After a fascinating moving day in the UAE, europeantour.com took a numerical, and sometimes sideways, look at the key numbers from the third round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.
2 – Shots Craig Lee leads by with18 holes to come
19 – Birdies Lee has made over the first three days in Abu Dhabi
0 – The Scotsman will be going for his maiden European Tour title on Sunday after coming close in losing to Thomas Bjorn in a play-off at the 2013 Omega European Masters
63 – The low round of the day shot by Phil Mickelson –1outside Henrik Stenson’s8 year old course record of62 – matching Danny Willett’s second round efforts for low round of the week
9 – Birdies in Mickelson’s round, plus1 eagle and2 bogeys
41 – Places his third round heroics propelled him up the leaderboard
7 – Nationalities in the top ten following the third round
2 – Shots Rory McIlroy was penalised for an incorrect drop on the second hole, under rule25-1
238 – Birdies on day three
9 – Eagles during Saturday's play including6 on the18th; there were only5 in total last year and with18 holes to come there has already been12 so far in the 2014 event
14 – The hardest hole on the course in the third round, the par4 averaged at4.36 and only conceded2 birdies all day (Peter Hanson and Tom Lewis)
18 – The easiest hole on Saturday, the par5 averaged at4.45 and yielded6 eagles and30 birdies
15 – The amount of shots between first and last place
