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By MICHAEL GIBBONS

Challenge Tour Press Officer

Scotland’s Challenge Tour professionals suffered a day of frustration an all-round disappointment at the Oceanico Developments Pro-Am Challenge today.
Despite perfect conditions at the Marriot Worsley Park Hotel and Country Club in Manchester, none of the four Scots to survive the halfway cut could capitalize.

George Murray began the day in fifth place, but a two over par 73 saw him fall down the leaderboard to 21st on 205.
It was much the same for Chris Doak, Jack Doherty and Peter Whiteford after respective third rounds of 74, 71 and 72 and saw them all lose ground on leader Stuart Davis of England, who looks out of reach to the four Scots in the field with a total of 15 under 195.

Rookie Murray's 73 included a double bogey 6 at the third.
Chris Doak, pictured above, who had a 64 in the second round, took 10 shots more today with a double-bogey 6 at the third and a quadruple bogey 7 at the short 11th. Doak is on 207 and sharing 37th place.
Peter Whiteford had a 72 which included a double bogey 6 at the eighth. He is sharing 47th place on 209 with West Linton-based Welshman Gareth Wright who had a 72.
Englishman Stuart Davis shot a 64 for 15-under-par 195 to open up a three-stroke advantage over compatriot Ross McGowan (69 for 198) with long time leader Michael Lorenzo-Vera (France) cooling off from 61 and 66 to a third-round 72 for third place on 299.
LEADERBOARD
Par 210 (3 x 70). 6,791yd.
195 Stuart Davis (Eng) 64 67 64.
198 Ross Mcgowan (Eng) 66 63 69.
199 Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 61 66 72.
200 Tobias Dier (Ger) 68 66 66.
201 Julio Zapata (Arg) 68 62 71, Ricardo Santos (Por) 67 65 69, Gabriel Canizares (Spa) 70 65 66.
202 Bernd Wiesberger (Aut) 68 66 68.
203 Tim Dykes (Wal) 64 72 67, Andrew Butterfield (Eng) 67 67 69, Leif Westerberg (Swe) 67 66 70, David Horsey (Eng) (am) 65 68 70.
204 Simon Robinson (Eng) 71 67 66, Jean-Nicolas Billot (Fra) 68 66 70; Eduardo De La Riva (Esp) 71 67 66, David Dixon (Eng) 67 68 69, Anders Schmidt Hansen (Den) 68 68 68; Klas Eriksson (Swe) 66 70 68, Thomas Nielsen (Den) 68 67 69, Robert Coles (Eng) 69 68 67.
205 Alvaro Velasco (Spa) 70 68 67, Phil Worthington (Eng) 69 65 71; Chris Gane (Eng) 68 69 68; Neil Cheetham (Eng) 66 69 70; David Higgins (Ire) 66 69 70; Martin Maritz (SAf) 67 67 71; Neil Walker (Eng) 71 66 68; Jack Doherty (Sco) 69 65 71; George Murray (Sco) 66 66 73,
206 Stuart Cage (Eng) 68 67 71, Van Phillips (Eng) 69 67 70, Ally Mellor (Eng) 69 69 68; Peter Baker (Eng) 72 65 69 ; Michiel Bothma (SAf) 66 70 70, Sam Osborne (Eng) 68 68 70, Zane Scotland (Eng) 69 69 68.
207 Johan Sköld (Swe) 67 70 70; Antti Ahokas (Fin) 71 67 69; Chris Doak (Sco) 69 64 74; Jean Hugo (Rsa) 70 68 69; Michael Jonzon (Swe) 69 68 70; Robert Dinwiddie (Eng) 68 67 72; Pontus Ericsson (Swe) 65 69 73.
208 Paul Dwyer (Eng) 66 69 73, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 71 67 70.
209 Kariem Baraka (Ger) 70 68 71; Miguel Rodriguez (Arg) 72 66 71; Gary Clark (Eng) 66 69 74; Peter Whiteford (Sco) 71 66 72; Raphaël Eyraud (Fra) 70 68 71, David Mackinnon (Eng) 67 70 72; Bertrand Coathalem (Fra) 69 68 72, Gareth Wright (Wal) 67 70 72.
210 James Kamte (Rsa) 71 67 72; Michael Hoey (Nir) 69 69 72; Toni Karjalainen (Fin) 69 69 72, Carlos Del Moral (Esp) 71 67 72.
211 James H Williams (Wal) 65 71 75, Lars Brovold (Nor) 67 71 73.
213 Tiago Cruz (Por) 69 69 75.
214 John Mellor (Eng) 71 67 76.
217 Diego Suazo (Spa) 70 68 79.