Eugenio Chacarra is in prime position to successfully defend his Hero Indian Open title as he takes a four-shot lead into the final round at DLF Golf & Country Club.
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The Spaniard, who won the 2025 event in four under par as one of only three players in red numbers, shot 70 in round three to reach ten under.
That stretched his lead over a tightly bunched chasing pack led by MJ Daffue and Alex Fitzpatrick on six under, with Freddy Schott and David Law a further shot back.
Chacarra’s move came as he approached the turn on day three. An excellent birdie putt at the fifth proved a false start as he gave the shot back at the next, but a well-judged putt at the seventh secured the first of three successive gains as he went out in 33.
He bogeyed the 13th, only for playing partner Casey Jarvis, his nearest challenger at the time, to suffer the same fate and leave him four clear.
Fitzpatrick emerged from the group at six under with one of only two birdies made on Saturday at the difficult 14th, where Jarvis dropped two shots after finding a problematic lie in the rough behind the green and Chacarra was frustrated to make a second successive bogey.
The Spaniard celebrated his par on the next with a fist-pump and learned from Jarvis’ missed birdie putt on the 16th to perfectly roll in his own and stretch his lead back to four.
Fitzpatrick’s par putt at the 17th just stayed up and Law was unable to salvage his at the treacherous pin position on the 18th, but Daffue’s impressive birdie at the 17th left him within four.
Chacarra parred the last, three-putting from well over 100 feet as his approach ran just off the back of the green, with Daffue recording a similar par from the left-hand fringe.
First-round leader Schott finished birdie-birdie to get back to five under alongside Law. Andy Sullivan and Ewen Ferguson each shot 69 to reach four under, where Jarvis also finished after a bogey at the last.
Euan Walker was three under and the top ten was completed at two under by Ugo Coussaud, Calum Hill and Jack Senior, whose 67 was the round of the day and vaulted him 40 places up the leaderboard.
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