Rolex Series

Day three digest: 2020 Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open

Everything you need to know from day three in Scotland.

Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood

Rock stayed on a roll, the weather couldn't bring a duo of Ryder Cup heroes down and Lee Westwood's ball control was other-worldly on Moving Day at The Renaissance Club.

Here is everything you need to know from Saturday at the second Rolex Series event of the 2020 Race to Dubai.

Rock rolls in the rain

Robert Rock has seen it all in his long and illustrious European Tour career so a bit of rain is not going to stop him. The conditions were tough but the Englishman stood up to them, carding a 72 to get to nine under and lead by two. Countrymen Tommy Fleetwood and Ian Poulter, Swede Marcus Kinhult and Australian Wade Ormsby were two shots back, with 21 players within five of the lead. Out of that pack, only Fleetwood, Brandon Stone and Lee Westwood have a Rolex Series win. Could we soon have a new name on the roll of honour?

The rainclouds sent to meet me won't defeat me.............

Fleetwood and Poulter were both raised playing their golf in the British Isles so they know what the autumn can bring. Mother Nature threw everything she had at them on Saturday and the duo ended the day in a share of a second and with a chance to write another chapter of their European Tour legend. "I loved every minute of it. It's golf, isn't it? Somebody's got to enjoy it," Fleetwood said. "Let's face it, the money we play for these days, a day like that doesn't do any harm does it? It's fine, I'd play in it every day if this is what we're doing so no problems." Poulter added: "It tests everything, that you have. You've got all shots from archives you haven't hit for a while. It's miserable but we're playing golf. We're in a lucky position to be here playing this Aberdeen Standard Scottish Open for a lot of money. A lot of guys have put a lot of hard work in to get us here. We're here, we're wet, so we just need to dry off and go again tomorrow." Translation? Bring. It. On.

On a string..........

In the thick stuff, rotten weather, Moving Day at a Rolex Series event - all in a day's work for Westwood. This thing could turn a corner. What a shot.

Poults gets the boot

On days like Saturday, you just want to get anywhere you can to keep dry. Poults took to an unorthodox spot and dived in his car boot. Luckily he didn't get too comfy and went out and fired that 73 to keep him right in the mix.

To cap it all off

Robert Rock

Rock has long been known on the European Tour for being one of very few players not to wear a cap or visor provided by one of his partners. After many years of receiving plaudits for his hair, he is now being hailed for wearing an old style cap, and rightly so. One of the very coolest customers on Tour.

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