KENNY PERRY WINS HIS THIRD OVER-50S MAJOR IN A ROW

MONTY FINISHES TIED 16TH IN USA

SENIORS TOUR MAJOR EVENT

Hopes that Colin Montgomerie would mount a last-day title challenge in the first major of the US Champions Tour season - the Regions Traditions at Shoal Creek, Alabama - never materialised.
The big Scot slid out of contention with a closing round of 73 after earlier efforts of 72, 72 and 69.
He finished T16 on 286.
The winner - of his third senior major in a row - was American Kenny Perry with scores of 72, 68, 69 and 72 for 281.
Former Open champion Mark Calcavecchia finished second, a shot behind the winner, with scores of 69, 69, 74 and 70 for 282.
Sandy Lyle saved his best round to the last day - a 69 for T34 on 293. His earlier scores had not been so hot: 75, 71 and 78.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
players from USA unless stated
281 Kenny Perry 72 68 69 72
282 Mark Calcavecchia 69 69 74 70
283 Tom Lehman 73 71 72 67, Jay Haas 69 70 73 71, Olin Browne 69 71 72 71

SELECTED TOTALS
284 Tom Watson 72 72 73 67 (T6)
285 Bernhard Langer (Germany) 74 70 70 71 (T9)
286 Colin Montgomery (Scotland) 72 72 69 73 (T16).
289 Roger Chapman (England) 72  77 72 68 (T23)
293 Sandy Lyle (Scotland) 75 71 78 69 (T35)

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VETERAN SPANIARD BOOSTS RYDER CUP SELECTION PROSPECTS

Spanish hero Miguel Angel Jimenez with his trophies. Picture by courtesy of Getty Images(c)

JIMENEZ WINS THREE-MAN PLAY-OFF

FOR FIRST SPANISH OPEN TITLE 
FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Miguel Angel Jiménez, the "Malaga Mechanic," finally won the Open de España at the 27th attempt to extend his own record as the oldest winner in European Tour history.
Jiménez let slip an early two-shot lead before defeating Australian left-hander Richard Green and Belgium's Tour School graduate rookie Thomas Pieters on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off after the trio had finished tied on four under par following an attritional final round at PGA Catalunya Resort.
The players returned to the 18th for the play-off and all three failed to find the fairway or green in regulation, but Jiménez almost holed his chip from the back of the green for a birdie and a par proved good enough.
Green failed to get up and down from over the green and overnight leader Pieters, whose approach had come up short, saw his par putt catch the lip of the hole and stay out.
Jiménez has now won 21 European Tour titles, 14 of them coming since he turned 40, and Sunday's hard-fought victory continues a remarkable season.
The 50 year old was in contention to become the oldest Major Champion in history before finishing fourth in the Masters last month, and seven days later won on his Champions Tour debut.
He has since got married, and now become the first player to win twice on The Race to Dubai in 2014.
"There's no words to describe what it means to me, you need to be into my skin but I'm not going to let you!" Jiménez said. "It's amazing. It's my 21st victory on The European Tour and 27 times I played the Spanish Open. I have been close a couple of times. Today it was very tough out there but I got it in the end.
"All the victories are special, all are unique, some of them give you more money, some less, but all of them are important. You play to win and when you make it you have to appreciate it.
"I don't know if I felt nerves, but you do feel tension, you feel the pressure. For instance on hole 17, when I saw the approach roll down the slope, those things cut my mind and take away the freedom from my hands. I don't know if that counts as nerves, but as tension, yes."
Asked the secret of his longevity, Jiménez added: "There is no secret. Good food, good wine, good cigars and some exercise!"
Jiménez’s win leaves him just outside the automatic Ryder Cup qualifying places and boosts his ambition of becoming Europe's oldest ever player at Gleneagles in September; Ted Ray was 50 years, two months and five days old at the inaugural contest in 1927.
"I would love to make The Ryder Cup team, I would break all the records at 50," added Jiménez, whose last appearance was at The Celtic Manor Resort in 2010. 
"I hope I can make the team and defend the European colours in Scotland."
Pieters had held a two-shot lead going into the final round but the 22 year old suffered a nightmare start with three bogeys in succession from the second, allowing Jiménez to move two clear of the field with three birdies and one bogey in the first six holes.
However, Jimenez then dropped shots on the ninth and tenth and had to chip in on the 11th to avoid an unwanted hat-trick, which left Green in the lead thanks to an outward nine of 34.
Green's chances looked to have disappeared when he ran up a triple-bogey seven on the 14th, hitting his second shot into the trees and after taking a penalty drop, compounding his error by three-putting from 30 feet.
However, the left-handed Australian repaired some of the damage with a birdie on the 15th and although Pieters made an eagle from four feet on the same hole, he and Jiménez both bogeyed the 17th to give Green another chance.
SCOTSWATCH: Richie Ramsay earned 58,050 Euros for a joint fifth place finish on 286 after a disappointng final round of 74.
Paul Lawrie finished T15 on 289 after a closing round of 73. He earned 18,917, a good effort after 3 1/2 months on the sidelines with a neck injury.
 
LEADNG FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72). Prizemoney in euros
284 Miguel Angel Jimenez 69 73 69 73, Richard Green (Australia) 74 69 69 72, Thomas Pieters (Belgium) 69 69 71 75. Jimenez (250,000) won play-off at first extra hole. Green, Peters 139,280 each
288 Joost Luiten (Netherlands) 70 68 74 72 (75,000)
286 Max Kieffer (Germany) 75 69 68 73, Richie Ramsay (Scotland) 69 72 71 74 (58,050 each)
287 Felipe Aguilar (Chile) 74 70 69 74, Alejandra Canizares (Spain) 72 76 69 70, Darren Fichardt (S Africa) 77 66 73 71, Gareth Maybin (N Ireland) 73 70 73 71, Chris Woods (England) 73 70 69 75 (34,740 each)

SELECTED TOTALS
289 Paul Lawrie (Scotland) 70 72 74 73 (T15) (18,917)
291 Marc Warren (Scotland) 75 70 72 74 (T28) (12,315)
292 Sergio Garcia (Spain) 69 74 73 70 (T38) (8,850).
300 Craig Lee (Scotland) 73 75 71 81 (70th) (2,850).

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WALLACE BOOTH HAS NIGHTMARE LAST ROUND TO FINISH T22

TURKISH DELIGHT, TINGED BY SADNESS,

AS FARR SCORES FIRST CHALLENGE WIN

REPORT FROM EUROPEAN TOUR COMMUNICATIONS 
Oliver Farr dedicated his maiden European Challenge Tour win to his late grandfather after the Welshman produced a stunning birdie at the final hole to claim a two-shot victory at the Turkish Airlines Challenge at Belek in the southern Antalya coastline.
The 26 year old carded a two under par final round 70 to finish two shots clear of a packed field after a dramatic final day in which the lead exchange hands several times at National Golf Club.
The pristine parkland course once again provided a stern test for the players, but Farr produced the goods at crunch time to come from three shots back at the start of the day and finish top on two under par.
Despite a slow start, bogeying the first hole on the way to a level par front nine, the Shropshire man came out fighting on the back nine and, while a birdie at the par three 11th was soon followed by a bogey at the 14th, he cancelled that out straight away with a four at the par five 15th.
Then came the performance of a true champion, as he placed a perfect drive down the 18th before firing a superb approach over the greenside water hazard to five feet, holing the putt for a birdie and a first Challenge Tour title in the fourth tournament of his rookie season.
“I'm ecstatic with the win,” said Farr, who won two of the last three events to win the satellite EuroPro Tour Order of Merit last year. 

“They were three of the best shots of my life. It was a fantastic wedge to five feet and it’s a putt you always want to win a tournament. It’s a great feeling.
“It’s only my fourth event of the year so it’s nice to keep this winning feeling going from last year. Things didn’t really happen for me in Kenya and Catalunya and then in Madeira I only got to play one round so this felt a bit like a season-opener for me.”
Farr discovered on Tuesday that his grandfather had passed away and he was close to withdrawing in order to travel home. In the end, his win was a most fitting tribute and he admitted the emotion had spurred him on in the final day.
“It’s been a tough week for my family,” said the former Wales international amateur, who climbed 150 places to fifth in the Challenge Tour Rankings. 

“We lost my grandfather Malcolm on Tuesday and I wanted to go home but my parents forced me to stay, so it’s been a rollercoaster of emotions.
“I was trying to do it for him and my family, to give them something to smile about, so it’s a good feeling. He has inspired me this week to just keep going and it just puts golf into perspective.
“It was the first tournament where I felt really comfortable and then my grandfather died so it was just a strange feeling. But it’s great to win and I just have to keep going now because there is a lot of golf to be played this season.”
Third-round leader Jerome Lando Casanova could not maintain the momentum gained through consecutive rounds of 71 and had to settle for a share of second place after a three over par 75.
He was joined on level par by Englishman Dave Coupland, who signed for a two over par 74, and Denmark’s Jeppe Huldahl, who moved into the all-important top 15 in the Rankings after a one over par round of 73.

SCOTSWATCH: Wallace Booth, in the mix through the first three rounds (71-71-72), sadly lost control of his game on the final day and shot an 80 for joint 22nd place on 295. The Comrie man was the only Scot to survive the halfway cut.
FINAL TOTALS

Par 288 (4x72)

286 O Farr (Wal) 72 67 77 70
288 J Lando Casanova  (Fra) 71 71 71 75, J Huldahl (Den) 76 68 71 73, D Coupland (Eng) 71 70 73 74 
289 M Lampert (Ger) 74 72 71 72, B Åkesson (Swe) 71 71 73 74 
290 B Ritthammer (Ger) 78 66 75 71, N Quintarelli (Ita) 72 70 73 75, C Hanson (Eng) 74 71 72 73
291 R Coles (Eng) 70 75 75 71, A Bernadet  (Fra) 73 75 75 68
292 R McGee (Irl) 73 73 72 74

293 M Delpodio  (Ita) 71 75 74 73, C Paisley  (Eng) 69 73 74 77, B An (SKor) 70 72 75 76, E Espana (Fra) 72 71 78 72, T Linard (Fra) 74 74 74 71 
294 S Tiley (Eng) 75 71 75 73, C Bouniol (Fra) 77 71 72 74, M Orrin (Eng) 72 74 72 76, N Ravano (Ita) 75 68 73 78 
295 J Harrison (Eng) 71 71 75 78, B Hebert  (Fra) 73 71 74 77, A Tadini (Ita) 73 73 78 71, A Snobeck  (Fra) 75 74 71 75, R McEvoy  (Eng) 72 72 72 79, M Rominger  (Sui) 76 70 71 78, W Booth  (Sco) 71 72 72 80 
296 L Goddard  (Eng) 76 73 74 73, J Barnes (Eng) 73 75 74 74, L Corfield  (Eng) 73 71 78 74, O Stark (Swe) 71 76 73 76, R Steiner (Aut) 73 73 75 75, A Johnston (Eng) 70 73 76 77, J Makitalo  (Fin) 73 72 78 73, J Sjöholm (Swe) 75 74 70 77, S Arnold  (Aus) 70 71 78 77, M Jonzon (Swe) 69 73 74 80
297 P Edberg (Swe) 72 74 76 75, A Björk (Swe) 74 73 76 74, P Figueiredo  (Por) 71 74 78 74, N Lemke (Swe) 74 71 75 77, G Shaw (Nir) 77 70 77 73 
298 S Little (Eng) 73 76 73 76, M Ford (Eng) 69 76 79 74, G Woolgar (Eng) 73 73 75 77, C Mivis  (Bel) 74 75 76 73, M Wiegele  (Aut) 71 78 75 74, N Kearney (Irl) 72 73 74 79, G Lockerbie  (Eng) 73 71 77 77, P Widegren  (Swe) 74 74 76 74, 
299 N Kimsey (Eng) 72 75 75 77, K Samooja (Fin) 74 75 77 73,  300 L Nemecz (Aut) 73 75 77 75, A Marshall (Eng) 74 71 78 77, T Sluiter  (Ned) 78 71 72 79
301 J Fahrbring (Swe) 73 70 80 78, G Cambis  (Fra) 68 72 79 82, L Jensen (Den) 74 75 76 76, J Lagergren (Swe) 71 74 77 79, B Chapellan (Fra) 72 75 78 76
303 F Bergamaschi (Ita) 73 76 71 83 
306 W Besseling  (Ned) 74 75 72 85 




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GOLFKINGS SCOTTISH MEN'S AREA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP AT RANFURLY CASTLE

     We are the champions ... a happy Renfrewshire team. Picture by courtesy of Kenny Smith.

TOP SEEDS RENFREWSHIRE BEAT 

LANARKSHIRE 5 1/2-3 1/2 IN FINAL


Hosts Renfrewshire led from wire to wire to make the most of local knowledge and win the GolfKings Scottish men's area team championship at Ranfurly Castle Golf Club today.
Matthew Clark, Gordon stevenson, Craig Watson, Michael Daily, Ronnie Clark and Andrew Farmer
claimed the top seeding by leading the eight qualifying teams out of a starting field of 16 at the end of the 36-hole stroke-play eliminator on Friday at Old Ranfulry and Ranfurly Castle.
Then the Renfrewshire squad of six carried all before them in the head-to-head play. On Saturday, they beat North 4-1 and the strongly-fancied Glasgow line-up 3 1/2-1 1/2 in the semi-final.
And Lanarkshire, the No 6 seeds, could not halt the Renfrewshire steamroller in Sunday's two-session final.
Renfrew took a vital one-point lead in the morning foursomes, in which two of the ties went to the 21st.
Then Renfrewshire clinched the area's fifth national win - from 1982 (Cardross), 1996 (Machrihanish), 2005 (Bathgate) through to 2009 (Crail), by taking the singles 3 1/2-2 1/2 for an overall 5 1/2-3 1/2 victory. 
Said Renfrewshire's playing captain Ronnie Clark:

“It’s nice to win again, reach five stars if you like, and I think the home soil did help,” said Clark. “We have all played here before in team matches and other events. 

“Lanarkshire are a good side so it was important to build a lead in the morning. We have a strong team spirit and it’s pretty much the same side every year, with the odd youngster coming in. I’m delighted for all the guys.”

GOLFKINGS SCOTTISH MEN'S AREA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
RANFURLY CASTLE GC

FINAL

RENFREWSHIRE 5 1/2, LANARKSHIRE3 1/2

FOURSOMES (2-1)
Matthew Clark and Gordon Stevenson bt Craig Ross and Steven Rennie at 21st.
Craig Watson and Michael Daily lost to Stewart Henderson and Ross Hinshelwood at 21st.
Ronnie Clark and Andrew Farmer bt Jamie Lamb and Colin Baird 4 and 3.
SINGLES 
M Clark lost to Ross at 22nd
Daily bt Rennie 5 and 4.
Stevenson lost to Henderson 4 and 3
Farmer bt Hinshelwood 2 and 1
R Clark halved with Lamb
Watson 1 up after nine on Baird

COLIN MONTGOMERY JT 10TH, FOUR OFF THE PACE

• PERRY LEADS IN BID FOR THIRD 

   CHAMPIONS TOUR MAJOR VICTORY

  FROM THE US CHAMPIONS TOUR WEBSITE

REGIONS TRADITION: Leaderboard | Round 4 tee times | Weather Hub | Schwab Cup

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) -- Kenny Perry's driver is sailing long and true again, just like the one he used to win two senior major championships last year.
Perry shot a 3-under 69 on Saturday at Shoal Creek to take a one-stroke lead over John Inman after the third round of the Regions Tradition.
Colin Montgomerie, with rounds of 72-72-69 for 213, is lying in joint 10th place, four off the pace.
Perry is seeking his third Champions Tour major title after winning the Constellation SENIOR PLAYERS Championship and U.S. Senior Open in consecutive tour starts last year.
Perry switched drivers after his first-round 72. The one he used to win both majors last year was destroyed on a flight from New York to Seattle for the Boeing Classic last August when the airline "killed it."
"I've struggled ever since," Perry said. "I did win the ATandT at the end of last year to hang on and win the Charles Schwab Cup, but I didn't really play great and I haven't played very well this year either.
"I've been fighting driver woes so hopefully this is a turn in the right direction and this driver's going to solve my problems."
Perry had a 7-under 209 total. He had four birdies and bogeyed No. 16, savoring the warm, sunny weather after two rounds in cooler temperatures and playing "very consistent, very solid golf."
Inman, a two-time PGA TOUR winner who coached at the University of North Carolina, shot a 66 after two even-par rounds. He had seven birdies before his first slip-up, a bogey on No. 16.
"I just hit a lot of solid shots," Inman said. "I didn't drive the ball as well as I would have liked, but when I drove it in the rough, I just hit some miraculous shots."
His big putt was some 20 feet on No. 7.
Steve Elkington, second-round leader Mark Calcavecchia, Jay Haas, John Cook, Jeff Maggert, Olin Browne and Tom Pernice Jr. were 4 under.
Perry's best finish on the tour this season was a fifth-place tie at the Toshiba Classic. The 54-hole leader has won only one of the last seven majors.
He made nearly matching 12-to-15-foot uphill putts on Nos. 12 and 13 to take a two-shot lead.
His only bogey on 16 came when his bunker shot went long and he missed the putt, but he bounced back with an 8-footer for par on the next hole.
A light rain had been replaced by sunshine by the time the leaders teed off, but for the third straight day they were allowed to lift, clean and place their golf balls.
"Still the scores are high," Perry said. "Whenever you let a pro get his hands on it, the scores really tend to drop pretty low but this golf course is really beating us up with the swirling winds. We had South winds today. We played northwest winds the first two rounds."
Calcavecchia began the round with a one-stroke lead over Haas, but both struggled.
Calcavecchia had a double bogey on No. 11 on his way to a 74. He lost a six-stroke Saturday lead in the 2011 Regions Tradition, largely thanks to a pair of double bogeys.
"Two wrong clubs and a chunk wedge in the water on 11, that's two bogeys and a double," Calcavecchia said. "I actually hung in there pretty good for that."
He said nagging rib problems plagued him for the third straight day, this time starting on the second hole.
Haas shot a 73 to snap the tour's longest streak of par or better at 23 rounds. He had three straight bogeys starting on the second hole and didn't have a birdie until No. 10.
The conditionally exempt Inman's best finish in his first three tournaments of the year was a tie for 15th at the Allianz Championship in February.
He played in 14 events in 2013, mostly through the career victory category thanks to his PGA TOUR wins, and didn't finish better than ninth.
He's the younger brother of former PGA TOUR and Champions Tour winner Joe Inman. Only three sets of brothers have won on the Champions Tour -- Bobby and Lanny Wadkins, Bart and Brad Bryant and Dave and Mike Hill.
The siblings both had successful Saturdays. Joe Inman coached Georgia State into its first NCAA championship since 2007 and his little brother followed with a big round.
"It feels good to get in because I've only played three events this year and I just need to play," Inman said.
Defending champion David Frost was 2 under after a 71. Tom Watson, the Tradition winner in 2011 and 2012, was even after a 72.
Fred Couples shot a 73 and was 8 over.

THIRD-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 216 (3x72) players from USA unless stated
209 Kenny Perry 72 68 69
210 John Inman 72 72 66
212 Jeff Maggert 73 70 69, Tom Pernice jun 72 70 70, Olin Browne 71 70 71, Steve Elkington (Australia) 70 71 71, Mark Calcavecchia 69 69 71, Jay Haas 69 70 71
SELECTED SCORES
213 Colin Montgomerie (Scotland) 72 72 69 (T10)
214 Bernhard Langer (Germany) 74 70 70 (T11)
221 Roger Chapman (England) 72 77 72 (T35)
222 Ian Woosnam (Wales) 73 72 77 (T41)
224 Sandy Lyle (Scotland) 75 71 78 (T50)

BYRON NELSON CHAMPIONSHIP REPORT AND SCORES

OOSTHUIZEN AND HARRINGTON HAVE 

WINNING CHANCE ON FINAL DAY

FROM THE US PGA TOUR WEBSITE

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IRVING, Texas -- Louis Oosthuizen, pictured below, has never won a professional golf event on American soil. His only win on the US Tour schedule was achieved in Scotland - the 2010 Open Championship at St. Andrews.

Padraig Harrington hasn't won on the US Tour  since the 2008 PGA Championship, his third major in a 13-month span.
Mike Weir, the 2003 Masters winner, hasn't won since 2007.
In the last few years, those three major winners have dealt with a variety of injuries, swing changes and other challenges that can derail any world-class golfer.
On Sunday, in the final round of the HP Byron Nelson Championship at Irving, Texas, South African Oosthuizen, Irishman Harrington and Canadian Weir  each has the opportunity to end his respective drought. 
The three will begin the day in the heat of the battle, and they will call on every ounce of experience, guile and determination on a TPC Four Seasons Resort course that demands your constant attention.
"It's taking me a bit longer to really get my game where I want it to be," said Oosthuizen, who has endured neck and back injuries the last couple of years. In fact, a year ago at this event, he had to withdraw after 54 holes with a neck injury. "Hopefully this weekend can kick off something and get my game on the track that I want it to be."
Oosthuizen, who has won five European Tour events since his major triumph, enters the final round as the co-leader with Brendon Todd at 10 under. Weir is tied for third at 9 under. Harrington is tied for sixth at 8 under.
"Looking forward to the challenge," said Weir, who has endured the longest hardship after a partial ligament tear in his right elbow four years ago. 
During one stretch, he made the cut in just three of 39 starts. He contemplated giving up the game.
Now he's one shot off the lead with 18 holes to play. It's the best position he's been in after 54 holes in more than four years.
"That's what I've been working toward the last few years," Weir said after his 3-under 67 Saturday, "to get myself back here in this position."
Harrington's swing changes since winning at Oakland Hills have been well-documented. He has shown flashes but hasn't been able to sustain the momentum for all four rounds. He concluded his 66 on Saturday by saving par out of a difficult lie from the greenside bunker at 18.
"I feel every week like it might be my week," Harrington said, "but it hasn't been happening. ... It isn't easy when things aren't going well for you out there. It's frustrating. But you have to keep it going."
It won't be easy Sunday. Seventeen players are within five shots of the lead. Everyone is hungry. Todd has never won on TOUR. James Hahn, tied for third after reeling off five straight birdies on the back nine Saturday, has never won. Neither has Graham DeLaet. Nor has Morgan Hoffman. Both are tied for sixth.
Whether Oosthuizen, Weir or Harrington win on Sunday, maybe the week has already been a success for them, getting in contention, stringing together some good rounds.
"I've seen some good form in my game, some nice signs," Harrington said. "If It doesn't happen for me tomorrow, it's positive going forward."
Of course, victory would be the best sign.

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THANKS, SIS: Scottie Scheffler wanted to hit 4-iron at the 218-yard, par-3 second hole Saturday.
His 19-year-old sister Callie, carrying his bag this week, thought otherwise.
"What about the 5?" she said.
One of his playing partners said the same thing. So the 17-year-old top-ranked junior amateur from Dallas went with the 5-iron.
Hole-in-one.
It's just the fourth ace struck by an amateur at a US PGA Tour event since 1983. It's the third ace for Scheffler in competition.
Callie, who plays collegiately at Texas AandM, has been on the bag for two of them. The other time was at the U.S. Amateur. She called that club too.
"That's pretty funny," Scheffler said. "That one we actually got to see go in."
The ace was on Scheffler's 11th hole (he started his round off the 10th tee) and helped turn around his day. He made three more birdies coming in to shoot 69 in a round in which he missed five putts inside 5 feet. He's 2 under going into Sunday.
And thanks to the ace ...
"At least he didn't have to putt," Callie joked.
 THIRD-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 210 (3x70) Players from USA unless stated
200 Louis Oosthuizen (S Africa) 68 68 64, Brendon Todd 68 64 68
201 James Hahn 71 65 65, Gary Woodland 68 67 66, Mike Weir (Canada) 68 66 67
202 Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 68 68 66, Marc Leishman (Australia) 66 68 68, Graham deLaet (Canada) 68 66 68, Morgan Hoffman 68 66 68 
203 Greg Chalmers (Australia) 71 67 65, Boo Weekley 67 68 68, Charles Howell 68 66 69
SELECTED SCORES
205 Martin Kaymer (Germany) 67  67 71 (T15)
207 Paul Casey (England) 71 63 73 (T27)
211 Brian Davis (England) 70 71 70 (T59)

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GUNN IN TOP 10 WITH A ROUND TO GO

Jimmy Gunn is lying joint ninth with a round to go in this weekend's Web.com Tour event, the BMW Charity pro-am at Thornblade Club, Greer in South Carolina.
The Dornoch exile has shot three rounds of 68 for 204 to be three shots behind the three Americans sharing the lead at 14-under-par 215.
Englishman David Skinns from Lincolnshire, a former US college player, is ahead of Gunn in joint sixth place on 203 (69-66-68)

LEADERBOARD
players from USA unless stated
201 Ryan Blaum 67 66 68, Matt Davidson 69 65 67, Blayne Barber 63 70 68
202 Kyle Reifers 68 64 70, Jon Curran 68 68 66

SELECTED SCORES
203 David Skinns (England) 69 66 68 (T6)
204 Jimmy Gunn (Scotland) 68 68 68 (T9).

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