Local favourite Thorbjørn Olesen moved into a three-way share for the lead as the third round of the Made In Denmark moved towards its conclusion at Himmerland Golf & Spa Resort.
The four-time European Tour winner was the highest-ranked Dane in the field and he made seven birdies to get to 11 under with one hole to play and join English duo David Horsey and Chris Paisley at the summit.
Horsey - the 2015 champion - was four under for his ten holes while Paisley had picked up six strokes in 13.
Another English duo - Aaron Rai and Matt Wallace - were then at ten under alongside Americans John Daly and Julian Suri.
Paisley went birdie-eagle birdie from the third to get nine under where he was soon joined by Daly.
The American two-time Major winner plays on the Champions Tour in the United States mainly now but proved he can still mix it with the young guns, birdieing the third, fourth and sixth and holing a slippery one from 12 feet on the eighth to hit the summit.
Overnight leader Steve Webster had seen his lead evaporate before he teed off but an excellent approach to the second soon saw him join the leading group.
Suri was then the next man to get to nine under as he followed up gains on the second and fourth with another on the sixth but that was a shot off the lead after a bit of magic from Paisley.
The 31 year old looked to be in a spot of bother on the seventh but chipped in from the side of the green to become the first man into double figures.
England's Webster took advantage of the par five fourth to join him and Suri made another gain on the eighth to make it a three-way tie but Frenchman Benjamin Hebert and Olesen were charging through the field.
Hebert had bogeyed the second but followed that with five straight birdies while the local hero had gains on the fourth, fifth, seventh, tenth, 12th and 13th.
Webster found sand off the tee to drop a shot on the sixth and fall to nine under with Suri joining him after also finding sand off the tee on the par three tenth.
Wallace was the next man to surge to the summit with gains on the fourth, fifth, tenth, 11th, 13th and 14th and Daly was soon back in a share as he holed from the fringe on the 13th.
Rai won three events in four months on the Challenge Tour from March to leapfrog his way onto the European Tour and he made it a six-way tie at the top with a back nine birdie surge.
After sandwiching four birdies with bogeys on the second and ninth, he made gains on the tenth, 11th, 15th and 16th but was soon a shot off top spot as Paisley birdied the 12th.
He was replaced at ten under by Horsey who added to a birdie on the fourth with back-to-back gains on the eighth and ninth to turn in 33, and Suri rejoined that group with a nice downhill putt on the 12th.
Olesen then sent the huge crowds at the 16th on Himmerland Hill into raptures with a tee-shot to ten feet and an impressive putt to join Paisley at 11 under.
Horsey hit an excellent tee-shot into the tenth to also hit top spot and a superb approach into the 15th from Daly made it a four-way tie.
The 51 year old then saw his first putt up the hill on the 16th come back to his feet for a bogey.
Hebert had bogeyed the tenth to slip back to nine under alongside Webster, 2014 champion Marc Warren, Australian Wade Ormsby and Frenchman Grégory Havret, with 25 players within four shots of the lead.
