Who is leading the 2024 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship after day 3? Leaderboard explored

The third round of the 2024 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship was played on Saturday, November 9 at the Yas Links in the United Arab Emirates. Moving Day saw some notable moves up and down the leaderboard, although not at the very top.

Paul Waring continues to lead the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on 18-under, just one stroke ahead of the second placed Niklas Norgaard. Four other players are within three shots of the leader.

2024 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship Day 3 Leaderboard

The following is the leaderboard for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. Only the top 50 are included:

1 Paul Waring -18
2 Niklas Norgaard -17
T3 Shane Lowry -15
T3 Sebastian Söderberg -15
T3 Thorbjørn Olesen -15
T3 Tommy Fleetwood -15
T7 Thomas Detry -14
T7 Nicolai Højgaard -14
T7 Robert MacIntyre -14
T7 Francesco Laporta -14
T7 Ugo Coussaud -14
T7 Tyrrell Hatton -14
T13 Andy Sullivan -13
T13 Joost Luiten -13
T13 Matthew Jordan -13
T13 Rory McIlroy -13
T13 Johannes Veerman -13
T18 Joaquín Niemann -12
T18 Alex Fitzpatrick -12
T18 Jesper Svensson -12
T18 Min Woo Lee -12
T18 Marcel Siem -12
T18 Richard Mansell -12
T18 Adrien Saddier -12
T18 Alfredo Garcia-Heredia -12
T18 Thriston Lawrence -12
T18 Matt Wallace -12
T28 Antoine Rozner -11
T28 Tom McKibbin -11
T30 Rasmus Højgaard -10
T30 Brandon Stone -10
T30 Ewen Ferguson -10
T30 Keita Nakajima -10
T30 Laurie Canter -10
T35 Adrian Meronk -9
T35 Rikuya Hoshino -9
T35 David Micheluzzi -9
T35 Alejandro Del Rey -9
T35 Jordan Smith -9
T35 Bernd Wiesberger -9
T41 Julien Guerrier -8
T41 Sean Crocker -8
T41 Guido Migliozzi -8
T41 Casey Jarvis -8
T41 Nacho Elvira -8
T41 Romain Langasque -8
T41 Angel Hidalgo -8
T41 Yannik Paul -8
T41 Adrian Otaegui -8
T50 Dan Bradbury -7
T50 Frederic LaCroix -7
T50 Matthew Baldwin -7
T50 Jayden Schaper -7

Paul Waring could not match his performance from the previous day, carding one birdie and two bogeys (+1) in the third round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship. At the end of his performance, the Englishman had this to say (via ASAP Sports):

"Four rounds of golf, you're always going to have an iffy run of holes, iffy round of golf, whatever you want to call it. If beginning of the week you'd given me a one-shot lead going into tomorrow I'd snatch your hand off. I'm trying to remain positive that I'm still in the lead, and looking forward to getting out there tomorrow."

The third round of the 2024 Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship saw another round of 62 from Thomas Detry. Thanks to this performance, the Belgian has climbed 45 places on the leaderboard and will start Sunday in a tie for seventh place.

Another player who made a big improvement was Shane Lowry, who climbed 14 places to T3 thanks to his 66 on Saturday. Rory McIlroy's round of 69 leaves him five shots off the lead.

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Edited by Tushar Bahl