After a fascinating moving day in the UAE, europeantour.com took a numerical, and sometimes sideways, look at the key numbers from the third round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.
2– Shots Craig Lee leads by with18holes to come
19– Birdies Lee has made over the first three days in Abu Dhabi
0– The Scotsman will be going for his maiden European Tour title on Sunday after coming close in losing to Thomas Bjorn in a play-off at the 2013 Omega European Masters
63– The low round of the day shot by Phil Mickelson –1outside Henrik Stenson’s8year old course record of62– matching Danny Willett’s second round efforts for low round of the week
9 –Birdies in Mickelson’s round, plus1eagle and2bogeys
41– Places his third round heroics propelled him up the leaderboard
7– Nationalities in the top ten following the third round
2– Shots Rory McIlroy was penalised for an incorrect drop on the second hole, under rule25-1
238– Birdies on day three
9– Eagles during Saturday's play including6on the18th; there were only5in total last year and with18holes to come there has already been12so far in the 2014 event
14– The hardest hole on the course in the third round, the par4averaged at4.36and only conceded2birdies all day (Peter Hanson and Tom Lewis)
18– The easiest hole on Saturday, the par5averaged at4.45and yielded6eagles and30birdies
15– The amount of shots between first and last place