Alstom Open De France 2015: Leaderboard Scores and Highlights from Saturday

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Published: July 4, 2015

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Jaco van Zyl's outstanding round of 64 saw him shoot into the lead on Saturday at the 2015 Alstom Open de France.

The round was the best of the week, and leaves the South African two shots clear of Maximillian Kieffer, who scored 65.

Thongchai Jaidee's excellent round of 65 saw him climb 24 places on the leaderboard, though thanks to Van Zyl's performance the Thai still found himself six shots off the lead.



For the full tournament leaderboard check out the European Tour’s official website. 

 

Van Zyl Shoots Round of the Week Van Zyl began the day tied for fourth place on four-under, but enjoyed an exceptional round as he leaped to the top of the scoreboard.

The 36-year-old shot a strong round on Friday, only for it to end in disaster as he bogeyed the 17th before hitting a bridge on the difficult 18th resulted in a double bogey.

Van Zyl showed no residual nerves after Day 2's unfortunate end though, hitting three birdies in the front-nine at the third, fifth and ninth.

The South African enjoyed an even better back-nine as he hit birdies on the 10th, 11th, 16th and 18th, with nary a bogey in sight.

The European's Tour's official Twitter feed noted Van Zyl's excellent swing as a catalyst for his success:



Per EuropeanTour.com, Van Zyl was delighted with the day's golf. He said:

Today was really a phenomenal round. I felt really comfortable tee to green and made a couple of nice putts.

I hit it really good; I think I missed one fairway, hit 18 out of 18 greens, and made a couple of putts when I needed to.


...

I've been in this position a couple of times; hopefully tomorrow we can pull through. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.


Kieffer's round was almost as good as Van Zyl's, and thanks to his total of eight-under, the German is set to b...
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