{"id":374,"date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2021\/06\/11\/nigerian-masters-day-3-torgah-sputters-to-76-after-hot-start\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:27:13","slug":"nigerian-masters-day-3-torgah-sputters-to-76-after-hot-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/nigerian-masters-day-3-torgah-sputters-to-76-after-hot-start\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIAN MASTERS DAY 3: Torgah sputters to 76 after hot start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"imgPusher\" style=\"float:left;height:0px\"><\/span><span style=\"width:auto;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;clear:left;margin-top:0px\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/photo-2019-11-28-14-21-07_1_orig.jpg\" style=\"margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 10px;border-width:1px;padding:3px;max-width:100%\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorder wsite-image\" title=\"NIGERIAN MASTERS DAY 3: Torgah sputters to 76 after hot start\"><\/a><span style=\"caption-side: bottom;font-size: 90%;margin-top: -10px;margin-bottom: 10px;text-align: center\" class=\"wsite-caption\">Vincent Torgah<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\"><font size=\"4\">After a solid performance in the first two rounds, Vincent Torgah made three bogeys and a double bogey on the opening nine and went ahead to shoot 4-over 76, leaving the African Tour foremost player see his seven stroke lead diminish to four after the third round on Friday.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Torgah\u2019s round fell apart after his bogey at No. 10 that followed a par at No. 9, as he shot 39 in his back nine in glorious conditions at the IBB International Golf Course in Abuja.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Two over for his round arriving at the 1st tee, he sent his drive right into a water hazard and wound up making a double-bogey 6 and followed it with an early birdie on the second hole. And finished the first nine with a one over par.\u00a0 Another wayward drive led to a bogey at the 10th and 13th before finding the rough on the 18th and ended up for a bogey too.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Patrick Paul didn&#8217;t drop a shot in his front nine for a brilliant two-under par 34, but a bogey on the 10th and two other consecutive bogey&#8217;s on the 13th and 14th holes saw the Nigerian finish his round at one-over par and now four shots off the pace at one-under par heading into the final round.<br \/>,<br \/>Though Torgah remains the man to beat at this years Nigeria Masters two other players are still in contention including 2019 B&amp;E champion, Zimbabwe&#8217;s Visitor Mapwanya and Nigeria&#8217;s Kabiru Haruna who at both tied for the third spot on the leaderboard at two-over par after 54 holes of play. While Sunday Olapade sits solo fifth on the leaderboard.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Despite a 72 and 80 in the first two rounds Southeast Shootout champion Francis Epe shot the lowest round on day 3 with after returning a one-under 71 to surge up the leaderboard by five spots from twelfth to seventh and now seven-over par heading<\/font><\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent Torgah After a solid performance in the first two rounds, Vincent Torgah made three bogeys and a double bogey on the opening nine and went ahead to shoot 4-over 76, leaving the African Tour foremost player see his seven stroke lead diminish to four after the third round on Friday.\u00a0Torgah\u2019s round fell apart after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"china","author_link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/author\/china\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Vincent Torgah After a solid performance in the first two rounds, Vincent Torgah made three bogeys and a double bogey on the opening nine and went ahead to shoot 4-over 76, leaving the African Tour foremost player see his seven stroke lead diminish to four after the third round on Friday.\u00a0Torgah\u2019s round fell apart after&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}