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Fri 03 Mar 2009McGrane holes out for share of lead
GOLF:A BRILLIANT bunker shot by Damien McGrane at the final hole gave the Irishman a share of the lead on five-under-par 66 with Sweden’s Joakim Haeggman in the Madeira Islands Open at Porto Santo yesterday.
McGrane went out in a five-under 31 after starting at the 10th, but last year’s China Open winner was unable to sustain that kind of form on the testing course and had dropped back to four under par after 17 holes. And he looked unlikely to improve on that when his tee-shot found the sand at the short ninth, his last.
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