Freddie Schott beats Reed, Hill in playoff at Bahrain Championship... Final results

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Well into the back nine in Bahrain there are 7 players within 2 shots on the Royal GC, an old favourite, now on LIV. 

Sergio Garcia has been allowed to play, has the edge at -17 through 13 holes along with Calum Hill -17 through 12 and Patrick Reed is right with them at -17 through 12 as is Freddie Schott.

At -16 Daniel Hiller 66, and Forrest Grant through 13.    more to follow

Final Edit

Freddy Schott won his first DP World Tour title after beating Calum Hill and Patrick Reed in a play-off at the 2026 Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship.

The trio were locked together at -17 under par after 72 holes after Reed shot 67 on Sunday to make up a four-shot overnight deficit to Hill, who began the day two clear but had to settle for a 71 after a bogey at the difficult final hole. Schott carded 69 to join the pair.

Reed bogeyed the first play-off hole to drop out of contention and after Hill went out of bounds second time round, before sending his fourth shot into the water, he sportingly conceded without making Schott putt out for the win.

Asked to sum up his thoughts, Schott said: "I have no idea. It's just amazing, I'm just extremely happy, surprised... I don't know what's happening right now. I'm just so happy."

"I could have done it the regular way, that would have also been fine! But to do it this way feels even more special so I'm just glad it happened this way."

Reed found the bunker with his 73rd tee shot and went from there to the edge of another, with Schott and Hill both hitting the fairway and then the heart of the green.

Schott holed for par and despite a superb effort at his up-and-down, Reed was unable to respond and dropped out of contention. Hill held his nerve as he and Schott went back to the tee.

The Scot sent his next tee-shot out of bounds to the left, with Schott only just avoiding the water in response. He sent his approach right of the green but Hill found the water with his fourth and conceded after Schott chipped on.

Hill and Reed T2 with Garcia and T4 and France's Ugo Coussaud a shot further back in sixth.

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Justin Rose then the rest after a record 54 holes on Torrey Pines.. full scoreboard

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Tiger Woods owned Torrey Pines in his day winning 8 times including a US Open, Justin Rose at -21 195 has broken the 54 hole record score Tiger held by 3 shots, 61 66 68, that's how well he is playing.

Joel Dahmen at -15 is alone in 2nd place.

Rosey at 45 looks as fit as ever, lean strong from a lifetime of abstinence and exercise, he calls this time as his Indian Summer and he is playing like it. He has the 2027 Ryder Cup in his sights as a player and he surely will be a captain as some point. Let's remember he lost last years Masters in the legendary playoff to Rory.

Regarding his lead " There is never going to be any complacency, I think there is always enough respect for the game of golf in the back of your mind that you have to do everything right tomorrow. You have to come out,, be focused, play well. "

Canadians 

Mac Hughes T35 71 70 70 -5

Sudarshan Yellamaraju T45  74 67 71 -4

AJ Ewart T61  71 69 74 -2

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Adam Hadwin in contention to win in Panama Championship...54 hole results

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Four of the six Canadians have made the cut in Panama.

Adam Hadwin leads them 68 69 68 -5 T5 which is just 2 shots off the lead held by American Tyler Duncan 69 66 68 -7

Stuart MacDonald T19  65 67 77 -1

Roger Sloan T61  69 70 75 +4

Myles Creighton  T61  73 70 71 +4

Drew Nesbitt,, Ben Silverman MC

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Calum Hill holds lead, Reed charges into contention Bahrain Championship... 54 hole results

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He's back in the news this year, Patrick Reed leaving LIV, playing the DP World Tour, looking to return to the PGA Tour in 2027 or earlier, he won the Hero Dubai Desert Open last week, and began this week in Bahrain with -1 71 then better -5 67 on Friday.

This morning he is hot, with 5 birdies and an eagle through 15 holes, he dropped a shot at the par3 16th, then made pars at 17 and 18, -6 66 in T4th -12 

Final Edit

Calum Hill held off Moving Day surges from Freddy Schott and Patrick Reed to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the 2026 Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship.

 

The Scot began Saturday four clear of the field after equalling the course record of 61 on Friday, but found himself behind at the turn as he made three early bogeys while his playing partner went out in 32.

A pair of bogeys for Schott at the 12th and 13th levelled matters once more and Hill birdied the next two to take advantage. Schott also birdied the 14th but the German's closing bogey for 70 -14, saw Hill's lead swell back to two at -16 after E 72.

Patrick Reed was ominously poised at -12 under after a 66, tied for the best round of the day. Also at -12, Spanish veteran Sergio Garcia 68 and Grant Forrest 67 

Hill said "I actually felt like I played quite nicely, I just had a few errors in there and misjudged a couple of putts early on that put me behind a little bit. I managed to come back a little bit on the back nine and put myself in a good position for tomorrow."

Schott said: "I mean, I’m a little bit disappointed to three-putt on the last but it was a good day today. We will just keep doing what we’re doing, and we should be alright tomorrow.

Spaniards Nacho Elvira 69 and Jorge Campillo 68 were in the group at -11 under with Lindberg 66 and Englishman Ben Schmidt 68, with eight players T10 a further shot back at -10.

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Rosey putting on a record Masterclass at Farmers Insurance...36 hole results...TEE TIMES

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Justin Rose at 45 is playing some of the best golf of his storied career, and he plays really well at Torrey Pines, where he held the 36 hole record at -15 in 2019

Born in South Africa, raised in the little town of Hook in England, he has played golf all over the world, seen every kind of weather, none any better than San Diego thus far this week, blue skies, blue Pacific, brilliant sunshine, and very little wind means low scoring for the pros. 

He turned pro at 17, promptly missed his first 23 cuts, his resume includes the 2013 US Open and the Olympic Gold Medal 2016 in Rio. He has been the backbone of the wildly successful European Ryder Cup team for 20 years.

So far he shot -10 62 NC, then went out to post -7 65 on the tougher championship SC for a new record -17 127, that is 4 shots ahead of the closest rival Irishman Seamus Power 66 NC -13 total.

Canadians :  The cut fell at -3 which eliminated Taylor Pendrith 70 72 -2 and Adam Svensson 71 75 +2

AJ Ewart T45 71 69 -4

Mac Hughes T58 71 70 -3

Sudarshan Yellamaraju  T58 74 67 -3

Much ballyhoo this week about Brooks Keopka returning to PGA Tour. Turns out to be much ado about nothing 73 68 -3, 14 shots behind Justin Rose.

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Scotland's Robert "Bob" MacIntyre makes OWGR history..

 Robert McIntyre made history this week as he became just the third Scottish male golfer to reach the top five in the Official World Golf Ranking, a fantastic feat for this working class young lad from the Scottish port of Oban, taught to play by his greenskeeper father, Dougie at Glencruitten GC. 

A four-time DP World Tour winner, two-time PGA TOUR winner and member of two victorious Ryder Cup teams, this is the latest reward for a fantastically consistent run of play from the 29-year-old who has not missed a cut since the Masters.

He joins Sandy Lyle and Colin Montgomerie as the only Scots to crack the top five.

MacIntyre first entered the all-important top 50 just under five years ago but only truly established himself in that company with his victory at the 2024 RBC Canadian Open which moved him from 76th to 39th.

He has not left the top 50 since and just weeks after his triumph in Canada he claimed an emotional home win at the Genesis Scottish Open which lifted him to a then career-high of 16th.

A first move into the top ten came after he finished second at the BMW Championship in August and he continued to rack up points, winning the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship and securing back-to-back top tens in the season-ending DP World Tour Play-Offs.

He then finished 12th at the Hero World Challenge and started 2026 with a tie for fourth at the Sony Open in Hawaii before a tie for 38th at last week's American Express moved him above Xander Schauffele and up to World Number Five.

Lyle was World Number 3 when the Rankings were first released in 1986 and spent a total of 16 weeks in the top five before Montgomerie became a regular fixture after first entering it in December 1995.

He would stay in the top ten from May 1994 to June 2001, spending 158 weeks in the top five and peaking at World Number Two.

Montgomerie was last in the top five on April 29, 2001 and now - over 9,000 days later - the Saltire is flying high again thanks to MacIntyre.

Congratulations Bob!

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Calum Hill ties course record...round 2 suspended darkness...Bahrain Championship 36 hole results

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Scotland's Calum Hill opened his week with -5 67, however this morning he woke up with a great swing, and went on to post a career best and Royal GC tying record -11 61 to take a four shot clubhouse lead at -16 in ideal weather in Bahrain.

He is ranked owgr #97, #194 Race to Dubai, and he missed the cut last week in Dubai. He has 2 DP World Tour wins.   more to follow...

Final Edit

Calum Hill powered his way into a four-shot lead after equalling the course record with a sublime 61 at the 2026 Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship.

The Scot was flawless on Friday morning as he rolled in 11 birdies to match the lowest score at the Royal Golf Club, set by Brandon Robinson Thompson during the first round of this event last year, to take control at -16

Hill, who has two DP World Tour titles to his name, overhauled first-round leader Freddy Schott after the German backed up his opening 65 with a 67 to reach -12, three ahead of Frenchman Ugo Coussaud in third.

"Today was really good," Hill said. "I started off really well and then I had a few bonus putts from really long range to really go in and I just kept making birdies. It was nice.

"That’s obviously my best round in competitive golf, in tournament golf. I haven’t kept track of what I’ve shot in practice, but I think that’s up there as one of the best rounds I’ve played.

"I knew the course record was -11, so I knew I needed to hole my last shot (to break the course record) and it looked very good in the air. I thought it had a chance but just long, but it was nice to finish off with a birdie as well. Very happy."

The Kirkcaldy native - going out in the second group of the day - opened with a birdie before picking up three in a row from the fourth to sit at top alongside Schott, who birdied the first and third, at -9.

Hill completed his second round with a hat-trick of birdies to catapult himself to -16 while Schott, two groups behind, dropped a shot at the 15th, birdied the 17th before a closing with a bogey to reach the clubhouse with a -12 total.

Coussaud finished birdie-birdie as he picked up five shots and carded one bogey in his 68 to move into solo third at -9

He is one ahead of a logjammed chasing pack, which includes South African trio JC Ritchie 65, Casey Jarvis 65 and Brandon Stone 68, Spanish triad Sergio Garcia 66, Nacho Elvira 67 and Alejandro Del Rey 71, Dutchman Joost Luiten 65, India's Shubhankar Sharma 70, New Zealand's Daniel Hillier 70, Frenchman Julien Guerrier 67 and Italy's Andrea Pavan 67 all at -8.

Play was suspended due to darkness, rd2 resumes 745am, rd3 will not start before 9am.

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