DS Automobiles Italian Open R3

Italian Open 2021 R3
September 02-05
Marco Simone GC, Rome, Italy
€3,000,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4

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Dane Nicolai Højgaard fired a bogey-free 65 to take a one shot lead in Rome, poised to emulate his twin Rasmus who won last week’s Omega European Masters in Switzerland. A win on Sunday woud make them the first brothers to win back-to-back events on the European Tour.

“I would really love to win. Seeing Rasmus win is a big motivation. I’m just trying to follow in his steps a little bit. Hopefully I can get it done tomorrow.”

Italian Open 2021 R3

Nicolai came close to firing an albatross by nearly holing his tee shot at the par-4 16th but had to settle for an eagle and four birdies and reached the clubhouse in 13-under.

“I’m really happy. I played overall pretty good. I wanted to get up and down on the 18th to post 14-under but I’m really happy with minus 13.

“I am just trying to have a steady level of emotions. I try not to get too excited when I am hitting a shot or the other way around. I am just trying to be calm all the time and sometimes it happens to be good, sometimes not, but I had a really good day on the course.”

Italian Open 2021 R3

Englishman Tommy Fleetwood (67) and South African Daniel van Tonder (66) are tied in second place at 12-under.

“I’m happy,” said Fleetwood. “I stayed patient through the front nine. There were a few people that got off to a really fast start but I didn’t really have many chances. I had a couple of chances on the fifth and seventh that didn’t go in.

Italian Open 2021 R3

“But I felt like my putts on the 8th and 10th – the two up-and-downs I made there – were so important, just not to make a bogey and not to fall backwards at that point, and I felt like those were the two most important putts of the day.

“Then I played some lovely golf from the 12th – 12, 13, 14, 15 I just found a little stretch where I hit the ball so well, did hardly anything wrong. I got a bit lucky on the 16th. When you miss one putt like 17th – and I’ve putted so well, I hit such a lovely putt as well, it’s just the way that hole was placed, it was very difficult.

“I’m happy with where I’m at in the tournament. It’s nice to come down the stretch on a Saturday in contention knowing you’re fighting for your place so high up on the board going into Sunday, and I’ve got Sunday to look forward to.”

Italian Open 2021 R3

Both had joined Højgaard in the lead but made their only bogeys of the day, at the 17th for Fleetwood and the 18th for van Tonder, to slip back into second place.

“Everything felt good,” said van Tonder. “The tee shots, irons into greens and I was reading the putts well. My caddie this week has her work cut out for her, she is reading the greens quite well and I am listening to her, every time I have been listening I have been making putts, so trying to do that as often as possible.

“For me it is to just stay calm and collected, and take the bad shots when they come. My caddie will make me laugh and make me chill a bit, she helps a lot, so just go out and enjoy. Fairways and greens, and make putts.”

Italian Open 2021 R3

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Nicolai Højgaard	-13	66	69	65	200
T2	Tommy Fleetwood	-12	66	68	67	201
T2	Daniel van Tonder	-12	70	65	66	201
4	Mikko Korhonen	-11	68	66	68	202
5	Min Woo Lee	-10	64	68	71	203
T6	Oliver Farr	-9	69	68	67	204
T6	Alexander Levy	-9	69	66	69	204
T6	Victor Perez	-9	70	67	67	204
T9	Ross Fisher	-8	67	71	67	205
T9	Francesco Laporta	-8	66	70	69	205
T9	Edoardo Molinari	-8	65	70	70	205
T12	Adri Arnaus	-7	66	68	72	206
T12	Adrian Meronk	-7	70	69	67	206
T12	Johannes Veerman	-7	67	67	72	206
T15	Richard Bland	-6	70	69	68	207
T15	George Coetzee	-6	72	68	67	207
T15	Sean Crocker	-6	72	67	68	207
T15	David Horsey	-6	69	71	67	207
T15	Joost Luiten	-6	71	66	70	207
T20	Gavin Kyle Green	-5	69	69	70	208
T20	Scott Jamieson	-5	70	67	71	208
T20	Masahiro Kawamura	-5	67	70	71	208
T20	Thomas Pieters	-5	70	69	69	208
T20	Tapio Pulkkanen	-5	72	70	66	208
T20	Henrik Stenson	-5	64	71	73	208
T26	Steven Brown	-4	67	71	71	209
T26	Victor Dubuisson	-4	70	68	71	209
T26	Scott Hend	-4	65	74	70	209
T26	Guido Migliozzi	-4	72	69	68	209
T26	Francesco Molinari	-4	69	69	71	209
T26	Julien Quesne	-4	70	72	67	209
T32	Rasmus Højgaard	-3	72	70	68	210
T32	Matthew Jordan	-3	71	67	72	210
T32	Pablo Larrazabal	-3	70	70	70	210
T32	Adrian Otaegui	-3	71	71	68	210
T32	Eddie Pepperell	-3	65	71	74	210
T32	Shubhankar Sharma	-3	75	66	69	210
T32	Julian Suri	-3	68	73	69	210
T39	Dean Burmester	-2	70	71	70	211
T39	Jonathan Caldwell	-2	71	68	72	211
T39	Dave Coupland	-2	70	69	72	211
T39	Darren Fichardt	-2	72	69	70	211
T39	Sam Horsfield	-2	69	73	69	211
T39	Maximilian Kieffer	-2	69	70	72	211
T39	Marcel Siem	-2	72	69	70	211
T39	Bernd Wiesberger	-2	69	70	72	211
T39	Fabrizio Zanotti	-2	72	69	70	211
T48	John Catlin	-1	72	70	70	212
T48	Ashley Chesters	-1	70	70	72	212
T48	Julien Guerrier	-1	69	73	70	212
T48	Benjamin Hebert	-1	67	74	71	212
T48	Antoine Rozner	-1	71	69	72	212
T48	Adrien Saddier	-1	67	75	70	212
T48	Matthew Southgate	-1	70	70	72	212
T48	Paul Waring	-1	70	72	70	212
56	Wil Besseling	E	73	66	74	213
57	Callum Shinkwin	+1	69	71	74	214
T58	Grant Forrest	+2	72	70	73	215
T58	Calum Hill	+2	75	65	75	215
T58	Joakim Lagergren	+2	71	69	75	215
T58	Kalle Samooja	+2	64	74	77	215
T58	Sami Valimaki	+2	70	71	74	215
63	Dale Whitnell	+4	69	70	78	217
T64	Jean Baptiste Gonnet	+5	71	71	76	218
T64	Robin Roussel	+5	68	73	77	218
CUT	Marcus Armitage	1	70	73		143
CUT	Alexander Björk	1	73	70		143
CUT	Jorge Campillo	1	69	74		143
CUT	David Drysdale	1	71	72		143
CUT	Garrick Higgo	1	70	73		143
CUT	Romain Langasque	1	72	71		143
CUT	Wilco Nienaber	1	69	74		143
CUT	Wade Ormsby	1	72	71		143
CUT	Andrea Romano (a)	1	72	71		143
CUT	Joel Sjoholm	1	75	68		143
CUT	Justin Walters	1	72	71		143
CUT	Oliver Wilson	1	73	70		143
CUT	Jamie Donaldson	+2	72	72		144
CUT	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	+2	71	73		144
CUT	Stephen Gallacher	+2	73	71		144
CUT	Daniel Gavins	+2	71	73		144
CUT	Joachim B. Hansen	+2	72	72		144
CUT	Marcus Kinhult	+2	73	71		144
CUT	Michael Lorenzo-Vera	+2	69	75		144
CUT	Thorbjørn Olesen	+2	72	72		144
CUT	Brandon Stone	+2	68	76		144
CUT	Lucas Bjerregaard	+3	73	72		145
CUT	Filippo Celli (a)	+3	70	75		145
CUT	Nicolas Colsaerts	+3	77	68		145
CUT	Matt Fitzpatrick	+3	72	73		145
CUT	Gregory Havret	+3	74	71		145
CUT	Andrew Johnston	+3	72	73		145
CUT	Martin Kaymer	+3	75	70		145
CUT	Søren Kjeldsen	+3	73	72		145
CUT	Ross McGowan	+3	75	70		145
CUT	Darius van Driel	+3	73	72		145
CUT	Luke Donald	+4	74	72		146
CUT	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	+4	69	77		146
CUT	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	+4	72	74		146
CUT	Justin Harding	+4	73	73		146
CUT	Matthieu Pavon	+4	71	75		146
CUT	Richie Ramsay	+4	75	71		146
CUT	Sebastian Soderberg	+4	73	73		146
CUT	Matt Wallace	+4	73	73		146
CUT	Jeff Winther	+4	76	70		146
CUT	Chris Wood	+4	72	74		146
CUT	Laurie Canter	+5	72	75		147
CUT	Thomas Detry	+5	72	75		147
CUT	Oliver Fisher	+5	75	72		147
CUT	Rikard Karlberg	+5	71	76		147
CUT	Sihwan Kim	+5	76	71		147
CUT	David Law	+5	75	72		147
CUT	Renato Paratore	+5	71	76		147
CUT	Andy Sullivan	+5	70	77		147
CUT	Aaron Cockerill	+6	76	72		148
CUT	Chris Paisley	+6	75	73		148
CUT	Alvaro Quiros	+6	72	76		148
CUT	Ricardo Santos	+6	76	72		148
CUT	Jordan Smith	+6	73	75		148
CUT	Jacopo Vecchi Fossa (a)	+6	70	78		148
CUT	Nino Bertasio	+7	75	74		149
CUT	Pietro Bovari (a)	+7	74	75		149
CUT	Sebastian Heisele	+7	76	73		149
CUT	Zander Lombard	+7	73	76		149
CUT	Stefano Mazzoli (a)	+7	77	72		149
CUT	Richard McEvoy	+7	75	74		149
CUT	Robert Rock	+7	76	73		149
CUT	Graeme Storm	+7	77	72		149
CUT	Davide Buchi	+8	75	75		150
CUT	Ryan Fox	+8	76	74		150
CUT	Miguel Angel Jiménez	+8	77	73		150
CUT	Haydn Porteous	+8	70	80		150
CUT	Garrick Porteous	+8	72	78		150
CUT	Jack Senior	+8	77	73		150
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	+8	78	72		150
CUT	Joel Stalter	+8	71	79		150
CUT	Aron Zemmer	+8	78	72		150
CUT	Lorenzo Gagli	+9	75	76		151
CUT	Kyong-Jun Moon	+9	74	77		151
CUT	Lorenzo Scalise	+9	76	75		151
CUT	Gregorio De Leo	+10	76	76		152
CUT	Enrico Di Nitto	+10	77	75		152
CUT	James Morrison	+11	77	76		153
CUT	Federico Maccario	+12	79	75		154
CUT	Giovanni Manzoni (a)	+12	75	79		154
CUT	Connor Syme	+12	77	77		154
CUT	Raphael Jacquelin	+14	81	75		156
CUT	Luca Cianchetti (a)	+15	77	80		157
CUT	Marc Warren	+16	86	72		158
CUT	Andrea Pavan	+18	80	80		160
CUT	Tommaso Perrino	+19	81	80		161
WD	David Howell	+6	76	44		120
WD	Thomas Aiken	+11	77	45		122
WD	Tae Hee Lee	+7	71	43		114
WD	Jazz Janewattananond	+7	75	33		108
WD	Maverick Antcliff	E	69	69	39	177