Hero Open R3

Hero Open 2021 R3
August 05-08
Fairmont St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
€1,250,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 9 minutes

Grant Forrest and Calum Hill are tied for the lead at 18-under after the third round of the Hero Open at Fairmont St Andrews.

Hero Open 2021 R3

If either should win they would become the first home winner in Scotland on the European Tour since Paul Lawrie won the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles in 2012.

First round leader Calum Hill started the day three shots behind overnight leader Lucas Bjerregaard of Denmark but produced three birdies and an eagle at the par-5 3rd to make the turn in 31. He faltered with bogeys at the 10th and 14th then recovered with birdies at the 15th and 18th to close with a 67 joining Forrest in the lead.

Hero Open 2021 R3

“I played really nice,” said Hill. “It was difficult to make putts when it got windy. I think that halted my score a little bit because today was my best ball-striking round but yeah, very happy.

“I’m very determined (to win). This is what you play for isn’t it? I’m looking forward to it, especially with a home crowd and family watching. I’ll be giving it my best.”

Hero Open 2021 R3

Forrest started seven shots behind Bjerregaard and a bogey at the first did not bode well but he quickly turned it around with a birdie at the 3rd and four consecutive birdies from the 6th to make the turn in 32. He made six more birdies on the back nine to close with a 62 matching the course record set by Bjerregaard on Friday.

Hero Open 2021 R3

“It was one of those days – bogey start as well and you’re thinking it’s not an ideal start,”said Forrest. The first couple of days I played nicely but couldn’t get anything going and didn’t really make a putt. Today I changed my putting grip and made pretty much everything and I think Lucas’ (Bjerregaard) putter has rubbed off on me a little bit. I just hit lots of really good putts today. It’s tough making putts in that wind, you need a little bit of luck and I got that so I’m delighted.

“I’ve been feeling confident in my game so I’m just trying to trust that, and trust that the good scores are going to come along.”

Spain’s Santiago Tarrio lies in solo third place after a round of 67 marred by a single bogey.

“It was a difficult day with the strong wind on the final 12 or 13 holes. I didn’t play good, but I made some birdie chances and made some par saves. I’ll try to play the same golf tomorrow.”

Bjerregaard had an unfortunate start with a double bogey at the par-4 2nd hole. He made four birdies and a bogey to make the turn in 35 then parred the back nine to close with a 71 and a share of fourth place at 16-under alongside Scot David Law who shot a bogey-free 66.

“It was a bit more of a battle than yesterday,” said Bjerregaard. “I didn’t play my best today, especially off the tee and then when the conditions are like this you don’t get many looks at birdies. It got pretty windy on the back nine, I felt like I lost the grip on my putter a bit. Not great, but I’m still in the mix and it’s nice to be here again.

“I definitely have a lot more confidence now than I had at the start of the week. It’s always nice to produce a couple of good scores. It seems every event I ‘ve been hanging around the cut line coming in on Friday and it’s hard work and a grind and then I don’t have a great weekend and finish low. It was nice to fly though and make the cut easy yesterday and not have to worry about that.”

Hero Open 2021 R3

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1	R2	R3	Total
T1	Calum Hill	-18	63	68	67	198
T1	Grant Forrest	-18	68	68	62	198
3	Santiago Tarrio	-17	67	65	67	199
T4	Lucas Bjerregaard	-16	67	62	71	200
T4	David Law	-16	67	67	66	200
T6	Matthew Jordan	-15	67	66	68	201
T6	Berry Henson	-15	67	67	67	201
T8	Chase Hanna	-14	65	68	69	202
T8	Jordan Smith	-14	68	68	66	202
T8	James Morrison	-14	69	66	67	202
11	Justin Walters	-13	68	64	71	203
T12	Jonathan Caldwell	-12	64	70	70	204
T12	Matt Ford	-12	70	66	68	204
T12	Robin Sciot-Siegrist	-12	65	68	71	204
T12	Toby Tree	-12	67	68	69	204
T16	Daniel Hillier	-10	69	70	67	206
T16	Niall Kearney	-10	71	69	66	206
T16	Richard McEvoy	-10	70	66	70	206
T16	Garrick Porteous	-10	69	69	68	206
T16	Callum Shinkwin	-10	69	68	69	206
T21	Bryce Easton	-9	67	69	71	207
T21	Craig Howie	-9	75	65	67	207
T21	Sihwan Kim	-9	69	65	73	207
T21	Hugo León	-9	67	70	70	207
T21	Chris Paisley	-9	66	72	69	207
T21	Richie Ramsay	-9	67	69	71	207
T21	Shubhankar Sharma	-9	67	67	73	207
T21	Nicolai Von Dellingshausen	-9	66	72	69	207
T29	Oliver Farr	-8	71	69	68	208
T29	Renato Paratore	-8	75	67	66	208
T29	Alvaro Quiros	-8	66	69	73	208
T32	Wil Besseling	-7	72	71	66	209
T32	Yi Keun Chang	-7	70	67	72	209
T32	Eduardo De la Riva	-7	68	67	74	209
T35	Jamie Donaldson	-6	73	67	70	210
T35	Bradley Dredge	-6	75	67	68	210
T35	Ross Fisher	-6	65	75	70	210
T35	Masahiro Kawamura	-6	73	68	69	210
T35	Marcus Kinhult	-6	71	71	68	210
T40	Marcus Armitage	-5	72	69	70	211
T40	Gaganjeet Bhullar	-5	76	67	68	211
T40	David Drysdale	-5	71	67	73	211
T40	Tyler Koivisto	-5	69	71	71	211
T40	Alexander Levy	-5	69	74	68	211
T45	Jorge Campillo	-4	72	70	70	212
T45	Rhys Enoch	-4	72	69	71	212
T45	Ryan Fox	-4	74	69	69	212
T45	Scott Hend	-4	72	69	71	212
T45	Adrian Otaegui	-4	67	70	75	212
T45	Darius van Driel	-4	71	67	74	212
T51	Ashley Chesters	-3	71	71	71	213
T51	Pedro Figueiredo	-3	68	71	74	213
T51	Daniel Gavins	-3	71	72	70	213
T51	Gavin Moynihan	-3	70	73	70	213
T51	Damien Perrier	-3	72	68	73	213
T51	Kristoffer Reitan	-3	67	73	73	213
T51	Ricardo Santos	-3	72	69	72	213
T51	Andy Sullivan	-3	73	67	73	213
T51	Lars van Meijel	-3	76	67	70	213
T60	Joachim B. Hansen	-2	74	68	72	214
T60	Anton Karlsson	-2	72	70	72	214
T60	Jake McLeod	-2	75	67	72	214
T60	Matthew Southgate	-2	72	68	74	214
T64	Carlos Pigem	-1	74	69	72	215
T64	Marcel Siem	-1	70	73	72	215
T64	Lee Slattery	-1	68	74	73	215
T64	Dale Whitnell	-1	73	68	74	215
T64	Daniel Young (a)	-1	75	68	72	215
T69	Matthew Baldwin	E	75	67	74	216
T69	Austin Bautista	E	72	70	74	216
T69	Alejandro Cañizares	E	73	70	73	216
T69	Frank Kennedy	E	72	71	73	216
73	Gary Stal	+1	69	74	74	217
T74	Kristoffer Broberg	+2	77	66	75	218
T74	SSP Chawrasia	+2	76	67	75	218
CUT	Dave Coupland	E	76	68		144
CUT	Ignacio Elvira Mijares	E	71	73		144
CUT	Philip Eriksson	E	74	70		144
CUT	Lorenzo Gagli	E	73	71		144
CUT	Tom Gandy	E	78	66		144
CUT	Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez	E	73	71		144
CUT	Nicolai Højgaard	E	75	69		144
CUT	Scott Jamieson	E	71	73		144
CUT	Søren Kjeldsen	E	74	70		144
CUT	Ryan Lumsden (a)	E	73	71		144
CUT	Ajeetesh Sandhu	E	77	67		144
CUT	Martin Simonsen	E	76	68		144
CUT	Graeme Storm	E	76	68		144
CUT	Julian Suri	E	75	69		144
CUT	Connor Syme	E	73	71		144
CUT	Oliver Wilson	E	76	68		144
CUT	Aron Zemmer	E	71	73		144
CUT	Daniel van Tonder	E	74	70		144
CUT	Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño	+1	75	70		145
CUT	Benjamin Hebert	+1	76	69		145
CUT	Shiv Kapur	+1	72	73		145
CUT	Paul Peterson	+1	77	68		145
CUT	Bernd Ritthammer	+1	72	73		145
CUT	Laird Shepherd (a)	+1	73	72		145
CUT	Paul Waring	+1	71	74		145
CUT	Chris Wood	+1	75	70		145
CUT	David Dixon	+2	74	72		146
CUT	Ben Evans	+2	71	75		146
CUT	Oliver Fisher	+2	76	70		146
CUT	Liam Johnston	+2	78	68		146
CUT	Francesco Laporta	+2	71	75		146
CUT	Haotong Li	+2	77	69		146
CUT	Eddie Pepperell	+2	74	72		146
CUT	Jesper Sandborg	+2	74	72		146
CUT	Clement Sordet	+2	79	67		146
CUT	Paul Dunne	+3	79	68		147
CUT	Niklas Lemke	+3	77	70		147
CUT	Paul O’Hara	+3	75	72		147
CUT	Haydn Porteous	+3	73	74		147
CUT	Emilio Cuartero Blanco	+4	72	76		148
CUT	Cormac Sharvin	+4	73	75		148
CUT	Marc Warren	+4	78	70		148
CUT	Robin Williams	+4	75	73		148
CUT	Suradit Yongcharoenchai	+4	75	73		148
CUT	Deyen Lawson	+5	78	71		149
CUT	Robert Rock	+5	76	73		149
CUT	Graham Fox	+6	74	76		150
CUT	Janne Kaske	+6	73	77		150
CUT	Max Schmitt	+6	77	73		150
CUT	Aaron Cockerill	+7	80	71		151
CUT	Stephen Gallacher	+7	80	71		151
CUT	Josh Geary	+7	76	75		151
CUT	Dimitrios Papadatos	+7	72	79		151
CUT	Matthias Schmid	+7	80	71		151
CUT	Jordan Wrisdale	+7	80	71		151
CUT	David Horsey	+8	81	71		152
CUT	David Howell	+8	77	75		152
CUT	Ross McGowan	+8	80	72		152
CUT	Benjamin Poke	+8	81	71		152
CUT	Adrien Saddier	+8	75	77		152
CUT	Euan Walker (a)	+8	79	73		152
CUT	Jeff Winther	+8	79	73		152
CUT	Pep Angles	+9	79	74		153
CUT	Tom McKibbin	+9	79	74		153
CUT	Romain Wattel	+10	78	76		154
CUT	Chris Doak	+17	90	71		161
CUT	Jake Bolton	+18	83	79		162
W/D	Joel Stalter	+11	83			83