Lee fires 61 for 2-shot lead
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Craig Lee of Scotland fired a 10-under 61 yesterday to surge into a two-shot lead after the third round of the European Masters in Crans-Sur-Sierre, Switzerland.
Lee birdied the first six holes, and had 11 birdies overall, to equal the lowest round in a European Tour event this year. That gave the 348th-ranked Lee a 16-under total of 197.
Three players were tied for second: Thomas Bjorn, the 2011 champion from Denmark, Alejandro Canizares of Spain and Victor Dubuisson of France.
Lee, who has never won a European Tour event, said it was “comfortably my best round ever”.
“It was surreal to see all these great golf shots go down on the same day,” said the Scot, who birdied nine of the first 10 holes and briefly threatened to shoot the first ever 59 on the European circuit.
Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain, the 2010 champion, and Tommy Fleetwood of England both shot 69 to sit five shots behind Lee in a tie for fifth place.
Lee covered the outward nine in 28 strokes, equaling the best this year on the European Tour, by Chinnarat Phadungsil of Thailand at the Avantha Masters in New Delhi.
Only Phadungsil and Tiger Woods, at the Bridgestone Invitational — an event co-sanctioned by the European Tour — shot 61 this year before Lee matched them.
Richard Finch of England made a hole-in-one at the 13th.
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