September 10-13
Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course, Vilamoura, Portugal
โฌ1,000,000
Round 1, Round 2, Round 4
George Coetzee will go in search of a fifth European Tour win as he takes a one shot lead into the final round of the 2020 Portugal Masters.
The South African produced a remarkable eagle-birdie finish on day three to sign for an impressive 66 and move to 11 under par at Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Course.
Coetzee, who won on the Sunshine Tour at Pretoria Country Club last week, had started the day eight strokes behind Julien Guerrier but the Frenchman's five stroke overnight advantage turned into a one shot deficit after he failed to make a single birdie in his four over par 75.
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โIt was weird. Kind of felt like I was in a good space today and I didn't really get going on the front nine, missed a couple of good opportunities on the back nine with the first couple of holes, but then when I started finally making them it was kind of smooth sailing from there. It was a bit of a grind but you just have to kind of hold on tight until you get a good opportunity.
The 34-year-old reached the turn in 34 shots after sandwiching a bogey on the seventh between birdies at the fourth and eighth.
After taking advantage of the par four 15th for the third day in a row, Coetzee came agonisingly close to holing his approach into the long 17th for an albatross but had to settle for a tap-in eagle to climb to ten under. And he finished off with a confident 12 foot birdie putt at the last to get to 11 under.
โIt would have been nice. I was actually watching earlier on in the week, the top ten shots they have had at this event and I didn't think anything of it until I saw that ball rolling and I thought โAh, this could be number one!'โ but in the end really happy where it finished. I was fortunate enough to be right next to Laurie (Canter) and he hit six iron rather smooth, so it made it an easy decision for me to lift the seven iron and it ended up being the perfect club.
โSince the first time I have come here I have always enjoyed playing it. I guess the strategy is quite simple, you don't have to overthink the golf course, you just have to play it the way it is designed. I have had my fair share of good luck on this golf course, I don't think it owes me anything.โ
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ared fourth place on nine under after firing rounds of 65 and 68 respectively.
โThe task is still kind of the same out there," said Canter, "just because the way the rough is, there is such a premium on getting your ball into the fairway. I felt like I played better today than I did on Thursday but didn't quite get as much as I did out of today. If you keep doing that around here, the great thing about how it is playing is that you are being rewarded for it, so I just hope I can knock in a few more putts tomorrow.
โI think the front nine you just need to play what is in front of you. It gives up a couple of chances, so really if you can get yourself in a position on the back nine, you have legitimately got some good chances, you saw how George finished today, you can finish with a run of threes and kind of come from nowhere. So hopefully I can get myself in with a shot, you know back nine on Sunday, and see how we go.
โHopefully I am going to have a few opportunities. I think every time you are up there you learn a little bit more, I have had a couple of opportunities in the swing which went alright, so hopefully just do the same thing tomorrow and play what is in front of me and we will see how we go.โ
Pos. |
Player | To Par | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total |
1 |
George Coetzee | -11 | 66 | 70 | 66 | 202 |
T2 |
Julien Guerrier | -10 | 62 | 66 | 75 | 203 |
T2 |
Masahiro Kawamura | -10 | 67 | 71 | 65 | 203 |
T4 |
Laurie Canter | -9 | 64 | 72 | 68 | 204 |
T4 |
Niklas Lemke | -9 | 70 | 69 | 65 | 204 |
T6 |
Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez | -8 | 70 | 68 | 67 | 205 |
T6 |
Liam Johnston | -8 | 61 | 74 | 70 | 205 |
T6 |
Sihwan Kim | -8 | 67 | 66 | 72 | 205 |
T9 |
Lucas Bjerregaard | -7 | 67 | 71 | 68 | 206 |
T9 |
John Catlin | -7 | 72 | 69 | 65 | 206 |
T9 |
Joakim Lagergren | -7 | 69 | 69 | 68 | 206 |
T12 |
Tommy Fleetwood | -6 | 68 | 71 | 68 | 207 |
T12 |
Adrian Meronk | -6 | 69 | 66 | 72 | 207 |
T12 |
Jason Scrivener | -6 | 69 | 68 | 70 | 207 |
T12 |
Brandon Stone | -6 | 67 | 70 | 70 | 207 |
T12 |
Johannes Veerman | -6 | 69 | 68 | 70 | 207 |
T12 |
Scott Vincent | -6 | 70 | 65 | 72 | 207 |
T12 |
Paul Waring | -6 | 67 | 69 | 71 | 207 |
T12 |
Dale Whitnell | -6 | 67 | 74 | 66 | 207 |
T20 |
Marcus Armitage | -5 | 68 | 67 | 73 | 208 |
T20 |
Wil Besseling | -5 | 70 | 70 | 68 | 208 |
T20 |
Alexander Björk | -5 | 70 | 70 | 68 | 208 |
T20 |
Bryce Easton | -5 | 68 | 72 | 68 | 208 |
T20 |
Ben Evans | -5 | 69 | 71 | 68 | 208 |
T20 |
Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño | -5 | 71 | 69 | 68 | 208 |
T20 |
Grant Forrest | -5 | 72 | 67 | 69 | 208 |
T20 |
Wilco Nienaber | -5 | 70 | 65 | 73 | 208 |
T20 |
Garrick Porteous | -5 | 70 | 69 | 69 | 208 |
T20 |
Antoine Rozner | -5 | 68 | 67 | 73 | 208 |
T20 |
Adrien Saddier | -5 | 67 | 68 | 73 | 208 |
T20 |
Martin Simonsen | -5 | 68 | 67 | 73 | 208 |
T20 |
Ben Stow | -5 | 72 | 69 | 67 | 208 |
T33 |
Jorge Campillo | -4 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 209 |
T33 |
Tom Gandy | -4 | 69 | 68 | 72 | 209 |
T33 |
Matthew Jordan | -4 | 66 | 69 | 74 | 209 |
T33 |
Rikard Karlberg | -4 | 72 | 67 | 70 | 209 |
T33 |
Francesco Laporta | -4 | 67 | 70 | 72 | 209 |
T33 |
Alvaro Quiros | -4 | 73 | 68 | 68 | 209 |
T33 |
Max Schmitt | -4 | 70 | 71 | 68 | 209 |
T40 |
Nino Bertasio | -3 | 67 | 69 | 74 | 210 |
T40 |
Richard Bland | -3 | 67 | 70 | 73 | 210 |
T40 |
Jamie Donaldson | -3 | 69 | 67 | 74 | 210 |
T40 |
Ricardo Gouveia | -3 | 69 | 72 | 69 | 210 |
T40 |
David Law | -3 | 69 | 71 | 70 | 210 |
T40 |
Thorbjørn Olesen | -3 | 66 | 71 | 73 | 210 |
T40 |
Tapio Pulkkanen | -3 | 70 | 70 | 70 | 210 |
T40 |
Shubhankar Sharma | -3 | 73 | 67 | 70 | 210 |
T40 |
Toby Tree | -3 | 73 | 67 | 70 | 210 |
T49 |
Alejandro Cañizares | -2 | 70 | 71 | 70 | 211 |
T49 |
Dave Coupland | -2 | 72 | 68 | 71 | 211 |
T49 |
Rhys Enoch | -2 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 211 |
T49 |
Ryan Fox | -2 | 67 | 69 | 75 | 211 |
T49 |
Andres Romero | -2 | 71 | 70 | 70 | 211 |
T49 |
Jordan Smith | -2 | 73 | 67 | 71 | 211 |
T49 |
Julian Suri | -2 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 211 |
T56 |
Steven Brown | -1 | 68 | 70 | 74 | 212 |
T56 |
Jonathan Caldwell | -1 | 65 | 72 | 75 | 212 |
T56 |
Emilio Cuartero Blanco | -1 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 212 |
T56 |
Stephen Gallacher | -1 | 76 | 65 | 71 | 212 |
T56 |
Guido Migliozzi | -1 | 67 | 71 | 74 | 212 |
T56 |
Ricardo Santos | -1 | 69 | 71 | 72 | 212 |
T56 |
Marcel Schneider | -1 | 69 | 72 | 71 | 212 |
T56 |
Jack Senior | -1 | 69 | 71 | 72 | 212 |
T56 |
Lars van Meijel | -1 | 71 | 70 | 71 | 212 |
T65 |
Tomás Bessa | E | 68 | 70 | 75 | 213 |
T65 |
Pablo Larrazabal | E | 69 | 71 | 73 | 213 |
67 |
Sebastian Soderberg | 1 | 66 | 75 | 73 | 214 |
T68 |
David Drysdale | 2 | 70 | 68 | 77 | 215 |
T68 |
Matthew Southgate | 2 | 69 | 72 | 74 | 215 |
70 |
Carlos Pigem | 3 | 72 | 69 | 75 | 216 |
CUT |
Maverick Antcliff | E |
74 |
68 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Ignacio Elvira Mijares | E |
71 |
71 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Anton Karlsson | E |
72 |
70 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Maximilian Kieffer | E |
72 |
70 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Jose-Filipe Lima | E |
69 |
73 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Gavin Moynihan | E |
71 |
71 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Zach Murray | E |
72 |
70 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Robert Rock | E |
70 |
72 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Kalle Samooja | E |
73 |
69 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Ashun Wu | E |
69 |
73 |
142 |
|
CUT |
Kristoffer Broberg | 1 |
70 |
73 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Jens Fahrbring | 1 |
71 |
72 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Jean Baptiste Gonnet | 1 |
74 |
69 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Sebastian Heisele | 1 |
73 |
70 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Calum Hill | 1 |
73 |
70 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Raphael Jacquelin | 1 |
70 |
73 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Vitor Lopes (a) | 1 |
71 |
72 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Joost Luiten | 1 |
71 |
72 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Richard McEvoy | 1 |
72 |
71 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Jake McLeod | 1 |
72 |
71 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Robin Roussel | 1 |
70 |
73 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Darius van Driel | 1 |
77 |
66 |
143 |
|
CUT |
Benjamin Hebert | 2 |
74 |
70 |
144 |
|
CUT |
Daan Huizing | 2 |
73 |
71 |
144 |
|
CUT |
José María Olazábal | 2 |
73 |
71 |
144 |
|
CUT |
Chris Paisley | 2 |
75 |
69 |
144 |
|
CUT |
Thomas Bjørn | 3 |
71 |
74 |
145 |
|
CUT |
Eduardo De la Riva | 3 |
74 |
71 |
145 |
|
CUT |
Marcus Kinhult | 3 |
72 |
73 |
145 |
|
CUT |
Nicolai Von Dellingshausen | 3 |
73 |
72 |
145 |
|
CUT |
Will Enefer | 4 |
74 |
72 |
146 |
|
CUT |
Ewen Ferguson | 4 |
73 |
73 |
146 |
|
CUT |
Oliver Fisher | 4 |
71 |
75 |
146 |
|
CUT |
Ross Fisher | 4 |
77 |
69 |
146 |
|
CUT |
Gregory Havret | 4 |
71 |
75 |
146 |
|
CUT |
Matthieu Pavon | 4 |
69 |
77 |
146 |
|
CUT |
Damien Perrier | 4 |
77 |
69 |
146 |
|
CUT |
Robin Sciot-Siegrist | 4 |
73 |
73 |
146 |
|
CUT |
Cormac Sharvin | 4 |
70 |
76 |
146 |
|
CUT |
Matthew Baldwin | 5 |
74 |
73 |
147 |
|
CUT |
Lorenzo Gagli | 5 |
74 |
73 |
147 |
|
CUT |
Joël Stalter | 5 |
74 |
73 |
147 |
|
CUT |
Mathieu Fenasse (a) | 6 |
77 |
71 |
148 |
|
CUT |
Pedro Figueiredo | 6 |
72 |
76 |
148 |
|
CUT |
Jbe Kruger | 6 |
74 |
74 |
148 |
|
CUT |
Haotong Li | 6 |
74 |
74 |
148 |
|
CUT |
Andrea Pavan | 6 |
74 |
74 |
148 |
|
CUT |
Haydn Porteous | 6 |
72 |
76 |
148 |
|
CUT |
Tomas Santos Silva | 6 |
70 |
78 |
148 |
|
CUT |
Jonathan Thomson | 6 |
74 |
74 |
148 |
|
CUT |
Peter Hanson | 7 |
74 |
75 |
149 |
|
CUT |
David Howell | 7 |
71 |
78 |
149 |
|
CUT |
Jacques Kruyswijk | 7 |
77 |
72 |
149 |
|
CUT |
Pedro Lencart (a) | 7 |
72 |
77 |
149 |
|
CUT |
Wade Ormsby | 7 |
75 |
74 |
149 |
|
CUT |
Joel Sjoholm | 7 |
73 |
76 |
149 |
|
CUT |
Justin Walters | 7 |
73 |
76 |
149 |
|
CUT |
Oliver Wilson | 8 |
76 |
74 |
150 |
|
CUT |
Benjamin Poke | 9 |
74 |
77 |
151 |
|
CUT |
Steve Webster | 13 |
78 |
77 |
155 |
|
CUT |
Miguel Gaspar | 14 |
82 |
74 |
156 |
|
WD |
Alexander Levy | 7 |
78 |
78 |