Saturday, May 23, 2009

BMW PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

Casey leads by three as he

chases Wentworth double

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Paul Casey is on course to become the first golfer in a decade to complete a double in top European tournaments at Wentworth.
Not since Colin Montgomerie in 1999 has any player won both the BMW PGA Championship and the World Match-play title at the Surrey venue.
But Casey, pictured right, who won the Match-play in 2006 with a record 10 and eight winning margin over Shaun Micheel, goes into Sunday's final round of this year's BMW PGA Championship with a three-shot lead over Dane Soren Kjeldsen.
Montgomerie, earlier in the day, looked likely to be one of the players who would chase him all the way but he faded badly at the end of his third-round 69, posting three bogeys in four holes on the back nine.
Casey, who has already won on the European Tour in Abu Dhabi earlier this year and recently recorded his first US PGA Tour victory in the Houston Open, will move to third in the world behind Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson should he win the £750,000 first prize.
Kjeldsen is also a man in top form, having recently won the Andalusian Open and climbed to 45 in the world rankings.
He completed a third-round 68 with a magnificent birdie at the 18th, playing an awkward bunker shot and then sinking a 25-foot birdie putt.
A shot further back from the Dane is young Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, who if he should triumph at the age of 20 years and 20 days would be the youngest ever PGA Championship title winner.
McIlroy shot a seven-under-par 65 to move to nine under and afterwards revealed he had curbed his natural aggression to work his way into contention.
Should McIlroy succeed in adding to his debut tour victory at the Dubai Desert Classic in January he will move into the world's top 10 when the latest world rankings are published on Monday morning.
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