Fleetwood has been extremely spectacular over the previous few months, profitable his maiden PGA title on the Tour Championship in August earlier than serving to Europe beat the US within the Ryder Cup in September.
Final month, the world quantity 5 claimed a primary DP World Tour title of the season in India.
“I’m enjoying excellent golf in the intervening time and I’ve discovered myself on this place quite a bit all through the summer season, however I by no means take it with no consideration,” Fleetwood advised the DP World Tour web site.
“That is what you practise for, these are the instances of our lives and I’m having fun with it very a lot.”
Spain’s Nacho Elvira, who posted a 65, is 2 pictures off the lead, whereas Englishman Andy Sullivan and New Zealander Daniel Hillier are tied for fourth on 17 underneath.
Rory McIlroy completed the day six pictures off the tempo following his spherical of 66, which saved him in pole place to win a seventh Race to Dubai title because the season’s finest golfer on the DP World Tour.
The Abu Dhabi Championship is the primary of two DP World Tour end-of-season play-off occasions, with the highest 70 gamers competing this week and the main 50 advancing to subsequent week’s finale in Dubai.
With a complete of 9,000 factors to be shared among the many discipline this week (1,500 to the winner) and 12,000 extra subsequent week (2,000 to the winner), the Harry Vardon Trophy for the season title is up for grabs.
Northern Irishman McIlroy, who is 2 behind Colin Montgomerie’s file of eight years because the tour’s primary, leads the Race to Dubai standings by slightly below 500 factors from Marco Penge, the Englishman who has gained 3 times on tour this 12 months.
Penge sits on 11 underneath for this week’s event after his 70 on Saturday, ending with a dangerous double bogey after discovering water on the par-five 18th.
Fleetwood is nearly 2,800 factors adrift of McIlroy within the Race to Dubai standings so to have any likelihood of a extremely unlikely total victory would wish to win each play-off occasions and hope his Ryder Cup team-mate falters.
