South African Branden Grace led the Portland Invitational on Saturdaythe first tournament held in the US by the controversial LIV Golf that hosts Saudi Arabia and in which Mexican Carlos Ortiz will come on Sunday in second position and has options for a final victory.
Grace was the best on the third day with a brilliant -7 card (8 birdies and a bogey) and amassing -13 in total after three disputed days.
Ortiz, lone leader on Thursday and fellow American leader Dustin Johnson on Friday, posted a -3 this Saturday and will enter Sunday with a total of -11, two strokes behind Grace.
In addition to Ortiz, in this LIV Golf tournament there are Spaniards Adrián Otaegui (+1), Sergio García (+4) and Eugenio López-Chacarra (+5).
The arrival of LIV on U.S. soil sparked protests from relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, who gathered on Thursday in a park near the golf course to express their opposition to the league. this.
“We ask the players to accept responsibility and openly say that ‘we don’t care what the Saudis did to those families.‘”said one of them.
Promoted by the Saudi Arabian government and with millionaire economic prizes, LIV Golf has attracted some of the best players on the planet and sparked an open war in the world of golf between this new circuit and the PGA Tour.
Source: La Verdad
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