Lahiri maintains his poise at Boise

Boise (USA), Aug. 25: Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri made a couple of birdies but missed a lot more in the third round to be tied 12th at the Albertsons Boise Open here.

Lahiri, following his twounder 69, is now 11-under 202 for three rounds.

Lahiri, who was tied-seventh in the first event, is sure to secure his PGA Tour card for 2019-20 with a Top-20 finish.

Lahiri birdied the second and the fifth. What was really frustrating for Lahiri was that he managed only pars on two of three Par-5s. In comparison, he birdied two of the three Par-5s and on second day he birdied all three.

He had two bogeys in each of his first two rounds, but none in third. He has had 15 birdies. Lahiri has shot rounds of 68-65-69. Lahiri first qualified for the PGA Tour 2016 season after coming through the Korn Ferry Tour finals in late 2015, the year he won his last title at the Indian Open.

Norwegian sensation Viktor Hovland carded a 7under 64 on Saturday to leap to the top of the leaderboard at 15-under through three rounds. Aditi moves up to tied 8th in Canada Toronto: India’s Aditi Ashok was on way to her best round of 2019 before she erred and made a double bogey to lie tied eighth at the end of the third round of the CP Women’s Open golf here.

Aditi, who shot six-under 66, was eight-under through 16 and inside the top-5 before the disastrous double bogey on 17th pulled her back.

A finish in the Top-10 would put her in the right frame as the Tour gets into the closing stages for 2019 season. There are seven more events left before the season-ending USD 5 million CME Group Tour Championship in Florida.

Jin Young Ko and Nicole Broch Larsen are tied atop the leaderboard at 18under.