Dubai Desert Classic stage set for great finish

TIGER TOPPLED AS ERNIE ELS
SHOOTS A 65 FOR ONE-SHOT
LEAD FROM HENRIK STENSON

Tiger Woods' glory run of victories may be about to end in the Dubai Desert Classic which ends at the Emirates Golf Club on Sunday.
Woods, leader through the first and second rounds, was knocked off the No 1 position in the third round by South African Ernie Els.
The "Big Easy" surged to the top with a brilliant round of seven-under-par 65 for a 10-under-par tally of 206.
Els, pictured above, had an eagle and five birdies to open up a one-shot lead over Sweden's Henrik Stenson, who had a 68.
Woods needed the strong finish he produced in the second round - two very late birdies - but maybe the world's No 1 golfer is human after all and not a golfing machine. He bogeyed the par-5 18th to finish on one-over-par 73 - his first score over par in something like 30 consecutive rounds.
Tiger will start the final round on seven-under-par 209 alongside Lee Westwood (68) and Graeme McDowell (69).
So Woods has three shots to make up on Els, not to mention Stenson. It should be a great finish on Sunday.
Incidentally, Ian Poulter - the Englishman who was pilloried earlier in the week for a "Tiger and me" article in Golf World magazine, outscored Tiger by three shots with a round of 70.
Andrew Coltart, playing with a card on the European Tour this season, for the second Saturday in a row dropped out the front rank with a par 72 to be joint 19th on 212.
To score par on the European Tour these days, is to lose ground and Coltart's scores have been going "backwards" since Thursday. He needs to break 70 on Sunday to keep his momentum, earn decent money - and earn more sponsors' invitations to play.
European Tour Scoreboard
DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC
Emirates Golf Club, Dubai
THIRD ROUND
Par 216 (3 x 72)
205 Ernie Els (Rsa) 68 72 65.
206 Henrik Stenson (Swe) 68 70 68.
208 Graeme McDowell 67 72 69, Lee Westwood 69 71 68.
209 Tiger Woods (US) 65 71 73, Damien McGrane 68 69 72, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 68 71 70, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 68 72 69, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 67 73 69, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 69 70 70.
210 Paul Broadhurst 70 71 69, Gary Murphy 67 72 71, Ross Fisher 69 70 71, Soren Hansen (Den) 68 72 70, David Frost (Rsa) 72 69 69, Thomas Levet (Fra) 67 71 72.
211 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 73 69 69, Simon Dyson 67 77 67, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 68 73 70, Scott Hend (Aus) 67 72 72, Hennie Otto (Rsa) 69 70 72, Ian Poulter 70 71 70.
212 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 67 76 69, Paul McGinley 71 72 69, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 69 73 70, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 72 69 72, Andrew Coltart 69 71 72, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 67 71 74,
213 Anthony Wall 73 72 68, Alexander Noren (Swe) 71 71 71, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 74 71 68, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 72 71 70, Miles Tunnicliff 69 74 70, Bradley Dredge 73 72 68, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 70 70 73.
214 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 68 75 71, Stephen Gallacher 70 73 71, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 67 74 73, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 69 74 71, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 71 72 71, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 69 75 70, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 71 72 71, Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 67 74 73, Johan Edfors (Swe) 71 70 73.
215 Steve Webster 73 71 71, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 72 72 71, David Howell 68 75 72, Ariel Canete (Arg) 68 75 72, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 72 71 72, Gregory Havret (Fra) 72 71 72, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 69 75 71, Simon Khan 72 73 70
216 Anders Hansen (Den) 70 74 72, Benn Barham 68 74 74, Brendan Jones (Aus) 71 71 74, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 73 71 72, James Kamte (Rsa) 74 71 71, Graeme Storm 69 72 75, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 67 74 75
217 James Kingston (Rsa) 68 74 75, Mark O'Meara (USA) 70 74 73, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 74 70 73, Colin Montgomerie 72 72 73, Jean Van de Velde (Fra) 73 72 72, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 70 74 73
218 Stephen Dodd 73 72 73, Phillip Archer 72 72 74
219 Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 71 74 74
220 Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 68 77 75
223 Garry Houston 68 77 78
Withdrawn - Richard Green (Aus)