Filippo Celli leads by two strokes on the halfway stage of Remaining Stage Qualifying Faculty at INFINITUM after posting a six underneath par spherical of 66 on the Hills course in spherical three.
The Italian, who got here via Second Stage Qualifying final week, was 4 underneath par for the day earlier than an eagle on the seventh – his sixteenth gap – noticed him take the outright lead and attain 16 underneath par for the week, two strokes away from Spaniard Sebastian Garcia and Denmark’s Sebastian Friedrichsen who share second place.
The 23-year-old made the flip in 4 underneath par having began his spherical on the tenth. A birdie on the second gap – his eleventh – was adopted by his solely blemish of the day on the third earlier than the eagle on the seventh noticed him lead for the primary time this week.
Celli is now closing in on securing enjoying privileges on the DP World Tour, which was a objective he set himself at the start of the yr.
“I simply need to be affected person, however it might imply loads to get one of many DP World Tour playing cards,” he stated. “It’s been the objective to complete this yr with a Tour card.
“This week I wished to be in competition on the prime of the leaderboard earlier than the final spherical, so I’m doing an excellent job for the second however the job is just not performed. I do know I’ve to maintain pushing.
“The week could be very lengthy. We’re in the midst of it now with three rounds to go and I simply need to be affected person, be focussed and proceed to play like I’m doing.”
Celli has carded rounds of 68-65-66 in Tarragona and feels his recreation, and specifically his placing, has been the important thing to date this week.
“I performed very strong golf right this moment which was the identical as yesterday,” he added. “Yesterday I shot seven underneath par on this course and right this moment I used to be six underneath so I’m very completely satisfied as a result of I’m enjoying very strong golf.
“On the inexperienced, my placing has been actually good. I’m hoping it’s going to proceed like that as I’ve been rolling it nicely. My irons have additionally been very strong. It will simply imply loads to maintain this up for the remainder of the week.”
Denmark’s Jonathan Gøth-Rasmussen occupies fourth place on 13 underneath par, with Welshman Jack Davidson one shot additional again in fifth.
German Jannik De Bruyn is on 11 underneath par in sixth, and newbie Joshua Berry and Sweden’s Kristoffer Broberg share seventh on ten underneath par.
The main 25 gamers and ties on the finish of six rounds at INFINITUM will safe a card on the DP World Tour.
Spherical 4 will get underneath approach at 9:00am native time with Celli teeing it up alongside Garcia and German Freddy Schott on the Lakes course at 10:00am.
Scores after spherical three:
199 F CELLI (ITA) 68 65 66,
201 S FRIEDRICHSEN (DEN) 67 66 68, S GARCIA (ESP) 67 65 69,
202 J G?TH-RASMUSSEN (DEN) 69 65 68,
203 J DAVIDSON (WAL) 67 66 70,
204 J DE BRUYN (GER) 66 71 67,
205 Ok BROBERG (SWE) 69 66 70, J BERRY (AM) (ENG) 67 68 70, G MASON (ENG) 70 71 64,
206 M SIMONSEN (DEN) 70 66 70, D VAN DRIEL (NED) 70 66 70, G BOYD (ENG) 70 65 71, B FOLLETT-SMITH (ZIM) 69 65 72, F SCHOTT (GER) 68 63 75, N VON DELLINGSHAUSEN (GER) 71 66 69,
207 N GALLETTI (USA) 71 69 67, D FICHARDT (RSA) 69 67 71, D GERMISHUYS (RSA) 72 66 69, J ANDERSEN (DEN) 64 70 73, H HOPEWELL (AUS) 73 65 69, D YOUNG (SCO) 68 69 70, S JONES (NZL) 68 69 70, P MOOLMAN (RSA) 71 66 70, M BESARD (BEL) 70 67 70, A GARCIA-HEREDIA (ESP) 69 68 70, O HUNDEB?LL (DEN) 72 69 66,
208 P FIGUEIREDO (POR) 70 68 70, R PARATORE (ITA) 73 64 71, P BOVARI (ITA) 71 66 71, Ok JOHANNESSEN (NOR) 68 67 73, A WILSON (ENG) 69 70 69, J NICHOLAS (USA) 68 71 69, Ok APHIBARNRAT (THA) 71 70 67, M KIM (KOR) 73 69 66, J CALDWELL (NIR) 74 68 66, J DEAN (ENG) 69 72 67,
209 O LINDELL (FIN) 70 70 69, R ENOCH (WAL) 75 65 69, J CATLIN (USA) 73 65 71, R NEERGAARD-PETERSEN (DEN) 74 64 71, J GUMBERG (USA) 69 69 71, H BROWN (DEN) 74 65 70, H BARRON (AUS) 67 72 70, H MAGNUS (ISL) 66 69 74, M QUIROS (ESP) 71 70 68, J MOSCATEL NACHSHON (ESP) 70 69 70, M COUVRA (FRA) 70 70 69, J KRUYSWIJK (RSA) 70 67 72, J RUTH (ENG) 73 68 68, L RUUSKA (FIN) 76 66 67, S SZIRMAK (CAN) 72 70 67, N REGNER (AUT) 74 68 67, C HOWIE (SCO) 70 72 67, J SENEKAL (RSA) 70 72 67, L VACARISAS (ESP) 72 69 68, N KRISTENSEN (DEN) 72 71 66,
210 M GIBOUDOT (AM) (FRA) 70 69 71, S BROHOLT LIND (DEN) 72 67 71, G BOURDY (FRA) 71 68 71, Q VIDAL (ESP) 70 69 71, F MORY (FRA) 69 68 73, O GILLBERG (SWE) 76 69 65, B VIRTO (ESP) 73 69 68, T SHADBOLT (ENG) 74 72 64, S HUTSBY (ENG) 70 72 68, R KLEU (SUI) 68 73 69, L HARRIES (WAL) 75 68 67, E SMYLIE (AUS) 73 70 67,
211 C MCKINNEY (AUS) 71 69 71, R SCIOT-SIEGRIST (FRA) 74 64 73, P KATICH (GER) 71 70 70, D RAVETTO (FRA) 71 70 70, E FLORES (USA) 70 68 73, G PORTEOUS (ENG) 69 69 73, M HAMMER (GER) 72 68 71, J WARREN (AUS) 78 68 65, A VENTER (RSA) 71 70 70, R MCEVOY (ENG) 71 72 68, P PINEAU (FRA) 78 66 67, O ROBERTS (SCO) 69 73 69, V MEYER (GER) 74 70 67, A ERRAZURIZ (CHI) 73 71 67,
212 W BESSELING (NED) 73 67 72, C MCNEILL (SCO) 68 67 77, T AIKEN (RSA) 73 68 71, C BLOMSTRAND (SWE) 68 70 74, M LINDBERG (SWE) 71 69 72, C FYFE (SCO) 73 70 69, J LAGERGREN (SWE) 70 73 69, G EVANS (ENG) 72 70 70, A AYORA (ESP) 72 72 68, B RUSCH (SUI) 72 72 68, B EASTON (RSA) 73 70 69,
213 T LEWIS (ENG) 71 69 73, W DINGLE (RSA) 70 70 73, T PULKKANEN (FIN) 66 69 78, O FARR (WAL) 69 70 74, M HIRMER (GER) 71 67 75, W NIENABER (RSA) 71 76 66, C MADEY (USA) 74 73 66, S BROWN (ENG) 72 71 70, M POWER (IRL) 76 68 69, A LEVY (FRA) 75 71 67, C PIGEM (ESP) 73 69 71, H TOWNSEND (SWE) 73 71 69,
214 M MADSEN (DEN) 68 71 75, R ROUSSEL (FRA) 70 71 73, A WENNSTAM HOLMQVIST (SWE) 72 69 73, M WARREN (SCO) 69 72 73, M DECOTTIGNIES-LAFON (FRA) 66 74 74, C O’ROURKE (IRL) 72 74 68, A SPENCER (USA) 71 70 73, A QUIROS (ESP) 76 69 69, C GUICHARD (FRA) 69 75 70, O FARRELL (ENG) 69 74 71, Z BAI (CHN) 72 71 71,
215 J RUTHERFORD (ENG) 68 70 77, M SANCHEZ (AUS) 72 67 76, B THORNBERRY (USA) 67 72 76, B SCHMIDT (ENG) 71 70 74, C PURCELL (IRL) 76 72 67, T GOUVEIA (POR) 75 73 67, P NEWCOMB (USA) 72 69 74, J WANG (KOR) 74 71 70, G HAVRET (FRA) 70 72 73, D ERICKSON (USA) 72 70 73, L VAN MEIJEL (NED) 77 68 70,
216 J BROOKS (ENG) 72 67 77, R MCGEE (IRL) 69 74 73, J MARCHESANI (AUS) 75 69 72, A LAUTEE (AUS) 73 71 72, O EDWARDS (WAL) 75 69 72, H RONNEBLAD (SWE) 78 71 67,
217 E HARMELING (USA) 74 69 74, T COLLET (USA) 73 74 70, M OSHRINE (USA) 69 80 68,
218 J ASHFIELD (AM) (WAL) 70 69 79, O FISHER (ENG) 74 68 76, M TOOROP (NED) 74 77 67, A ZEMMER (ITA) 73 73 72,
219 J HAWKSBY (ENG) 72 69 78, M GANDAS (IND) 71 70 78, A DAYDOU (FRA) 78 71 70, G FDEZ-CASTA?O (ESP) 72 71 76, Ok STERBINSKY (USA) 72 74 73, D MCELROY (NIR) 71 76 72, L BROWN (RSA) 78 71 70, P LAUNER BAEK (DEN) 70 73 76,
220 D HOWELL (ENG) 76 73 71, Y SANDHU (IND) 73 74 73, Z JING (CHN) 75 77 68,
223 R LUMSDEN (SCO) 75 70 78,
226 F NILEHN (SWE) 77 75 74,
227 J HANSEN (DEN) 74 75 78,
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OUT B WINDRED (AUS) 70 70 RT, J AXELSEN (DEN) 78 73 WD,
