Goff shot a four-under 67 and Gillberg a 66 on the Lakes Course to lead on 11 under from Zimbabwe\u2019s Benjamin Follett-Smith, South Africa\u2019s Zander Lombard, Italy\u2019s Gregorio de Leo and England\u2019s Matthew Baldwin.<\/p>\n
Exactly 20 players are on seven-under par or better, which leaves a host of DP World Tour winners on the outside looking in.<\/p>\n
They include former US Open runner-up Gregory Bourdy, India\u2019s Shubhankar Sharma and five-time DP World Tour winner Marc Warren of Scotland, who are tied for 35th on four-under with Portmarnock\u2019s Conor Purcell.<\/p>\n
The Dubliner (28) made an eagle and four birdies on the Hills Course but signed for a 69 that leaves him with work to do to regain the card he won via the HotelPlanner Tour standings last year.<\/p>\n
Making the top 60 and ties who make the 72-hole cut is crucial for players who have limited or no status on the second-tier tour.<\/p>\n
Even if they miss out on the top 20 and ties, they can earn one of three categories of HotelPlanner Tour membership depending on where they finish after six rounds.<\/p>\n
While Max Kennedy (24) is exempt on the HotelPlanner Tour after a strong rookie season, he finds himself tied for 79th on one under with John-Ross Galbraith (31) and Cormac Sharvin (33), who have no HotelPlanner Tour status.<\/p>\n
Kennedy started with three birdies in his first three holes on the Hills Course, but three bogeys in his next seven holes saw him sign for a costly 72.<\/p>\n
Galbraith shot a one-over 72 on the Hills, where former DP World Tour player Sharvin, now a PGA trainee at Elm Park, made five birdies in a 69 to move up 29 places on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n
The top 60 and ties are on three-under, which means that tour winners such as Oliver Wilson, Eddie Pepperell and former Ryder Cup player Chris Wood are a shot outside that projected mark with work to do before Monday evening\u2019s cut-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goff shot a four-under 67 and Gillberg a 66 on the Lakes Course to lead on 11 under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-557712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115515363358751400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}