ROUND 3 FRIDAY MAY 3, 2019

Back-to-back for Nuria? Nuria Iturrios and top a cluttered leaderboard heading into the final round of the Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic.

By Kent Gray – Editor, Digest Middle East nuria iturrios has a shot at joining a rare compatriot Karolin Lampert and first band of back-to-back Ladies European round leader Leona Maguire are at -6 Tour winners but knows the game of and -5 respectively. golf, not to mention a quartet of pursuers Iturrios would become the first player desperately chasing their maiden wins, since India’s Aditi Ashok in 2016 to will ensure her bid for a place in the capture back-to-back titles if she can history books is anything but a cinch. get over the line today. But given the The 23-year-old Spaniard starts the low scoring for two-thirds of the new- final round of the $285,000 Omega look 54-hole Pro-Am thus far, the six Dubai Moonlight Classic tied atop players within five strokes of Iturrios and the leaderboard with German Esther Henseleit will fancwy their chances in Henseleit at -9 and has the advantage Friday’s final round. Even Thai Kanyalak of being the only player in the top Preedasuttijit, Swede five to have won on tour, as recently and Finn Noora Komulainen at -4 have as last week at the given themselves an outside shot. in . Another German, Olivia “It would be awesome, of course, but Cowan, is third a shot further back while it’s still 18 holes to play... Turn to page 2

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LEADERBOARD

Rank Name Country R1 R2 To Par

T1 Esther Henseleit GER 69 66 -9 T1 Nuria Iturrios ESP 67 68 -9 3 Olivia Cowan GER 66 70 -8 4 Karolin Lampert GER 68 70 -6 5 Leona Maguire IRL 64 75 -5 Continued from cover page... so that’s fine for me. I made some Leona Maguire is perhaps T6 Kanyalak Preedasuttijit THA 71 69 -4 and you never know. It’s golf…” said putts and missed some, so we’ll see the closest player to Iturrios and Iturrios before reflecting on her for tomorrow.” Henseleit with the most to prove. T6 Caroline Hedwall SWE 68 72 -4 second round of 68. Henseleit produced the lowest After her sizzling course record T6 Noora Komulainen FIN 70 70 -4 “So I want to enjoy it. I want to relax round on Thursday which is even 64 on Wednesday, the 24-year-old and prepare my mind for tomorrow. more notable given her 66 included Irishwoman stuttered to a 75 in the T9 Hannah Burke ENG 72 69 -3 I didn’t see the scores, but I’m still a double bogey on the par-3 17th second round – an 11 shot reserve feeling good, so let’s keep going.” when she splashed out of a greenside which saw her slide to fifth overnight. T9 Marianne Skarpnord NOR 69 72 -3 Iturrios has only signed for two bunker and three-putted. But with “I didn’t give myself many birdies in the opening 36 holes and has four top-10s already in her rookie chances today,” said the former 11 Kylie Henry SCO 69 73 -2 played her last six rounds, including the campaign, the 20-year-old is clearly world amateur No.1 before getting four en-route to victory in , in a in a good space. into some of the ugly specifics. “On T12 Liz Young ENG 71 72 -1 thoroughly impressive 32-under-par. “My long game is really solid and T12 SCO 68 75 -1 She certainly seems to have all facets my ball striking is really good, so my of her game in fine shape. swing is feeling good. I just felt like It would mean T12 USA 72 71 -1 “I made two birdies from really I could attack some pins and also good bunker shots on holes 10 and putted really well, so I had a lot of everything. T12 Sarah Kemp AUS 69 74 -1 13 [yesterday], where I can reach the birdies,” Henseleit said. greens in two. I love bunker shots, “Sadly I had a double bogey on 17, I think everyone which was not that good, but that happens. I’m still quite happy about my round.” wants to win Claiming a first LET win would obviously be something else to get and to do this excited about, not that Henseleit is getting ahead of herself. CREDIT CARDS in your first “It would mean everything. I think everyone wants to win and to do this year would be in your first year is really good, but there is still one day to go and I’m not thinking of the win. I want to do really good.” my best and see what happens.” Cowan carded a 70 to go with her co-leader opening 66 and would love to claim esther henseleit her maiden win in Dubai given her close connections to the Emirate, seven, I wanted to hit 7-wood, my including a sponsorship deal with JA wanted me to hit a 9 and I hit The Resort. a 9 in the water [en-route to a double “I want to go out and play good golf bogey], which was quite annoying to and see what happens: hopefully win. finish with. It would mean the world. It would “I didn’t give myself enough chances be amazing. I’ve been close a few and didn’t hole any putts, so no times and I’m just waiting for that birdies today. I need to play a lot better one little step. It would be amazing, tomorrow and hit my irons better to here in Dubai, with my sponsors.” give myself some more chances.” ◼

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On the tee, Paige Spiranac, Rafa Cabrera Bello and the luckiest amateur in the world.

egardless of how she plays, Paige Spiranac is R going to find her entire round on The Faldo course today much easier than the partial hole she negotiated under lights on Wednesday night. We can also guarantee Sara Wiedenhaefer will find her loop of the pristine Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic venue an utter blast. Wiedenhaefer has jetted into Dubai on Emirates Airlines after winning a social media competition where a round with Spiranac and four nights at the JA Palm Tree Court Hotel completed the once- in-a-lifetime prize. But not only Paige will the Washington D.C. amateur tee it up with the Instagram star and golf influencer, she’ll also have the dream bonus of playing alongside Ryder Cupper Rafa Cabrera Bello and Majed Al-Sorour, the chief executive of the Saudi Impression Golf Federation. The quartet will tee it up at 10am, 59 minutes exacly before the first get the full experience. group goes out in the final round “Every time I’ve been at Emirates of the $285,000 Moonlight Classic. Golf Club, it’s been in pristine As a , Spiranac is condition. The staff are always unlikely to suffer from 1st tee nerves so nice and so welcoming and Sheikh Zayed Road and she’ll most definitely find it people that I haven’t seen since my easier than on Wednesday night first trip still remember me and Festival Plaza Mall/ when she was challenged to hit a are so welcoming, which I really IKEA drive from the 11th tee and perform appreciate and enjoy.” Energy Metro Station The Nook trick shots blindfolded as part of the And what do you make of Hillside Residences event’s PR drive. Emirates Golf Club’s night golf School Plot Spiranac has played in Dubai’s offering which has been showcased Central Park Gardenia Townhomes stop twice this week in pro golf’s first day-night before but nowadays brings her tournament? celebrity to the fore in a promotional “I live in Arizona where it get’s capacity. And while she’s not in the really hot, similar to Dubai. We School Plot field proper this week, she’s been a don’t have night golf – if we did I big hit spearheading the Moonlight would be playing all the time,” the Classic’s @OmegaGolfDubai social 26-year-old said. media channels. “Night golf really extends the golfing “Dubai is amazing and I am so season in Dubai. It’s so great for people excited to be back…I would always who work during the day – they can recommend people to come and come out at night and get their round visit,” said Spiranac. “It’s everything of golf in and I think it’s growing the you can hope for and more. There game of golf by doing that. People now Your gate to everything opens now is so much to do out here and you have options when they can play and really need to come out to Dubai to fit it around their schedule.”◼ Introducing wasl gate, a freehold master development from wasl that will transform urban living in Jebel Ali.

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Nuria Iturrios Leona Maguire Caroline Hedwall

age: 23 age: 24 age: 29 nationality: Spanish nationality: Irish turned pro: Swedish turned pro: 2015 turned pro: 2018 let wins: 2010 let wins: 2 let wins: 0 let wins: 8 let career earnings: let career earnings: let career earnings: €173,734 €11,728 €774,070 let oom: 1st let oom: 50th let oom: 4th world ranking: 302nd world ranking: 237th world ranking: 128 th Esther Henseleit did you know? Olivia Cowan did you know? Karolin Lampert did you know? Won last week’s Lalla Spent a record 135 weeks Caroline was both the age: 20 Meryem Cup in Rabat age: 23 atop the world amateur LET ‘Player of the Year’ nationality: German age: 24 after finishing runner-up rankings before turning and ‘Rookie of the Year’ nationality: German nationality: German turned pro: 2019 to Marianne Skarpnord pro last June. Won her in 2011. Starts the final turned pro: 2015 let wins: 0 in the recent Australian first pro title last month at turned pro: 2014 round five strokes adrift let wins: 0 let career earnings: Ladies Classic in Bonville. the Windsor Golf Classic let wins: 0 of the co-leaders after €16,337 let career earnings: on the LPGA’s feeder tour. let career earnings: rounds of 68-72. th €174,635 let oom: 6 €134,806 th th let oom: 30 th world ranking: 436 let oom: 14 th world ranking: 209 world ranking: 253rd did you know? The joint leader has did you know? did you know? enjoyed four top-5 Is sponsored by Dubai’s Briefly held the Faldo finishes in five events JA Hotels & Resorts. course record with her since turning professional. Her T-21 at last week’s bogey-free 68 out early Rounds of 69-66 here Lalla Meryem Cup is her on Wednesday. Knocking give her a great shot at a 2019 best. on the door with four top- rookie campaign win. 10s in 2018.

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Germany's Olivia Cowan Motivate and their UK film company partners from Lorton Entertainment host lunch for media professionals in the research stage of a new feature film documentary about the life of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. (From L-R) Riyad Mickdady, David Fairservice, Hugh Barnes, Abdulwahed Juma, Khadeja Al Marzooqi, Antony Easton, Motivate Media Group Editor and Managing Partner Ian Fairservice, Lucy Trendel and Ahmed Al Hammadi

Co-leader Esther Henseleit Swede Cajsa Persson

Spaniard Nuria Iturrios Karolin Lampert

Germany's Laura Fuenfstueck

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1. TIME 10:59 • HOLE 1 8. TIME 12:14 • HOLE 1 14. TIME 13:25 • HOLE 1 ◼ Victoria FRICOT AUS +14 ◼ Maha HADDIOUI MAR +3 ◼ Ursula WIKSTROM FIN E ◼ Manon MOLLE FRA +10 ◼ Julia ENGSTROM SWE +2 ◼ Meghan MACLAREN ENG E 2. TIME 11:08 • HOLE 1 ◼ Katja POGACAR SLO +2 ◼ ENG E ◼ Becky BREWERTON WAL +9 9. TIME 12:30 • HOLE 1 15. TIME 13:41 • HOLE 1 ◼ Cheyenne WOODS USA +9 ◼ Sian EVANS ENG +2 ◼ Sarah KEMP AUS -1 ◼ Camilla LENNARTH SWE +8 ◼ Cajsa PERSSON SWE +2 ◼ Beth ALLEN USA -1 3. TIME 11:19 • HOLE 1 ◼ Stacy Lee BREGMAN RSA +2 ◼ Carly BOOTH SCO -1 ◼ Lisa MAGUIRE IRL +7 10. TIME 12:41 • HOLE 1 16. TIME 13:52 • HOLE 1 ◼ Carmen ALONSO ESP +7 ◼ ENG +2 ◼ Liz YOUNG ENG -1 ◼ Valdis Thora JONSDOTTIR ISL +7 ◼ Astrid VAYSON DE PRADENNE FRA +2 ◼ Kylie HENRY SCO -2 4. TIME 11:30 • HOLE 1 ◼ Becky MORGAN WAL +2 ◼ Marianne SKARPNORD NOR -3 ◼ Felicity JOHNSON ENG +6 11. TIME 12:52 • HOLE 1 17. TIME 14:03 • HOLE 1 ◼ Lydia HALL WAL +6 ◼ Trish JOHNSON ENG +1 ◼ Hannah BURKE ENG -3 ◼ Sophie LAMB ENG +6 ◼ Laura FUENFSTUECK GER +1 ◼ Noora KOMULAINEN FIN -4 5. TIME 11:41 • HOLE 1 ◼ Marta SANZ BARRIO ESP +1 ◼ Caroline HEDWALL SWE -4 ◼ AUS +5 12. TIME 13:03 • HOLE 1 18. TIME 14:14 • HOLE 1 ◼ Silvia BANON ESP +5 ◼ SWE +1 ◼ Kanyalak PREEDASUTTIJIT THA -4 ◼ Emily Kristine PEDERSEN DEN +4 ◼ Gabriella COWLEY ENG +1 ◼ Leona MAGUIRE IRL -5 6. TIME 11:52 • HOLE 1 ◼ Tonje DAFFINRUD NOR E ◼ Karolin LAMPERT GER -6 ◼ Noemi JIMENEZ MARTIN ESP +4 13. TIME 13:14 • HOLE 1 19. TIME 14:25 • HOLE 1 ◼ Emma CABRERA-BELLO ESP +3 ◼ Christine WOLF AUT E ◼ Olivia COWAN GER -8 ◼ Diksha DAGAR IND +3 ◼ SWE E ◼ Nuria ITURRIOS ESP -9 7. TIME 12:03 • HOLE 1 ◼ Linda WESSBERG SWE E ◼ Esther HENSELEIT GER -9 ◼ Isabelle BOINEAU FRA +3 ◼ Camille CHEVALIER FRA +3 ◼ Amy BOULDEN WAL +3

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