Former US Open champion and Ryder Cup star Martin Kaymer is in a tie for second with Dutchman Joost Luiten and Englishman Andrew Johnston.
The German was another player who shot a level par round after carding back-to-back birdies on five and three and 10 and 11 but unfortunately shot bogeys at the seventh, ninth, 12th and 14th.
Kaymer is the world number 56 and is looking to get back inside the world’s top 50 to make sure he qualify’s for the three remaining majors and to stand a better chance of getting in Darren Clarke’s Ryder Cup squad.
Kaymer told the EuropeanTour.com: “I really, really enjoyed the golf course. If there is one course I can play for the rest of my life it would be this one
“It’s so pretty – it was very hard to play the last couple of days – so therefore if you shoot level like I did today, then that was brilliant and makes it even more enjoyable.
“I placed myself on the right side usually to have enough green to work with, which I didn’t do yesterday, so I learnt from that, but it is just tricky to make up-and-downs. But I think I made a few really good one’s today, and then on 18 that was a big putt for tomorrow.”
