Daniel Rodrigues and Mikael Lindberg will share a one-stroke lead heading into the final round of the 2026 Turkish Airlines Open.
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Leader in the clubhouse 💪
Daniel Rodrigues finished his third round before the weather delay to sit in the house at -7.
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Rodrigues, from Portugal, signed for a third round 68 shortly before a two-hour stoppage due to lightning in the area, setting the clubhouse lead at seven under par, and then watched as his fellow challengers lost ground upon the resumption.
Sweden’s Lindberg held firm at seven under after his two under 70, with the pair one stroke clear of a group of six players sharing third place at National Golf Club.
Rodrigues birdied four of the first six holes and, after a dropped shot at the eighth, regained his momentum with a superb approach to the tenth. That birdie was followed by another at the 14th which briefly gave him the outright lead until he bogeyed the 16th.
The 23-year-old rookie is chasing his first DP World Tour win, with qualification for the US PGA Championship also at stake for the top three finishers on the Asian Swing which concludes with this event.
The stoppage came with Ewen Ferguson leading on eight under but about to putt for bogey having found a hazard at the 16th. The Scot’s attempt on the resumption slid just by, dropping him to six under.
Gregorio De Leo and Rocco Repetto Taylor also dropped shots late on to fall out of a share of the lead but Lindberg parred every hole on the back nine.
The Swede did his scoring with a run of four straight birdies from the fourth, in between dropped shots at the second and ninth.
Second-round leader De Leo – whose 73 featured no birdies, but three bogeys and a near 100-foot eagle putt at the 14th – and Repetto Taylor were joined at six under by Wenyi Ding, Ugo Coussaud, Kazuma Kobori and Guido Migliozzi.
The final round will get under way at 7:00am local time, with Rodrigues and Lindberg teeing it up in the final group alongside Frenchman Coussaud at 9:10am.
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