Leona Maguire holed little but found herself just four shots behind American Lucy Li at halfway after carding a one-under 70 in the Dana Open in Ohio.

“Yeah, just a bit of a slow day,” Maguire said after a 32-putt round. “Gave myself lots of chances. Didn't quite putt as well as I did yesterday.”

Stephanie Meadow was in danger of missing the cut on one-over after a 72 but Paul Dunne produced a gutsy birdie-par finish to make just his fifth cut of the year in the Made in HimmerLand in Denmark.

Struggling to avoid Q-School, the Greystones star two-putted the par-five eighth for birdie, then got up and down from rough for par after going through the back at the ninth, making a three-footer for a level par 71 and make the weekend on the four-under cut mark

Jonny Caldwell also shot 71 to share 41st on six-under but, he’s nine strokes behind England’s Ross McGowan who shot 65 to lead by one from compatriot Richard Mansell and Italy’s Francesco Laporta on 15-under.

Gavin Moynihan (71, even) and Cormac Sharvin (76, five-over) missed the cut but Tom McKibbin and Conor Purcell are tied 29th at halfway in the B-NL Challenge Trophy in Belgium.

McKibbin shot a three-under 69 and Purcell a 68 to leave them just five shots behind France’s Keong weon Ko with John Murphy a shot further back after a 72.

Ronan Mullarney shot a bogey-free 66 but missed the five-under cut by a shot with Ruaidhri McGee (70, three-under), Gary Hurley (73, one-under) and Robin Dawson (72, six-over).

In the World Amateur Team Championships in Paris, Ireland go into the final day tied 27th on three-under.

Matt McClean shot a three-under 69 and Mark Power a 71 at Golf de Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche with Robert Moran’s 75 the non-counting score.

Sweden, powered by an eight-under 64 from Tobias Jonsson and a 66 from Ludvig Aberg, lead by a shot on 23-under from Italy, Japan and the USA.

We won’t win the World Championship with the brake on,” said Swedish coach Jonnie Eriksson about Saturday’s final round at Le Golf National. “We need to do our absolute best and hope for some stuff to go our way. There are seven or eight teams in the running. It is going to be awesome tomorrow.”

The Swedes climbed 10 places on the leaderboard based on their 14-under 130 in the third round, which is the second-best team score in Round 3 in Eisenhower Trophy history. The USA set the mark of 128 in Japan in 2014 fueled by Bryson DeChambeau’s championship-record 61.

Entering the final round at Le Golf National, the site of the 2018 Ryder Cup and the 2024 Olympic Games, Sweden is one stroke ahead of first- and second-round leader Japan, Italy and the United States of America. The hosts from France trail by two strokes in fifth place.

“We decided to be very aggressive today because we were a few shots back,” Jonsson said. “I went for it today and I played solid from the start.” The Mercer University junior shared the low round of the day honours with Ashita Piamkulvanich of Thailand, who shot a bogey-free 7-under 64 at Le Golf National.

Italy, which held solo second place at the start of day, drew a 3-under 69 from Pietro Bovari and a 2-under 70 from 2022 Open Championship low amateur Filippo Celli.

“We didn’t play our best to be honest,” said Italian Captain Matteo Delpodio. “It has been a tough day. We had to save a lot of pars. Celli was good on the back nine, but he didn’t play his best golf but was able to manage a good score. It is quite good because there is room for improvement, and we know that tomorrow we have to go low to bring home this championship.”

Japan, which held a five-stroke advantage at the midway point, surrendered its lead because it could not contend with Sweden’s low-scoring surge.

Taiga Semikawa posted a 3-under 69 but World Amateur Golf Ranking®/WAGR® No. 1 Keita Nakajima’s 3-over 75 was a counting score.

“I think playing with the big lead on the first day and then a big lead after the second day, there was always going to be a tough day,” Gareth Jones, Japan’s Captain. “Hopefully, it’s Day 3 that’s the tough day and not Day 4. You never want to defend the lead. You can’t do that. I think today’s a lesson for the lads that we’ve got to keep playing because there are great players out here.”

The USA combined a 4-under from Michael Thorbjornsen with a 3-under from Austin Greaser to put themselves back into contention and tossed out a 1-under from Gordon Sargent.

“They drove it beautifully,” said USA Captain Diana Murphy. “We struggled with the greens but in terms of their off-the-tee play, it was really impressive. I’d say it was our strongest day. The greens got us today, but they found a deep composed spirit again. We are here to give this a really good fight. We’d love to go home with the Eisenhower Trophy.”

Completing the top 10, Spain holds sixth place followed by Norway in seventh, Argentina in eighth, Wales in ninth and fast-moving Austria in 10th.

Quotable:

Jonnie Eriksson, Sweden Coach: “The first day Ludvig (Aberg) wasn’t his usual Ludvig off the tee. Today, he played the way I know him. He was just being Ludvig.”

“They were good off the tee. If you are really good and straight off the tee here, it offers a lot of opportunities. Their wedges were great, and we talked about being much more aggressive in this round than we had in the others.”

Captain Matteo Delpodio, Italy: “We are focused on performance because it is the world championship, and a lot of best players are competing here. We cannot think too much about the results. There are so many teams within very few shots, so it means we have to focus just on our game make birdies on every single hole and see what happens.”

Captain Gareth Jones, Japan: “There’s probably eight or nine teams who are really within close striking distance in this format that can change in an instant. We have got to play our best golf tomorrow.”

“Even par for us around here is a tough day, a disappointing day. Taiga has kept us in the golf tournament. I think if you told us we’d be in the top 2 of 3 going into the final round, would we be happy? Absolutely. One from the lead is an awesome opportunity for the boys. Hopefully, we will make the most of that.”

Michael Thorbjornsen, USA: “For the first time this week, I started hitting the ball well and hitting my driver well. I hit a lot of greens, but I shot 4 under with 33 putts and that means you aren’t putting well. There was something about the greens I couldn’t figure out but I’m hitting the ball well and I’ll always take that. It gives me confidence for tomorrow.”

Notable:

• Sweden will attempt to join the USA as the only nations to win both the men’s and women’s competitions in the same year. The last time it happened was in France in 1994 as the USA won both golds, which they also accomplished in 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1980 and 1982. Sweden won the 2022 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship last week in a tiebreaker over the USA.

• Sweden’s leaderboard move was only outdone by Austria, which fired an 11-under 133 to advance 13 places to 10th.

• Thailand had the best day at Le Golf National at 9-under 133 and moved 11 spots on the scoreboard to T27.

• Seven players from the Eisenhower Trophy field have been selected for the Haskins Award Watch List: Ludvig Aberg (Sweden, Texas Tech), Adrien Dumont de Chassart (Belgium, Ilinois), Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira (Argentina, Arkansas), Austin Greaser (USA, North Carolina), Christo Lamprecht (South Africa, Georgia Tech), Gordon Sargent (USA, Vanderbilt) and Michael Thorbjornsen (USA, Stanford). The Haskins Award honors the player of the year in men’s college golf. The Watch List is selected by a panel of Golfweek and Golf Channel writers.

• Japan’s last medal in the WATC was gold in 1984 as they won the Eisenhower Trophy in Hong Kong. Their other medals came in T2 in 1982 (tied for silver) and in 1974 and 1976 (silver in both).

• Jon Rahm of Spain holds the record for lowest individual 72-hole score at 263 in 2014. Taiga Semikawa of Japan stands at 18-under with the individual lead and has a chance to break that record. Previously, the scoring record of 269 was held by Jack Nicklaus of the USA in 1960 and stood until Rahm’s performance in Japan.

What’s Next:

Round 4 begins Saturday at 8 a.m. with a two-tee start on both courses. The teams with the leading scores will play at Le Golf National and the other half of the draw will play at Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche.

Results from Friday's third round of the 2022 World Amateur Team Championships, played at par-71 Le Golf National (Albatross Course) and par-72 Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche (Red Course), in Paris, France.
 

GN = Le Golf National

SN = Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche

 

1 Sweden 137-GN 140-SN 130- --407

    Ludvig Aberg             70   68   66

    Tobias Jonsson           67   72   64

    Adam Wallin              71   73   70

T2 Italy 135-SN 134-SN 139- --408

    Pietro Bovari            68   70   69

    Filippo Celli            67   65   70

    Marco Florioli           68   69   74

T2 Japan 130-GN 134-SN 144- --408

    Keita Nakajima           72   69   75

    Kohei Okada              67   70   76

    Taiga Semikawa           63   65   69

T2 United States of America 136-SN 135-SN 137- --408

    Austin Greaser           68   67   69

    Gordon Sargent           70   72   71

    Michael Thorbjornsen     68   68   68

5 France 135-SN 135-SN 139- --409

    Martin Couvra            67   70   71

    Julien Sale              68   73   69

    Tom Vaillant             69   65   70

6 Spain 136-GN 137-SN 138- --411

    Josele Ballester         70   72   74

    Luis Masaveu             71   71   66

    David Puig               66   66   72

7 Norway 138-SN 135-SN 139- --412

    Mats Ege                 68   71   71

    Michael Mjaaseth         70   68   68

    Herman Wibe Sekne        70   67   73

8 Argentina 141-GN 137-SN 135- --413

    Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira   74   72

    Juan Martín Loureiro     77   69   67

    Segundo Oliva Pinto      69   68   68

9 Wales 139-SN 137-SN 139- --415

    James Ashfield           76   69   70

    Archie Davies            65   69   69

    Luke Harries             74   68   72

10 Austria 137-GN 147-SN 133- --417

    Christoph Bleier         68   78   66

    Fabian Lang              79   82   73

    Maximilian Steinlechner  69   69   67

T11 Belgium 144-SN 134-SN 140- --418

    Matthis Besard           71   71   71

    Adrien Dumont de Chassart73   63   69

    James Skeet              77   74   78

T11 Germany 135-SN 141-SN 142- --418

    Anton Albers             70   74   73

    Jonas Baumgartner        65   71   71

    Laurenz Schiergen        75   70   71

T13 Finland 142-GN 139-SN 138- --419

    Elias Haavisto           68   68   70

    Antti-Jussi Lintunen     75   71   70

    Markus Luoma             74   75   68

T13 Switzerland 137-GN 142-SN 140- --419

    Nicola Gerhardsen        77   71   72

    Cedric Gugler            66   71   68

    Maximilien Sturdza       71   73   75

15 Australia 139-GN 137-SN 144- --420

    Harrison Crowe           69   70   72

    Hayden Hopewell          70   74   73

    Connor McKinney          71   67   72

16 England 136-SN 145-SN 140- --421

    Sam Bairstow             68   73   69

    Arron Edwards-Hill       72   72   71

    John Gough               68   73   74

T17 Colombia 144-SN 138-SN 140- --422

    Carlos Ardila            71   74   70

    Manuel Merizalde         73   68   74

    Nicolas Quintero Macias  76   70   70

T17 Denmark 141-SN 143-SN 138- --422

    Hamish Brown             71   74   74

    Frederik Kjettrup        70   77   70

    Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen75   69   68

T19 Estonia 146-SN 136-SN 141- --423

    Mattias Varjun           74   68   71

    Kevin Christopher Jegers 76   68   70

    Markus Varjun            72   78   71

T19 Singapore 139-SN 140-SN 144- --423

    Ryan Ang                 68   73   78

    James Leow               76   70   70

    Hiroshi Tai              71   70   74

T19 South Africa 139-SN 141-SN 143- --423

    Christo Lamprecht        72   70   74

    Christiaan Maas          68   71   69

    Aldrich Potgieter        71   71   74

T22 Canada 141-GN 135-SN 148- --424

    A.J. Ewart               70   70   75

    Garrett Rank             71   76   77

    Johnny Travale           77   65   73

T22 Hong Kong, China 139-GN 143-SN 142- --424

    Leon Philip D'Souza      72   72   73

    Taichi Kho               70   71   73

    Alex Yang                69   76   69

T24 Chile 146-SN 138-SN 141- --425

    Martin Leon              74   72   73

    Lukas Roessler           73   68   69

    Clemente Silva           73   70   72

T24 Iceland 141-GN 143-SN 141- --425

    Hlynur Bergsson          69   77   71

    Sigurdur Blumenstein     72   85   78

    Hakon Magnusson          72   66   70

26 Czech Republic 143-GN 144-SN 139- --426

    Filip Jakubcik           70   71   70

    Dominik Pavoucek         73   73   70

    Jiri Zuska               74   78   69

T27 Ireland 142-GN 145-SN 140- --427

    Matthew McClean          73   74   69

    Robert Moran             74   72   75

    Mark Power               69   73   71

T27 Thailand 148-GN 144-GN 133- --425

    Arsit Areephun           76   69   71

    Pongsapak Laopakdee      76   75   69

    Ashita Piamkulvanich     72   76   64

29 Portugal 145-SN 146-GN 136- --427

    Daniel Costa Rodrigues   73   73   68

    Hugo Camelo              72   73   74

    Pedro Cruz Silva         75   74   68

T30 Guatemala 145-SN 138-SN 147- --430

    Miguel Leal              76   68   73

    Gabriel Palacios         69   70   74

    Alejandro Villavicencio  79   72   77

T30 Republic of Korea 146-SN 142-SN 142- --430

    Haecheon An              78   75   79

    Minhyuk Song             72   67   72

    HyunJoon Yoo             74   77   70

T30 Scotland 142-GN 148-SN 140- --430

    Callum Bruce             73   76   70

    Rory Franssen            72   78   70

    Calum Scott              70   72   72

T33 India 145-SN 143-SN 143- --431

    Raghav Chugh             73   77   73

    Milind Soni              75   73   76

    Rayhan Thomas            72   70   70

T33 People's Republic of China 144-SN 146-SN 141- --431

    Wenyi Ding               69   72   68

    Tianyi Xiong             75   76   73

    Ziqin Zhou               82   74   74

35 Netherlands 142-GN 142-SN 149- --433

    Jack Ingham              70   71   79

    Benjamin Reuter          74   71   78

    Lars van der Vight       72   71   71

36 Puerto Rico 147-SN 142-SN 145- --434

    Jeronimo Esteve          73   69   71

    Roberto Nieves           74   73   75

    Diego Saavedra Davila    81   79   74

T37 Ecuador 145-GN 142-SN 148- --435

    Ben Cohn                 74   72   79

    Nico Escobar             71   71   74

    Philippe Thorin Andretta 76   71   74

T37 New Zealand 144-SN 142-SN 149- --435

    James Hydes              76   70   77

    Sam Jones                71   80   73

    Kazuma Kobori            73   72   76

T39 Mexico 152-SN 140-GN 146- --438

    Santiago De La Fuente    77   68   72

    José Islas               75   72   74

    José Antonio Safa        78   74   76

T39 Turkey 147-SN 148-GN 143- --438

    Ali Berk Berker          72   75   71

    Leon Açıkalın            75   73   72

    Taner Yamaç              80   79   76

T41 Chinese Taipei 145-GN 150-GN 144- --439

    Chao-Hsin Hung           71   79   78

    Sun-Yi Lu                77   77   71

    Ching-Hung Su            74   73   73

T41 Panama 150-SN 146-GN 143- --439

    Raul Carbonell           76   74   76

    Miguel Ordonez           78   77   67

    Omar Tejeira             74   72   80

T41 Venezuela 150-GN 143-GN 146- --439

    Ignacio Arcaya           76   83   77

    Virgilio Paz             82   64   70

    Santiago Quintero        74   79   76

44 Brazil 147-SN 147-GN 146- --440

    Homero de Toledo         80   74   76

    Guilherme Grinberg       73   73   76

    Andrey Xavier            74   81   70

45 Cayman Islands 154-GN 144-GN 145- --443

    Joel Dodson              80   79   79

    Justin Hastings          81   74   69

    Aaron Jarvis             74   70   76

46 Bulgaria 148-GN 152-GN 144- --444

    Hristo Yanakiev          73   77   71

    Kristian Tsvetanov       81   83   75

    Lyubomir Tushev          75   75   73

T47 Lithuania 143-SN 153-GN 149- --445

    Giedrius Mackelis        70   76   77

    Paulius Malcius          80   77   73

    David Razinskas          73   77   76

T47 Luxembourg 149-GN 147-GN 149- --445

    Stefan Rojas             78   75   75

    Charles Weis             71   72   74

T49 Poland 151-SN 153-GN 144- --448

    Alejandro Pedryc         75   73   72

    Jakub Dymecki            76   80   75

    Andrzej Wierzba Jr.      83   80   72

T49 Slovakia 149-SN 148-GN 151- --448

    Matej Babic              79   78   81

    René Bergendi            74   72   78

    Matus Kudlac             75   76   73

T49 Slovenia 151-SN 148-GN 149- --448

    Luka Naglic              71   73   75

    Gal Patrik Stirn         80   77   76

52 Morocco 150-GN 151-GN 148- --449

    Mohamed Nizar Bourehim   75   75   80

    El Mehdi Fakori          78   76   72

    Hugo Mazen Trommetter    75   78   76

53 Dominican Republic 156-GN 150-GN 144- --450

    Juan Cayro Delgado       79   78   79

    Rhadames Peña            78   72   71

    Julio Rios Brache        78   79   73

54 Hungary 153-SN 149-GN 149- --451

    Oliver Csanyi            76   73   74

    Richard Sarközi          81   94   81

    Bálint Závaczki          77   76   75

55 Saudi Arabia 151-GN 156-GN 146- --453

    Abdulrahman Almansour    87   87   87

    Saud AlSharif            71   74   77

    Faisal Salhab            80   82   69

56 Egypt 158-SN 148-GN 148- --454

    Mohamed Abou El Ela      87   82   98

    Issa Abou El Ela         77   73   70

    Dean Naime               81   75   78

57 Philippines 150-SN 147-GN 159- --456

    Aidric Chan              77   73  WD

    Carl Corpus              73   75   73

    Joaquin Hernandez        79   74   86

T58 Serbia 150-GN 154-GN 153- --457

    Dane Cvetković           73   72   75

    Nikola Ćuić              77   82   78

    Marko Jokić              89   83   80

T58 Ukraine 159-GN 151-GN 147- --457

    Timur Alalin             81   89   82

    Lev Grinberg             78   73   70

    Ivan Malovychko          81   78   77

60 Croatia 151-GN 158-GN 152- --461

    Ivan Vučemil             79   80   82

    Lovro Horvat             72   78   71

    Leo Zurovac              80   81   81

61 Trinidad and Tobago 157-SN 147-GN 158- --462

    Liam Bryden              79   72   77

    Zico Correia             78   75   86

    Christopher Junior Richards   80   81

T62 Bermuda 157-GN 158-GN 150- --465

    Jarryd Dillas            76   76   75

    Will Haddrell            81   82   75

    Damian Palanyandi        84   82   79

T62 Costa Rica 160-GN 153-GN 152- --465

    Paul Chaplet             78   76   75

    Jose Ignacio Cordero     82   77   78

    Nicolas Tobon            83   80   77

64 Zimbabwe 157-SN 151-GN 158- --466

    Rasheed Mohamed          76   77   79

    Keegan Shutt             81   74   79

    Clifford Sibanda         89   79   84

65 Uruguay 152-GN 163-GN 157- --472

    Andre Gauthier           79   85   86

    Juan Pedro Altamirano    79   85   91

    Mateo Quiroga            73   78   71

T66 Pakistan 160-GN 161-GN 154- --475

    Omar Khalid Hussain      85   75   79

    Salman Jehangir          84   86   75

    Yashal Shah              76   86   86

T66 Qatar 158-SN 160-GN 157- --475

    Saleh Ali Al Kaabi       78   79   75

    Jaham Al Kuwari          80   81   82

    Ali Al Shahrani          81   84  WD

68 United Arab Emirates 160-GN 151-GN 168- --479

    Abdalla Al Musharrekh    92  86   88

    Ahmad Akram Skaik        78  75  WD

    Khalid Yousuf            82  76   80

T69 Bahrain 172-GN 157-GN 158- --487

    Abdulla Alyaqoob         87  90   81

    Khalifa Mohamed Khalifa  86  80   82

    Faah Sultan              86  77   77

T69 Guam 167-GN 164-GN 156- --487

    Redge Camacho            78  81   76

    Markus Nanpei            89  89   82

    Nalapon Vongjalorn       93  83   80

71 Lebanon 168-SN 172-GN 159- --499

    Rachid Akl               82  84   81

    Mazen Hamdan             86  88   79

    Mehdi Ramadan            87  93   80