Soudal Open - Day three digest

Everything you need to know from round three at Rinkven International GC.

Ewen Ferguson remained the man to catch, John Parry and Darius van Driel experienced mixed luck.

Here is everything you need to know from the third round in Antwerp.

Fergie time?

Ferguson remains well poised to win a fourth DP World Tour title after overcoming tough conditions to card a 69, which saw his run of 41 holes without a bogey come to an end. "To be honest with you my range session was awful, it was so cold, my hands were freezing and I was hardly finding the middle of the face," said Ferguson. "I was thinking it was going to be a long day - which it was - but I think when you get out there and feel the kind of vibe off the people around you, and I was playing with Marco [Penge] who's a good friend, and just trying to enjoy it even though the weather was bad. I just hung in there really. It wasn't pretty, I was teeing my ball down, squishing drivers trying to find the fairway. Nothing pretty to watch but Saturday, just keep yourself in there."

Perseverance pays off for Parry

Parry goes into Sunday as Ferguson's main challenger after a 67. "It was tough," he said. "There were a lot more four irons into the greens today - which wasn’t really the case over the first two days - but I felt like I did the hard part well, which was getting from tee to green. That made the rest of the day a bit easier. I just try and play my own game. If you come to the last six holes and he's three ahead you have to try and force things a little bit, but I just try and play the right shot. I haven't got much of a strategy, just to hit driver on pretty much every hole because it's playing so long. Just try and hit your right shots, try and hit the targets you're trying to hit and hole a few putts."

Round of the day

Jordan Smith didn't have anyone below him on the leaderboard at the start of the day after making the cut on the number but remarkably ended it in a share of fourth.

Not Van Driel's day...

Golf can be a cruel game, as Darius van Driel will testify.

...although it had been earlier

Hopefully this earlier effort made up for the horseshoe.