Canizares crashes, Kaymer is left in the lead

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Martin Kaymer goes into the final round with a one shot lead at the Alstom Open de France.
Spaniard Alejandro Cañizares had looked set to maintain his overnight advantage, but went into the water twice on the last three holes and saw his three stroke lead disappear.
One of the most dramatic finishing stretches in European golf - which could be the venue for The 2018 Ryder Cup - claimed yet another victim and left defending champion Kaymer in front with a round to go.
First Cañizares, whose father José Maria was a Ryder Cup hero at The Belfry in 1989, pushed his tee shot to Le Golf National's short 16th into the lake.
Then, one ahead after a double bogey there, he failed to make the carry with his approach to the 470yd 18th.
Dropping two more strokes there gave Cañizares a two over par 73 and on eight under he now shares second place with England's Steve Webster, one behind Kaymer.
The German, who last year won the Alstom Open de France and Barclays Scottish Open back-to-back, needed only a level par 71 to take over at the top, while Webster shot 70 on a day when the morning's play was washed out.
Kaymer, delighted with his position, said of Cañizares finishing as he did: "It was obviously a little bit tough to see. You want to play well to get into the lead and I didn't play well, to be honest. I hit a lot of bad iron shots, but I kept it together.
On the possibility of repeating his summer double last year he added: "Next week is one of my favourite courses, so why not?
"This is one of the biggest tournaments we have on The European Tour. To win it once is a big once, but to win it twice would be awesome."
Webster and Cañizares have something in addition to the title to fight for.
There is one Open Championship spot up for grabs. For Webster it would mean a return to St Andrews, where he finished ahead of Tiger Woods to be leading amateur in 1995, and for Cañizares it would be a first Major - after ten failed attempts to qualify for The Open Championship and US Open Championship.
Six players are tied for fourth on seven under and right back in it thanks to Cañizares falling back.
Webster believes a performance similar to his third round 70 could be enough.
He said: “Hopefully more of the same. I'm swinging the club well - just make a few putts and we'll take it from there.”
THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
Par 213 (3x71)
204 Martin Kaymer (Ger) 66 67 71
205 Steve Webster 69 66 70, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 66 66 73
206 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 63 71 72, Francesco Molinari (Ita) 69 69 68, Damien McGrane 68 71 67, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 71 69 66, Luke Donald 70 69 67, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 67 69 70
207 Peter Hanson (Swe) 68 69 70, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 68 69 70
208 Richard Bland 73 68 67, Rory McIlroy 68 71 69, Danny Willett 72 67 69, Kenneth Ferrie 73 70 65, Graeme Storm 70 67 71
209 Adam Scott (Aus) 69 69 71, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 68 70 71, Rhys Davies 71 71 67, Mark Foster 76 63 70
210 Richard Finch 71 72 67, Oliver Wilson 68 71 71, Ian Poulter 72 67 71, Benjamin Hebert (Fra) 72 66 72, Lee Westwood 70 69 71
211 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 70 73 68, Richie Ramsay 71 71 69, Anders Hansen (Den) 71 68 72, Andrew Dodt (Aus) 68 75 68, David Lynn 73 68 70, Romain Wattel (Fra) 74 67 70, Alastair Forsyth 71 68 72, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 74 69 68
212 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 71 71 70, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 72 70 70, Chris Wood 70 71 71, Marcel Siem (Ger) 67 75 70, Scott Strange (Aus) 67 74 71, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 73 70 69, Mark Brown (Nzl) 70 73 69, Victor Dubuisson (Fra) 75 66 71, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 73 67 72, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 72 70 70, Michael Hoey 69 74 69, Bradley Dredge 74 69 69
213 Peter Whiteford 69 73 71, Gareth Maybin 74 69 70, Richard Green (Aus) 73 70 70, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 72 69 72, Peter Lawrie 71 67 75, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 70 69 74
214 Felipe Aguilar (Chi) 69 73 72, Anthony Wall 74 68 72, Hennie Otto (Rsa) 68 73 73, James Kingston (Rsa) 71 72 71, Joost Luiten (Ned) 73 68 73, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 71 72 71, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 70 69 75
215 Mark Tullo (Chi) 76 67 72, Paul Waring 71 71 73, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra) 74 68 73
216 Danny Lee (Nzl) 67 75 74, Stephen Dodd 72 70 74, Paul Lawrie 72 71 73, Phillip Price 72 71 73, Jean Van de Velde (Fra) 66 76 74, Matteo Manassero (Ita) 71 69 76, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 74 69 73, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 69 72 75
217 Brett Rumford (Aus) 71 72 74, Robert Rock 67 71 79
218 Christian Cevaer (Fra) 69 71 78, Seung-yul Noh (Kor) 72 71 75, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 70 73 75, Stephen Gallacher 73 70 75, Michael Campbell (Nzl) 75 68 75, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 75 68 75
220 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 69 73 78, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 70 72 78
221 Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 73 70 78
222 Alexander Noren (Swe) 70 71 81