KATHMANDU, JULY 20

Nepal No 1 amateur golfer Subash Tamang climbed up to top 10 after the third round of the 75th Singapore Open Amateur Championship at the par-73 Orchid Country Club in Aranda-Dendro today.

Tamang carded two-under 71 for the 54-hole of six-under 213 and he shared the 10th position with Singapore's Brayden Lee (70). The second round finally completed after a delay of more than five hours due to lightning and rain. Tamang and Lee are nine strokes off the pace going into the final round.

According to Nepal national team coach Deepak Acharya, the players were called back to the club house after they had just finished the first hole.

Play resumed after a delay of four hours. The match was interrupted for the second time after nine holes and this time the players had to wait for one and half hours to complete the round.

The 13th South Asian Games double gold medallist, Tamang had a quiet round compared to first two days. He carded one each birdie on either half and saved pars on 16 holes. He took the turn with a birdie on the seventh and added another on the 15th hole.

Tamang had opened the campaign with even-par 73 and carded four-under 69 in the second round.

Tamang was nine strokes behind leader Australian Lincoln Morgan, who carded a scintillating nine-under 64 to post the 54-hole total of 15-under 204. Morgan was one stroke ahead of Maldives' Marcus Lim, who carded five-under 68.

The Philippines trio Carl Jano Corpus (206), Aidric Jose Chan (208) and Jolo Magcalayo (210) were third, fourth and fifth respectively.

Malaysia's Rizq Adam Rohizam (71) and Vietnam's Nguyen Anh Minh (72) were tied for eight at eight-under 211, while Singapore's Qiwen Wong (71) and Hong Kong's Markus Z Lam (71) shared the eighth position at seven-under 212, two strokes ahead of Tamang and Lee. Another Nepali golfer, Sadbhav Acharya missed the cut after the second round.

A version of this article appears in the print on July 21, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.