Ireland’s Paul Dunne fired a third round 69 and holds a two-stroke lead heading into the final day in Morocco at the Trophée Hassan II. The 24-year-old Dunne closed his Saturday round in style with a lengthy birdie putt on the 18th at Royal Golf Dar Es Salem.
Renato Paratore, of Italy, is two back in solo-second after posting a course-record 7-under 66. Paratore moved up 38 spots on the leaderboard after his record round.
The trio of Englishman Paul Waring, Spain’s Pablo Larrazábal and Lasse Jensen of Denmark are tied for third at 5-under.
Dunne started the day two shots behind 36-hole leader Grégory Havret but grabbed the lead about midway through his front-nine after birdies on 1, 4, and 5. Havret struggled to a 2-over 75 and dropped to T6 at 4-under, four shots off the lead.
Top 10
1 Paul Dunne -8
2 Renato Paratore – 6
T3 Lasse Jensen -5
T3 Paul Waring -5
T3 Pablo Larrazábal -5
T6 Grégory Havret -4
T6 Trevor Fisher Jr -4
T6 Lucas Bjerregaard -4
T6 Dylan Frittelli -4
T6 Grégory Bourdy -4
T6 Edoardo Molinari -4
Notables
T12 Victor Dubuisson -3
T22 Matteo Manassero -1
T30 Gary Stal E
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One more roll for Bjerregaard and he’s at 5-under. Nice shot!
Quotable
“I’ve been playing well recently and I haven’t played a tournament for four weeks with the break we had so I felt like it took me a while to get going with my swing this week. But today was a much easier round than the last couple of days. I didn’t putt as well as I did in the last couple of days but I hit the ball a lot better. I’m really pleased, I’ve been doing some good work and I’m happy with where I am. If I break 70 again I think it’s going to be hard for someone to catch me so I’m just going to try and do that.”
–Paul Dunne, Third Round Leader
At-a-Glance
Name: Trophée Hassan II
Dates: 4/13 – 4/16
Course: Royal Golf Dar Es Salam
Locale: Rabat, Morocco
Purse: €2,500,000
Defending: Jeunghun Wang
The Leaderboard
Trophée Hassan II, Round 3, April 15, 2017
POS | NAME | R1 | R2 | R3 | TOT |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Paul Dunne | 73 | 69 | 69 | -8 |
2 | Renato Paratore | 73 | 74 | 66 | -6 |
3 | Paul Waring | 74 | 71 | 69 | -5 |
3 | Pablo Larrazabal | 72 | 73 | 69 | -5 |
3 | Lasse Jensen | 75 | 69 | 70 | -5 |
6 | Edoardo Molinari | 71 | 74 | 70 | -4 |
6 | Dylan Frittelli | 71 | 72 | 72 | -4 |
6 | Gregory Bourdy | 71 | 71 | 73 | -4 |
6 | Trevor Fisher, Jr. | 71 | 70 | 74 | -4 |
6 | Lucas Bjerregaard | 70 | 71 | 74 | -4 |
6 | Gregory Havret | 70 | 70 | 75 | -4 |
12 | Carlos Pigem | 75 | 72 | 69 | -3 |
12 | Ricardo Gonzalez | 74 | 71 | 71 | -3 |
12 | Mike Lorenzo-Vera | 72 | 72 | 72 | -3 |
12 | Victor Dubuisson | 73 | 71 | 72 | -3 |
12 | Chris Hanson | 74 | 70 | 72 | -3 |
17 | Anthony Wall | 74 | 73 | 70 | -2 |
17 | Matthieu Pavon | 72 | 73 | 72 | -2 |
17 | Daniel Brooks | 73 | 71 | 73 | -2 |
17 | Ricardo Gouveia | 75 | 69 | 73 | -2 |
17 | Jorge Campillo | 74 | 69 | 74 | -2 |
22 | Jordan Smith | 73 | 75 | 70 | -1 |
22 | Dean Burmester | 78 | 70 | 70 | -1 |
22 | Joost Luiten | 75 | 72 | 71 | -1 |
22 | Matteo Manassero | 72 | 74 | 72 | -1 |
22 | Sebastian Heisele | 72 | 73 | 73 | -1 |
22 | Adrian Otaegui | 73 | 72 | 73 | -1 |
22 | Duncan Stewart | 72 | 72 | 74 | -1 |
22 | Tom Lewis | 75 | 68 | 75 | -1 |
30 | Joel Stalter | 76 | 72 | 71 | E |
30 | David Drysdale | 72 | 76 | 71 | E |
30 | Chris Paisley | 76 | 72 | 71 | E |
30 | Rikard Karlberg | 75 | 73 | 71 | E |
30 | Ashley Chesters | 73 | 74 | 72 | E |
30 | Matthew Nixon | 74 | 73 | 72 | E |
30 | Aaron Rai | 72 | 75 | 72 | E |
30 | Steven Tiley | 75 | 72 | 72 | E |
30 | Jeff Winther | 72 | 74 | 73 | E |
30 | Lee Slattery | 74 | 72 | 73 | E |
30 | Anton Karlsson | 72 | 73 | 74 | E |
30 | Pelle Edberg | 71 | 73 | 75 | E |
42 | Jaco van Zyl | 71 | 75 | 74 | 1 |
42 | Alexander Levy | 71 | 75 | 74 | 1 |
42 | Mikko Ilonen | 72 | 73 | 75 | 1 |
42 | Gary Stal | 70 | 75 | 75 | 1 |
46 | Romain Wattel | 72 | 76 | 73 | 2 |
46 | Joakim Lagergren | 75 | 73 | 73 | 2 |
46 | Daniel Im | 74 | 73 | 74 | 2 |
46 | Laurie Canter | 74 | 73 | 74 | 2 |
46 | Haydn Porteous | 77 | 70 | 74 | 2 |
46 | Sebastian Soderberg | 73 | 73 | 75 | 2 |
46 | Adrien Saddier | 73 | 73 | 75 | 2 |
46 | Mark Foster | 72 | 74 | 75 | 2 |
46 | Benjamin Hebert | 75 | 68 | 78 | 2 |
46 | James Morrison | 70 | 72 | 79 | 2 |
56 | Jens Fahrbring | 73 | 75 | 74 | 3 |
56 | Richard S. Johnson | 72 | 76 | 74 | 3 |
56 | Richard Bland | 74 | 73 | 75 | 3 |
56 | Max Orrin | 71 | 76 | 75 | 3 |
56 | Marcus Armitage | 76 | 70 | 76 | 3 |
56 | Wade Ormsby | 75 | 71 | 76 | 3 |
62 | Matthew Southgate | 75 | 73 | 75 | 4 |
62 | Alejandro Canizares | 72 | 76 | 75 | 4 |
62 | Sebastien Gros | 77 | 70 | 76 | 4 |
62 | Julien Guerrier | 76 | 71 | 76 | 4 |
66 | Damien Perrier | 74 | 74 | 76 | 5 |
66 | Ayoub Lguirati | 76 | 71 | 77 | 5 |
66 | Johan Edfors | 73 | 71 | 80 | 5 |
69 | Jens Dantorp | 73 | 74 | 79 | 7 |
69 | Ben Evans | 72 | 75 | 79 | 7 |
69 | Rafa Echenique | 73 | 74 | 79 | 7 |
72 | Nino Bertasio | 72 | 77 | - | MC |
72 | Thomas Detry | 72 | 77 | - | MC |
72 | Robert Dinwiddie | 76 | 73 | - | MC |
72 | Nacho Elvira | 73 | 76 | - | MC |
72 | Niclas Fasth | 78 | 71 | - | MC |
72 | Florian Fritsch | 76 | 73 | - | MC |
72 | Michael Hoey | 76 | 73 | - | MC |
72 | David Howell | 73 | 76 | - | MC |
72 | Mikko Korhonen | 74 | 75 | - | MC |
72 | Thomas Linard | 77 | 72 | - | MC |
72 | Andrew Marshall | 75 | 74 | - | MC |
72 | Eddie Pepperell | 73 | 76 | - | MC |
72 | Garrick Porteous | 76 | 73 | - | MC |
72 | Julien Quesne | 73 | 76 | - | MC |
72 | Robert Rock | 72 | 77 | - | MC |
72 | Clement Sordet | 71 | 78 | - | MC |
72 | Brandon Stone | 75 | 74 | - | MC |
89 | Johan Carlsson | 75 | 75 | - | MC |
89 | Erik Compton | 75 | 75 | - | MC |
89 | Eduardo De La Riva | 77 | 73 | - | MC |
89 | Raphael Jacquelin | 74 | 76 | - | MC |
89 | Scott Jamieson | 72 | 78 | - | MC |
89 | Richie Ramsay | 74 | 76 | - | MC |
89 | Callum Shinkwin | 76 | 74 | - | MC |
89 | Marcel Siem | 75 | 75 | - | MC |
89 | Richard Sterne | 76 | 74 | - | MC |
89 | Jeung-hun Wang | 77 | 73 | - | MC |
99 | Alexander Bjork | 80 | 71 | - | MC |
99 | Younes El Hassani | 77 | 74 | - | MC |
99 | Richard Green | 77 | 74 | - | MC |
99 | David Horsey | 73 | 78 | - | MC |
99 | Romain Langasque | 77 | 74 | - | MC |
99 | Jamie Rutherford | 78 | 73 | - | MC |
99 | Faycal Serghini | 76 | 75 | - | MC |
99 | Pontus Widegren | 75 | 76 | - | MC |
107 | Thomas Bjorn | 77 | 75 | - | MC |
107 | Jamie Donaldson | 77 | 75 | - | MC |
107 | Nathan Kimsey | 80 | 72 | - | MC |
107 | Stuart Manley | 72 | 80 | - | MC |
111 | Oliver Fisher | 77 | 76 | - | MC |
111 | Stephen Gallacher | 78 | 75 | - | MC |
111 | Nathan Holman | 78 | 75 | - | MC |
111 | Robert Karlsson | 77 | 76 | - | MC |
111 | Alexander Knappe | 75 | 78 | - | MC |
111 | Zander Lombard | 76 | 77 | - | MC |
111 | Ahmed Marjan | 77 | 76 | - | MC |
111 | Bernd Ritthammer | 77 | 76 | - | MC |
111 | Reinier Saxton | 76 | 77 | - | MC |
120 | Pep Angles | 79 | 75 | - | MC |
120 | Nicolas Colsaerts | 77 | 77 | - | MC |
120 | Simon Dyson | 79 | 75 | - | MC |
120 | James Heath | 77 | 77 | - | MC |
120 | Ayoub Id-Omar | 78 | 76 | - | MC |
120 | Gary King | 76 | 78 | - | MC |
120 | Jose-Filipe Lima | 77 | 77 | - | MC |
120 | Paul Maddy | 77 | 77 | - | MC |
120 | Richard McEvoy | 75 | 79 | - | MC |
120 | Yassine Touhami | 82 | 72 | - | MC |
120 | Justin Walters | 75 | 79 | - | MC |
131 | Scott Henry | 79 | 76 | - | MC |
131 | Hennie Otto | 75 | 80 | - | MC |
131 | Sam Walker | 78 | 77 | - | MC |
134 | Craig Hinton | 78 | 78 | - | MC |
135 | Felipe Aguilar | 78 | 79 | - | MC |
135 | Jaco Ahlers | 81 | 76 | - | MC |
135 | Dylan Boshart | 77 | 80 | - | MC |
135 | Richard Finch | 81 | 76 | - | MC |
135 | Maximilian Kieffer | 80 | 77 | - | MC |
135 | Y.E. Yang | 79 | 78 | - | MC |
141 | Abdelhaq Sabi | 80 | 79 | - | MC |
142 | Santiago Luna | 82 | 78 | - | MC |
142 | Mike Weir | 81 | 79 | - | MC |
- | John Parry | 80 | - | - | WD |
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