DP World Tour : Omega European Masters Results
Matt Wallace maintained his stranglehold on the Omega European Masters with a four-shot lead despite testing conditions in the Swiss Alps.
The Englishman was sitting pretty at the top by the same margin at the halfway point and headed into the weekend as the only player not to drop a shot through 36 holes.
He started Moving Day at -14, but high winds affected the whole field and it only took him two holes to card his first bogey of the tournament.
Wallace battled through the tough conditions to register a third-round of +3 73, mixing six bogeys with three birdies to sit at 11 under at Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club.
Alfredo Garcia-Heredia sat in second at seven under after an impressive 71 which saw him card four birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey.
"Where do I start? Brutal, really hard. Felt I hit the ball just as good, in the right areas - they were the wrong areas by the looks of it," Wallace said.
"Today wasn't about really shooting under par, it was about keeping my lead and I did that and I will try and take the ego out of the three over, which I'm not happy about those type of scores but I probably left two or three shots out there which would have been an unbelievable score."
Smith slipped out of contention following a bogey-double bogey-bogey finish, while Garcia-Heredia was in the clubhouse at -7 on his own in second after three straight pars to conclude his round.
At the 17th hole, Wallace thinned his third shot through the green and into the bunker, which he did well to come away with a bogey to drop back to ten under.
Wallace replied with arguably his best shot of the third round when sticking his approach to five feet and when he rolled in the birdie putt, he took a four-shot lead into the final round.
Johnston and Sweden's Henrik Norlander were one shot further back at -6, while Fitzpatrick, home favourite Cedric Gugler, Australian Jason Scrivener and Edoardo Molinari, who was one of only three players to record under par rounds, are at -5
Jonas Blixt carded the round of the day with a 68 to climb to -4 alongside fellow Swede Sebastian Söderberg, who registered also carded a 69 like Molinari 69, Spain's Nacho Elvira 69, South African Casey Jarvis 69, Germany's Nicolai von Dellingshausen 69 and 2021 Champion Rasmus Højgaard 69.
edit ### Canada's Aaron Cockerill struggled in the wind to 76..
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