Saturday, January 20, 2007


FORSYTH, LAWRIE,
ORR IN TOP 20
AFTER ROUND 3
IN ABU DHABI
Alastair Forsyth from Paisley is lying joint sixth going into the final round of the Abu Dhabi Championship at Abu Dhabi Golf Club in the United Arab Emirates.
Forsyth had a third-round 69 for a 54-hole tally of 10-under-par 206 - three shots behind leader Padraing Harrington (pictured above) who had a 68 for 203.
Paul Lawrie and Gary Orr are sharing 18th place on eight-under-par 208. Lawrie birdied the first, 10th, 15th and 18th and had one bogey, at the ninth, in a round of 69 (36-33). His inward half was the best of his three rounds so far.
Orr had a 70.
Harrington, winner of last year's European Tour Order of Merit in a "photo-finish," leads by one shot from Sweden's Peter Hanson, Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez and Shiv Kapur from India.
Overnight leader Philip Price from Wales dropped down to fifth place with a 71 for 205 but he is still only two off the pace and if he could reproduce his second-round 65 on Sunday, he might well still win it.

LEADING THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72)
203 Padraig Harrington (Ire) 68 67 68.
204 Peter Hanson (Swe) 70 68 66, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 71 65 68, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 70 66 68.
205 Philip Price (Wal) 69 65 71.
206 Paul Casey (Eng) 71 68 67, Alastair Forsyth (Sco) 71 66 69, Retief Goosen (SAf) 66 72 68, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 68 71 67, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 70 69 67.
Other scores included:
208 Paul Lawrie (Sco) 67 72 69, Gary Orr (Sco) 70 68 70 (jt 18th).
209 Sergio Garcia (Spa) 68 72 69, Colin Montgomery (Sco) 68 71 69 (jt 30th).
214 Stephen Gallacher (Sco) 70 73 71 (jt 59th).

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