Rasmus Højgaard had his persistence examined as he floor out a one-shot lead on the Danish Golf Championship on Saturday.
The house favourite led by two heading into the third spherical, however he was quickly overtaken by taking part in associate Marco Penge when he bogeyed the second and the Englishman birdied the fifth and sixth.
Each birdied No. 8 earlier than Penge bogeyed the eleventh to slide again right into a tie. When Højgaard, 24, nervelessly birdied the seventeenth, the Dane was within the lead on his personal.
Højgaard, who gained this occasion in 2023, was pressured to chip on to the seventeenth fairway following an errant tee shot on the final, however he saved par to stay in entrance at 13 underneath at Furesø Golf Membership.
Requested if his coronary heart was pumping when placing from six ft for par on the final, Højgaard stated: “It was, but it surely was useless quiet, so I used to be trying ahead to seeing what the response was going to be like. It should be an fascinating day tomorrow.
“Hopefully I can convey some tears on the market tomorrow. That is our fifth main, so it will be cool if I may stand there with a trophy tomorrow.”
Højgaard is eighth on Staff Europe’s Ryder Cup factors checklist, simply outdoors the automated high six spots, with Luke Donald making six captain picks after the Betfred British Masters on Aug. 24.
Englishman Ben Schmidt carded eight birdies and a bogey as he equaled the course report with a 64 to climb into third at 9 underneath.
Sweden’s Mikael Lindberg recorded the sixteenth ace of the 2025 DP World Tour marketing campaign with a hole-in-one on the par-3 second.
