Escape from the ‘beer garden’ at the Scottish Open

The third leg of the event in the Rolex Series group of the Eurpean Tour, Detry entered from hole 1 scoring an eagle, two birdies and a bogey over 10 holes. From then until the end of the round, he reached a series of eight par points, including the time he kept the standard 17, par3.

At this point, he played into the spectator food court, among the benches. On the second shot about 40 yards from the hole, the ball position was fine because it was still floating on the rough grass that had been “flattened” by the crowd the past two days.

Detry made his hand after a few drafts. The ball hit the green, nearly hit the rim of the hole and then stopped about 1.5 meters from the target. Detry gently a putt done.

Par 17 helps Detry maintain the top of the table. He finished the third game with 68 strokes on par71, with Matt Fitzpatrick standing at T1 at -14 after 54 holes.

“It was terrible, it went completely left. When the ball hit the stands, I thought it was dead. But fortunately it went into the beer garden, with nice people cheering me on,” Detry said of the technical error. in the penultimate hole.

Yesterday, Fitzpatrick shared the first place thanks to two birdies through the last three holes of the course. And before that, he was lucky on the 14th hole, par3 – hit the green but the ball came back close to the target.

Even so, Fitzpatrick missed a close-range birdie.

After T1 are 23 players about five strokes away, including two players in the top 3 in the world (OWGR table), including number one Jon Rahm and number three Justin Thomas.

Rahm is alone in third, one stroke behind T1, so the Scottish Open is wider than Thomas in T17 with a score of -9.

The event bonus fund reached eight million USD. The organizers are allowed to welcome up to 4,000 spectators per day.

Quoc Huy