Otto four ahead going into
Italian Open last round

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Less than two months after losing a five-stroke lead on the final day in Madeira, South African Hennie Otto has another great chance to win his first European Tour title on Sunday.
A third round 63 at the Italian Open in Milan brought the 31-year-old, who once snapped his clubs in half and threw them into a river after scoring 80, from two behind to four ahead on 22 under par.
Ryder Cup Swede Robert Karlsson was the man who had led at halfway following a course record 61, but he managed "only" a 69 on the low-scoring Castello di Tolcinasco lay-out and is subsequently tied for second on 18 under with compatriot Christian Nilsson and Spain's Alvaro Velasco.
Otto even fell further behind when Karlsson set off again with an eagle. But bogeys on the next two holes for the seven-time Tour winner were a sign that he was not firing on all cylinders like the day before.
The three Scots qualifiers for the final two rounds all lost ground by shooting par 72 or over. On this shortish course, sub-70 scores are the order of the day.
THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
194 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 65 66 63
198 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 68 61 69, Alvaro Velasco (Spa) 70 64 64, Christian Nilsson (Swe) 67 67 64
199 Phillip Archer 70 64 65, Ross McGowan 64 71 64
200 Oliver Wilson 66 69 65, Gregory Havret (Fra) 70 67 63
201 Anders Hansen (Den) 68 65 68, Estanislao Goya (Arg) 66 67 68, Marcel Siem (Ger) 70 66 65, Marco Soffietti (Ita) 72 66 63
203 Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 69 68 66, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 68 66 69, Mark Foster 65 66 72, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 67 67 69, Paul Broadhurst 69 67 67
204 Marco Ruiz (Par) 64 70 70, Scott Barr (Aus) 70 69 65, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 71 66 67, Paul Waring 70 67 67, Nick Dougherty 71 66 67, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 66 72 66, David Frost (Rsa) 71 68 65, Bradley Dredge 69 65 70
205 Lee Slattery 71 68 66, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 70 65 70, Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 66 73 66, Ben Mason 68 68 69, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 68 70 67, Miles Tunnicliff 69 68 68, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 67 69 69
206 Steve Webster 66 69 71, Federico Colombo (Ita) 69 70 67, Doug McGuigan 68 68 70, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 68 70 68, Thomas Levet (Fra) 69 70 67
207 Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 68 70 69, Matthew Millar (Aus) 68 70 69, David Park 70 70 67, Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 67 70 70, Alexander Noren (Swe) 66 71 70, Marc Warren 65 70 72, Santiago Luna (Spa) 71 68 68, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 67 71 69
208 John Daly (USA) 67 73 68, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 66 71 71, Peter Baker 69 71 68, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 66 73 69, David Lynn 68 67 73
209 Mark Pilkington 74 64 71, Ulrich Van Den Berg (Rsa) 70 68 71, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 71 67 71, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra) 67 72 70, Sam Little 69 66 74, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 69 70 70
210 Christian Cevaer (Fra) 71 69 70, Lorenzo null Gagli (Ita) 71 66 73, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 67 71 72
211 Richard Bland 68 71 72, Gary Clark 71 69 71, Gary Orr 69 69 73, Pedro Linhart (Spa) 70 70 71, Stephen Dodd 72 68 71, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 69 70 72, James Kamte (Rsa) 69 70 72
212 Martin Wiegele (Aut) 71 69 72, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 67 73 72, Alastair Forsyth 74 66 72
213 Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 67 72 74, Ian Garbutt 73 67 73
214 Robert Rock 71 69 74, Renaud Guillard (Fra) 72 67 75
215 Nunzio Lombardi (Ita) 68 71 76
218 Claudio Vigano (Ita) 75 65 78
221 Jan Are Larsen (Nor) 69 70 82