT	Rhys Enoch	+5	77	70		147
CUT	Lorenzo Gagli	+5	70	77		147
CUT	Ross McGowan	+5	71	76		147
CUT	Gavin Moynihan	+5	73	74		147
CUT	Kristoffer Reitan	+5	75	72		147
CUT	Adrien Saddier	+5	71	76		147
CUT	Matthew Southgate	+5	74	73		147
CUT	Daniel Young (a)	+5	70	77		147
CUT	Aron Zemmer	+5	72	75		147
CUT	Matthew Jordan	+6	78	70		148
CUT	Chan Kim	+6	73	75		148
CUT	John Murphy (a)	+6	75	73		148
CUT	Paul Peterson	+6	72	76		148
CUT	Alvaro Quiros	+6	76	72		148
CUT	Jack Senior	+6	73	75		148
CUT	James Sugrue (a)	+6	73	75		148
CUT	Sean Towndrow	+6	78	70		148
CUT	Ross Fisher	+7	75	74		149
CUT	Tom Gandy	+7	73	76		149
CUT	Liam Johnston	+7	75	74		149
CUT	Janne Kaske	+7	76	73		149
CUT	Zander Lombard	+7	72	77		149
CUT	Carlos Pigem	+7	78	71		149
CUT	Bernd Ritthammer	+7	72	77		149
CUT	Ajeetesh Sandhu	+7	73	76		149
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	+7	75	74		149
CUT	Dale Whitnell	+7	72	77		149
CUT	Daniel van Tonder	+7	74	75		149
CUT	Nino Bertasio	+8	75	75		150
CUT	Gaganjeet Bhullar	+8	74	76		150
CUT	Grégory Bourdy	+8	77	73		150
CUT	Paul Dunne	+8	73	77		150
CUT	Damien Perrier	+8	76	74		150
CUT	Graeme Storm	+8	73	77		150
CUT	Euan Walker (a)	+8	79	71		150
CUT	Eric Bae (a)	+9	78	73		151
CUT	Haydn Porteous	+9	73	78		151
CUT	Lars van Meijel	+9	74	77		151
CUT	Sebastian Heisele	+10	72	80		152
CUT	Tyler Koivisto	+10	68	84		152
CUT	Marcel Schneider	+10	78	74		152
CUT	Justin Walters	+11	74	79		153
CUT	Gregory Havret	+12	81	73		154
CUT	Andrea Pavan	+13	78	77		155
CUT	Oliver Wilson	+13	79	76		155
CUT	Joe Long (a)	+14	77	79		156
CUT	James Ashfield	+16	75	83		158
CUT	Haotong Li	+17	84	75		159
CUT	Tim Dykes	+18	83	77		160
CUT	Matt Roberts	+21	82	81		163