Blue Chip New Zealand Open championship at Auckland

GRAEME (65) STORMS INTO
SHARE OF ROUND 3 LEAD

Englishman Graeme Storm, pictured right, produced a brilliant third round of six-under-par 65 to shoot into a share of the lead with two Australians, Kim Felton and Marcus Fraser, in the Blue Chip New Zealand Open championship over the par-71, 6,358 metre Gulf Harbour County Club course at Auckland.

LEADING THIRD-ROUND TOTALS

208 Graeme Storm (Eng) 74 69 65, Kim Felton (Aus) 68 72 68, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 69 69 70.
209 Peter O'Malley (Aus) 72 71 66, Carl Suneson (Spa) 70 70 69, Peter Senior (Aus) 69 69 71, Michael Campbell (NZ) 71 65 73.
210 Kurt Barnes (Aus) 71 70 69, Brett Rumford (Aus) 71 70 69, Damien McGrane (Ire) 70 70 70, Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 71 68 71, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 68 70 72.
211 Gareth Paddison (NZ) 73 69 69, Brad Kennedy (Aus) 73 68 70, Craig Parry (Aus) 69 71 71, Jarrod Moseley (Aus) 68 70 73, Peter Lawrie (Ire) 72 66 73, Scott Strange (Aus) 67 70 74, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 72 63 76.
212 Doug Batty (NZ) 70 74 68, Jason Norris (Aus) 71 71 70, Richard Green (Aus) 72 70 70, David Lutterus (Aus) 71 70 71, David Griffiths (Eng) 70 70 72, Gavin Coles (Aus) 75 65 72, Michael Long (NZ) 69 70 73, David Bransdon (Aus) 70 68 74, Shaun P Webster (Eng) 70 68 74, Andrew Raitt (Eng) 71 67 74.
213 Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 73 71 69, Andrew Tschudin (Aus) 72 72 69, Ben Bunny (Aus) 70 72 71, Doug Holloway (NZ) 72 70 71, Aaron Townsend (Aus) 74 68 71, Simon Wakefield (Eng) 69 73 71, Daniel Chopra (Swe) 74 68 71, Lee S James (Eng) 69 72 72, Andrew W Johnson (Aus) 73 67 73.
Other scores:
214 James Heath (Eng) 70 69 75, Nick Dougherty (Eng) 69 66 79.
215 Marcus Higley (Eng) 74 66 75.
218 James Hepworth (Eng) 74 70 74, Denny Lucas (Eng) 70 69, 79/