{"id":7461,"date":"2022-08-13T19:27:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/ferguson-leads-by-3-shots-at-isps-handa-world-invitational\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T19:27:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T19:27:26","slug":"ferguson-leads-by-3-shots-at-isps-handa-world-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=7461","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson leads by 3 shots at ISPS Handa World Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland (AP) &#8211; Scotland&#8217;s Ewen Ferguson extended his lead to three strokes by shooting a 2-under 68 in the third round of the ISPS Handa World Invitational on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">Ferguson, who won the Qatar Masters in March, created the possibility of a second European Tour win with a controlled round that featured four birdies and two bogeys at Galgorm Castle Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">He started the day with a one-shot lead over Spain&#8217;s Borja Virto and now has a three-shot lead over John Catlin of the United States (66).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">The tournament is tri-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour.  Men and women play from different tees and compete separately, with two equal prizes of $1.5 million each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">In the women&#8217;s event, American Amanda Doherty led for the third day in a row and was still one shot ahead, at 12-under 206 for the tournament, in her bid for a first LPGA Tour title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">Georgia Hall and Peiyun Chien, who shot 70, are the closest rivals to Doherty, who shot 72.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">More AP golf: i <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-middle-east-shootings-the-masters-74df5eaec68d41f978fa52052d272ebd\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland (AP) &#8211; Scotland&#8217;s Ewen Ferguson extended his lead to three strokes by shooting a 2-under 68 in the third round of the ISPS Handa World Invitational on Saturday. Ferguson, who won the Qatar Masters in March, created the possibility of a second European Tour win with a controlled round that featured four birdies and two bogeys at Galgorm Castle Golf Club. He started the day with a one-shot lead over Spain&#8217;s Borja Virto and now has a three-shot lead over John Catlin of the United States (66). The tournament is tri-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}