After a strong afternoon wind meant slightly tougher scoring conditions on Moving Day at the 2017 Portugal Masters,europeantour.comrecaps the day in stats.
199- Lucas Bjerregaard leads by one heading into the final round in Vilamoura after rounds of 66-65-68
3- This is Bjerregaard's third European Tour 54-hole lead. His others were the 2015 UBS Hong Kong Open, where he eventually finished second, and the 2016 Volvo China Open, where he finished tied third
67.5- The Dane's career scoring average on the Dom Pedro Victoria course through 13 rounds with ten of those sub-70
17- Bjerregaard is tied first for birdies made so far this week on 17, along with Phachara Khongwatmai
51- Nicolas Colsaerts and Sebastian Soderberg both made hay while the sun shone during the morning play, jumping 51 places up the leaderboard from the cut-line into a share of 12th thanks to seven under par rounds of 64
2
- Bogeys so far this week for Sebastian Soderberg. No one has dropped fewer shots.
8
- Double bogeys or worse on the par five 12th hole on Saturday and just one eagle
61
- Yardage of Russell Knox's hole-out eagle three with a lob wedge on the aforementioned 12th
70.16
- With gusty conditions on Saturday, the third round saw the highest scoring average of the week so far, albeit still 0.84 shots under the card
300
- Days of sunshine on average per year in the Algarve. We've seen some of its best this week...
