Sweden’s Jesper Svensson carded a third-round 67 to take a one-stroke lead heading into the ultimate spherical of the FedEx Open de France.
Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen and England’s Sam Bairstow share second spot on 12 below, whereas fellow countrymen Joe Dean and Dan Bradbury stay in rivalry one additional again.
Bradbury, who had shared the in a single day lead with Svensson and Belgium’s Thomas Detry, posted a two-under 69 on Saturday, whereas Detry’s one-over 72 drops him 5 off the tempo alongside Justin Rose.
The 2013 US Open champion and former world No 1 was two off the lead on the midway stage of the event however is now in a tie for fifteenth after a spherical of 70.
Svensson, eyeing simply his second win on the DP World Tour, after claiming the Porsche Singapore Traditional in March, confirmed exceptional consistency to earn the outright lead because the 28-year-old reached 16 of the 18 greens in regulation throughout his third spherical.
The Swede carded 4 birdies in his first six holes and 5 general, however bogeyed the seventeenth at Le Golf Nationwide for a four-under 67.
“I hit the ball really well all day, a lot of good looks, hit a lot of good putts,” Svensson mentioned. “A lot of putts slid past, hopefully they’ll drop tomorrow.”
Olesen had 4 birdies as he too posted a 67 on Saturday, whereas Bairstow’s six-under 65 included an excellent chip-in eagle on the 14th gap.
“Front nine was very smooth and I just holed a few putts on the back nine,” Bairstow mentioned. “Hopefully keep it going.”
Lev Grinberg, the 16-year-old Ukrainian enjoying for simply the fifth time on the DP World Tour, was undone by a triple-bogey on the fifteenth – the place he hit two balls into the water – to in the end card 70 and sit tied for thirtieth on six below.
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