ELS LEADS DUBAI DESERT
CLASSIC BY TWO SHOTS
WITH ONE ROUND TO GO

Beaten in a play-off by Tiger Woods in last year's event, Ernie Els looks set to go one better in this weekend's Dubai Desert Classic at the Emirates Club.
Els, pictured right, completed his second round after an early breakast by pulling up to within one-shot of halfway leader Ross Fisher. Then the big South AFrica went two strokes clear of the field with a third-round 68 for a 54-hole tally of 17 under par.
He leads by two shots from three players - England's Ross Fisher, India's Jyoti Randawa and Sweden's Henrik Stenson.
Tiger Woods is on his own in fourth place on 202, three shots behind Els going into Sunday's fourth and final round.

Woods, by his own high standards, had a terrible day on the greens. He "holed nothing" and even had a couple of three putts.

"I turned a 63 into a 67 with my putting," said Tiger. "Somehow I've got to sort it out from the start of the final round."
THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 216 (3 x 72)
Players from GB&I unless stated.
199 Ernie Els (SAf) 66 65 68.
201 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 67 66 68, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 68 64 69, Ross Fisher 65 65 71.
202 Tiger Woods (US) 68 67 67.
203 Niclas Fasth (Swe) 69 69 65, Peter Hanson (Swe) 69 65 69.
204 Prom Meesawat (Tha) 68 68 68.
205 Thomas Bjorn (Den) 70 69 66, Simon Dyson 67 69 69, Joakim Haeggman (Swe) 69 67 69, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 70 67 68.
206 Jeev Milkha Singh 70 69 67, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 71 67 68, Taichi Teshima (Jap) 69 69 68, Darren Clarke 68 70 68, Paul Casey 70 68 68, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 67 68 71.
207 Mark Foster 71 68 68, Andrew Marshall 69 70 68, Colin Montgomerie 73 66 68, Phillip Price 67 71 69, David Griffiths 71 67 69, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 66 71 70, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 70 67 70, Robert-Jan Derksen (Net) 70 66 71, Graeme McDowell 65 69 73, Andrew Coltart 69 71 67.
208 Marcel Siem (Ger) 68 71 69, Stephen Gallacher 71 69 68.
209 Gary Houston 71 67 71, Rory McIlroy (am) 69 69 71, Richard Sterne (SAf) 69 70 70, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 71 69 69, Nick Dougherty 72 68 69, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 74 66 69, Paul McGinley 69 69 71, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 69 69 71, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 69 68 72, Johan Edfors (Swe) 72 68 69, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 67 70 72.
210 Richard Green (Aus) 72 67 71, Alastair Forsyth 70 70 70, Francesco Molinari (Ita) 70 70 70, Charl Schwartz (SAf) 69 72 69, Maarten Lafeber (Net) 70 71 69 , David Park 70 70 70, Paul Broadhurst 73 66 71.
211 David Lynn 70 69 72, Hennie Otto (Rsa) 71 69 71, Oliver Wilson
73 67 71, Andrew McLardy (SAf) 75 66 70, Christopher Hanell (Swe) 72 69 70
212 Cesar Monasterio (Arg) 68 70 74, Greg Norman (Aus) 70 71 71, Lee Westwood 68 69 75
213 Notah Begay III (US) 71 69 73, Stephen Dodd 72 68 73.
214 Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 68 71 75, Gregory Havret (Fra) 71 70 73.
215 Phillip Archer 69 71 75.
217 Lee Slattery 70 71 76.
220 Bradley Dredge 69 72 78.