Time to Rasia game
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SSP CHAWRASIA holds a one-shot lead heading into the final day of the Hong Kong Open after carding a 69 yesterday.
But Rafa Cabrera Bello and Wade Ormsby are closing in on the leader to set up a nail-biting finish at Fanling.
Indian Chawrasia, who is on the verge of his first European Tour title away from home, entered the third round with a two-shot lead and extended it to three at one stage before being chased down after a run of seven pars.
Spaniard Cabrera Bello and Aussie Ormsby moved to within one shot of the leader after slapping in a 64 and a 65 respectively at the Hong Kong Golf club to go joint second.
Newly crowned Race to Dubai champion Tommy Fleetwood is a shot further back.
Chawrasia (above) said: “I’m happy with the score, although I definitely left a couple of shots out there, I felt a little extra pressure.
“This course really suits my game – I’ll definitely have to shoot a low number to win because someone will go low.” Daily Star Sunday I STILL don’t know if I’ve quite got a handle on all the emotions I felt after we won our epic semi-final against Tonga.
I sank to my knees in relief when the referee gave a knock-on and disallowed that effort in the last few seconds by Andrew Fifita.
I was emotionally drained. It would have been heartbreaking if he’d scored then and stopped us from going to a World Cup final.
All the emotions flooded through me thinking, ‘We’ve done it, we almost didn’t do it and we’re now going to the World Cup final against Australia.’ Singing the team song afterwards was very moving and I’m just so honoured to be part of all this.
Going to a World Cup final is the pinnacle of a rugby league player’s career.
Playing for your country on that stage with so much at stake is something I am so proud of.
The ending was certainly dramatic but when you are up against a desperate team things can happen.
In parts of the game like that you have got to keep your cool and we didn’t.
We all started trying to work a bit harder to get control again and that works against you bizarrely.
But thankfully we got the job done and I’ve got to give full credit to Tonga and their outstanding fans.
The noise in the ground was even louder than it is at a Grand Final. And most of the fans in the ground were Tongans as well, so that added to the atmosphere.
Some people might think that works against you if you’re up against a crowd that is almost totally behind your opponents. But it actually works in your favour and I prefer to play in atmospheres like that rather than in stadiums where there isn’t much noise coming from the crowd.
It was obviously going to help Tonga because it’s their own fans but it inspired us and drove us on as well.
That was an awesome experience for us. Bring on Australia now!
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