Matthias Schwab will take a three shot lead into the final round of the Turkish Airlines Open after he continued his wonderful run of form on day three at The Montgomerie Maxx Royal.
The Austrian has claimed top fives at the Italian Open and WGC-HSBC Champions recently to take his top ten tally on the 2019 Race to Dubai to nine and he continued to impress on the big stage in Antalya.
This week kicks off a run of three Rolex Series events to finish the season and Schwab carded a 66 in round three to get to 18 under and lead the way from English duo Ross Fisher and Tyrrell Hatton, Frenchman Benjamin Hebert, Scot Robert MacIntyre and American Patrick Reed.
Schwab had extended his one shot overnight lead to three after 11 holes and recovered from a double bogey on the 12th to re-establish his cushion, but he will need more of that fight on Sunday to hold off a chasing pack that has won a Major Championship, a World Golf Championships title and eight other European Tour crowns between them.
Scotland’s Scott Jamieson, Frenchman Victor Perez and South African Erik van Rooyen were five shots off the lead, one clear of Dane Joachim B Hansen, South African Justin Harding, American Kurt Kitayama, England’s Lee Westwood and Paraguay’s Fabrizio Zanotti.
