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The Portuguese Open could produce the first amateur winner in European Tour history today. After a quite stunning back nine 29 in windy conditions yesterday, 20-year-old Spaniard Pablo Martin has given himself a chance to taste victory before he turns professional this summer. Martin jumped from 23rd place at halfway into a tie for second, only one behind Swede Alexander Noren, as the overnight leaders came to the closing stretch of their third rounds at Oitavos.
"Every time you get to play with that pressure you learn things. I have got another chance now and I feel great - it's great even to be in this place, " said Martin. The last amateur to win a professional event in Europe was Ireland's Dr David Sheehan at the 1962 Jeyes Tournament at Royal Dublin. But that came before the formation of the Tour.
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