Wallace retains lead at 'brutal' European Masters

European Masters - third round leaderboard

-11 M Wallace (Eng); -7 A Garcia-Heredia (Spa); -6 H Norlander (Swe) A Johnston (Eng); -5 E Molinari, C Gugler (Swi), J Scrivener (Aus), A Fitzpatrick (Eng)

Selected others: -2 R Ramsay (Sco); E Pepperell (Eng); +3 C Syme (Sco)

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England's Matt Wallace retained his four-shot European Masters lead in difficult conditions in the third round in Switzerland.

Winds of 35mph blasted the Crans-sur-Sierre club to send scores soaring.

Wallace birdied the last to complete a three-over round of 73 - 11 more than he shot on Friday - which left him on 11 under.

Spain's Alfredo Garcia-Heredia is his nearest challenger, four behind.

"Where do I start?" Wallace told Sky Sports when asked to assess the difficulty of the conditions. "Brutal, hard. Really hard."

England's Andrew 'Beef' Johnston and Swede Henrik Norlander are a further shot back in joint third.

Wallace had been bogey-free in his first two rounds but endured six bogeys on Saturday as the wind hit scoring.

Italy's Edoardo Molinari - who is tied fifth, six shots off the pace - was one of only three players to finish under par on the day.

England's Jordan Smith fell nine shots off the lead following a 77 which included a two-shot penalty for taking an incorrect drop on the par-five 12th.

That turned a bogey six into a triple-bogey eight and Smith also dropped four shots over the closing three holes