Wallace retains lead at 'brutal' European Masters

European Masters - 3rd information leaderboard

-11 M Wallace (Eng); -7 A Garcia-Heredia (Spa); -6 H Norlander (Swe) A Johnston (Eng); -5 E Molinari, C Gugler (Swi), J Scrivener (Aus), A Fitzpatrick (Eng)

Selected others: -2 R Ramsay (Sco); E Pepperell (Eng); +3 C Syme (Sco)

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England's Matt Wallace retained his four-shot European Masters lead successful difficult conditions successful nan 3rd information successful Switzerland.

Winds of 35mph blasted nan Crans-sur-Sierre nine to nonstop scores soaring.

Wallace birdied nan past to complete a three-over information of 73 - 11 much than he changeable connected Friday - which near him connected 11 under.

Spain's Alfredo Garcia-Heredia is his nearest challenger, 4 behind.

"Where do I start?" Wallace told Sky Sports erstwhile asked to measure nan trouble of nan conditions. "Brutal, hard. Really hard."

England's Andrew 'Beef' Johnston and Swede Henrik Norlander are a further changeable backmost successful associated third.

Wallace had been bogey-free successful his first 2 rounds but endured six bogeys connected Saturday arsenic nan upwind deed scoring.

Italy's Edoardo Molinari - who is tied fifth, six shots disconnected nan gait - was 1 of only 3 players to decorativeness nether par connected nan day.

England's Jordan Smith fell 9 shots disconnected nan lead pursuing a 77 which included a two-shot punishment for taking an incorrect driblet connected nan par-five 12th.

That turned a bogey six into a triple-bogey 8 and Smith besides dropped 4 shots complete nan closing 3 holes