At the halfway stage of the Irish Open, it’s Joakim Lagergren who leads at 12-under-par, sitting one shot clear of Adrien Saddier at The K Club.
Searching for a first win on the DP World Tour since 2018, the duo are five and four shots clear of a four-way tie for third, which includes tournament favorite Rory McIlroy.
Lagergren’s last victory on the DP World Tour came in the 2018 Rocco Forte Sicilian Open
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Changing his wedges at the start of the week, McIlroy fired rounds of 71 and 66 to sit seven-under-par, alongside Thorbjorn Olesen, Daniel Hillier and Alfredo Garcia-Heredia.
Among the big names in pursuit are LIV Golfer Tyrrell Hatton, who is six-under, while his Legion XIII teammate, Tom McKibbin, is a shot back at five-under-par.
The leaders head out at 1.10pm local time, where those who made the cut will head out in pairs on Saturday.
McIlroy is searching for a first Irish Open victory since 2016
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Check out the full third round tee times below…
Irish Open tee times: round 3
(all times local IST)
- 7.14am: Martin Laird, Thomas Aiken
- 7.23am: Dylan Naidoo, Sean Crocker
- 7.32am: Mikael Lindberg, Jhonattan Vegas
- 7.41am: Matteo Manaserro, Zander Lombard
- 7.50am: Marcus Armitage, Manuel Elvira
- 7.59am: Patrick Reed, Kazuma Kobori
- 8.08am: Andreas Halvorsen, Yuto Katsuragawa
- 8.17am: Nicolai von Dellingshausen, Adrian Otaegui
- 8.31am: Ross Fisher, Robin Williams
- 8.40am: Eugenio Chacarra, Jesper Svensson
- 8.49am: Shaun Norris, Clement Sordet
- 8.58am: Jeong Weon Ko, Alejandro Del Rey
- 9.07am: Erik Van Rooyen, Guido Migliozzi
- 9.16am: Todd Clements, Joost Luiten
- 9.25am: Nacho Elvira, Paul O’Hara
- 9.40am: Daniel Brown, Alex Maguire
- 9.50am: Joel Moscatel, Jack Senior
- 10.00am: Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Elvis Smylie
- 10.10am: Alexander Levy, Thomas Detry
- 10.20am: John Parry, Jeff Winther
- 10.30am: Casey Jarvis, Richard Sterne
- 10.40am: Tom Vaillant, Angel Ayora
- 10.55am: Davis Bryant, Shane Lowry
- 11.05am: Niklas Lemke, Romain Langasque
- 11.15am: Jannik De Bruyn, Marco Penge
- 11.25am: Laurie Canter, Angel Hidalgo
- 11.35am: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Jacob Skov Olesen
- 11.45am: Rafa Cabrera Bello, Tom McKibbin
- 11.55am: Ben Schmidt, David Ravetto
- 12.10pm: Simon Forsstrom, Aaron Cockerill
- 12.20pm: Oliver Lindell, Brandon Wu
- 12.30pm: Bernd Wiesberger, Hamish Brown
- 12.40pm: Tyrrell Hatton, Tapio Pulkkanen
- 12.50pm: Rory McIlroy, Alfredo Garcia-Heredia
- 1.00pm: Daniel Hiller, Thorbjorn Olesen
- 1.10pm: Adrien Saddier, Joakim Lagergren