Yannik Paul finished second last week in Thailand and continued to demonstrate his good form with four consecutive birdies to close his round with a 7-under 65 and take a one-shot lead in the Hero Indian Open at DLF Golf & Country Club.
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“I obviously played well today. I knew it was a challenging course but I just tried to focus on one shot at a time,” said the German.
“I had a great finish – four birdies in the last four – that helps, but tomorrow is a new day so I’ll focus on what I can control and see where I end up.
“I don’t really have a number that I want to get to because that’s tough to control. I’m just trying to stay focused on my process and see where I end up come Sunday,” he continued.
“It’s my sixth week in a row so I took it pretty easy Monday through Wednesday because after a long stretch you can just feel it here, feel it there. I just played a nine-hole pro-am yesterday afternoon then walked the back nine on Tuesday, just to conserve as much energy as I could because I knew it would be challenging here, mentally as well as with the golf shots.
“It’s a tricky course, I think you just have to be 100 per cent committed to every shot and 100 per cent focused.”
India’s Honey Baisoya had set the clubhouse target at 6-under earlier in spite of a double bogey at the par-4 14th and currently lies in second place ahead of Finland’s Mikko Korhonen in third at 5-under.
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Fellow Indians Angad Cheema and Shubhankar Sharma are tied in fourth place at 4-under alongside Iceland’s Gudmundur Kristjansson.
Play was suspended due to darkness and will restart at 07:50 local time.
| Pos. | Player | Thru | To Par | R1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PAUL, Yannik | F | -7 | 65 |
| 2 | BAISOYA, Honey | F | -6 | 66 |
| 3 | KORHONEN, Mikko | F | -5 | 67 |
| 4 | CHEEMA, Angad | F | -4 | 68 |
| | SHARMA, Shubhankar | F | -4 | 68 |
| | KRISTJANSSON, Gudmundur | F | -4 | 68 |
| 7 | SIEM, Marcel | F | -3 | 69 |
| 8 | LUITEN, Joost | F | -2 | 70 |
| | QUAYLE, Anthony | F | -2 | 70 |
| | SANDHU, Yuvraj | 17 | -2 | - |
| VILJOEN, MJ | F | -2 | 70 | |
| | GANDAS, Manu | F | -2 | 70 |
| | DHARMA, M | F | -2 | 70 |
| | TARRIO, Santiago | F | -2 | 70 |
| 15 | WILSON, Andrew | F | -1 | 71 |
| | KAWAMURA, Masahiro | F | -1 | 71 |
| | BACHEM, Nick | F | -1 | 71 |
| | CAÑIZARES, Alejandro | F | -1 | 71 |
| | AIKEN, Thomas | F | -1 | 71 |
| | FORSSTRÖM, Simon | F | -1 | 71 |
| | EASTON, Bryce | F | -1 | 71 |
| | NEMECZ, Lukas | F | -1 | 71 |
| | FAHRBRING, Jens | F | -1 | 71 |
| 24 | LARRAZÁBAL, Pablo | F | Par | 72 |
| | JANEWATTANANOND, Jazz | F | PAR | 72 |
| GREEN, Gavin | F | PAR | 72 | |
| | VAN TONDER, Daniel | F | PAR | 72 |
| | HIDALGO, Angel | F | PAR | 72 |
| | LEMKE, Niklas | 17 | PAR | - |
| | CHANDRA, Yashas | 16 | PAR | - |
| | IWASAKI, Aguri | F | PAR | 72 |
| | JOSHI, Khalin H | F | PAR | 72 |
| | SCHAPER, Jayden | F | PAR | 72 |
| 34 | STAL, Gary | F | +1 | 73 |
| | SANDHU, Ajeetesh | F | +1 | 73 |
| | SADDIER, Adrien | F | +1 | 73 |
| | CHADHA, Abhijit Singh | F | +1 | 73 |
| | WIEBE, Gunner | F | +1 | 73 |
| | BEDI, Aadil | F | +1 | 73 |
| | HANNA, Chase | 17 | +1 | - |
| | SAMOOJA, Kalle | F | +1 | 73 |
| | OLESEN, Thorbjørn | F | +1 | 73 |
| | CAMPILLO, Jorge | F | +1 | 73 |
| | AHLAWAT, Veer | F | +1 | 73 |
| | SIMONSEN, Martin | F | +1 | 73 |
| | KNAPPE, Alexander | F | +1 | 73 |
| | BALDWIN, Matthew | F | +1 | 73 |
| | STALTER, Joël | F | +1 | 73 |
| 49 | THANGARAJA, N | F | +2 | 74 |
| | LACROIX, Frederic | F | +2 | 74 |
| MACINTYRE, Robert | F | +2 | 74 | |
| | AXELSEN, John | F | +2 | 74 |
| | SHARMA, Akshay | F | +2 | 74 |
| | SCOTT, Sandy | F | +2 | 74 |
| | HOSSAIN, Jamal | F | +2 | 74 |
| | WINTHER, Jeff | F | +2 | 74 |
| | MOLINARI, Edoardo | F | +2 | 74 |
| | BJØRN, Thomas | F | +2 | 74 |
| | SHARMA, Kartik | F | +2 | 74 |
| 60 | KO, Jeong weon | F | +3 | 75 |
| | WINDRED, Blake | F | +3 | 75 |
| | NORRIS, Shaun | F | +3 | 75 |
| | HØJGAARD, Nicolai | F | +3 | 75 |
| | ARMITAGE, Marcus | F | +3 | 75 |
| | FITZPATRICK, Alex | F | +3 | 75 |
| | BHULLAR, Gaganjeet | F | +3 | 75 |
| | SURI, Julian | F | +3 | 75 |
| | HIGA, Kazuki | F | +3 | 75 |
| | KAPUR, Shiv | F | +3 | 75 |
| | MCEVOY, Richard | F | +3 | 75 |
| | CHAWRASIA, S.S.P. | F | +3 | 75 |
| | SHEORAN, Dhruv | F | +3 | 75 |
| | BAISOYA, Sachin | F | +3 | 75 |
| | HISATSUNE, Ryo | F | +3 | 75 |
| | PARRY, John | F | +3 | 75 |
| | CHIKKARANGAPPA, S | F | +3 | 75 |
| | REDMAN, Jake | F | +3 | 75 |
| 78 | PERERA, Mithun | F | +4 | 76 |
| | RANDHAWA, Jyoti | F | +4 | 76 |
| | LAPORTA, Francesco | F | +4 | 76 |
| | WANG, Jeunghun | F | +4 | 76 |
| | KHAN, Rashid | F | +4 | 76 |
| 83 | PORTEOUS, Garrick | F | +5 | 77 |
| | SINGH, Yuvraj (AM) | F | +5 | 77 |
| | HUIZING, Daan | F | +5 | 77 |
| | HOWELL, David | F | +5 | 77 |
| | SINGH AHLAWAT, Anant (AM) | F | +5 | 77 |
| | LEE, Joshua | F | +5 | 77 |
| | WALKER, Euan | 17 | +5 | - |
| | MURPHY, John | 17 | +5 | - |
| | VON DELLINGSHAUSEN, Nicolai | F | +5 | 77 |
| | CHOUHAN, Om Prakash | F | +5 | 77 |
| | GALLACHER, Stephen | F | +5 | 77 |
| | GOUVEIA, Ricardo | F | +5 | 77 |
| | KOCHHAR, Karandeep | F | +5 | 77 |
| | VENTER, Albert | F | +5 | 77 |
| | ANTCLIFF, Maverick | F | +5 | 77 |
| 98 | RAVETTO, David | F | +6 | 78 |
| | KHAN, Shamim | F | +6 | 78 |
| | GRADECKI, Mateusz | 17 | +6 | - |
| GALE, Daniel | F | +6 | 78 | |
| | SANTOS, Ricardo | F | +6 | 78 |
| | KJELDSEN, Søren | F | +6 | 78 |
| 104 | MIGLIOZZI, Guido | F | +7 | 79 |
| | HILLIER, Daniel | F | +7 | 79 |
| | MANE, Udayan | F | +7 | 79 |
| 107 | SCHOTT, Freddy | F | +8 | 80 |
| | HURLEY, Gary | F | +8 | 80 |
| 109 | BJERREGAARD, Lucas | F | +9 | 81 |
| | BRING, Christoffer | F | +9 | 81 |
| | BEKKER, Oliver | F | +9 | 81 |
| | FIGUEIREDO, Pedro | F | +9 | 81 |
| | EDÉN, Tobias | F | +9 | 81 |
| 114 | ACKERMAN, Derek | F | +10 | 82 |
| | PARIKH, Varun | F | +10 | 82 |
| 116 | LOHAN, Abhinav | F | +11 | 83 |
| 117 | KAUL, Kshitij Naveed | F | +13 | 85 |
| 118 | YADAV, Sandeep (AM) | F | +19 | 91 |
| RETD | PARATORE, Renato | +7 | - | |
| RETD | LAW, David | +5 | - |
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