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Sports
Sunday, June 19, 2011Sports
Siddikur crashes hard
Sports Reporter
Bangladesh ace golfer Siddikur Rahman relinquished his strong position in the Queen's Cup golf championship to slip to joint fifteenth position after a third round score of three-over-par 74 (71-par-course) at the Santiburi Samui Country Club in Thailand yesterday. The first two rounds well went for Siddikur with an opening round of two-under-par 69 and a second round score of three-under-par 68 catapulting him to joint fourth position on Friday.
It was a happy day for local star Chawalit Plapho, who overtook joint leaders Jbe Kruger of South Africa and Japan's Daisuke Maruyama with a cumulative score of eight-under-par 205.
However, yesterday was a horror day for the highest ranked player in the competition, as he hit a bogey on the third and sixteenth holes, as well as a double bogey on the ninth. Today is the fourth and final roundof the Queen's Cup, but Siddikur, who is six shots behind with a cumulative score of 211, is all but out of the race.
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