SCOTS NOT CONTENDING ON CHALLENGE TOUR IN COLOMBIA

SCOTSWATCH: Craig Lee, Jack Doherty and Gavin Dear made the halfway cut but failed to improve their positions significiantly in the third round of the European Challenge Tour event in Colombia.
Lee had a creditable 69 for 210 but is seven shots off the pace.
Doherty had a 71 and is on 212
Dear had a great second-round 68 under pressure to squeeze into the weekend action but then slumped again to a 77 in the third round and is last of the qualifiers with 18 holes to go.

By STEVE TODD
European Challenge Tour Press Officer
American Will Wilcox takes a two shot lead in the final round of the Abierto International Copa Antioquia after a third round 72 in Colombia.
Wilcox was required to play 25 holes after the weather disruptions of Friday, first finishing his second round by picking up an eagle and birdie in the seven holes he had outstanding to pull three clear of the field.
After a quick turnaround, the American was back out on the course at Club Campestre but found himself falling back into the pack with three dropped shots in the first ten holes before a second eagle of the day, this time on the 12th, put him back into the driving seat. Six pars to finish left the American on ten under par 203.
“I missed a lot of short putts this afternoon. I mean, I really could have this thing in my grip a lot better if I had made some putts. Anyway, I couldn’t be any happier to still have a two-shot lead after the way I played”, admitted the 24 year old leader from Birmingham, Alabama.
Wilcox said the key hole was the eagle on the par five 12th which he felt turned his day around.
“I had a really good drive, it was kind of into the wind and I went after it,” he said. “I swung very hard, trying to play a straight ball and I connected with it. That gave me a lot of confidence and a chance to hit 9-iron into the green, instead of trying to finesse an eight. I hit it to about twenty-five feet and made it. That changed everything in my head.”
He leads Germany’s Nicolas Meitinger and Frenchman Charles Russo, the European pair tied on eight under par 205 after rounds of 67 and 68 respectively, and Canadian Brad Fritsch, who birdied two of the last three holes for a 70.
England’s Matthew Baldwin moved up through the field with a four under par 67 to move to seven under par, continuing his fine form of recent weeks which helped him to a fourth place finish on the Challenge Tour’s first visit to India at the start of the year.
He was joined on the seven under par mark by Argentine amateur Emiliano Grillo, who posted a 69, and Colombian Jose Manuel Garrido, who signed for a 72.
Frenchman Anthony Snobeck made the biggest move of the third round after a six under par 65 moved him up 32 places to a share of the seventh.
With a prize fund of $250,000 the event co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour and the Tour de las Americas, the second event of the 2011 season, offers an early opportunity to make gains on the Challenge Tour Rankings.
THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
Par 213 (3x71)
203 W Wilcox (USA) 66 65 72
205 C Russo (Fra) 71 66 68, N Meitinger (Ger) 72 66 67, B Fritsch (Can) 69 66 70
206 J Garrido (Col) 66 68 72, E Grillo (am) (Arg) 69 68 69, M Baldwin (Eng) 71 68 67
207 J Estevez (Arg) 68 69 70, A Snobeck (Fra) 71 71 65, G Houston (Wal) 69 67 71
208 D Vanegas (Col) 68 68 72, M Lundberg (Swe) 71 66 71, D Barbetti (Arg) 74 64 70, R Blaum (USA) 69 73 66, R Gomez (Arg) 65 69 74, S Rivas (Col) 67 71 70, P Del Grosso (Arg) 66 72 70209 E Dominguez (Arg) 71 69 69, S Fernandez (Arg) 72 69 68, P Gustafsson (Swe) 67 69 73, V Covello (USA) 69 72 68, A Butterfield (Eng) 69 71 69,
210 M Merizalde (Col) 68 70 72, W Besseling (Ned) 70 66 74, C Lee (Sco) 70 71 69,
211 A Pinedo (Col) 66 70 75, W Murillo (Ven) 69 72 70, H Cespedes (Par) 70 70 71, C Serna (Col) 74 68 69, J Lima (Por) 73 69 69,
212 A Canete (Arg) 74 69 69, J Doherty (Sco) 68 73 71, P Archer (Eng) 70 73 69, J Campillo (Esp) 73 70 69, C Monasterio (Arg) 71 71 70, M Kieffer (Ger) 73 67 72, D Vancsik (Arg) 71 67 74, B Evans (Eng) 69 72 71,
213 A Bernadet (Fra) 68 74 71, A Rodriguez (Arg) 71 71 71, M Garcia (Arg) 70 71 72, M Relancio (Arg) 72 71 70, A Tadini (Ita) 68 72 73,
214 L Dodda (Arg) 68 73 73, D Vanegas (Col) 71 71 72, N Lemke (Swe) 72 70 72, J Osmar (Col) 72 69 73, A Adrian (Ven) 71 72 71, N Kearney (Irl) 68 74 72, J Palmer (Eng) 72 71 71, J Vega (am) (Col) 71 70 73,
215 A Arizabaleta (Col) 67 70 78, M Rodriguez (Arg) 72 70 73, C Carranza (Arg) 72 69 74,
216 M Delpodio (Ita) 70 72 74, E Dubois (Fra) 72 69 75,
217 G Jackson (Eng) 70 72 75, M Ford (Eng) 76 67 74, H Leon (Chi) 74 69 74,
218 J Habig (USA) 74 68 76, P Salem (Per) 73 69 76, S Salem (Per) 71 72 75, S Saavedra (Arg) 71 71 76
220 G Dear (Sco) 75 68 77