Cockerill slips to 75, Rookie Yurav Premlall surges 5 shot lead... 54 hole results.

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Rounds of  67 69 finds Aaron Cockerill T8 at -8 as the only Canadian on this DP World Tour looks for his 1st victory, or to at least kick start his year and improve on his #132 in the Race to Dubai standings 

EDIT 11am est >>

Aaron just wrapped up his round in the rain He had lots of TV time because his group were in contention, sadly he wasn't after a wild drive on the 8th following 7 straight pars, cost him a double bogey 6.

More pars after the turn on 10-13 his first birdie came at 14, with a chance now to salvage his round. However a wild drive right at 15 and another at 17 led to bogeys and a final +3 75 T38 -5 and a loss of 32 places, moving in the wrong direction.

Meanwhile the leader after 54 holes, a young South African having the week of his life Yurav Premlall 70 64 63 -19 to lead what was a bunched field, by 5 shots heading into Sunday

Bryan

Final EDIT >>>>>

Yurav Premlall took a stranglehold on the 2026 Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship as a stunning third-round 63 earned him a five-shot lead - and potentially a significant extra bonus.

The South African's ten birdies, with just a solitary bogey, took him clear of the field on -19 and left him in position to scoop the $50,000 prize on offer for the Course Record presented by Nexo.

Playing partner and 36-hole co-leader Stefano Mazzoli was his nearest challenger at -14  as the day belonged to Premlall.

The World Number 598, seeking his first DP World Tour win, said: "It's a bit of a blur to be honest - I mean, that's generally what people say when a round like that comes around once in a while."

"It was really nice, the last few days have been really solid golf tee to green as well, maybe not so good off the tee, but the putter has got hot over the last two days which I have been waiting for. My team, my dad have all put in a big effort to get me into this place, so it is just really rewarding to see it come through.

"My coach gave me a drill to do that we have stuck to and you know, it's all with feel for the putter, so I am glad that work has come through over the last few days."

South Africa's JC Ritchie sat third on -12  after finishing with three straight birdies to shoot 69. Bjerregaard and David Law were both a shot further back at -11

Kiradech Aphibarnrat birdied the 18th for the third straight day as he followed Friday's 66 with a 67. The Thai, who was joined at -10 by Ricardo Gouveia and Shaun Norris, has not dropped a shot in his last 38 holes.

Lindell made the most of Moving Day with -7 65 to reach -9 for the week. The Finn opened with two birdies and had five in a row from the eighth and though he dropped his only shot of the day at the short 13th, he birdied the 16th where he had made bogey on each of the first two days.

He was level with Dan Bradbury, Alejandro Del Rey, Eugenio Chacarra and the in-form Bernd Wiesberger for ninth place after 54 holes.

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Conners/Taylor lead Canadians, Rory in contention... Full 36 hole results, SATURDAY tee times

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Current :  Round 2 completed,  click on my Leaderboard for live scoring  2605/08 5.30 est

Canadians 

LeadersNick Taylor T17 -3 66 73

Corey Conners T17  -3 67, 72

Sudarshan Yellamaraju T24  -2 71, 69

Taylor Pendrith T34 E 71,71

Mac Hughes 67th  +4 71,75

Sungjae Im 1st  -9 64 69  Battling a wrist injury the South Korean star is finally healthy, his 64, 69 -9, despite what he called a poor putting day has him in contention for his first win since 2021

Tommy Fleetwood  2nd  -8 67 67  Scored well without having his best stuff. " Just a nice reminder that it will come good at some point if you keep doing the right things"

Alex Fitzpatrick T3 - 7 67 68   One of this young year's best stories, he is still glowing with his newly minted PGA Tour card won with his star brother Matt at the Zurich two weeks ago

Justin Thomas T3 -7 67 68

 Rory Mcllroy T9 -5  70, 67  Rory was at -1 when he made the turn, not much happening with his game, more steady pars. However he made birdies and 10,11 and his momentum changed, with more at 13,15 and 16, he was hitting greens in regulation (14) with accurate iron play he shot 32, despite a cruel lip out on the 18th for the 67 -5 total 4 shots of Im's lead

" It was a good day to get myself back in the hunt, now I feel like I have a good chance on the weekend. I've played just one tournament in seven weeks, for me at least, playing with a scorecard in hand is always different than on the practice range"

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Two atop Estrella Damm, Cockerill T8 ....36 hole results, Saturday TEE TIMES

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Aaron Cockerill has picked up where he left off with his opening -5 67, this morning at the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship with 5 birdies T1 at -9 thru 12 holes.

Bogey's at 13, 14 stalled his round, however re bounced back with solid pars 15-17 then with a stunning 235yd  2nd at the par 5 18th to 3', he missed the eagle 3, tapped in for birdie 4.

His 67 69 finds him T6 at -8.  

FYI <>> Estrella Damm is the flagship beer of the Barcelona brewing company...

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Final EDIT >>> 26 /05/08  2pm

Stefano Mazzoli and Lucas Bjerregaard both credited a different approach to their individual games as they head into the weekend tied at the top of the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship leaderboard on -11

While he’s yet to crack the top 20 on Tour it was rookie Mazzoli, who secured promotion to the DP World Tour by a top eight finish on the 2025 Road to Mallorca Rankings, that set the early target on Friday with a bogey free 67.

Having opened with a 66, the Italian made a quick start to the second round with back-to-back birdies from the first before converting an impressive approach to the fifth hole for a third gain of the day.

What followed was a remarkable run of 11 straight pars before a birdie-birdie finish led him to set the pace, nearly chipping in for eagle at the last as the rest of the field endeavoured to catch him.

Great news considering Mazzoli has missed seven of his last nine cuts !

“I am pretty pleased with how I played today, and yesterday, I am really relieved in how I was able to keep calm on the course and control myself,” he said after his round.

“I wasn’t really able to do that the past few weeks and that was how you step up and the most important thing for me.

Lucas Bjerregaard was also quick to credit a different mental approach as he matched Mazzoli with his own final hole birdie to cap off a second round 67.

Playing in just his third DP World Tour event of the season the two time DP World Tour winner, who finished 145th on last year’s Race to Dubai Rankings, has admittedly struggled over the past few years but looked fairly comfortable as he chased down the lead on day two and  a birdie on the final hole of his round helped him to match Mazzoli and take a share of the 36-hole lead.

Reflecting on his round and his general approach to this year, Bjerregaard said he was trying to take the pressure off himself as he searches for his first win since the 2018 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. "I'm trying to take a little different approach to it this year and take it a little more as it comes."

A shot behind the pair at the top is South African Yurav Premlall, who carded the lowest round of his DP World Tour career with an eight-under-par 64 to head into the weekend on -10. 

"There was a couple of stressful situations I put myself in, but other than that, I gave myself a lot of good looks and putted nicely and took advantage of the chances I had. So yeah, it's nice. It's been a while since I've been on top of the leaderboard, but yeah, that's always nice.

JC Ritchie, who also carded a second-round 64, lies a shot further back on -9 alongside Ricardo Gouveia.

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Taylor T3, Conners T8 , Lefty leads, rain delays Truist Championship..18 hole latest..

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Rain delayed the start of play, then came again to suspend it for the day as Round 1 at this soggy start to the Truist Championship got under way at Quail Hollow.

WEATHER : Play in round 1 will resume at 1030am this morning under Mainly sunny skies, 22*c with a light breeze 8km/h NE switching to SW as the day goes on

Leader

Lefty, Matt McCarthy "made a bunch of 50 footers" to top the field that finished with -8 63 to lead by a shot, over Sung Jae Im -7 thru 17

Five players are T3, bunched at -5 66 Nick Taylor, Kristoffer Reitan, Harry Hall, Nicolas Hojgaard and Sepp Straka thru 17.

Fan favourite and 4 time winner Rory McIlroy said "I was thinking I've never played a round here without making a birdie," sunk one and raised his arms to wild applause sarcastically as his final putt curled in at the 9th for his -1 71

Two inches of rain fell on Quail Hollow overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning delaying the start until 1230pm  softening the course, "it's playing very long" was the unanimous appraisal.

Canadians Nick Taylor and Corey Conners are right in the mix after 18 holes.

Nick Taylor T3 -5 66

Corey Conners T8 -4 67

Taylor Pendrith T33 E 71

Mac Hughes T33 E 71

Sudarshan Yellamaraju T33 E 71

more to follow...

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Cockerill T8, Norris leads in Spain..18 hole results

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Shaun Norris produced a spectacular eagle on his final hole to leapfrog into the lead on an emotional first day of the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship.

The day marked the 15th anniversary of the death of the great Seve Ballesteros and across Real Club de Golf El Prat, tributes were paid to the trailblazing Spaniard, who passed away on May 7, 2011.

With many of the players decked out in his signature navy blue and white, his picture on the first tee and some of the flags dedicated to him, it was true celebration of the man whose record of 50 DP World Tour wins is 29 clear of the nearest active member in Rory McIlroy.

And he would surely have enjoyed the action inside the ropes as South African Norris took out his three wood on the ninth fairway and with his penultimate shot of the day put an approach from 244 yards to four feet.

The resulting eagle saw him sign for a 64 and sit atop the leaderboard at -8 one shot clear of Scottish duo Ewen Ferguson and David Law and Frenchman Alexander Levy -7 65.

Norris enjoyed a blistering start to the season, with finishes of fifth and second on home soil before he started the calendar year with a top 20 at the Dubai Invitational.

He could not maintain that momentum through the International Swing but has been a back on the up in recent weeks, following a top five at the Volvo China Open with a top ten on the Japan Golf Tour – where he is an eight-time winner – last week.

“It was solid,” he said. “I hit the ball nicely all day, gave myself chances, so very happy with where the game is at.

“I played nicely last week in Japan, had to pop over there to get everything sorted with visas and residency, but the game is solid. I can’t complain this week, very happy where everything is."

On his remarkable finish, he added: “I have been battling to try and find a three-wood for the last year or two, and I think we figured it out this week and trusted one, got a good number out of it and it just worked it perfectly."

Levy, a five-time DP World Tour winner who is trying to regain his card this season, went out in the first group of the day off the tenth and it was a slow start as he picked up a single birdie on the back nine

But he then found his groove, making four on the front to go with a hole-out eagle from 92 yards on the fifth in a bogey-free effort.

Ferguson made three birdies and a bogey before eagling the ninth and then holed monster putts for further gains on the tenth, 15th and last.

Law – who is back on Tour after two wins on the HotelPlanner Tour last season – took advantage of the four par fives while also picking up shots on the 11th, 17th and fifth.

Dane Lucas Bjerregaard had been at -7 but bogeyed the last in a 66 that also contained five birdies and an eagle on the tenth.

That left him at -6 alongside South African Michael Hollick, who carded seven birdies and a bogey, and Italian Stefano Mazzoli, who signed for an eagle, five birdies and a bogey.

EDIT>>>>>> There was then a group of eight players at -5 67 including  Canada's Aaron Cockerill who only made one mistake all day, an errant drive on the 7th that led to his lone bogey, with 6 birdies, one of his best starts of the year T8

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Rain delay, revised Thursday TEE Times. Truist Championship

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EDIT 26/05/07 840am >>>>Due to heavy rain play has been delayed until Noon off tee's #1 and #10 est in groups of three.

Rory McIlroy is the man at Quail Hollow having won 4 times in his sparkling career, as the 6th signature event of the season worth $20,000,000 gets under way this week, for years the Wells Fargo now sponsored by Truist a financial services company based in Charlotte NC.

Remarkable to remember Rory set the Quail Hollow 18 hole course record 61 in round 3, 2015 when a certain kid called Scott Scheffler was learning the game as an 18 year old high school student.

The world's No. 2-ranked player said he feels "more motivated" than ever heading into a major stretch that includes the PGA Championship next week outside of Philadelphia and the U.S. Open next month at Shinnecock Hills. First up, though, is this week's Truist Championship at Quail Hollow, where McIlroy earned his first PGA TOUR victory 16 years ago.

It's been more than three weeks since McIlroy slipped on the green jacket for a second time after becoming just the fourth player in 90 years to go back-to-back at the Masters.

The 37-year-old McIlroy spent most of his time at his home in Jupiter, Florida, although he did visit New York with his wife Erica Stoll and attended a White House state dinner held for King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

"I gave myself a good 10 days to enjoy myself and then thought I needed to get back on the range and start to practice and get ready for this stretch coming up," McIlroy said. The stretch begins today with the tuneup at Quail Hollow, a place where McIlroy is adored by fans and often serenaded with the "Happy Birthday" song given the tournament often falls during his birthday. He was 20 when he won his first PGA TOUR tournament here, earning him immediate popularity in Charlotte. In some ways, he's become the city's adopted golfer.

"I really feel like this tournament got my career going," McIlroy said. "This is 16 years I've been coming here, so it's been a fun place, I've had success. It's somewhere I always love coming back to."

"I felt like winning the Grand Slam was going to be this life-changing thing and in some ways it was, but in other ways I had to remember like, 'No, I still have a lot of my career left and I want to keep playing and keep competing,'" he said. "So this year I think winning was validation for all the work that I've put in over the last few years to get myself back to this place where I'm winning majors."

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May 7, 2011, Remembering Seve at Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship....Live SCOREBOARD

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The late, great Seve Ballesteros is synonymous with both Spanish and European golf, having graced almost every page in golfing history during his professional career.

Winner of a record 50 DP World Tour events, including five Majors, and a Ryder Cup talisman, he passed away on May 7, 2011, the day of the third round of the Open de España at Real Club de Golf El Prat.

With the opening day of the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship coinciding with the 15th anniversary of his passing, we take a look back at his many highlights.

A trailblazer from the very beginning, Seve turned professional at just 17 years old, teeing up for the first time at the 1974 Spanish Open.

It took just three starts for him to announce himself as a player to watch, finishing in a tie for fifth at the 1974 Italian Open, where he collected his first cheque of £1,200.

Two years later, he broke through for what would become the first of a record haul of titles. At the 1976 Dutch Open, in just his 27th start, Ballesteros claimed his first DP World, formerly European, Tour title with an eight‑shot victory over Howard Clark. At 19 years and 121 days, he became (at the time) the second‑youngest winner in Tour history.

That breakthrough sparked a season of extraordinary consistency. Seve ended 1976 as the youngest Order of Merit winner in history. He would retain the title in 1977 and 1978, completing a remarkable three‑year run before adding three more season-long crowns in 1986, 1988 and 1991.

Beween that time, Ballesteros’ rise reached global scale in 1979, when he won the first of his three Open Championships at Royal Lytham & St Annes. He would repeat the feat at St Andrews in 1984, producing one of the most iconic celebrations in Open history, and again at Lytham in 1988,

Across the Atlantic, he broke new ground for European golf. In 1980, Ballesteros became the first European player to win the Masters Tournament, and at 23, its youngest champion at the time. He added a second Green Jacket in 1983, cementing his status in the history books.

RYDER CUP

Yet Ballesteros’ brilliance was arguably never more felt anywhere than during a Ryder Cup. From his debut in 1979, the first year Continental Europeans were eligible, he became the emotional centre of the team and since has become a talisman. His partnership with José María Olazábal, formed in 1987, remains one of the most successful in Ryder Cup history, and his presence helped transform Europe from challengers into genuine equals, helping the team to landmark victories in 1985 and 1987, the latter their first triumph on American soil.

He then became the first Spaniard to Captain a European side in Valderrama, which culminated in a dramatic home victory. In the years since his passing, his silhouette and image have become enduring symbols of European unity and belief.

EUROPEAN TOUR

His talent wasn’t just confined to the sport’s biggest stages, though, and his presence on the now named DP World Tour was a dominant one. He finished inside the top ten of the Order of Merit every year from 1976 to 1989, and 16 times in total - a record he shares with Bernhard Langer.

His 50 DP World Tour titles still remain the all‑time benchmark, eight clear of Langer. He also holds the record for the most consecutive seasons with a win during 17 straight years from 1976 to 1992, and spent a total of 61 weeks as World Number One on the Official World Golf Ranking.

In total, he played 474 DP World Tour events, made 337 cuts, and recorded 183 top‑ten finishes.

Career history

• Turned professional in 1974, aged 17

• His first event was in 1974 at the Spanish Open

• His first cheque came in his third event – a tie for fifth in the 1974 Italian Open. He collected £1,200

• Won his first DP World Tour title at the 1976 Dutch Open in his 27th event, beating Howard Clark by eight shots. Aged 19 and 121 days, he became the second youngest player to win in  European Tour history

• His victory in the Dutch Open helped him win the DP World Tour Order of Merit for the first time in 1976 aged 19 – the youngest player to achieve the feat

• After winning the Order of Merit in 1976, he retained it in both 1977 and 1978. He won it again in 1986, 1988 and 1991

• Won the first of his three Open Championships in 1979. Repeated the feat in 1984 and 1988

• First European player to win the Masters Tournament in 1980. Won again in 1983

• Finished in the top ten of the Tour's Order of Merit every year between 1976-1989 and 16 times during his career – a Tour record held jointly with Bernhard Langer

• Won 50 DP World Tour International Schedule titles, eight more than Bernhard Langer, who is second on the all-time list

• Won at least one DP World Tour title for 17 consecutive years between 1976 and 1992 – a Tour record

• Played in 474 DP World Tour events and made the cut in 337, with 183 of those finishing in the top ten

• Was the last player to win three consecutive DP World Tour events over successive weekends in 1986, at the Irish Open, Monte Carlo Open and Open de France respectively

• Made DP World Tour history in 1986 by becoming the first player to win six official events in a single season. His victories were: British Masters, Irish Open, Monte Carlo Open, Open de France, Dutch Open and Trophée Lancôme

• Was the first player to reach £1 million, £2 million and £3 million in DP World Tour official career earnings

• He was the second ever player, behind Langer, to become World Number One. His first of five spells at the top of the game began on the 27 April 1986 for a period of 20 weeks, before regaining the honour on four more occasions. After twice being World Number One again for a singular week, he then held the top spot for 19 weeks between 13 November 1988 - 25 March 1989, and finally for 20 weeks between 2 April 1989 - 19 August 1989, totally 61 weeks.

THIS WEEK

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