Title chance for Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren in Barbados

SCOTLAND LYING THIRD
(only two shots off the lead)
WITH ONE ROUND TO
GO IN WORLD CUP

Scotland have a definite chance of winning the World Cup of Golf for the first time.
With one round to go at Sandy Lane Resort, Barbados, Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren, pictured right, are in third place on 199 - two shots behind Sweden's Henrik Stenson and Carl Petterson and one shot adrift of Argentina's Angel Cabrera and Andres Romero.
Colin and Monty added a 65 to their total on Saturday, compared with a 63 by Sweden and a 67 by Argentina.
Montgomerie made life easy for Warren with all six of their birdies in a round of 65.
Scotland got off to a slow start with Warren needing to hole from three feet for par on the first after Montgomerie three-putted from long range. After seven holes they trailed overnight leaders Argentina by five shots.
But Montgomerie turned on the style with four birdies in a row on the back nine and could also have birdied the last only to leave his 15ft attempt just short.
"It was important to stay in touch with the Argentinians as we were playing alongside them," Montgomerie said.
"We felt four-balls was their strength because they hit the ball a country mile.
MONTY'S BIG DRIVE
"It was difficult for me to keep up but I got it for yards past them both on the 17th and I'm going to tell my grandkids about that."
Scotland are the only home nation never to have won the World Cup since its inception in 1953, and Montgomerie admitted: "It would be great for us to win -and we have a chance.
"We have to beat the Swedes by three over the last round, which is a tall order because they are a very strong team, but foursomes is very, very difficult and you need to have both players playing at the top of their form to compete.
"We played well in foursomes on Friday with a 67 so let's hope we can do the same."
Wales' Bradley Dredge and Stephen Dodd, the surprise winners over the rain-shortened tournament on the Algarve last year, had the day's bes score of 62 to come back into picture on 202 - sharing fourth place with United States, Italy, Mexico, Spain, South Africa and Germany.
HOW THEY STAND
197 Sweden 64 70 63.
198 Argentina 64 67 67.
199 Scotland 67 67 65.
202 Wales 65 75 62, United States 66 73 63, Italy 68 70 64, Mexico 69 68 65, Spain 69 66 67, South Africa 64 71 67, Germany 65 69 68.
204 Australia 68 72 64.
206 Ireland 67 73 66, England 66 70 70.
Other third-round totals:
207 Switzerland, Colombia, Canada.
208 France, South Korea.
210 Trinidad & Tobago.
211 Singapore, Denmark.
215 Jamaica, Japan.
216 Barbados.

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