Three Scots in leading 20 at London Club

Larrazabal runs up a 9 at par-3

hole in European Open Round 3

FROM THE AOL GOLF NEWS SERVICE
Ryder Cup Dane Soren Hansen moved into contention for the European Open at the London Club in Kent on Saturday - and also witnessed something he has never seen before.
While Hansen defied the blustery conditions to shoot a five under par 67 and set the early clubhouse target on five under par, Spanish playing partner Pablo Larrazabal ran up a sextuple bogey nine on the 225-yard 17th.
It did not come close to Tom Weiskopf's 13 on the short 12th at Augusta during the 1980 Masters, but it was bad enough. Larrazabal, last year's French Open champion, went into the bushes long left, took a penalty drop, then had an air shot playing left-handed, then hit into another bush and had to take another drop.
After chopping his way to the green and eventually holing out he told Hansen to put him down for an eight - then thought about it again walking off the 18th tee and told him to change it to a nine.
"It was a pretty good nine in the end," he said after initially storming off, but then calming down enough to speak.
"But it's still maybe the best week of 2009." He is a huge Barcelona fan and went to school with Andres Iniesta.
For the second day running the 471-yard 18th, with water down the left, was causing even more problems. After a six there in his second round worldNo 3 Sergio Garcia went in the water again and this time ran up a triple bogey seven.
Scot David Drysdale had also taken a seven and Australian Brett Rumford an eight on the par four as the overnight leaders set off knowing the greatest challenge was still to come.
Indian Jeev Milkha Singh and France's Michael Lorenzo-Vera shared top spot on eight under at halfway.
THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72)
207 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 67 69 71, Christian Cevaer (Fra) 67 70 70
210 Rory McIlroy 69 73 68, Chris Wood 69 73 68, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 71 70 69
211 Steve Webster 69 72 70, Gary Orr 71 72 68, Soren Hansen (Den) 69 75 67, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 69 70 72
212 Richie Ramsay 74 70 68, Jamie Donaldson 68 70 74, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 70 68 74
213 Anthony Wall 68 69 76, Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 67 69 77, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 71 74 68, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 71 70 72, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 68 75 70, Chapchai Nirat (Tha) 69 76 68
214 Callum Macaulay 71 72 71
215 Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 69 73 73, David Drysdale 72 71 72, Stephen Dodd 75 70 70, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 71 72 72
216 Carlos Del Moral (Spa) 70 75 71, Anders Hansen (Den) 65 73 78, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 67 74 75, David Horsey 68 75 73, Ben Curtis (USA) 68 73 75, Graeme Storm 68 76 72, Johan Edfors (Swe) 71 74 71, Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 69 71 76, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 67 75 74, Shaun Micheel (USA) 71 71 74, Tano Goya (Arg) 69 72 75, Christopher Doak 68 72 76
217 Roope Kakko (Fin) 69 76 72, Graeme McDowell 70 73 74, Paul Waring 70 75 72, Peter Lawrie 67 71 79, Oliver Fisher 71 71 75, Simon Khan 67 76 74, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 68 74 75, Paul Lawrie 73 71 73, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 67 77 73, Sam Little 66 75 76, Bradley Dredge 72 69 76
218 Peter Hanson (Swe) 66 73 79, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 71 72 75, Colin Montgomerie 70 74 74, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 69 75 74, Branden Grace (Rsa) 69 75 74, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 71 74 73, Mark Foster 73 72 73, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 66 73 79
219 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 71 73 75, Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 70 75 74, Steven O'Hara 71 74 74, Brett Rumford (Aus) 75 70 74, Paul McGinley 70 75 74, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 68 76 75, Lee Westwood 70 75 74, Ross McGowan 70 71 78
220 Anton Haig (Rsa) 68 73 79, Taco Remkes (Ned) 70 73 77, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 70 74 76, Markus Brier (Aut) 72 72 76, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 71 70 79
221 Marcel Siem (Ger) 67 76 78
223 Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 70 74 79