Who is leading the 2024 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship after Round 3? Leaderboard explored

The third round of the 2024 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship was played on Saturday at the three iconic venues of St. Andrews Old Course, Carnoustie and Kingsbarns. During the round, Tyrrell Hatton equaled the course record at St. Andrews and moved to the top of the leaderboard.

Hatton leads the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at 22 under. The Englishman also leads the team competition at 38 under with his father, Jeff Hatton, as the amateur of the team.

2024 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship Round 3 Leaderboard

Here is the leaderboard after the third round of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship:

1 Tyrrell Hatton -22
2 Nicolas Colsaerts -21
3 Tom Vaillant -19
4 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen -17
T5 Tommy Fleetwood -16
T5 James Ashfield -16
T7 David Puig -15
T7 Matthew Jordan -15
T7 Haotong Li -15
T7 Jon Rahm -15
T7 Peter Uihlein -15
T7 Darren Fichardt -15
T13 Jens Dantorp -14
T13 Daniel Hillier -14
T15 Thorbjørn Olesen -13
T15 Jordan Smith -13
T15 Branden Grace -13
T15 Adrien Saddier -13
T15 Matthew Southgate -13
T15 Joost Luiten -13
T15 Robin Williams -13
T22 Robert MacIntyre -12
T22 Tom McKibbin -12
T22 Daniel Brown -12
T22 Brooks Koepka -12
T22 Jorge Campillo -12
T22 David Micheluzzi -12
T22 Cameron John -12
T29 Marcus Armitage -11
T29 Patrick Reed -11
T29 Lorenzo Scalise -11
T29 Sam Jones -11
T29 Matt Wallace -11
T29 Dean Burmester -11
T29 Padraig Harrington -11
T29 Scott Jamieson -11
T29 Yannik Paul -11
T29 Matthis Besard -11
T29 Connor Syme -11
T40 Alex Noren -10
T40 Louis Albertse -10
T40 Matthieu Pavon -10
T40 Wilco Nienaber -10
T40 Justin Harding -10
T40 Rory McIlroy- 10
T40 Shane Lowry -10
T40 Jesper Svensson -10
T40 Grant Forrest -10
T40 Sean Crocker -10
T40 Todd Clements -10
T40 Fabrizio Zanotti -10
T40 Andrew Putnam -10
T40 Matthew Baldwin -10
T40 John Parry -10
T40 Richard Mansell -10
T40 Francesco Laporta -10
T40 David Law -10
T58 Shubhankar Sharma -9
T58 Niklas Norgaard -9
T58 Callum Shinkwin -9
T58 Kiradech Aphibarnrat -9
T58 Robert Rock -9
T58 Kazuma Kobori -9
T58 Sebastian Söderberg -9
T58 James Nicholas -9
T58 Thriston Lawrence -9
T58 Sung Kang -9
T58 Alex Fitzpatrick -9
T58 Maximilian Rottluff -9
T58 Adrian Otaegui -9
T58 Yurav Premlall -9.

Tyrrell Hatton had an extraordinary bogey-free round with an eagle and nine birdies for an 11-under 61. With this performance, he equaled the Old Course at St. Andrews record set by Ross Fisher in 2017 and stood alone at the top of the leaderboard.

Speaking to the DP World Tour News Service after his record round at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, Hatton said:

"That's actually my lowest round on Tour as well. Felt like I was trying harder than I normally would for a putt on the last. Good putt and thankfully it went in. It was a cool day."

Hatton's was not the only 61 of the day at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen carded 12 birdies and one bogey at Kingsbarns Golf Links to move up 45 places to T4 at 17 under.

Last day's leader and current runner-up Nicolas Colsaerts also put in a spectacular performance on Saturday, October 5, when he carded an albatross on the 16th hole at Kingsbarns Golf Links.

The Hattons lead the team competition on 38 under, three shots clear of the team of Thorbjorn Olesen and Irish businessman Dermot Desmond.

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