A week after a T4 finish and coming up one stroke shy at Heythrop Park, James Sugrue finds himself in the mix again going into the third and final round of the Clutch Pro Tour’s St Mellion Open.
Contested at St Mellion Golf Club in Cornwall, a field of 144 that included 15 Irish has been whittled down to 59 with just five of the Irishmen seeing final-round action.
Of these, it’s Sugrue who’s in with a chance of victory after carding his second successive round of 70. Starting on the back nine on day two, he birdied two and bogeyed one hole on each side, moving to four-under overall and, in a tie for seventh, he’s just three off the lead.
St Mellion’s own Tyler Hogarty is next best in a share of 17th on level-par after matching rounds of 72, with John Ross Galbraith and Niall Kearney locked together in a tie for 36th at +3.
Paul McBride responded to his opening 76 with a level-par 72 to make the cut on the number on a day where just 13 of the 144 broke par.
Tom Dowdall can consider himself unfortunate to have missed the cut by the minimum, while Rory Williamson, Noel Murray, Marc Boucher, Conor Murtagh, David Howard (am), Robert Brazill, Scott Montgomery, Brandon St John, and Johnny Napier also missed out.
Four share the lead on -7 with American Nicholas Infanti joined by a trio of Englishmen in David Hague, Jake Ayres and Joe Brooks.
Sugrue plays in the third-to-last group along with Moroccan Masters winner and last week’s runner-up Dongwon Kim of Korea and England’s Max Orrin.
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