Tony Finau struggled a lot during the Saturday’s game in HSBC which made him want to end with a little momentum in the final round. But he received a lot more than he had hoped for. Finau finished the final round with three straight for two under 70 and maintained three-shot lead due to a late collapse made by Justin Rose.
Rose continued to play the final two holes in 5 more extra shots than Finau needed. There was no need to get panicked, said Finau. All that was required was some good golf which he was successfully able to do on Saturday. Finau stood at 13 under 203 and led and led by three more Justin Rose, Xander Schauffele and Patrick Reed.
Finau was just on the edge of downsizing three shots right after the sixteenth hole Rose pitched within 3 feet for a birdie and Finau hit the wedge which went as a good short. He came up with a 20 feet birdie putt right from the field to stay right within the two shots. Rose, however, wasted a big round with a sloppy finish and forcibly had to settle for a 70.
Rose was just two shots ahead and going towards the seventeenth when his tee flopped off the hill and thus resulting in a double bogey. Reed, however, did not make a par for more than the last six holes, with two bogeys and four birdies. He missed out on 15 feet change on the attainable par-4 16th and then flopped his tee down the slope into a 17 bogey.
It was all gone. Rose’s double bogey which he played in the 17th hole helped him from attaining two-shot lead to a one-shot one. Rose played the last two holes at Sheshan International in the 11 shots than compared to the six made by Finau.
