Who is leading the 2024 Irish Open after Round 3? Day 3 leaderboard explored

The third round of the 2024 Irish Open is now in the books. The so-called 'Moving Day' saw some interesting moves on the leaderboard, including local idol Rory McIlroy, climbing to the top spot.

McIlroy leads the Irish Open at Northern Ireland's Royal County Down Golf Club at 6 under. Five players are three shots or less behind him.

2024 Irish Open Round 3 Leaderboard

Here is the leaderboard for the 2024 Irish Open:

1 Rory McIlroy -6
2 Matteo Manassero -5
T3 Robert MacIntyre -3
T3 Jordan Smith -3
T3 Rasmus Højgaard -3
T3 Erik van Rooyen -3
T7 Adrian Otaegui -2
T7 Aaron Cockerill -2
T7 Calum Hill -2
T7 Laurie Canter -2
T11 Filippo Celli -1
T11 Daniel Brown -1
T13 Tom McKibbin E
T13 Aaron Rai E
T13 Rikuya Hoshino E
T13 Matthew Baldwin E
T13 Freddy Schott E
T13 Sami Välimäki E
T13 Jaco Prinsloo E
T13 Alejandro Del Rey E
T21 Casey Jarvis +1
T21 Séamus Power +1
T21 John Catlin +1
T21 Nacho Elvira +1
T21 Joost Luiten +1
T21 Alex Fitzpatrick +1
T21 Adrien Saddier +1
T21 Grant Forrest +1
T21 James Morrison +1
T30 Andrea Pavan +2
T30 Thorbjørn Olesen +2
T30 Bernd Wiesberger +2
T30 Shane Lowry +2
T30 Jannik De Bruyn +2
T30 Ewen Ferguson +2
T36 Renato Paratore +3
T36 Darius Van Driel +3
T36 Maximilian Kieffer +3
T36 Marco Penge +3
T36 Richard Mansell +3
T36 Jimmy Walker +3
T36 Marcus Armitage +3
T36 Shubhankar Sharma +3
T36 Jens Dantorp +3
T45 Will Enefer +4
T45 Connor Syme +4
T47 Alexander Knappe +5
T47 Brandon Stone +5
T47 Thriston Lawrence +5
T47 Thomas Aiken +5
T47 Niklas Norgaard +5
T47 Frederic LaCroix +5
T53 Luke Donald +6
T53 Paul Waring +6
T53 Santiago Tarrio +6
T53 Antoine Rozner +6
T53 Oliver Wilson +6
T58 Jason Scrivener +7
T58 Søren Kjeldsen +7
T58 Joe Dean +7
T61 Jeong weon Ko +8
T61 David Law +8
T61 Julien Guerrier +8
T64 Gavin Green +9
T64 Todd Clements +9
T66 Sam Jones +10
T66 Seán Keeling (a) +10
68 Ashun Wu +13

Rory McIlroy's third-round performance at the Irish Open included an eagle, two birdies and two bogeys for a 2-under total. The Northern Irishman currently sits in first place, one shot ahead of yesterday's leader Matteo Manassero.

The Italian played a round of three birdies and four bogeys, preventing him from holding onto first place. Manassero and McIlroy will play the fourth and final round together in the final group.

Robert MacIntyre, Jordan Smith and Adrian Otaegui are three other players on two under for the day. The Scot and Englishman climbed 16 places to tie for third, while the Spaniard moved up 26 places to tie for seventh.

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Edited by Pritha Ghosh