Mikko Korhonen leads pack at KLM Open as Tom McKibbin falls away
Mikko Korhonen leads the charge at the KLM Open
Mikko Korhonen will look to complete a remarkable comeback when he takes a one-shot lead into the final round of the KLM Open, while Tom McKibbin has fallen away after a promising start to the event.
Korhonen is a two-time DP World Tour winner but stepped back from the game last summer, and his appearance in Amsterdam this week is just his third after a year away.
He has shown no signs of rust, however, and after making a hole-in-one en route to a 64 on day one, he has been on top of the leaderboard ever since, with a third-round 70 leaving him one shot ahead of Italy’s Guido Migliozzi.
“It was really, really fun today,” he said. “I didn’t really know what to expect because I haven’t played for a while, and in the circumstances like this, so yeah it was fun.
“Just try to enjoy it. Go step by step, shot by shot. It would mean quite a lot but let’s not go there just yet.”
Korhonen responded to an opening bogey with an eagle on the third and added two further birdies and bogeys in a week where he has recorded every score from one to seven.
Migliozzi’s 66 was the lowest round of the day and left him a shot ahead of countryman Matteo Manassero, American Sean Crocker and Dane Rasmus Hojgaard.