Saturday, December 04, 2010

AUSTRALIAN OPEN ROUND 3: OGILVY LEADS BY FIVE

FROM THE GOLF.COM WEBSITE
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian star Geoff Ogilvy shot a five-under 67 today to increase his lead to five strokes after the third round of the Australian Open.
Ogilvy, the 2006 U.S. Open champion, had a 16-under 200 total at The Lakes.
Australia's Matt Jones, a stroke behind Ogilvy after two rounds, was second after a 71. Australians Greg Chalmers (66) and Alistair Presnell (67) were tied for third, six shots behind Ogilvy.
Ogilvy's lone professional victory Down Under came in the 2008 Australian PGA.
The seven-time US PGA Tour winner bogeyed the final hole Saturday, a tough par-3.
"I played so well the past few days, so I guess I can't complain about that," Ogilvy said. "I've given myself a little bit of room from the field, which is good."
However, Ogilvy headed to the driving range after his round, upset with himself for pushing a 5-iron right of the 18th green.
"I would not normally rush to the range, but I wanted to get it out of my head straightaway," Ogilvy said. "Even if you shot 59 and you bogeyed the last, you wouldn't be happy. I just wanted to hit a few similar-type shots on the range and get it out of the system."
Greg Norman was 13 strokes back after a 70. He doesn't like The Lakes' new, slow undulating greens.
"They're too slow for me," Norman said. "I'm a fast-green putter and I can't get the right line or the speed with them, so you're always fighting and you've got to hit the ball too hard to really get comfortable.
"They've got so much undulation, they can't get them too much quicker. If you got them any quicker, balls would be rolling into the water and balls rolling off the greens.
The 55-year-old Norman said the greens were not fit for an Australian Open.
"It's a problem if you're going to have a golf championship here," Norman said. "For the members, it's not. For the members, you're going to have to keep them pretty slow for them or they'd never get around here. But obviously someone's feeling good with it."

THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
The Lakes Golf Club, Sydney.
Par 216 (3x72)
Players from Australia unless stated.
200 Geoff Ogilvy 68 65 67
205 Matthew Jones 70 64 71
206 Alistair Presnell 67 72 67, Greg Chalmers 69 71 66
207 John Senden 66 71 70, Matthew Griffin 65 70 72
208 David Oh (USA) 72 69 67, Bronson LaCassie 68 72 68
209 Jordan Sherratt 72 68 69, Paul Sheehan 70 67 72, Peter O'Malley 71 68 70
210 Dudley Hart (USA) 68 69 73, Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 72 69 69, Steve Collins 69 72 69, Adam Stephens 72 71 67, Peter Wilson 73 69 68
211 Michael Campbell (Nzl) 71 71 69, Steven Bowditch 70 69 72, John Huh (Kor) 71 71 69, Peter Senior 68 74 69, Rohan Blizard 68 75 68
212 Ryan McCarthy 70 73 69, Rodney Pampling 68 76 68, Peter Nolan 70 75 67, Andrew Dodt 72 69 71, Tom Lewis (Eng) 70 72 70, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 74 68 70, Nathan Green 71 68 73, Adam Bland 70 71 71, Marc Leishman 68 74 70, Anthony Brown 71 70 71, Leigh Mckechnie 68 72 72
213 Michael Long (Nzl) 71 68 74, Greg Norman 74 69 70, Peter Fowler 72 73 68
214 Adam Scott 75 66 73, Chris Gaunt 73 72 69, Bobby Gates (USA) 71 70 73, Kieran Pratt 75 68 71, David Bransdon 72 71 71, Michael Foster 74 68 72
215 Craig Parry 71 71 73, Andre Stolz 70 74 71, Brent McCullough 72 73 70, Nick O'Hern 75 68 72, Ronald Harvey (Can) 73 72 70, Jamie Arnold 71 72 72
216 Michael Sim 70 72 74, Mahal Pearce (Nzl) 72 72 72, Marcus Fraser 70 71 75, Stuart Appleby 68 77 71
217 Jason Scrivener 70 73 74, Steven Jones 73 72 72
218 Brad McIntosh 71 70 77, Panupol Pittayarat (Tha) 70 72 76, Stephen Leaney 75 69 74, Adam Crawford 72 69 77
219 Peter Cooke 74 71 74
220 Hao Yuan (Chn) 73 71 76, Heath Reed 73 72 75
222 Ben Burge 73 71 78, Ryan Peake 74 71 77, Marcus Cain 73 72 77
223 Jordan Zunic 73 71 79

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