Chris Richards Jr leads the field af­ter three days of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Golf As­so­ci­a­tion Na­tion­al Tri­als, which en­ters its fi­nal day Sat­ur­day at the Ch­aguara­mas Golf Course.

​Richards Jr de­liv­ered a con­sis­tent 70 on Fri­day’s third day at the St An­drews Golf Course in Mo­ka, Mar­aval, con­tin­u­ing to low­er his scores from the two pre­vi­ous rounds. On the open­ing day of the four-day tour­na­ment at Mil­len­ni­um Lakes in Trinci­ty, Richards Jr be­gan with a 72, which proved suf­fi­cient to pro­pel him to the top of the leader­board. Liam Bry­den’s 75 earned him the run­ner-up po­si­tion on day one, with Zi­co Cor­reia in third.

The trio has been al­most in­sep­a­ra­ble dur­ing days two and three at Mo­ka. Still, Richards, who card­ed a 71 on day two, dipped a shot low­er on the third day with a 70 for a com­bined score of 213. He now leads Bry­den by 12 shots as na­tion­al se­lec­tors fo­cus on the se­lec­tion of a na­tion­al team for fu­ture tour­na­ments.

​Bry­den had an ex­cel­lent sec­ond day, shoot­ing a 69, but stum­bled yes­ter­day with a gross 81 for a com­bined to­tal of 225. Zi­co Cor­reia se­cured third place over­all af­ter a third-day 75 pro­pelled him to a to­tal of 232. Ethan Col­lier holds fourth place with rounds of 75, 81, and 79, while Wayne Bap­tiste (82, 76, 78)sits in the fifth spot en­ter­ing the fi­nal day.

​Play­ers will tee off at stag­gered times this morn­ing. Ac­tion be­gins at 9 am with the two­some of Tori De Fre­itas-Bap­tiste and Is­abel­la Ramdeen. Mean­while, the fi­nal quar­tet of Richards Jr, Cor­reia, Ross Ramkissoon, and Bap­tiste is sched­uled to tee off at 9.40 am.