A spectacular burst of scoring vaulted France's Benjamin Hebert into contention for a first European Tour title in the weather-disrupted Volvo China Open on Saturday.
Hebert began the third round at Topwin Golf and Country Club six shots off the lead, but raced to the turn in just 29 shots to join Chile's Felipe Aguilar and Sweden's Alex Noren at the top of the leaderboard.
Starting on the back nine, Hebert eagled the short par-four 11th and followed that with five birdies in the next seven holes to raise the prospect of the first 59 in European Tour history.
Aguilar, who had held onto the halfway lead when the second round was completed on Saturday morning, had birdied the first to also move to 12 under par, while Noren had picked up shots on the first and third.
First-round leader Hennie Otto, Germany's Marcel Siem and Denmark's Lucas Bjerregaard were a shot further back, Bjerregaard having holed his approach to the third for an eagle two.
Source: PA
