Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship: Moving Day in Numbers

After a fascinating moving day in the UAE, europeantour.com took a numerical, and sometimes sideways, look at the key numbers from the third round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.

<b>2 </b>– Shots Craig Lee leads by with<b>18 </b>holes to come

<b>19 </b>– Birdies Lee has made over the first three days in Abu Dhabi

<b>0 </b>– The Scotsman will be going for his maiden European Tour title on Sunday after coming close in losing to Thomas Bjorn in a play-off at the 2013 Omega European Masters

<b>63 </b>– The low round of the day shot by Phil Mickelson –<b>1</b>outside Henrik Stenson’s<b>8 </b>year old course record of<b>62 </b>– matching Danny Willett’s second round efforts for low round of the week

<b>9 – </b>Birdies in Mickelson’s round, plus<b>1 </b>eagle and<b>2 </b>bogeys

<b>41 </b>– Places his third round heroics propelled him up the leaderboard

<b>7 </b>– Nationalities in the top ten following the third round

<b>2 </b>– Shots Rory McIlroy was penalised for an incorrect drop on the second hole, under rule<b>25</b>-<b>1</b>

<b>238 </b>– Birdies on day three

<b>9 </b>– Eagles during Saturday's play including<b>6 </b>on the<b>18</b>th; there were only<b>5 </b>in total last year and with<b>18 </b>holes to come there has already been<b>12 </b>so far in the 2014 event

<b>14 </b>– The hardest hole on the course in the third round, the par<b>4 </b>averaged at<b>4.36 </b>and only conceded<b>2 </b>birdies all day (Peter Hanson and Tom Lewis)

<b>18 </b>– The easiest hole on Saturday, the par<b>5 </b>averaged at<b>4.45 </b>and yielded<b>6 </b>eagles and<b>30 </b>birdies

<b>15 </b>– The amount of shots between first and last place