A gleaming gap-in-one has helped France’s Victor Perez claim a narrow lead in the European Birth as he seeks motivate-to-motivate victories on the European Tour.
Perez, who defeated Ryan Fox in a play-off to carry discontinuance the Dutch Birth on Sunday, made a spectacular beginning as a lot as his third round at Green Eagle Golf Packages outsie Hamburg with a birdie on the fundamental and gap-in-one on the 2d.
The 29-yr-aged holed out with a six iron from 217 yards to with out be conscious accumulate himself two pictures in front, having started the day two in the motivate of playing partner Jordan Smith.
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After a bogey on the fifth, Perez additionally birdied the ninth to manual by three, most attention-grabbing to drop pictures on the 13th and 15th to topple two in the motivate of Sweden’s Joakim Lagergren.
Nonetheless, on a rollercoaster day, Lagergren made a double bogey on the 16th and dropped but one more shot on the final, leaving France’s Julien Brun on top of the leaderboard on account of birdies on the 15th and 16th.
That proved brief-lived though, Brun running up a double bogey on the 18th after pulling his tee shot into the water, leaving Perez on the head of affairs on 5 under par, despite a motivate 9 of 40 in his 71.
Brun and Lagergren piece 2d situation on four under, with Holland’s Wil Besseling and China’s Li Haotong on three under, Besseling having holed from 57 feet for an eagle on the 18th.
On a tough day for scoring, Smith’s 77 dropped him four pictures off the budge, with world amount 41 Tommy Fleetwood but one more stroke motivate following a 69 – the joint lowest ranking of the day – which vaulted the Ryder Cup megastar 35 areas up the leaderboard.
The sole real remaining Australian Jason Scrivener is in joint 11th situation, silent no longer fully out of the hunt as he lies most attention-grabbing 5 pictures off the lead following his third-round 73.