SEVEN WITH SEYCHELLES VICTORY
chances but didn’t make them until I got to the 16th, but I kept a lot of bogeys off the card and that was important.”
Kingston signed for a final round of 72, two-over-par, to claim his third runner-up finish of the year and moved into second place on the Staysure Tour Order of Merit.
Welshman Phillip Price, who tops the Order of Merit, extended his advantage following his third place finish in Seychelles after his one under par round of 69.
England’s Paul Eales also carded a round of 69 to join Price and Mauricio Molina of Argentina in a share of third, two shots back.
A group of four players, including English duo Peter Baker and Simon Brown, Spain’s Miguel Angel Martin and Joakim Haeggman, who carded the joint low round of the day, a fourunder-par 66, finished three shots adrift at one under par.
▪ Sweden’s Julia Engström has a seven-stroke lead heading into today’s final round of the Magical Kenya Ladies Open.
The 18-year-old, looking for her breakthrough victory on the Ladies European Tour, carded a two-under-par 70 in yesterday’s third round at Vipingo Ridge.
She made six birdies, as well as two bogeys and a double bogey.
Julia Engström, the 2018 Rookie of the Year, was six strokes ahead at halfway and is now seven clear of Christine Wolf, Aditi Ashok, Astrid Vayson de Pradenne and Esther Henseleit, who sit at six-under.
Sanna Nuutinen is sixth, while Scots Kylie Henry and Kelsey MacDonald are tied for seventh on two-under alongside Cheyenne Woods and Ursula Wikstrom.