Saturday, December 09, 2006

Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek

SPRINGBOK CHARL LEADS
BY TWO GOING INTO
FINAL ROUND

Home favourite Charl Schwartzel, pictured right, produced a third successive four-under-par 68 on Saturday to lead by two shots at 12-under-par 204 going into the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek, South Africa.
Britons Lee Westwood and Mark Pilkington lead the chasing pack on 10 under par 206.
Pilkington and South African Des Terblanche made up the most ground on 2004 winner Schwartzel, shooting seven-under-par 65s, while Westwood had a 67, dropping a potentially important stroke on the 18th when his second failed to make the island green.
Terblanche roared into fourth place on nine under par 207 with a bogey-free round which featured two eagles.
Westwood, who began with an uninspired 73 to Swartzel's 68, was pleased with his comeback rounds of 66 and 67.
"I gave Charl a few strokes of a start so if I can keep playing as well as I have then I must have a chance of catching him," said the Englishman.
Schwartzel, who led England's Oliver Wilson and Spain's Rafael Cabrera Bello by two strokes at the start of the day, battled through his most inconsistent round of the tournament with five birdies, an eagle and three bogeys.
"It was an up-and-down round, but I generally hit the ball where I wanted," Schwartzel said.
"I stumbled a bit in the middle, but I said at the start of the week that if I could shoot four 68s I would be very close to winning."
Cabrera Bello shot a five-over-par 77 on Saturday to slide down to 31st position on one under, while Wilson struggled to an even-par 72 and remains on six under for the tournament.
Ernie Els shot a three-under-par 69 and is nine strokes behind Schwartzel.
Scot Euan Little is doing quite nicely in joint 11th place after 72, 70 and 70 for four-under-par 212.
LEADING THIRD-ROUND SCORES
Par 216 (3 x 72)
204 Charl Schwartzel (SAf) 68 68 68.
206 Mark Pilkington (Wal) 70 71 65, Lee Westwood (Eng) 73 66 67.
207 Desmond Terblanche (SAf) 70 72 65.
208 Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 74 66 68.
209 Hennie Otto (SAf) 71 69 69.
210 Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 73 69 68, Ross Fisher (Eng) 73 69 68, Oliver Wilson (Eng) 68 70 72.
211 Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 74 67 70, Darren Fichardt (SAf) 72 70 69.
Other scores:
212 Euan Little (Sco) 72 70 70.
213 Ernie Els (SAf) 72 72 69.
214 Scott Drummond (Sco) 71 70 73, Andrew McLardy (SAf) 70 75 69, David Drysdale (Sco) 73 73 68.
217 Andrew Coltart (Sco) 69 76 71.
218 Oliver Fisher (Eng) 71 70 77.

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