Final Round Highlights | Men | 2024 ISPS HANDA Australian Open

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Curtis Luck, a chance to make a three birdie straight with this putt on three.
It's tracking, it's in. So another Australian contender enters the final day fight.
Gee that's a difficult putt coming back up the hill firstly and then running down towards the cup.
He made it look easy. He has a tap all week long and he finds himself at 16 under.
That's 23 on six from the back. Don't go over the back. He's hoisted this high,
a little bit left of the pin. That's the safe play today. That's a long way left.
Certainly different ways to play this second hole here at Kingston Heath.
I'm sure pretty handy with these field shots.
He certainly has. He's actually brought that in nice and low.
Needs to spin. Needs to go just slightly. Just went with the three-quarter.
Riggs right now, he's only 107 and this man has not shied away from one pin this week
and no it has again. What another good shot. Stunner! And that's the other way you can do it.
Throw it way up in the air, pass the flag and spin it back. 99 metres here. He's just seen
Riggs just there take it straight at it and this one just hit it slightly left but a good looking
shot. They're all three men with a look at birdie here at three. A very select company
as winners of the PGA Australian Open double. Coming off a bogey on three. He's trying to
bounce back straight away and there's an outstanding iron shot from Elvis. Laid a
three feet left of this pin and a man halfway to the hole. He's got to keep it under the gum tree.
He's done that nicely. Oh my goodness what a shot.
That's a bit of a mic drop from back there isn't it? It certainly is.
Now Johnson, long range attempt for par. Oh dear me. Making a bit of a mess of this one right now
and then on this wonderful dogleg right par four. Second shot in. Working it in towards that flag.
Beautiful control. How's he making birdie from over there? This is maybe just one of those days
for Kirito Abhivanrat. That's the angle at least. Must have had a decent enough lie but he chases it up.
Darkening skies. Boy they have really closed in in the last half an hour or so here at
Keats and Heath as Stubbs tries to flight one here and to very good effect. It's a gorgeous wedge.
78 for Lucas as he's hitting towards the dark clouds down in the south but they're
Once upon a time he's got no room to move here right at the front.
He's going to bring, oh this one's coming in nice and low. Needs to have a little bit of action.
He's got some action on his swing and Lucas Herbert from off the back of the par five first.
Awkward one over the knoll at the back of the green. So beautifully played.
This coming in low needs to get up a little.
Sucking it back. We are here at the par four six and as they say in the classics.
Here's Harrison Crowe second at seven.
Pinned today's over on the back left. Easily accessed near the bunker. That's how you do it.
Two trees he'd make a five. Herbert 133. This wind now howling from the left.
Pin on 25 from the left. It seems like it's on a decent line.
It's 156. 165. He's got a lift off the first tree. Done exceptionally well though.
Third. He's had bogeys at four and now seven. Harp at the barn rat.
Back pinned today. Don't want to be long. He's judged that to perfection. Another pace and
that was in no man's land. Second here at 10. Plenty of help here. Not quite
straight down breeze but almost. He's on the upslope which will help generate spin.
What a shot by Curtis Luck. Only one back and he has that from just on three feet for birdie.
Oh absolutely. This is forever coming back into it. This is real Melbourne weather right now
and that one is a good looking shot. Keeping it under the hole. It's pinned so far back today.
They've been over in the right hand side but today it's in the left hand side. 27 on four
from the left. Something like a six on flat ball and that has come out extremely low.
Just left of it. Another shot from behind was just audacious. Long bunker shot.
Difficult one this back in the breeze. Oh he hasn't quite caught that. I need to sort of half
thin that to get it all the way back to the pins and 35 meters from there. Curtis Luck
open with three birdies on the bounce to start this final round.
After a bogey on five this was his approach into six. Got that drop shot back.
150. The sun will be out in a moment. That needs to go a bit which it is.
Oh that's a good shot from there. Good play from Lucas Herbert. He has got nothing in here today.
This is a green light for him with his wedge. He is going straight at it.
Oh my goodness. He's nearly slammed. Dunk the thing.
Down the 12th. Second shot at par five here.
In back left today. Right of it is fine. Why not just take it on.
Yeah that shows some confidence on a little bit of an upslope. Just going to land this on it.
Triple it up. Hasn't come out very strong at all. Here we go. Curtis Luck is to join the lead.
Go. Go. Yes. Wow. Curtis Luck has emerged from the pack. Two unders today. 13 under for the title.
Yeah nicely done there. Down the right side. That's certainly the place to come in from
with this back left hand pin today. Now Jasper Stubbs really needs to get up and down given the
congested nature of this leaderboard. The play is beautiful. The fifth toughest hole on the golf
course today. Can Crow get one? That gets him to 14 under. Three back of luck with three to play.
That's pretty slow. He's given this a real good go. It goes right at the death. Right into the hole.
Riggs Johnston assumes pole position once again. Harry Higgs is playing both the VGA
and the Open Championship. Majority's time in Australia. Came out a bit early to do some
practice on the sand belt but he finishes with a flourish. Mark Leishman from the middle of the
fairway on 17. He'll be trying to throw this all the way back to the pin. Looked a lower ball flight
and he's bouncing it back there. What a beautiful long iron from Leishman.
Five at 17 and a five at 18. Clubhouse leader and a 15 under par. He's learned a lot of
amazing lessons. Last fortnight Smiley now Lindell. Just for the crowd.
Tough day for one of the men who thought he might have been a challenger.
The only birdie comes at 18. The 24-year-old.
