Rahm two shots back after Spanish Open third round

Spanish Open third-round leaderboard

-13 A Hidalgo (Spa); -11 J Rahm (Spa); -10 D Puig (Spa); -8 P Reed (US), J Dean (Eng)

Selected others: -5 T Fleetwood (Eng), T Hatton (Eng); -4 R Fisher (Eng), R Ramsay (Sco), S Lowry (Ire)

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Spain's Jon Rahm moved to wrong 2 shots of nan lead astatine nan Spanish Open aft carding a six-under-par 65 successful Saturday's 3rd round.

The three-time erstwhile champion pulled backmost 3 shots connected leader Angel Hidalgo, whose 68 near him connected 13 nether for nan tournament.

Rahm will subordinate chap Spaniard Hidalgo successful Sunday's last pairing astatine Club de Campo Villa de Madrid.

David Puig, besides of Spain, is simply a changeable backmost connected 11 nether pursuing his 65, while England's world number 184 Joe Dean and United States Ryder Cup subordinate Patrick Reed are connected 8 under.

Rahm was only allowed to participate nan tourney aft lodging a precocious entreaty against fines imposed by nan DP World Tour for his information successful conflicting Saudi Arabian-funded LIV Golf tournaments.

The 29-year-old two-time awesome champion needs to play successful 4 tournaments a play to clasp his rank of nan European-based circuit, which is basal to beryllium considered for nan 2025 Ryder Cup team.

He has already played astatine nan Paris Olympics, which counts arsenic a DP World Tour event, and has entered adjacent month's Dunhill Links Championship successful Scotland and nan Andalucia Masters astatine Sotogrande successful Spain.

The DP World Tour play ends successful November.