Rory McIlroy’s hopes of clinching the Race to Dubai stay within the steadiness after a promising cost got here to a watery finish on the 18th gap on day three of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
McIlroy had began the day nicely adrift of the lead after a late triple-bogey setback within the second spherical, whereas chief Paul Waring set a course report.
The Northern Irishman drove the inexperienced on the 14th with a 346-yard drive earlier than knocking it in for a birdie, and had hauled himself up into rivalry, tieing for fourth place coming coming into the ultimate gap.
Hooking it left, the ball veered in the direction of the ocean, struck a rock on the shore earlier than cannoning straight into the water, finally dropping McIlroy again down to a few below for the spherical.
“Playing the last two holes two over, two days in a row is not ideal,” stated McIlroy after the spherical.
“The wind bought up a bit bit this afternoon so the leaders weren’t getting away, which was good, so I used to be making a bit little bit of a cost.
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“One mistake with that drive on 18 and a lot into the wind, with the third shot the lay-up was very tough to try to tackle the water.
“An untimely mistake just like yesterday on 17 and dug myself a bit of a hole to get out of. But depending on what the leaders do, I can still go into tomorrow feeling like I have half a chance.
“I bogeyed the primary right this moment and doubled the final and in between that there was some actually good golf, identical as yesterday. I have to put all of it collectively and play the best way I have been taking part in and preserve the large errors and the large numbers off my card.
“If I can do that and post a good score, you never know.”
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McIlroy stays nearly in rivalry as Waring was not in a position to preserve his record-scoring streak and couldn’t make positive factors to stretch forward.
The Englishman, ranked 229 on this planet, carded two bogeys and noticed his five-stroke lead on the finish of day two trimmed to only one forward of Niklas Horgaard, with McIlroy 5 again from the lead.
Shane Lowry and Tommy Fleetwood share third place together with Thorbjorn Oleson and Sebastian Sodeberg.
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