The American, a former Masters champion, climbed to nine-under-par to hold a one-shot advantage over England's Andy Sullivan, who produced one of the rounds of the tournament with a brilliant seven-under 65. Reed's latest surge added to his impressive recent record in Dubai, having finished
Shubhankar Sharma's final round of 5-over 77 had a run of a bogey-double bogey - birdie and a triple. bogey in the last four holes. He had two each of birdies and bogeys in the first 14 holes. With 69-69-71-77 he was 2-under 286 and T-59. Diksha Dagar had earlier missed the cut in a unique
Shubhankar Sharma opened with a birdie on his first hole, starting from the tenth hole. He added a birdie on first, his 10th hole, and had one more birdie later. However in between he had double bogeys on the second and fourth and another bogey for a disappointing start.